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JRQ

JRQ

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As angling goes, casting a fly rod ain't chunking a bobber and worm and it sure as hell ain't running a trot line. I totally understand how one would label fly fishing as "gay" given the multitude of rainbow colored advertisements and fishing personalities blasting at us like Skittles from a shotgun. But before we cast about hasty generalization and ad hominems (or HOMO-nems as it were), is it the fly fishing that's gay or is it just a bunch of "sweet pickles" out there who are a little too loud and a little too proud gaying up what the ancient Macedonians invented in 200 AD? What you got?

@Charlie Benton
@Tony Caggiano
@Jason Vincent
 
JRQ said:
As angling goes, casting a fly rod ain't chunking a bobber and worm and it sure as hell ain't running a trot line. I totally understand how one would label fly fishing as "gay" given the multitude of rainbow colored advertisements and fishing personalities blasting at us like Skittles from a shotgun. But before we cast about hasty generalization and ad hominems (or HOMO-nems as it were), is it the fly fishing that's gay or is it just a bunch of "sweet pickles" out there who are a little too loud and a little too proud gaying up what the ancient Macedonians invented in 200 AD? What you got?

@Charlie Benton
@Tony Caggiano
@Jason Vincent
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Throwing the fish back is the gay part.
 
Jeff Johnston said:
Barbless hooks is the gayest.
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Two decades ago, I was fishing in a "single barbless hook" section of a river. I had been well into the cups the night before, which made it difficult for me to keep the hopper-dropper rig I had tied on from looking like a knotted mat of pubes after every other cast.

Head pounding and guts roiling, I clipped off the tangled dropper section of line from the grasshopper and prepared to tie on a new trotline to the hook, but got distracted by a fella dressed like a tee-ball coach in a blue nylon polo and shorts outfit, sloshing his way through the current towards me.

It wasn't until he was at arm's length that I saw the white embroidered words on his shirt: "Game and Fish."

"Morning! You need to see my license, sir?" I asked.

"I want to see that hook," he replied.

He grabbed the hopper and held it up to the sun. He turned to me, turned back to the hopper, and then presented the faux bug and asked, "does this hook look barbless to you?"

I leaned in and studied the hook through the Walmart polarized sunglasses I was wearing over my prescription eyeglasses. The hopper's hook in radiant clarity looked like the sweep of a chisel plow, and I answered with confidence, "Yessir... does."

The warden took a pair of forceps and mashed the sickeled barb down and said, "I think this is better."

He then went up river, and I went back to my truck.

I haven't fished that river since.
 
Great stuff, JQ... also, does "Barbless hooks is the gayest" sound wrong. I was talking about the law, or the phrase and not actually about plural hooks, so I used IS, but when I read it now, it sounds wrong, so I changed it to ARE. What do you think, teach?
 
Jeff Johnston said:
Great stuff, JQ... also, does "Barbless hooks is the gayest" sound wrong. I was talking about the law, or the phrase and not actually about plural hooks, so I used IS, but when I read it now, it sounds wrong, so I changed it to ARE. What do you think, teach?
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Either way suffices because barbless hooks "is" and "are" gay af.
 
JRQ said:
As angling goes, casting a fly rod ain't chunking a bobber and worm and it sure as hell ain't running a trot line. I totally understand how one would label fly fishing as "gay" given the multitude of rainbow colored advertisements and fishing personalities blasting at us like Skittles from a shotgun. But before we cast about hasty generalization and ad hominems (or HOMO-nems as it were), is it the fly fishing that's gay or is it just a bunch of "sweet pickles" out there who are a little too loud and a little too proud gaying up what the ancient Macedonians invented in 200 AD? What you got?

@Charlie Benton
@Tony Caggiano
@Jason Vincent
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It’s just run of the mill, form over function gay. No need to overthink it.
 
JRQ said:
As angling goes, casting a fly rod ain't chunking a bobber and worm and it sure as hell ain't running a trot line. I totally understand how one would label fly fishing as "gay" given the multitude of rainbow colored advertisements and fishing personalities blasting at us like Skittles from a shotgun. But before we cast about hasty generalization and ad hominems (or HOMO-nems as it were), is it the fly fishing that's gay or is it just a bunch of "sweet pickles" out there who are a little too loud and a little too proud gaying up what the ancient Macedonians invented in 200 AD? What you got?

