Found via the Horse’s Mouth blog, this one’s a good reminder why a nice, sane, safely flowing trout stream looks, feels and is so much better than anything in saltwater.
Simply put, this is a public service announcement.
See you getting motion sick, Tom Chandler.
: All of that notwithstanding, it's a very nice photo, Tom.
: It is the perfect match for his ethos.
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Bonefish are pretty much fished for in water 6″ to 2.5 feet… not a lot of wave action there… not a lot to make you sea sick… not a lot of naval ships on the flats.
Also… a trout swims about 5 mph… a bonefish can hit 25 mph. Add cracked conch and swaying palm trees a lack of frostbite or the need to wear waders/layers/wool-anything and that saltwater stuff starts to look really, really nice.
Trout fishing is great, it is wonderful, I love it… however… hook a bonefish and your perspective might get a little tweak. Just say’n.
Bjorn(Quote)
i love trout fishing i caught a 25 inch trout last weekend.
Omar Y.(Quote)
Panfish! Think about it, fishing for trout you can still get swept away in the current, or some flash flood. But, panfish on a pond……”look out, here comes the neighborhood bully” is about all you gotta look out for.
Guys Flies and Pies(Quote)
The only thing better than a tuna or a dorado on the fly rod for an adrenaline rush is a good victory a sea session on the way in. You really can’t appreciate it unless you’ve been there.
andy marx(Quote)
It’s not a matter of better or worse. It’s about the ocean and the river inside that ocean and the fantastically beautiful and fascinating fish inside the river.
I just got blown off the beach, AGAIN. But, I will be back on the water, chasing those fish and hoping to do some catching, this evening.
The river may be easier in some ways, but it is all about the beautiful obsession.
Oh Yeah, that video is insane.
JJP(Quote)
What about honing your casting skills, timing your back cast as the ship goes down in the trough and then your forward cast just as it reaches the top on the crest into a strong wind. Tom just doesn’t like it cause he couldn’t do it with his dainty bamboo or glass rods :)
Brian(Quote)
You pathetic wads are all ignoring the real facts here: That ship is almost certainly surrounded by schools of hungry sharks and pods of Giant Humbolt Squid (not to mention the lethally toxic jellyfish that basically fill our oceans) – and yes, they populate the flats too (right alongside the deadly rays with the stinging tail thingees).
By contrast, the biggest threat on the Upper Sac – beyond that moron who throws rocks at people because they’re fishing “his” river – would be stonefly nymphs, who have yet to attack and bring down a human being.
So who are you all working for, and why the conspiracy?
Ahh, gonna play it mum, eh?
Tom Chandler(Quote)
Okay, pass the dramamine, but where does chasing a saltwater esqe fish (salmon/steelhead) in freshwater fall? Best of both worlds? fight like the hell, but without the risk of sharks, squid, jellyfish. Just the risk of them not being there when you are. Migratory fish are never on time.
miker(Quote)
Someday I’d love to fish for Bonefish and the like but for now I can only console my envy with the fact that by keeping the saltwater guys on the saltwater it may mean a few less lines running through some of the trout water.
The only good reason to endure a ship ride like that would be:
a) Good fishing on flat water somewhere along the way, or
b) Eventually stopping of at some isolated island full of scantily clad, tan tropical girls that adore older, farmer tanned, pale males (not a beer or cigarette brand misspelling) bespectacled in reading glasses, know how to fish and of course they’d have the libido of a 20 year old.
WM(Quote)
This is where I admit my choice of so-called hobbies might be of questionable sanity.
Since the early 70′s I have been sailboat racing, primarily inside and outside the S.F. Bay. Last year, on our way out past the Golden Gate Bridge we had one crew member get washed off the deck by a breaking wave, saved only by his harness line. Before I discovered Scopace, I used to get violently seasick out there. We do this to get yelled at by the skipper that we are not changing sails or tending sheets (ropes) fast enough. We do this because it is fun.
Oh yeah, one of my other hobbies is scuba diving, including my recent trip to the Philippines to swim with sharks bigger than me. We also do this for fun.
What sport scares me? Well, I once went shad fly fishing with Singlebarbed and almost killed myself with the hook whizzing by my head. That was not fun.
A. Wannabe Travelwriter(Quote)