Am I the only one who is just not a good fisherman?
Apr 7, 2021 22:16:26 #
Apr 7, 2021 22:24:05 #
drifter023 wrote:
Dyna-glo
Isn't that an old school transmission or was it Dyna-Flo?
Apr 7, 2021 22:27:33 #
Yes sir old school automatic 1947 to 1963 Buicks and some Cadillacs
Apr 7, 2021 22:29:28 #
Apr 7, 2021 22:30:39 #
Lil Al wrote:
Yes sir old school automatic 1947 to 1963 Buicks and some Cadillacs
Oh man, thanks Al......I was thinking Chrysler
Apr 7, 2021 22:38:16 #
Apr 7, 2021 22:45:43 #
Lol no, sometimes I think all us fisherman ask ourselves that same exact question at times but then you have one of them hot streaks..................
Apr 7, 2021 22:56:27 #
Big A wrote:
LOFT ? I'm confused ! All these months I thought this was a fishing Forum, but this sounds more like golf ! Does this mean
we should yell 'FORE' before
every cast ? (Just askin' !)
we should yell 'FORE' before
every cast ? (Just askin' !)
I have made a cast or five where I yelled “fore!”
LOFT has many applications...backing a trailer exposes many of those who are afflicted
Apr 7, 2021 23:07:57 #
Doug-1
Loc: Tooele,UT
Remember the time you were in the office or working your buttocks off at what ever job you slaved at. Now compare that to standing out in nature looking at birds bees and beasts of the world. Fishing is only 20 per cent catching 80 percent freedom. Successful fishing is about the joy of just being. An occasional fish dinner is a bonus. Smile and take a bird guide book with you along with your pole. Tight lines. Dutch
Apr 8, 2021 00:15:59 #
Doug-1 wrote:
Remember the time you were in the office or working your buttocks off at what ever job you slaved at. Now compare that to standing out in nature looking at birds bees and beasts of the world. Fishing is only 20 per cent catching 80 percent freedom. Successful fishing is about the joy of just being. An occasional fish dinner is a bonus. Smile and take a bird guide book with you along with your pole. Tight lines. Dutch
And a snake guide book 😁
Apr 8, 2021 01:51:24 #
flyguy wrote:
Welcome to the Forum, LongA, sometimes the fish catches you, and then, sometimes you catch the fish.
Flyguy
New to the forum. Am a retired Air Force Survival Instructor. First fish caught when about 6 years old and was hooked forever. Caught fish in 5 states mostly trout. Taught primitive fishing using willow branch, parachute line, and an improvised hook with success. Tramped over many miles as an instructor in Washington, Texas and Nevada during my time in the service and one of my favorite sayings while fishing or hunting has been:
"Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you!"
I have learned much in the past month from the responses and enjoyed the laughs and pictures of successful catches.
Apr 8, 2021 09:08:29 #
Apr 8, 2021 12:44:00 #
Apr 8, 2021 13:57:26 #
Isikosong
Loc: Berkeley, CA
I am new here too. Thanks for talking about your fishing history. I've only recently gotten back into it having only fished as a child and now to return to it in my 50's.
I am torn as there is much accumulated great philosophical wisdom here and appreciation of more than simply fish on hooks, yet I am experiencing the wanna-be fisherman blues as well especially on behalf of my 12 year old son. It has been wonderful to drive all across stretches of our bit of the Bay Area and Central valley of California fishing in the aqueduct, small streams and great rivers. We had some amazing luck the first few rounds using worms and catching blue gill and catfish. It seemed to be the right proportion of waiting and enjoying and sudden excitement of the line going taut or the rippling around a bobber. That's what has kept us going. We tried switching to lures, powerbait and texas rigs and brush hogs in search of bass or trout, but our ambitions have been thwarted at every turn. Perhaps it is not enough time in the water and the small windows that we have available to fish. It is still precious time and I do realize that we would not be venturing to these rare slices of nature, some charmed, some majestic if not in the name of a fishing outing. I appreciate the bond these lines in the water create between us even when we across two sides of a lake. I know that the inevitable "Catch anything?" question when we return misses the point in so many ways.
But still . . . a friend of mine upon hearing about yet another unsuccessful venture mused: "At what point to do you stop calling it fishing and call it not-fishing".
Once while my son and I waded across the river to the other side for a better vantage point, I saw another fellow wading in the backlight of sun bouncing off the stream's current. Later, when, we had turned in, he was still there. I asked my son to approach him and see what kind of bait he was using. Of course, we started to chat. He hadn't caught anything though he had three lines in the water. I said, "Well, at least this is a beautiful spot here that we are lucky to see." He looked flummoxed and irritated the way a demanding boss might look at a new hire and he nearly bellowed down into the hollow of the entire river's bend: "WE . . . ARE NOT HERE . . . FOR . . . BEAUTY!!!"