@Charlie Benton
@Tony Caggiano
@Jason Vincent
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Following!! 🤣🤣
 
It also seems like since the 90's there has been a real trend in all sports that people feel like they need to have all of the gear to start out and dont want to show up unless they have a new r8 and hatch reel color matched to their patagonia waders so they can explain to you why you suck because you dont use a sage.

Fly fishing has a ton of gear and seems especially susceptible to this mentality.
 
boulderchild said:
It also seems like since the 90's there has been a real trend in all sports that people feel like they need to have all of the gear to start out and dont want to show up unless they have a new r8 and hatch reel color matched to their patagonia waders so they can explain to you why you suck because you dont use a sage.

Fly fishing has a ton of gear and seems especially susceptible to this mentality.
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As a professed gear junkie and a fan of redundancy, the whole two is one, one is none thing, I have way too much gear in general. I have no less that 20 rods, spinning, casting, salt, fly each with a reel, line, etc., so maybe almost enough. I stop short of owning Patagonia waders or anything else Patagonia because they are leftists and gay AF. Several of my fly rods are Sage...please nobody tell me they are leftys!
 
avalonbikes said:
As a professed gear junkie and a fan of redundancy, the whole two is one, one is none thing, I have way too much gear in general. I have no less that 20 rods, spinning, casting, salt, fly each with a reel, line, etc., so maybe almost enough. I stop short of owning Patagonia waders or anything else Patagonia because they are leftists and gay AF. Several of my fly rods are Sage...please nobody tell me they are leftys!
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Dude, I fall into the same camp so I get it. Hell, Ive got all that too. But I didnt buy it all because I thought I had to have it to try a sport I have it because I have big boy money and a 5 year old impulse control.
 
boulderchild said:
Dude, I fall into the same camp so I get it. Hell, Ive got all that too. But I didnt buy it all because I thought I had to have it to try a sport I have it because I have big boy money and a 5 year old impulse control.
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I didn't buy it because I needed it to try a sport either. That said, it hurts to sell your introductory gear after a season or two to buy the stuff you should have bought to start with. Once I've decided an activity is a "keeper" for me, I trade up for good gear, spending more when I know better what to spend on. Then it's game on though as I feel the need for purpose specific rod weights and lengths, calibers and actions, etc. I also have 5 year old impulse control. I have to self regulate, because my wife is somewhat clueless and gives me too long a leash.
 
@boulderchild and @avalonbikes

There's gear for all kinds of shit we do. Guns, rods, camo, lures... and acquiring and using all that shit is fun. Killing and catching are fun.

I agree that lefties have fagged up fly fishing so that the fun of it is like riding a moped scooter or banging an ugly gal, which are all fun until your buddies catch you doing it (so I've heard).
 
JRQ said:
As angling goes, casting a fly rod ain't chunking a bobber and worm and it sure as hell ain't running a trot line. I totally understand how one would label fly fishing as "gay" given the multitude of rainbow colored advertisements and fishing personalities blasting at us like Skittles from a shotgun. But before we cast about hasty generalization and ad hominems (or HOMO-nems as it were), is it the fly fishing that's gay or is it just a bunch of "sweet pickles" out there who are a little too loud and a little too proud gaying up what the ancient Macedonians invented in 200 AD? What you got?

@Charlie Benton
@Tony Caggiano
@Jason Vincent
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Once you
JRQ said:
As angling goes, casting a fly rod ain't chunking a bobber and worm and it sure as hell ain't running a trot line. I totally understand how one would label fly fishing as "gay" given the multitude of rainbow colored advertisements and fishing personalities blasting at us like Skittles from a shotgun. But before we cast about hasty generalization and ad hominems (or HOMO-nems as it were), is it the fly fishing that's gay or is it just a bunch of "sweet pickles" out there who are a little too loud and a little too proud gaying up what the ancient Macedonians invented in 200 AD? What you got?

@Charlie Benton
@Tony Caggiano
@Jason Vincent
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once you grab a bow and jump on an airboat all other forms of fishing seem a little fruity
 

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Awwwww… shit… here we go.

Same could be said for jug singing on the river or hand grabbing under cypress stumps.
 
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