Angling as an Addiction? Video Says So.
By Tom Chandler on Nov 3, 2006 in Underground Entertainment, Video
Another video in the “we’re so obsessed and everybody envies us” vein.
Frankly folks, it’s getting a little old. I realize that it’s tempting to slap a “Trout Bum” Label on ourselves, but as LaFontaine noted in the foreword to Gierach’s “Trout Bum” classic:
No one under the age of thirty qualifies as a trout bum.
Call me when you’re 40, still living in a hovel, working odd jobs, and fishing 250 days per year. Then you’re a trout bum (or a prisoner in an institution with a stream running through it).
Still, it’s an interesting video. Why am I ranting? I have no idea.
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flytimes | Nov 3, 2006 | Reply
No one who lives off of a trustfund qualifies as a trout bum.
WT
Ian | Nov 4, 2006 | Reply
How’s 36, living 10 minutes from 3 trout streams, 3 minutes from smallmouth, guides 150 days a year, fishes every chance possible, a drift boat in the driveway, have wife who guides, have a 16 month old girl whose limited vocabulary includes “ish”, we schedule work around 3 week Western fishing odysseys plus assorted saltwater jaunts?
If I’m not a trout bum, no one is.
Tom Chandler | Nov 4, 2006 | Reply
Sorry Ian. Immediate disqualification for being a responsible adult human being with a family and a fast-growing guide/seminar/speaking engagement/book publishing business.
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but you’re not a Trout Bum, you’re a Trout Success. Sorry.
Wyatt | Nov 4, 2006 | Reply
Guides are automaticaly disqualified from “bum” status. Fishing for money puts you in a different category. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
WT
Ian | Nov 6, 2006 | Reply
A failed trout bum…. I’m crushed…
I could wallow in self pity, but I’m going fishing.
Ian
PS Don’t disqualify full time guides from trout bum status. You can often find real street bums who might panhandle a better annual income.
Tom Chandler | Nov 6, 2006 | Reply
Yes, failure’s ugly, especially when it ghosts into your life wrapped in the white sheet of success…
pseudososa | Nov 7, 2006 | Reply
“Yes, failure’s ugly, especially when it ghosts into your life wrapped in the white sheet of success…” how true, how true…especially when you feel that hot, dragon’s breath of the blogmeister as he writes these lines….