Not the pole, it is the leader you cast! The delivery, bounce off the rock, hit that overhang grass and drop in. Pole is only as good as your leader. 800 dollar pole, 20 dollar pole. Work in the same manner, cast the fly with the knowledge, I am there. Not the right fly, ramble on brother to the next.
Get as close as you can, position yourself and "POW". Fish on. Most not understood of all is the leader you use.
Leaders are the main link. I know this, Everyone has them. All the companies, I would guess wholesale from Japan now. 5.25 a dozen.
Jim La Page orvis once told me a quarter each but that was 25 years ago. A cut stick and a proper leader, will catch them all!
We have got so far ahead of ourselves we forgot what it is like to fish. Fish, just fish. Enjoyable fishing.
So looking back in my life, a long stick, cut from a tree, a leader, looking over my shoulder, ready to run, fishing all those places, you can not fish. Members only! Was tracked, hunted, yelled at but never caught. Just kind of slipped in and slipped out. Funny how we are now friends now!
While fishing the primitive way, I was always on lookout, for ginseng, coon tracks, mink tracks, deer signs, fox droppings. Went back as a trapper and collected some fur, went back and harvested some grouse, squirrels. A couple bear and a lot of bucks.
But that is what I did, before the new age of high price fishing. I kind of enjoyed those days. If I could not catch them regular, I got in the water and reached under the rocks. I hated crayfish and watersnakes. Made me nervous.
I was one of a kind. I do not really know if I am sorry today, of what I took, I guess I am sorry for what you can not take. Rattlesnake dinner, or a young coon, a possum with gravy, porcupine k bobs, muskrat fried, and all favorite Roasted Beaver, sweet, sweet Beaver. Better than any roast beef! Grouse on a stick, you name it.
Take a rat trap. bend a nail, sharpen it and tack it on the trap, the whacker. Put corn on the trigger, tack it to a tree about a foot high.
Turkey sees the corn, hits the trigger, nail goes into head, turkey pulls out and bleeds out, you have to search for the bird. But you have to remember, it takes all day and then some. Survive, when it gets tough, you must get tougher. The end, might be the beginning.
Do you do this everyday, no, but you must know how to, do it, if you must. All about a pole, what pole, The 800 dollar pole of no use.
The good old days. Hook, line sinker if you got them, if not, forage!
Get a fire started and never let it burn out!
Maxima12
