Smoking while fishing

[ccfelker]

A Perdomo Lot 23 robusto is the ticket

 

[ccfelker]

Also Baccarat. The label appeals to me: "The art of doing nothing well"

 

[Bamboozle]

I'm a former cigarette smoker and admitted nicotine addict. I once quit smoking soon after burning through my line (mono on a spin rod), while I was holding the cig in my reel hand. A few years later after quitting cigarettes, I thought I could have a cigar while fishing. The promise I made to myself was "only while fishing". I fished almost every day for the next 6 months and soon broke down to buying cigarettes. These days I use the nicotine pouches, like Zyn and On.

I was smart enough to quit cigarettes while I was still in high school, A LONG time ago when a pack of smokes was under a $1.00.

Even though I used a pipe to wean myself off cigarettes and smoke cigars when I fish, I never once had the urge to go back to cigarettes.

When I am NOT fishing, I'm NOT smoking cigars which means during some periods, it could be months between cigars with zero urge.

I guess I'm lucky....

 

[Bamboozle]

A Perdomo Lot 23 robusto is the ticket

I'm a maduro fan. Two in regular rotation are Arturo Fuente 850 Flor Fina or a Ashton Aged Maduro No. 40 Toro.

However, the first cigar I'll light up on any fishing trip of over several hours is always a Padron Maduro - Magnum or an Arturo Fuente Gran Reserva - Canones. These are LONG cigars at 9" & 8'5" respectively but they burn, draw and smoke beautifully.

I never light them until I am completely rigged up and ready to start casting because I once burned through the Spectra string on my zinger. Fortunately, it was one of several serviceable Abel zingers that I got super cheap, so I sent it back to be restrung.

FWIW - Gear Keeper now offers an aluminum bodied micro zingers for $35 that can be serviced if you are a klutz.

 

[wildtrout2]

I was smart enough to quit cigarettes while I was still in high school, A LONG time ago when a pack of smokes was under a $1.00.

That's how long I've been a smoker. Being a pack a day smoker for many years, I at least cut back to a half pack a day, about ten years ago. I remember saying I'll quit when smokes go to $.75 a pack. I'm now paying $9.15 a pack.