So, your saying that instead of using/buying the 5-7’ small stream rods we should be using pey rods? :shock: 
Don’t try the b&a cast with this hook http://www.handmadefishhooks.com/images/home/hand_held_hook_shadow.jpg :shock: , especially if you don’t plan on debarbing.
wow, what weight rod do you use to throw that? like a 30,000 weight?! :lol:
HEY BAMBOOZLE - great idea! I always thought that there had to be a better way whenever I had to dig a fly out of my finger - and that’s it…thanks for the suggestion.
Jeff, now you know how the bass feels!
It only hurt for a little while :shock:
Jeff
come on fish! eat it! it will only hurt for a minute at the most! :lol:
I was told that fish feel no pain. 
I’m going with that.
I believe fish feel no pain also, makes me feel better every time I stick em.
I don’t know if you can say they feel no pain, but not the same way we feel pain. Their brains are so small.
Their brains are so small that they are hardly worth eating. So I don’t. Eat the brains, that is.
As flyfishfairwx posted:
"Now to the eyes = nice juicy pop,when you bite them, just don’t cook too long or they will go hard and gummy.
I you have to keep a real small trout (Brookie) just gut it and then fry the whole thing in butter and then eat it all head, tail, eyes etc NOTHING BETTER … "
Jim:
Try the O-ring method; it works great for me. Just get an O-ring big enough to fit over your PINKY; attach at least 4" of old fly line with a loop-to-loop (cow hitch)connection and you are in business. Like this:
I put it on my PINKY because that way; it isn’t in the way by being on the thumb or index finger of my line hand like it was when I USED to do the tape/Band-Aid method. I slip the O-ring on my pinky where it stays as long as I need it. When I need to use a B&A cast; I form a loop with the end of the doubled line between my thumb & index finger; loop it over the hook point and around around the hook bend; pull back the rod, open my fingers and let-r-go!
But it gets even better; if you are married and wear a wedding band on your line hand; it is a piece of cake to just attach the short piece of old fly line right to your wedding band the same way! I do that more often than anything. Just make sure to attach the fly line someplace where you can’t possibly lose the ring; :shock: like back at the car.
If you lose your wedding band your spouse will hurt you WAY more than getting impaled by a hook! Maybe me too for giving you the idea!
I like that method!
Don’t have to worry about the wedding ring though
I found this cast to be very useful in the Smokey Mountains last week. It worked great on small creeks where no other cast would have been possible.
Austin
Chris, you are young, but before you know it you’ll have that anchor, I mean ring on your finger. :lol:
[quote=“TyroneFly”]
Chris, you are young, but before you know it you’ll have that anchor, I mean ring on your finger. :lol:[/quote]
Now what would your wife say if she heard you call it an anchor?
[quote=“flyandtie”]
[quote=TyroneFly]
Chris, you are young, but before you know it you’ll have that anchor, I mean ring on your finger. :lol:[/quote]
Now what would your wife say if she heard you call it an anchor?[/quote]
I am a wife and I say…D*&%$ straight and don’t you forget it! LOL
LMAO!
- The following is a description of the only time I ever used a bow and arrow cast. A spin fisher had described it to just a few days before.
A few years ago I was fishing one of my favorite small streams in Colorado . I was having a story book day lots & lots of fish in the 16 to 20" range. I could do no wrong. I decided to look at a really brushy section that I usually skipped. I came to a 90 degree bend to my right . The trees and brush made a canopy over me. The stream was about ten feet wide. At the bend of the stream a small smooth beech leaned over the water at a low angle. The feeding riffle was right under the beech. I could not raise my rod to cast because of the brush. I reached slightly across my body with right hand which was my rod hand and held my nymph in my left hand. I put a little tension on the line with my left hand and snapped my wrist diagonally down and to my right. To my amazment the line and leader flipped forward and hit the base of the beech 12 inches off the water,and kicked my nymph 18 inches up current from the beech. A 16 " rainbow immediately picked up my nymph. I strip set the hook and the fish ran down stream past me into the pool below which was open enough to land it.
As my father in law used to say luck will always beat skill.
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