What, in your mind, qualifies a fly fisher as a 'flat brimmer'?

[The_Sasquatch]

"usually pretty good fishermen"...yeah at high sticking with a 10' "nymphing rod". But fear not....there's a new book on streamer tactics coming out, so they'll all be chucking streamers soon.

Actually, I never heard the term "flat brimmer" before this thread. Seems interchangeable with "hipster", and I guess every sport has its hipster strain. They'll grow out of it eventually, or go bankrupt, or worse yet, give up fly fishing.

 

[FarmerDave]

PocketWater wrote:
I have seen the term 'Flat Brimmer' used on occasion here and was wondering what qualifies a fly fisher as one, in your eyes.

Amish?

I never heard the term before this thread either.

 

[FarmerDave]

I just googled "flat brimmer" and this thread is up to number 6!

 

[FarmerDave]

pcray1231 wrote:
I'll talk to any of them...

Yea, we know. ;-)

 

[mcwillja]

+2 for Reeder

 

[geebee]

troutbert wrote:
I'm sure today's young flyfishers will also have fun looking at their photos 30 years from now.

yup the hipster oversized beards are going to look like the 80's mullet in a decade or too .

 

[The_Sasquatch]

Dude it's not the beard that makes them hipsters. Its the stupid hair cuts they get with the beards.

 

[foxtrapper1972]

Wear whatever you want. I prefer flyfishing in the nude... I do wear a wide brim hat, sunscreen, sneakers and my strap vest though. I only go au naturel when I fish on a certain private area I have access to. It's the ultimate in wet wading!

 

[The_Sasquatch]

man...

haha. Hipsters with their stupid fake lumberjack hair and their gluten free range organic buttersticks.

 

[PhilC]

Like many styles it started in the hood and once middle aged white guys started wearing it it became not cool in the hood. The Internet has changed things quite a bit since fashion trends flow through society faster than they used to. Things don't seem to go from "in style" to "out" as quickly as they used to and have a long slow death. Also with more social outlets people aren't limited to a certain identity type like if you a "X" (enter Flyfish, skateboard, play football) you're supposed dress and act a certain way. If you lump every flat brimmer into one category your judgement is probably highly inaccurate.

 

[gozu]

Along the lines of this.

 

[The_Sasquatch]

1-I've had a beard since I could grow facial hair with the exception of the summer of 2006 and the summer of 2011. 2-that's an old school trucker hat because they were the style in the late 90s when I was young enough to be a hipster (everyone at Hatebreed and Snapcase shows wore them!) and 3-that's not a butter stick, that's a $30 Eagle Claw which I bought at Wally World a few years before Orvis, Reddington, and whoever else in the mass-rod market was making new glass rods. But the reality is, I'm not a hipster. I just haven't updated my look since the first Weezer album.

And there is at least one person on this forum who has known me since I was 20ish who can verify the validity of those statements ;-)

 

[blueheron]

You can't help it, you're a hipster.

 

[The_Sasquatch]

Hey man, if you don't change, eventually you'll be in style again. I knew something was up when a 19yr old chick called me a "hipster" when I was working at the bank last year. Then I read about that thing called "Lumbersexual" on the interwebz earlier this year.

 

[gozu]

The_Sasquatch wrote:
Hey man, if you don't change, eventually you'll be in style again. I knew something was up when a 19yr old chick called me a "hipster" when I was working at the bank last year. Then I read about that thing called "Lumbersexual" on the interwebz earlier this year.

I'm just teasing, I to share a passion for flannel and tasteful facial hair.

 

[poopdeck]

gozu wrote:
Along the lines of this.

Have no worry. That is not a hipster. That's the mayor of pokeyville.

 

[The_Sasquatch]

Who, what or where is Pokeyville!?

I think I'll listen to that Weezer album on my way to work.

 

[KeithS]

Trust me, Squatch is neither hipster nor Flatbrimmer. He's way too insightful for either.

 

[The_Sasquatch]

LOL! It's okay. I honestly don't take any of this stuff seriously. If I'm a hipster now, give it a few months. I won't be a hipster, I'll be terribly out of style 'cause I'll still look the same.

I would hope no one is taking this conversation too seriously!

 

[JackM]

From the first post I thought this thread was supposed to be all in good fun. Sasquatch is a quality guy; his ironic beard does not confront me in the least. I was once called the Mayor of Idiotsville.