Polarized sunglasses, a straw cowboy hat (mine is a Shady Brady, made when Kennedy was president) or baseball cap, no shirt, belly-boat, and modestly priced rod…self-tied flies. Waders optional, cut off Levis are the norm.
Heat is a big factor. For me, it’s
shorts, a short sleeved shirt with pockets
for a fly box and tippet, a zinger with
nips clipped to the shirt and hemostats
clipped to my collar. The shorts have the
cargo pockets and carry a bottle of water
if going very far from the car or the boat.
A good hat, poloroids to cut the glare, and
a pair of light nylon wading shoes round out
the ensemble. Perhaps similar to what you
might see a bone fisherman wearing without
the pricey lables.G Warm regards, Jim
Polarized glasses, ball cap, old t-shirt, baggy shorts with pockets big enough to hold a single fly box jam-packed with small, gaudy-looking flies you can’t find in a shop. About once a year you’ll see a plastic shopping bag hanging from my waist to take some home for a little fish fry.
If I’m feeling lazy, the weather’s threatening, I only have limited time; then, it’s a T-shirt (colored/pocket), my fishing shorts with the netted interior that chafes, nylon beach shoes, lanyard or waist pouch and lots of fun was had by all. At my “go-to” lake you can wade, at the other you can walk the edges.
If the weather’s good, plenty of time, energetic…hook up the jon boat with the aforementioned attire and off I go for several hours.
I fully subscribe to the addage, …a bad day on the water…blah, blah, blah.
Great minds do think alike…or at least dress alike!
On my head is a wool “Field and Stream” felt hat with a sheep wool band to hold my flies…and yes, there are bugs, minnows, buggers, in the band at all times. Shorts, a guide shirt, and my Mojo necklace (clippers, hemostats,etc…) Tevas on my feet (NO CROCS).
…and a successful fishing trip will be marked by an Arturo Fuente hanging out of a smile under that hat.
A guy wearing a grubby baseball cap, standing knee-deep in a farm pond corner wearing grubby blue jeans. There’s a little box of flies in his shirt pocket, a stringer tied to a belt loop. Polarized sunglasses. His running shoes, white coming out of the box, will never be white again: Midwest clay mud stains can’t be washed out. The car he’s driving looks like “General Grant” after one too many bridge jump scenes. The guy looks like a bum, but he’s a minimalist high-tech Bubba.
Guy’s;
I think Joe just ended this discussion! We be that and we’re proud of it!! Although I did take my NASCAR hat in for and oil change a couple a week’s ago
Don’t forget the Michigan Fish-In August 14th to the 20th. The Holy Water’s of the Au Sable await you!!
I’ll agree with 99.9% of all above…But I’ve gotten more sophisticated in my choice of shorts…Used to be cut off denim…Now it’s Columbia water trunks or the like in nylon for the quick drying!!!
I’ve got to go with Phil (BassYakker) except the fellow is standing in dark tannic stained water (so dark you can’t see below his waist) up to his hips. I don’t dress that way but that’s the image I saw once in a Southern Outdoors magazine of a Southern fly fisher (Phil hit the nail on the head). He didn’t have a fly band on his red felt crusher hat though, wool fly patch on his shirt pocket . BTW, guess what fish he had caught in the palm of his hand down in the water .
Robert B. McCorquodale
Sebring, FL
“Flip a fly”
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This is funny!
Dirty shoes, shorts, fishin’ shirt with large pockets, lanyard, bent up full brim hat (OR dirty, beat up ball cap also worn while BBQin’). Cooler with beer & water, & a gym bag full of extra boxes of flies, leaders, etc. Oh yeah, a folding chair with drink holders in the arm. Do not forget a canoe, float tube, yak, or other simple watercraft.
You DID say “classic” & NOT “classy”, right Robin?
Mike
You can call me Mike & you can call me Mikey…Just remember that this site’s about sharing!
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T-shirt, worn out running shoes, shorts, a very small fly box, and most importantly a hemostat for hook removal. I try to remember to carry a camera and tape measure, but often forget…that’s always when the best fish are caught.
The one thing that seperates the men from the boys in attire is Those wadin shoes. Yes they were white LOOOOOOONG time ago but now the are mud stained and the sole is held on with SHOEGOO and duct tape.OHHHH YEA and the wife won’t let them in the house!!!
Dennis
wading boots, socks, funny tan line where they stop.
zip off pants/shorts for busting the brush then hitting the water.
baseball cap, backwards - cheap polarized glasses (I’ll lose them before long) unshaven with an untrimmed goatee
no shirt, ragged vest chock full of flies the size of small house pets - one is still moving and was the neighbor boys guinea pig.
homemade furled leaders with homemade sink tips and homemade shooting heads attached to 25 lb trilene running line.
top of the line bass bug or pike taper
top of the line reel with smoothest drag available - low/middle cost rod (Im probably gonna break it before the first frost as well)
school style backpack with cross strap worn on chest to carry more small mammals and camera, copenhagen, and a PBR for when the day is done
. BTW, guess what fish he had caught in the palm of his hand down in the water 
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