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couple » Monday Morning Follies: The Writer’s Strike Ain’t Gonna Stop Us — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:46:25 +0000

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By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:33:35 +0000

Truthfully, my favorite fish to cast to is typically whatever one I’m able to at that particular moment. I like trout fishing,for sure. For me it’s the only game in town from Feb 1st until the saltwater season kicks in. But my personal goal isn’t to be a trout bum, it’s to try and catch pretty much anything that swims with a fly rod. I was even excited to catch a bullhead, and that fought like a wet sock. I have a lot of respect for the trout zen masters of the world, I just wish some of them wouldn’t be so myopic in passing judgement on the pursuit of the non-blue chip species. Did I just type that much into a comment box? Sorry man.

By: Trent Bentzel

Trent Bentzel — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:58:33 +0000

Toughest fish I ever caught on a fly rod was a carp while fishing for smallies. Pike have come in a very close second. I think the trout thing, at least for me, comes from where you find them. They can only survive in really cool places, and I don’t just mean temperature. But also I think it has to do with the rod. A 4wt rod flicking a soft hackle into pocketwater just seems more balanced than slamming hamster sized clousers on a 9wt at stripers. As a kid I used to love catching chubs and fallfish with a flyrod. Maybe we’ve all grown up too much and take this trout stuff too seriously.

By: C3C Raine

C3C Raine — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:53:25 +0000

I think it’s all a matter of personal perceptions and preference – depends whether your looking for a good fight (bass), or a challenging hookup (trout), or a big dumb fish that makes you drag him in (carp). I would also say it depends on who you’re with and their experience – I know it’s a lot more fun to take my friends out for smallies at siskiyou than for trout on the Sac, and they’re more apt to go out with me again after having all that fun with the bass.

By: Tom Chandler

Tom Chandler — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:44:19 +0000

Pete: Peacock power! [clenched fish held aloft]

I’d love to do a blind test someday; blindfold fly fishers, let them cast and catch fish, then ask them to rate the experience.

Wanna bet trout don’t come out on top?

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:57:27 +0000

My favorite freshwater fish to fly fish for is peacock bass. There, I said it! One of my trout bum buddies, who first got me into fly fishing with the gift of 20 or so trout flies he tied personally, once looked at me like I had two heads when I told him I preferred smallmouth. Is it that trout fishing is seen by some as a religion–the famous first line from That Book comes to mind–whose devotees don’t tolerate dissent? Or do trout anglers regard non-trouters like the Amish do their teenagers–okay go off and stray for a while on your little Rumspringa and then come back and be Amish?

Either way, good stuff from you and Singlebarbed.