Kansas Crimson

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ousdahl wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 4:25 pm I’ve hooked more than a few turtles while fishing. Bullfrogs and snakes too.

I’ll unhook and release, just like any other creature. Except for snapping turtles. Don’t wanna loose a finger, I’m just cutting the line for them

Who needs a hook for a frog? Flashlight and gig'em champ

I’ve really never tried to catch a frog or targeted them or anything. Just incidental to bass fishing.

They’ll hang out among lily pads and weed beds and such, with just their eyes poking out. If you dangle your lure over the weed bed, even if inadvertently, they’ll launch out of the water at them. Pretty wild shit when you were otherwise just planning your next cast.

Also, fun fact: I’ve heard Buddhists say the most enlightened zen master creature ever is a frog. Completely chilled out and and docile within their surroundings, yet completely aware of everything around them at the same time.

No chance that guy baits his own hooks!

Dori!!

defixione wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 5:14 pmDori!!

That's a cool looking fish!

man. so Spey fishing.

It’s this style of fly fishing innovated by salmon fishermen on the River Spey in Scotland.

Basically, fancy casting techniques and the tension of the line on the water are used to execute casts that keep all the line in front of you, with no overhead back cast to get tangled in the dense treed banks those Scottish rivers are known for. Oh, and generally the rods are much longer, and take two hands to properly cast.

While there are certain practical advantages, it’s also just fun, and an enjoyable challenge, and focuses as much as anything on some aesthetic beauty of the casting in itself, rather than just netting the most fish possible. We’ll leave that to the bait fishermen.

So I’ve dabbled. Was out practicing my Spey cast yesterday just for laughs. On like the 3rd cast of the day - a cast we’ll endearingly call a warmup, cuz was sloppy and barely got the fly in the water and surprised it didn’t just tangle - I lift the line to start my next cast, but feel a head shake.

Get tight on the line, and there’s something there. It’s something…big! It’s swimming around, occasionally shaking its head, so I know it’s some living creature, rather than just snagging bottom or something.

Although this is a trout river, whatever it is is putting a heavy bend all the way into the butt end of a rod designed for salmon. It just stays parked there in a deep current, occasionally shaking its head , but otherwise indifferent to the hook and line trying to pull it from the abyss.

I realize it’s something big, but feel confident I can land it. After all, it’s just a trout stream and I’m using a salmon rod. Heavy 12 pound test line too, which is overkill for trout, and mostly just for the sake of not loosing my flies by snapping them off cuz of my shitty Spey casting.

I slowly win the war of attrition, and get the thing closer into shallower water. It kicks its tail enough to breach the surface, but instead of a cute little trout splash, it’s this big boil of water that looks like I just spooked a gator or something.

It’s still heavy as hell, but at least loosing some energy, so I slowly swing it toward me in an attempt to net. Another head shake and…gone. Nothing. Just disappeared.

WTF, did it throw the hook? Nope. It somehow managed to bust 12 pound test with a shake of the head.

Now, while it’s never easy, by now I know how to take loosing a big fish with dignity (lots of swearing and kicking water). The hard part with this one is, I never even got to see what it was.

Some whale of a resident brown? Maybe one of the freak show rainbows that gets stocked upstream at that Dow Jones guy’s private ranch? A giant laker that spilled out of a reservoir? Or even a pike? That fish’s teeth would at least explain why the heavy line broke.

Whatever it was, gonna be thinking about that one a while. Even if not landed, would liked to have at least known what it was. I suppose that curiosity is part of what keeps a fellow fishing.

And for reference, here’s a gif of Spey casting.

jk LOL actually that shits lame so here’s some fishing chick instead.

you’re post was great till you went all illy on it...he probably doesn’t even bait her own hook lol

but seriously, i haven’t googled it but, is there a difference in spey casting and standard roll casting?

Not really.

There’s some fancier setup elements depending on the particular cast, but most Spey casts are just setting up what’ll end up being some sort of roll cast.

There’s “single hand Spey” too, which is pretty much all that but with a one handed rod.

When folks ask what I’m doing, I normally say something about how my rod is longer, then make some joke about how the Scots keep two hands on their rod cuz they’re so gushered off single malt they’ll drop the rod in the river otherwise.

that’s interesting...had no idea

and come on, going illy on any other thread is normally pretty guttermetery, but going illy on the fishing thread is boner city. It turned a great post into POTD material. Look at those cans!

(Here is where someone should make one of those “know how I know tradition is gay” jokes)

Also, if I did just go illy then I’m prob about to be banned. Nice knowing you guys.

she probably smells bad and chews with her mouth open

Ousie’s post reads like the Penthouse forum of fishing, including the ending

Just write down what it was that you were drinking before you went fishing because it obviously was really good. What is the aquatic equivalent of chupacabra?

Just the beer I had for breakfast, which wasn’t bad, so I had one for dessert.

And I suppose that would be..the Loch Ness monster?

That must be it! I hooked ol’ nessie on a Spey rod.

chupapescado

With no illy around to look up chupacabra fish pics, guess I’ll have to in the meantime.

Maybe it was not a fish, or a chupacabra, or a Nessie at all, but…aliens?

Also notice how she keeps both hands on the rod, true to the Spey tradition.

i think she hooked that other girl in the ass

On second look, yes indeed, that’s an overhand cast, not Spey. In fact, good Spey technique could help to negate obstacles behind your back.

I guess I missed that detail the first time I looked cuz I was distracted by other details in the image.

(Get your head out the gutter, I’m talking about the UFO!)