I’m a Sage guy but ….

[JG63]

Form your own opinion - I agree with Ben and think using this marketing tactic is a low blow to the sport - If this crosses the wrong line please delete:

 

[6xAdams(Jones)]

JG, this is already being discussed on Old, Stale, Negative Thread...
But I agree that this is an insult to every woman who flyfishes and fathers of daughters who flyfish. Even Ben warned about not letting kids watch his latest offering on Monday.

 

[Nymph-wristed]

So is the latest Fly Fisherman magazine cover with Joan Wulff considered "empowering" to women? Got any shots of Tom Rosenbauer in short shorts?

Seems like more of the same/nothing changes without companies being called out for moves like this.

 

[Nocktavius]

Winston must be doing something right considering Orvis decided to knock off their cosmetics on the H4 Tom Rosenbauer special. However unlike most cheap knockoffs, this one is 500$ more expensive for an inferior fly rod.

 

[Bamboozle]

I'm glad that Huge Fly Fisherman told why I am supposed to upset at Winston and this woman because if I stumbled on the video without his pontificating I would have sailed past my head...

It must suck to get your knickers in a twist just because YOU think YOU are important in the FF world but you didn't get any free $#!+ from a manufacturer... 🙄

 

[rustbeltwilds]

The granola have taken over the industry

 

[JG63]

I'm glad that Huge Fly Fisherman told why I am supposed to upset at Winston and this woman because if I stumbled on the video without his pontificating I would have sailed past my head...

It must suck to get your knickers in a twist just because YOU think YOU are important in the FF world but you didn't get any free $#!+ from a manufacturer... 🙄

You’re you’re as deep in the layers of the onion as needed - the very reasons why I posted this - and why I quit the businesses of charity work, retailing, wholesale sales, guiding, fly tying “pro” teams, sales rep, casting instructor, consultant, YouTube channel meister etc. etc. - but after 40 years of it, there is nothing new under the sun (just rebranding) and I just want to fish for myself - not for thousands of “likers” on my feed - or slamming the spot burners for “my” stretch of river - try doing what you love for a living and see how much you love it afterwards - a “famous” guy you’ve never heard of 🤣

 

[Nocktavius]

The deeper problem is that anyone at all can be a flyfishing “influencer”. Everybody is engaged in some hustle or angle to pimp out a sport that at its heart thrives on solitude. So whether we eagerly await the next YouTube video of some Virginian jackass euronymphing one of the finest dry fly fisheries in the lower 48 during prime hopper season, listen to the 5th wetflyswing/ destination angler Upper Delaware rehash this year put out by the same guide that will be mean mugging me come May for “crowding him” from 200 yards upriver, slapping somebody’s sticker on our truck that is just as clueless as we are when they ain’t biting, or diving into the latest greatest book about the same stuff Humphreys stole from Harvey who probably stole it from GEM Skues, we’re all contributing to the same problem.

The best way to kill “content” is not to engage with it at all. All huge fly fisherman did was drive this OF model’s viewership numbers up even further. I’d be absolutely flattered if somebody took the time to make an entire video talking s**t on me. If you need me I’ll be on the river, actually fishing, and not videotaping, podcasting or blogging about it 😂.