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 agree with Steve. Me too.
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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!
DeleteBeen there.
ReplyDeleteHave 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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