The other night I caught a fat fourteen inch Brown and had hooked him in the upper jaw. It was a bit of a pain getting the hook out. It was deep twilight, almost dark. The angle was wrong. So it took a bit to get the hook out even with the aid of my head lamp.
As I was fumbling I considered wading to the bank to put down my rod but then I had a moment of
Which brings us to Painfully Obvious Tip™ #7:
When you're wearing hippers you always have a place to store your fly rod.
I love those moments of clarity...in my case, they usually come right after the moment of stupidity!
ReplyDeleteBeen there.
DeleteI agree with Steve. Me too.
ReplyDeleteMark
Isn't adversity the mother of invention?
DeleteYou are a hipster.
ReplyDeleteYes.
DeleteSad, I don't think I've ever had a moment of clarity.
ReplyDeleteWell then we shall share mine!
DeleteHave you found a solution for wading sans pants?
ReplyDeleteThat would be a trick, wouldn't it? Though sans pants, I would think of where to hold a fly rod would be a lower priority problem. :)
DeleteWell, seems to me that the people pushing the boundaries of outdoor sports these days are going minimalist and doing it naked. If I stumble across any nudist colony fly fishing ranches (there's gotta be at least one out here in California), I'll be sure to take notes... and pictures. If I don't go blind first.
DeleteYeah, if this were a surfing crowd, that would have been fine. Fly anglers are..... a different body style.
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