Brown Lining and Getting the Last Laugh

[Pittflyguy]

Hey All,

So I had to relay this story and photo because I can't stop laughing about it. I was traveling for business in Western Ohio this week. I packed my rod in the car with hopes of getting out for a few hours in the evening.

I found a small pay lake near where I was working and hit the water. The lakes were being fished by a bunch of guys with huge live bait rigs fishing for monster catfish.

The lake was small and I could hear the guys across the lake laughing at the guy with the fly rod and one of them actually called me a moron. For two hours.... I believe their collective fish count was ZERO!

After I landed the first one (6lbs), they weren't snickering quite as loud. After I landed the 12 pounder.... they didn't utter a word. As I was walking back around the lake, the guy looked over his shoulder at me. I just smiled, looked at him, and said, "Not so funny now is it".

He laughed and asked me to show him what kind of "bait" I was using. When I explained my bait was a size 4 chartreuse crystal bugger, he stared in disbelief.

I smiled the entire way home!

 

[mute]

Skills

 

[Maurice]

Bait is for children and adults who have no desire to grow.

 

[Pittflyguy]

Maurice,

I was thinking in my head as I was fishing that it had been a while since I was fly fishing amongst a group of guys with 5 gallon white buckets.

To be honest, I have no problem with people doing it as I am not that high brow but the analogy that kept flying through my head was that I was performing surgery with a scalpel and they were doing it with a pair of garden shears. It really made me appreciate my fly fishing addiction!

 

[Acristickid]

Sweet! One for the good guys!


How funny, huh? There is a fine line between looking like a complete idiot and someone who knows what they are doing! hahaha

 

[Bruno]

Nice job! That is a great post.

 

[Fredrick]

Nice Flatties you got there int:

 

[Pittflyguy]

Bruno and Fredrick... Thanks! Always big fun. Definitely a departure from a day at the stream!

 

[gfen]

acristickid wrote:
How funny, huh? There is a fine line between looking like a complete idiot and someone who knows what they are doing! hahaha

I've never found that line...

 

[cmkrachen]

Pitt that is an awesome story! nice work...


some people like to play checkers...but fly fishing is like chess...not everyone understands it, and not everyone can be good at it...