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ddean

ddean

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I once made a bamboo rod at a Wayne Cattenach workshop in Grayling Mich. Are there other flyrod makers in the cantina?
 
Bri in Chi said:
Are there other flyrod makers in the cantina?
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i gave up fly fishing ages ago.

i found that the ultraviolet bug zapper catches flies alot faster, i could never keep up with it using an old fashioned fly rod, and baiting them leedle teeeny hooks with sugar was hell too!

(p.s. - i could never aford them fancy cane rods in my youth, did flyfish in the back yard with a few fibberglass ones & tie my own flys for a while - we lived on a lake with some really large lakers in it , which i never persuaded to go onto my hooks, the 5lb bass was the biggest i did manage, tons of perch & sunnies, got sick of fish while on fisheries patrol up in alaska, seems like all we ate, and when off duty in kodiak, was too darn easy, throw in the hook, pull out a salmon, throw in the hook, pull out a salmon. didn't matter what fly, or even a bare gold plated hook would work. the freezer in our mess had a ton of salmon. can't stand the little devils anymore)
 
I enjoyed steeping myself in the vocabulary and idiom of the cane rod community. Of course, I had to go home and check on my varnish after those stories. As it turns out, I don't even have any spar varnish in my workshop...unless it's hiding waiting for its momen to spring! Makes my beard crawl!
 
Bri in Chi said:
I once made a bamboo rod at a Wayne Cattenach workshop in Grayling Mich. Are there other flyrod makers in the cantina?
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Never made one but have used a couple of nice ones over they years.
But I'm not a purist. What is setting in the corner of the hall now is a fiberglass model with an automatic reel and a "No-Knot" set into the end of the flyline with the straight leader attached to it. Me Likey the No-Knots!!!!:thumbup: :D :cool:

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It's great for Crappie and the many varities of perch we have here in Oklahoma.
Get a 3/4 pound Goggle Eye attached to your hook and it is great fun, or a 3 pound Crappie!!!!:thumbup: :eek: :cool: :D
 
Bluegill on a super light (1-2 Wt) rod can be a ton of fun in a little lake. Like a 20 inch trout on a 6 Wt.
 
As with most things in life, my enthusiasm for fishing far outweighs my skill. I'm the guy that the trout hope to encounter. If it weren't for me, half the damned fish in Kitsap County would die of starvation. I actually switched from Power Bait to worms because if the fish were going to steal everything that I put in the water, I figured that I should be giving them something healthy.

Where else but here can a guy like me pay the state for the priveledge of killing worms all afternoon? ;)

If the next season goes like this one did, I'm going to throw the pole away and simply go into the water after them. I can only do better than I am doing now.
 
I've thought about going into the water after them many times. Bring a mask and snorkel.

I can just imagine the shock of the fish. "You're not supposed to be in here." I think a guy could actually catch some. They probably wouldn't know what to do. Hell yes, take a khuk in there with you. Hunt them down and slice them.



munk
 
This brings back memories of my carefree youth. In those distant days it was great fun to fish in the rivers with this "hand-to-fin" method. We would wade into the waist deep water with a net or sometimes a large rattan sieve and probe the likely spots for fish (underneath overhanging branches or between tree roots). We caught freshwater shrimps, siamese fighting fish, and the occasional catfish (watch the barbs!)

Havent gone fishing in more than 15 years.

munk said:
I've thought about going into the water after them many times. Bring a mask and snorkel.

I can just imagine the shock of the fish. "You're not supposed to be in here." I think a guy could actually catch some. They probably wouldn't know what to do. Hell yes, take a khuk in there with you. Hunt them down and slice them.



munk
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I used to spearfish in my Uncle's lake---yeah, that's right :o I didn't know it was illegal to do that back then. :D

But you know what? It was alot of fun!! And Munk, the fish WERE confused--they would allow me to get in range most of the time, and then WHACK! I'd get em. :cool:
 
redvenom said:
We caught freshwater shrimps, siamese fighting fish, and the occasional catfish (watch the barbs!)
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I've seen a peculiar method of catching catfish that's very similar to this; you reach into a hole, catch the sucker by the gills (possibly after he's bitten your hand), and haul him out. It's known as "noodling." Gloves are recommended.
 
In my whole life, I have caught ONE fish on a hook and line. Fifty five years ago.

Not to say I haven't killed a lot of fish though. I went after them with a Hawaiian sling.
Sheephead ignore you until it's too late.
Kelp Bass will stay just out of range, no matter what you're using.
 
"Noodling"

:rolleyes: . . . Real fishermans don't need no stinkin' pole. . . . . .

http://petesbait.com/articles/noodling.php
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We dances 'em to sleep.

:D


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Dean those are to big for fillets, ya have to cut fishes like dem inta steaks!!!!:thumbup: :eek:

Soak 'em in beer for about an hour then roll 'em in egg and cornmeal and deep fry. insert :slurp: smilie here.;)
Almost as good as peel and eat shrimp and crawdads, Almost.:thumbup: ;) :D
When I eats dem crawdads I pinch dere tails and suck their widdle heads 'till dere eyeballs collapsus, dat tamale be goot!!!!:thumbup: :p :cool: :D
 
...which is why I stick with the rainbow trout. When the trout wins against the pole, I go home hungry. When the catfish wins against my arm, I go home lefty.

Thanks for the link, Dean. :)
 
OMG. They grow them BIG where you come from. Never seen one anywhere near that size before (I would have stayed on dry land otherwise).

You would have to argue about who was catching who there.

ddean said:
"Noodling"

:rolleyes: . . . Real fishermans don't need no stinkin' pole. . . . . .
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We dances 'em to sleep.

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