fishinwrench

Who is this guy ☝️ ? Can anybody vouch for him ?

I compete against the wind, the current....or lack thereof, the boat, the flys/lures that wish to do me harm if my casting stroke becomes subpar, and of course the fish. I win just barely enough to keep me playing the game. 🤞

Oh your hook setting muscles will be toned up just fine after wrestling all those chainsaws, bow saws, rocks, and concrete blocks. 👍

Above is my official vote for....................... Most Ignorant Post Of The Year on OAF.

There are some terribly deluded opinions being shared here. I lived it for 7 years, and have been close personal friends with a bunch of professional fishermen (the REAL thing) for over 20 years, including 3 Classic champions. It's a genuine GRIND. If any OAF members think they "work harder" than even a semi-successful Pro bass fisherman.....The fact that you are here reading and posting on this forum regularly, proves that wrong. No ya don't, not even close.

It's an endeavor that sucks you in and doesn't let go. Takes more than a tough guy.....it takes a tough family. For a long time I thought I had what it takes, but I didn't, and I'm GLAD. I wouldn't wish that life on anybody that I truly cared for. Most PF careers enjoy a hot streak that lasts several years......then after that nobody really cares about you anymore.

It might as well have been. 😳

Yeah it can make your bow go from a 60# draw weight to a 90+# draw weight in an instant. 😅. I've been through that. And the deer doesn't even have to be big. 🙄

My grandpa always said to hunt HUNGRY. Just a half piece of toast and a few sips of orange juice before getting in the stand. It works! Best preventive cure for Buck Fever that there is. 👍

Have you ever had something happen that causes your adrenaline to suddenly go through the roof, like an electric shock ? That kinda stuff is life altering, which I'll explain here in a bit.....But I'm not too sure that it isn't good for you 🤔 So last night I'm tying flys and it's going on 2:AM. I get up and decide to go outside on the porch to smoke a cig and take a leak. See that dead tree? (it's actually alot closer to the corner of the deck than it appears in the pic). Well I'm standing there on the corner of the deck, cig in mouth, pecker in hand, and I'm gazing at the stars. My gaze slowly wanders to the left and against the night sky I suddenly realize there is a GIANT ANIMAL (as big as a grizzly bear) less that 20 yards from my head, staring down at me from the branch of that dead tree😲 A huge shot of adrenaline shoots through me.....I spit out the cigarette, pissed on my leg, threw up my fists and went into full ninja form READY TO FIGHT FOR MY LIFE....with my crank hanging out! 😂 It was a very large Tom turkey, all blowed up like someone had shoved an air hose up his butt, and wings half-cocked as if he was on the verge of taking flight. That's the funny part, but here's the cool and interesting part: I just turned 60 and for the last 6-8 months I've really started "feeling my age". Kinda stiff & sore all the time, moving slower, all that getting old BS that you hear about. But this morning I woke up feeling 30 years younger. No stiffness, no range of motion issues, no cranky early morning BS, ect. It's blatently obvious that having the living $#!t scared out of me has given me a genuine RESET. 24 hours ago just jumping out of the back of my truck or leaping up into or out of a boat was not happening. I've been doing all this careful stepping and crawling........But today I'm bouncing around like a ferret on crack. Just goes to show you that all of that feeling feeble, can't do what I used to do BS is all in your head. I'm ready to take on the world byGod! If I ever seem slow and like I can't hardly do anything, then somebody needs to throw a spider on me or something...... that'll bring me right out of it. 👍

My shop is an air-fryer, and outside the shop is a heat lamp. I'm so dehydrated that my turds are being used as wheel chocks.

Yeah that's it. 👍

Well 😉. That's pretty darn cool! Does Cortland still offer those lines specifically designed for cane flyrods ?

Testing Another perfect job! 👍

If it was finished pre-epoxy then the old school "rod varnish" kindly crosses over to the modern day Gorilla Glue- Clear. https://www.acehardware.com/departments/paint-and-supplies/tape-glues-and-adhesives/glues-and-epoxy/1787969?store=03753&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3JanBhCPARIsAJpXTx6tWQ20k6LWOdrT3duTXRzVojezdLfew9gLHrtEpx72_3y4uaa2O8YaAlG8EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds Scrape the old varnish off with the back of a butter knife....or the handle of a spoon, smooth out with fine steel wool, then wipe down with alcohol. When clean & dry rub the clear Gorilla glue onto the blank with your fingers (very thinly) and let it dry for 48hrs. Once it is dry and hard rub it down with silicone spray.

Yep I'm getting the same.

The heat the last several days has been miserable. There's shade and big fans in my shop, but it's like standing in an air fryer. Step outside and everything you touch can fry bacon. Not much relief after the sun goes down either. I know this is TMI but I'm not comfortable doing anything that resembles physical labor when it's too hot for underwear.🥴 I have no desire to do any fishing in this climate, except for maybe throwing some hoppers and ants on a cool Trout stream somewhere. Tried doing a little bass fishing Saturday but after 4 hours of fighting boat traffic without a single keeper bite I was ready to give up. It just ain't that important to me anymore.

I told Sugarbritches they were called "thong trees" in hopes that she'd hang her panties on them. Didn't work 🙄 so the pic stayed G-rated.

Shiiiiit! Falling asleep around this group is a good way to get your throat slit. 😳 I'm keeping one eye open at all times. 😉

It's so crooked around here that the trees don't even know which way to grow.

If it isn't politics, and it isn't about the price or quality of the products, then we have a genuine mystery going on here. Is it about wet mail ? 🤔 I know that I promised to STFU but unsettled drama just haunts me. I'll not sleep until we have a group hug, and Terrierman hates it when I post at 3:30AM.

Funny! 😁 I was wading at Manito one Spring Flyfishing for bluegill, when a beaver came swimming by. I said "Hi Buddy" in a very friendly way......but then he/she turned towards me, sped up, and went underwater. I suddenly had a vision of it gnawing at my leg through my rubber hip boots, and I leaped out of that knee deep mucky water back up into the bank like spiderman. I've never moved so gracefully in my life. And my heart was pounding like a drum. 😅 The beaver never resurfaced....so my fishing was limited to the bank for the rest of the afternoon.

My mail is never wet. Not even damp. Level, slightly tilted, doesn't matter. It's a marvel of engineering. 👍

I take exception to that. You must have missed my post about shot placement on feral cats. 😂

Hey, when you're a CAD nerd like Mitch you'd be slacking if you didn't study the potential benefits of angles, before settling on design production. You don't think Mustad, TMC, GAMAKATSU ect. don't take mathematical angles into consideration before moving forward? I betcha they do! I know darn well that Mercury, Bombardier, Yamaha, Suzuki, ect. Certainly do.....on every component they build. As does Ranger, Triton, Basscat........need I go on? If it wasn't for someone studying mathematical angles my mailbox would be a rain gauge. 😅