I have too many fly rods...said nobody ever

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Daniel Carter

Ugly sticks unlimited, has a nice ring to it. Band together with like minded folks and lobby for your own restricted waters. Worked for the stick wavers. Intended as humor but the group with the lobby gets what they want.

I like that “stick waver” reference to John Gierach’s book “Standing in a River Waving a Stick”





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[Woodcock survey]

Dean you have outed me, miss him a lot.

[Phil Yearout]

If all you care about is catching fish the local Wally World stuff will work fine and save you a lot of money . 'Course, the same could be said if all you want to do is kill birds.

[Lloyd McKissick]

Yeah, Gierach was pretty neat. Met him at a fly fishing show here in Denver probably 25-years ago now. Told him how much money he'd cost me over the years while shaking his hand. I'm afraid I scared him a little (from the look on his face) so I immediately told him how much his books had meant to me while living on the road for work. We parted well after that.

[Researcher]

You get it or don’t. Some people say the same thing about your elitism and snobbery over side by side shotguns so it goes both ways.

I don't know of any game department that sets aside prime bird hunting property just for people with old side by side shotguns.

[24 grams]

If only….

[Andy]

Originally Posted by Dave Noreen

I don't know of any game department that sets aside prime bird hunting property just for people with old side by side shotguns.

No but some places require non tox shot, which is expensive and some folks can't afford that, so that's discriminatory in a way.

[BRDHNTR]

I always enjoy a nice cigar just before shooting skeet at the club Sunday mornings. Plymouth Rod and Gun by the way. Great club, great members. Always a joy for an old man

[Lloyd McKissick]

But they should...

[Stan Hillis]

If an eight year old boy wants to catch a trout with his cane pole and an earthworm I can't see the problem. Seems to me that the important thing is the motive, not the method.

BTW, I enjoy flyrodding for bedding bluegills, but I'll likely have a cigar in my mouth, not a pipe.