My names Duane McGrendel from Lanta, GA and I need some help. I was at the Cobb County Grange Halls monthly Baifishin for Bass seminar and they waz talking about using insects, mostly hoppers for Bass when they’re up on the weeds in the spring. my cuzins and such have an annual fish fry in May, after we hit the Duluth resevoir for bass,watch out for the game warden, he dont like you fishin there, and I need help with riggin up a hopper. I was thinkin this was the place to come too. My ideer was too nose hook em with a hook, then add in a stinger rig with a #4 treble tailing on some wire off th back, like they use on the SKA tournament; I dont know if itll work, do you fellas have any suggestions? I checked around your site a stretch and you seem like such nice fellas, what with the Flags,I’m a vet ya know, Panama Class of '89, and how strong yous in church, so i figured I wouldn’t look stupid askin here. My buddies razz me if I ask questions like that at the Grange, so i figured I’d check here. I appreciate anything ya’ll could do to help me out, thanks Duane
First, welcome aboard.
I’m a vet too. Viet Nam class of 64!
I am a Troll as I live in lower Michigan and therefor “Under The Bridge” All those below me are considered “Flat Landers”!
I feel more like I do now than I did when I got here!
I’m sorta new here myself and I’m not real sure why they’ll think your a troll. My buddies and me do this stuff all the time and it works great. In august you can sneak across that new fangled private propurty near the yellowstone river and catch a caffee can fulla hoppers as you go. When you get to the river just nose hook 'em like you figgered out yourself and toss 'em out on one of them real cheep fly rigs you can pick up at wall mart. (just keep and eye peeled for those fish cops). In no time at all you’ll have a mess of nice 'bows for feeding the missis and youngins at the trailer park.
This works real nice on the madison also, but that’s a fer piece to drive and there ain’t as many ‘bows as there used to be. I heard somthin’ about some kind of swirly desease the fish have. Heck that sounds like what I get on friday night after drinkin a 12er of pabst.
Well good luck and if your ever up this way I’ll show a few more fish catchin’ tricks.
Thanks Montana Ho, the adice is appreciated. I didn’t think I’d get the warm reception after the first reply, but everyone here is allright in my book; except for that first lady- you’d think that hosting an anti-prejudice website wouldn’t make her so judgemental- I hope I speeled that right. These fly rigs- are they next to the baitcasters and spin casters in Wal-mart or are they in another department? Where can I learn how to cast one? I’ve seen that Pallet guy on ESPN, right before Big Game Huntin the Wild comes on and it looks kinda hard whuppin that line back an forth, I heard they’s allowin bear huntin in Yellowstone now- do you need a permit for that or is it like hawg here in GA- no limit, no license needed? if so I can pack the pop-up camper and cruise up to your neck of the woods and do some fishin and huntin, have a blast and cast kinda day
Don’t take this the wrong way, but I don’t think fly fishing is for you. Last time I checked no piece of fly fishing equipment carried the endorsement of any current NASCAR drivers.
that is what is wrong with fly fishing-the yuppy factor. Fact of the matter is this man wants to learn about fly fishing. Just because he doesn’t drink tea and paraphrase the likes of Gordon, and Hewitt; doesn’t mean that he shouldn’t be eligable to learn how to fly fish. Regardless of the fact that he may or may not be into NASCAR, that doesn’t mean he can’t fly fish.
I think some people need to get their Orvis silk undies in a bunch and stop being elitist snobs. The only way we are going to cultivate new fly fishermen is to be friendly to newcomers. This man obviously is following the wrong path, but let’s guide him, show him the light.
Oh yeah, you guys are a bunch of jerks, you can ban me now
And the rest of you guys be careful about that NASCAR stuff. I know a couple of kick-butt fly fishermen around here who are pretty serious about that stuff. Not me though. No way. And I never ever let my powerbait touch my wooly buggers. Not even close.
Insect Help: Fear your buddies may have been pulling your leg. You probably aren’t going to find many adult grasshoppers around Lanta till late summer. Of course, it you’re willing to take a trip to S. Florida for purposes of collection, that’s another matter. Good luck.
Tom, So you are the guy we nearly caught sneaking around at night checking out people’s undies!!! Welcome to FAOL. Once you have been here for a while you will learn to recognize when we are putting each other on. It’s part of the fun, just like fly swaps and fish-ins. Anyway, welcome to Flyanglersonline.
C’mon guys… this doesn’t even qualify as “trolling”.
“Just boys 'avin a good time.” and probably with tongue planted firmly in cheek.
By the by, J Castwell. Stretch a pair of pantyhose across your truck grill and drive through the weeds. Cleaning sticktite and weed seed out of wool blanket = pain in butt.
How come this thread keeps going back to underwear?