Phil Shuts Em Down When Conservatives Speak

[Zach Bearden]

I vote he's just trying to cause a scene and looking for attention.

#nobodycares.

[Mitch f]

I vote he's just trying to cause a scene and looking for attention.

#nobodycares.

You are about 20-30% correct, sometimes no one listens unless you state your opinion in this manner.

[drew03cmc]

Mitch, you realize that Cricket might actually be correct on this matter? I know that is hard to believe, but he might be onto something.

[Mitch f]

Mitch, you realize that Cricket might actually be correct on this matter? I know that is hard to believe, but he might be onto something.

I love Cricket and Eric, they is usually right,

it's not always about breaking Phil's rules though

[Greg]

I've been on here a long time and I just don't see it. I think a topic gets shut down when people are not civil or resort to name calling. And I'm actually a conservative in most things.

[Mitch f]

I've been on here a long time and I just don't see it. I think a topic gets shut down when people are not civil or resort to name calling. And I'm actually a conservative in most things.

I respect your opinion Greg. This was the reason I stopped posting for a couple of months

[Tim Smith]

denial is very funny

No kidding.

I've talked to Phil in private a few times and I get the sense I'm miles to the left of him. He has shut down several threads where I've posted, usually several posts after I've dropped out of the discussion. Usually the reason I've dropped out of the thread is the same reason he has shut it down...

...because BOTH sides have started to embarrass themselves by going personal.

Or maybe he's a communist. Which seems more likely?

[FishinCricket]

Lol, where's my popcorn when I need it?

I agree Phil, Wishin' we were all fishin'...

Much luv, Mitch... And Eric is spot on! (as usual, he's a "realist")

Andy, you da man...

[Zach Bearden]

So anyways, today I was fishing and couldn't catch what I was expecting numbers wise. I couldn't figure out what was going on. There were plenty of fish in the hole that I was fishing. I was fishing a no indicator upstream with small flies (18-20) for the heck of it. Well after LOTS of experimentation I finally caught a couple more fish. I switched over to a dry/dropper set up with the same small flies as before, but started catching more fish. Why? I don't know, maybe it was just that I wasn't detecting the strikes well without an indy style fly up top. It was some pretty slow frog water...

So after realizing that my technique was a little off and switching it up caused me to catch me more fish I decided I'd play with the pattern. Now usually I'm a pretty straight forward guy when it comes down to patterns. I have about 6-7 in my box that I fish consistently and hardly go out of that group. But today those things just were not doing the trick. So I tied on a little experiment, a small beaded nymph with a CDL tail, Pheasant body, and a bit of dubbing for a collar. It was a fairly dark colored fly. After two casts, caught a fish. Let the hammering begin. I ended up catching 20 or so fish before I eventually lost this fly, which was completely demolished by the end of this, and I didn't have another like it. I switched to another fly and only caught one more fish before I eventually gave up and went home.

So my questions for you guys, at what point do you think you're not catching as many fish as you think you should? What would you do to fix it? I'm also quite set on Technique > Pattern. But today just threw me for a loop. Makes you realize that you're not as complete as you thought. Silly trout

P.S. This is a fishing forum, not a political forum. I'm sure there are plenty of places you can go here on the internet to rant about politics. I'm here to learn from other guys and hopefully I can teach something back. Can we go back to fishing now?

[Mitch f]

So anyways, today I was fishing and couldn't catch what I was expecting numbers wise. I couldn't figure out what was going on. There were plenty of fish in the hole that I was fishing. I was fishing a no indicator upstream with small flies (18-20) for the heck of it. Well after LOTS of experimentation I finally caught a couple more fish. I switched over to a dry/dropper set up with the same small flies as before, but started catching more fish. Why? I don't know, maybe it was just that I wasn't detecting the strikes well without an indy style fly up top. It was some pretty slow frog water...

So after realizing that my technique was a little off and switching it up caused me to catch me more fish I decided I'd play with the pattern. Now usually I'm a pretty straight forward guy when it comes down to patterns. I have about 6-7 in my box that I fish consistently and hardly go out of that group. But today those things just were not doing the trick. So I tied on a little experiment, a small beaded nymph with a CDL tail, Pheasant body, and a bit of dubbing for a collar. It was a fairly dark colored fly. After two casts, caught a fish. Let the hammering begin. I ended up catching 20 or so fish before I eventually lost this fly, which was completely demolished by the end of this, and I didn't have another like it. I switched to another fly and only caught one more fish before I eventually gave up and went home.

So my questions for you guys, at what point do you think you're not catching as many fish as you think you should? What would you do to fix it? I'm also quite set on Technique > Pattern. But today just threw me for a loop. Makes you realize that you're not as complete as you thought. Silly trout

P.S. This is a fishing forum, not a political forum. I'm sure there are plenty of places you can go here on the internet to rant about politics. I'm here to learn from other guys and hopefully I can teach something back. Can we go back to fishing now?

Respect your opinion, but when has the fact that this is a fishing forum ever stopped anyone from expressing their opinion on anything. Also, this thread is not about fishing anyway.

Start a new thread for you fly fishing topics .