He did smile after that. It did seem like a release of his own frustration with all his gear trying to woo a fish out of the water. So all the perspective this thread has offered has been tremendously useful in framing this mysterious activity of fishing, but the guy in the river's primal call is a useful reminder too, that it is a skill, it is knowledge, it is understanding of the way different kinds of fish behave, understanding of weather and what is happening beneath the water's surface. My boss told me that when he was young, his father sailed to Hawaii twice and that along the way they fished for their food. In that case as well as many other's throughout our ancestral histories, fishing has been a matter of survival. You cannot live off beauty.
So my apologies to the kind people who created this platform and who are online for making a novella of my first post, but I am actively turning this question in my head. I want to give my son this backdrop for his childhood and familiarity with nature, but I also hope it will give him not only resilience and appreciation, but know-how, and not just how to cope with repeatedly dashed expectations.
I will continue to look through these threads to try to gain basic competency of this elusive art and to appreciate those who bring passion and knowledge to these threads.
It's not asking too much to have your cake and eat it too, is it? Isn't that all having cake is good for. By the same token, I am in pursuit of beauty and fish. There is much evidence here that both are possible! Thanks for the encouragement and shared knowledge.
Much obliged-- but had to get this off my chest.
I am torn as there is much accumulated great philosophical wisdom here and appreciation of more than simply fish on hooks, yet I am experiencing the wanna-be fisherman blues as well especially on behalf of my 12 year old son. It has been wonderful to drive all across stretches of our bit of the Bay Area and Central valley of California fishing in the aqueduct, small streams and great rivers. We had some amazing luck the first few rounds using worms and catching blue gill and catfish. It seemed to be the right proportion of waiting and enjoying and sudden excitement of the line going taut or the rippling around a bobber. That's what has kept us going. We tried switching to lures, powerbait and texas rigs and brush hogs in search of bass or trout, but our ambitions have been thwarted at every turn. Perhaps it is not enough time in the water and the small windows that we have available to fish. It is still precious time and I do realize that we would not be venturing to these rare slices of nature, some charmed, some majestic if not in the name of a fishing outing. I appreciate the bond these lines in the water create between us even when we across two sides of a lake. I know that the inevitable "Catch anything?" question when we return misses the point in so many ways.
But still . . . a friend of mine upon hearing about yet another unsuccessful venture mused: "At what point to do you stop calling it fishing and call it not-fishing".
Once while my son and I waded across the river to the other side for a better vantage point, I saw another fellow wading in the backlight of sun bouncing off the stream's current. Later, when, we had turned in, he was still there. I asked my son to approach him and see what kind of bait he was using. Of course, we started to chat. He hadn't caught anything though he had three lines in the water. I said, "Well, at least this is a beautiful spot here that we are lucky to see." He looked flummoxed and irritated the way a demanding boss might look at a new hire and he nearly bellowed down into the hollow of the entire river's bend: "WE . . . ARE NOT HERE . . . FOR . . . BEAUTY!!!"
He did smile after that. It did seem like a release of his own frustration with all his gear trying to woo a fish out of the water. So all the perspective this thread has offered has been tremendously useful in framing this mysterious activity of fishing, but the guy in the river's primal call is a useful reminder too, that it is a skill, it is knowledge, it is understanding of the way different kinds of fish behave, understanding of weather and what is happening beneath the water's surface. My boss told me that when he was young, his father sailed to Hawaii twice and that along the way they fished for their food. In that case as well as many other's throughout our ancestral histories, fishing has been a matter of survival. You cannot live off beauty.
So my apologies to the kind people who created this platform and who are online for making a novella of my first post, but I am actively turning this question in my head. I want to give my son this backdrop for his childhood and familiarity with nature, but I also hope it will give him not only resilience and appreciation, but know-how, and not just how to cope with repeatedly dashed expectations.
I will continue to look through these threads to try to gain basic competency of this elusive art and to appreciate those who bring passion and knowledge to these threads.
It's not asking too much to have your cake and eat it too, is it? Isn't that all having cake is good for. By the same token, I am in pursuit of beauty and fish. There is much evidence here that both are possible! Thanks for the encouragement and shared knowledge.
Much obliged-- but had to get this off my chest.
Apr 8, 2021 14:01:14 #
Isik....you cant see it obviously....but there is a tear in my eye.......
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