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Don’t sweat the details…enjoy the ride!
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Before relieving ones self stream-side, it’s a good idea to first know the location of any and all electric cattle-guards and fences in the immedeate area! (Trust me on this one!)
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Never mistake a skunk for a stray cat. It annoys the skunk!
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When walking down a stream, river or lake bank in the Deep South, avoid stepping on fallen logs…some of them aren’t logs!
something tells me this is first-hand advice.
Re your #2 , also check the wind direction and velocity .
Hmmmm… and for more on #3…
If you are ever, let’s say, out gigging frogs at a pond at night… and let’s say if a skunk walks out of a bush ten feet in front of you… DO NOT stand there with the gig raised in the air when your brother yells “GIG IT!”.
Also, when you are riding home in the back of the truck in only your underwear, becuase said brother won’t let you in the cab because of the smell… remember to first remove the water snakes you had thrown in the back of the truck two ponds earlier.
As said brother is driving you through the best lit, most populated road on the way home, you look funny dancing around the back of the pickup truck because a snake just came out from under the toolbox.
But…um… this is just hypothetical… of course.
READ!
The internet is full of help for the beginner. I have become a relativley good fly fisher in just a few months. Well, that and a lot of casting practice( into lakes, streams with no trout in them, the swimming pool, the yard, etc etc…)
Emphasis on “relatively”!
In relation to Gigmaster’s point number two, don’t wait too long between the time that you feel that you might have to “go” and the time that you decide to “go.” By the time you have wrestled with suspenders, a wading belt, waders, a fishing vest pants, zippers, underwear, your own equipment etc. it might be too late :? :? :? . I do not speak from personal experience but over the years a few of my fishing friends have admitted unfortunate experiences. This advice is even more salient to our female companions. 8T 
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MikeBrat,
I am wiping tears from my eyes!!!
Thanks for the laugh!
You stinker, you!
Mike
skunks i saw someting moving in sleeping bag it was skunk i opened the bag it ran out didn’t smell i was lucky.
i climbed the fence to fish on the outher side and to cattle dogs came after me i ran so fast i left my tackle box on that side. another thing is if you see porqupine moveing slowy don’t kick it to get out of they way
i did not kick it i heard the screams of some one ahead of me on the trail they were in a hurry,
String rod up at car, unstring rod back at car. Don’t clip off your fly stream side, reel up and walk back to your car without any line strung through the guides unless you have a single piece rod . . . . . . I have had to walk back looking for half my rod.
-wayne
Watch your step when winter stream fishing. The water is coooooooooooold! Extra, dry clothes are quite nice to have along.
If you fish downstream of a dam that produces hydroelectric power, know the generation schedule(read the fine print that says “subject to change at any time”).
Don’t try to “lip” a pike.
A 5-weight is very versatile. A 3 or a 7 isn’t.
Use an ‘improved’ clinch knot and not the clinch knot.
What is behind you is more important than what is in front of you…when casting.
Mike,
Your the MAN!!! :lol:
wax your ferrules, a guy i was fishing with didnt and lost the tip of his 4 piece rod in a lake!!!
screw your reel down tightly…you might hear a thud and sudden lightness in your rod!
rods do not like it when flies get snagged in trees, do not try to force your rod forward!! you just might snap it in half!
none of these things have happened to me but were pretty hillarious to watch!
like my buddy ripping a cast out of about 75ft and doing a double haul and then THUNK!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: he turns to me and says" i thought it felt funny, there so much lighter without a reel!!" :lol: :lol: :lol:
- DO NOT! Loan your fishing rods to family members!!!
a. Brother LOST 2 of my rods overboard (consecutive yrs)
b. Dad accidently poked my borrowed rod ‘Tip’ into a empty light socket and electrocuted the tip off!
c. Always keep your fly rod in it’s tube, when not in use, the only time I didn’t, well… it wasn’t enjoyable to see your rod tip smashed in the car door.
d. Follow Safety Procedures; Your on the Lake catching fish, a STORM is heading your way and you are having such a good time that you think this is your Lucky Day and you says to yourself, "I suspect that Storm will not land on me, it will MISS ME!!! YEA RIGHT!!! :lol:
Doug
As Gigmaster started off with “It’s about having fun.” Do what is fun to you.
It’s more fun if you don’t hurt yourself or your friends.
In a float tube start to the shelter when you first hear thunder, thunderstorms move faster than floattubers. Flank speed does not leave much of a wake.
I’ve got to get to work, Ya’ll have a good day.
Being sprayed by a skunk isn’t as bad as everybody says it is. After 5 minutes, 10 at the most, you can’t smell a thing… :shock:
(It does seem to be a bit unpleasant for those around you, though.)
Ed
Ed,
You are something else! :lol: I wonder is the Skunk Union paid you off! :lol: :lol:
Doug
how do u get that pefume off? u know that spray has disases and is acid based?
I got lucky… quick removal of clothes and then lots of soap and water. Everyone else said they couldn’t smell anything, even though I could smell it for several days.
That’s still hypothetical of course…
It would be really neat to see some smiling/laughing fish smilies.After all,they might be your only witnesses. :? :?
Actually after 10 minutes your olfactory senses have given up,in disgust,or gone on strike,but Everyone else can still smell the skunk! :lol: