Fishing Stereotypes....

clarkman

clarkman

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:LOL: :LOL: :LOL:....which one are you?




I have the self awareness to know that I'm probably a combo depending on the day...
 
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Laughing at myself is one of my greatest pastimes. I'm generally always at least smiling if not in hysterics.
 
Dustin Chromers said:
Laughing at myself is one of my greatest pastimes. I'm generally always at least smiling if not in hysterics.
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same...

I'm sure folks up at Merwin get a kick out of it if they can hear me laughing at myself or cursing at myself seeing that there's no one else around except for just me....

I really like his style too because he's constantly making fun of himself and constantly noting how ridiculous it is to take one's self super seriously in this hobby/sport/lifestyle (whatever you want to call it).
 
clarkman said:
same...

I'm sure folks up at Merwin get a kick out of it if they can hear me laughing at myself or cursing at myself seeing that there's no one else around except for just me....

I really like his style too because he's constantly making fun of himself and constantly noting how ridiculous it is to take one's self super seriously in this hobby/sport/lifestyle (whatever you want to call it).
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It's a rediculous sport. Spend thousands, temp dumb animal to put something in its mouth, drag in, then release only to repeat. It's stupid fun.
 
This popped up in my suggestions the other day, his videos are pretty funny.

I am 'the fly tier' and 'dry fly purists' about 80/20
 
He has a great sense of humor and many of his observations are so true. I'll start watching his vids.
 
I'm starting to shake a little more lately. When I have to change flies every once in a while. Well it's like a disaster. I shake like a leaf blowing in the wind. If I didn't laugh at myself, I would probably cry. These shakes make me almost want to just chuck it all and just forget about fly fishing altogether. BUT I stick with it. I don't try to let them beat me. It might take me a while but I usually get it done. It's not pretty to watch.
 
clarkman said:
:LOL: :LOL: :LOL:....which one are you?




I have the self awareness to know that I'm probably a combo depending on the day...
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The one thing he gets wrong is the whole streamer thing.. they don't catch bigger trout, they catch the same trout everyone else catches except in very rare circumstances.
 
Rob Allen said:
The one thing he gets wrong is the whole streamer thing.. they don't catch bigger trout, they catch the same trout everyone else catches except in very rare circumstances.
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I think he forgot to add "always gotta be right guy" too... :LOL:
 
That was great. I think i have “ met” one of each . But i don’t know what they look like or their real names or where the live exactly but i can kinda sense their wardrobe preferences…;)
 
Haven’t had a chance to watch yet. Is there a guy who fishes all the time and never catches anything? Or a guy with friends who are worthless on the net?
 
Snopro said:
Tenkara and tippet rings.🤣
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And leader straighteners. I bought once one, back when I was a triple G person (gear gadget guy). Tippet rings too but I'll stop short on Tenkara. I'm definitely becoming more of a minimalist now. Too much time and hassle to prepare, pack, and unpack a bunch of crap to catch a fish with such a small brain. If it's a destination trip or somewhere I've never been, then I might take a bit more junk.
 
Can't put a label on me from that list... but I do seem to have something in common with most stereotypes.

I think my stereotype would be the Analyst: The one who refuses to accept that they will never understand what makes fishing better some days than others and tries to plan fishing trips around what they believe will be ideal conditions for good catching. This angler often spends hours trying to decide where to fish on a given day, based on a laundry list of factors only God truly understands. Always the Analyst, this angler likely has multiple designs for fishing journals, or even databases for identifying trends, but being a thinker (a bit lazy by nature), almost never remembers to use them, rendering them useless and abandoned and leaving the angler with only their own thoughts and recollections as inputs to an already hopeless system.

You'll often hear this type of angler talking about things like wind direction and moon phase, particularly while breaking down an especially slow day of slow fishing. This angler will never admit that his/her chosen methods and/or execution might have been factors in a general lack of success in a given situation. His/her tragic flaw is not the assumption that conditions are key to success; it is the notion they can learn to understand and manipulate things only God understands....
 
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