Fishing Stereotypes....

Shad said:
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.
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guilty
 
The video maker left out the most obnoxious stereotype of all: THE JUDGEMENTAL SCHMUCK. He assigns and judges the attributes of all other anglers while being the biggest asshole of all, then makes a video about it, and overlooks the irony of his own behavior.
 
Salmo_g said:
The video maker left out the most obnoxious stereotype of all: THE JUDGEMENTAL SCHMUCK. He assigns and judges the attributes of all other anglers while being the biggest asshole of all, then makes a video about it, and overlooks the irony of his own behavior.
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He actually doesn't overlook that at all. I think that's part of the point. Especially if you've seen any of his other videos.
 
Old Man said:
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.
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Hey old man I hear you loud and clear. I have Parkinson's combined with no vision in my left eye due to Glaucoma which greatly affects depth perception. My granddaughter has diagnosed my Parkinson's as "The Wiggles". Anyway changing flies can be very challenging to say the least. If I lacked the ability to laugh at myself I would have been off the water long ago. So stick with it and remember attitude is everything!! So go ahead and laugh at yourself and enjoy one of life's best pleasures.....fly fishing.
 
Shad said:
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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I've done this...overthinking the game plan until I'm on the water...then defaulting (thank God) to my std go to rig...simi seal leech followed by a 16 soft hackle...
 
you folks are so picky....

maybe he just forgot the "over analyzers to fishing satire videos" :LOL:
 
Brute said:
I've done this...overthinking the game plan until I'm on the water...then defaulting (thank God) to my std go to rig...simi seal leech followed by a 16 soft hackle...
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I'm similar. I definitely have a quiver of tricks that almost always produce. It's when my go-tos don't work that my mind really starts playing tricks on me. When I start looking for a barometer, you know I'm officially whipped and should have gone home hours ago, because the fish have won the psychogical battle....
 
'Tis a good share, @clarkman

I have a pal that's a euronympher (I dont get to fish with him too often), he's been known to carry a fishcounter with him. I didnt know it was a "thing" until this informative video. :D
 
He's funny. If you watch a few of his videos you'll see he is very much a regular dude, but he happens to have a knack for making fun of himself and all of us crazy fly tossers while also giving out pretty useful advice. Sure, he's a YouTuber. Shit, he's got 48k subscribers, including me. But he is somehow less obnoxious and more "normal" than most fishing YouTubers.

Speaking of YouTubers, he actually made a video about fly fishing YouTubers. He includes himself. Pretty funny.
 
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