SFR Superstitions?
- Thread starter Breck
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Sorta fishing-related
I wear the same hat for the whole trip! Sometimes the whole year or years!! And I have like 300ish hat's available!
And is that a banana in your tailpipe? Is there a preferred banana fly? What size hook do you use when you put a banana on your hook? Or are you just monkeying around...
DryFly82
Life of the Party
I’ve got around 100 hats, but only about 15 or so are fishing hats (the nasty ones). The worst one is a 25 y/o Sonics hat that I can’t retire until they return to Seattle. I started always switching hats so I could tell the difference between days on a fishing trip when I was looking at pictures (before digital). It just stuck and I’m always careful not to repeat.
JimTravers¤£a!!Travers
Steelhead
YOU NEVER KNOW what the truth is!! Never know!!!! No way OF KNOWING!! NO way to KNOW if its true!! Therefore its You Never Know. Its You Never Know With A superstition
I'm not really that superstitious, but based on experience...
- I'm ok catching a fish on the first cast if it's just a local outing for a couple hours. But if it's a "fishing trip" a fish on the 1st cast is bad mojo.
- Of the 3 hats that I usually wear fishing the last 3 or 4 years, there's one that is definitely not as fishy as the other 2.
- If you grab the net or the GoPro too early in the fight with a steelhead it's definitely coming off.
- Trying to open my water bottle is the best way to make the bobber go down.
- I'm ok catching a fish on the first cast if it's just a local outing for a couple hours. But if it's a "fishing trip" a fish on the 1st cast is bad mojo.
- Of the 3 hats that I usually wear fishing the last 3 or 4 years, there's one that is definitely not as fishy as the other 2.
- If you grab the net or the GoPro too early in the fight with a steelhead it's definitely coming off.
- Trying to open my water bottle is the best way to make the bobber go down.
MarlinMark
Smolt
It's bad luck to be superstitious.
OH I KNOW!! JUST SAYIN'! IYKYK!
Pink Nighty
Legend
Rally caps work, but there's a limit to how many rallys you can influence. You gotta pick your spots, you only get a handful of magically influential moments, and you should save them for the playoff stretch or playing the Astros.
I'm in the Patrick McManus school of superstition. For me, it's a part of my camouflage to make myself seem inept, distracted and unaware of what's about to happen. I believe the fish or the birds or whatever quarry you chase get no bigger thrill than making the guy with the stick and the hook gnash 4 letter words through this teeth.
Believe me, to fool the fish into thinking you're the dummy they're gonna pull one over on, you gotta start at home, before the trip. There is essential forgetting to be done at this stage. I suggest oars if going for a float, and don't you dare realize it until you're at the launch. It's critical that the fish hear you lament your idiocy, your cries of "this never happens" and "probably no use fishing after this" are the actual chum you're throwing in the water.
Now that you've got their interest, you gotta sell it. Dump your flybox in the mud. Miss a guide on your rod and just fish it. Get blinded by the sun, cuz you wisely left your sunglasses in the truck
If you can pull all this off convincingly, there's gonna be a line of hawgs waiting to give you a drive by knowing you won't set the hook, or likely that you already broke your hook on your "backcast" into the cobble.
From there it's as simple as flipping the switch from incompetent to competent and it's fish on.
Variants on this involve eating your lunch, taking a leak with a line in the water or lighting a cigarette. Those are all strike indicators for fish, in that they are indications to strike.
I'm in the Patrick McManus school of superstition. For me, it's a part of my camouflage to make myself seem inept, distracted and unaware of what's about to happen. I believe the fish or the birds or whatever quarry you chase get no bigger thrill than making the guy with the stick and the hook gnash 4 letter words through this teeth.
Believe me, to fool the fish into thinking you're the dummy they're gonna pull one over on, you gotta start at home, before the trip. There is essential forgetting to be done at this stage. I suggest oars if going for a float, and don't you dare realize it until you're at the launch. It's critical that the fish hear you lament your idiocy, your cries of "this never happens" and "probably no use fishing after this" are the actual chum you're throwing in the water.
Now that you've got their interest, you gotta sell it. Dump your flybox in the mud. Miss a guide on your rod and just fish it. Get blinded by the sun, cuz you wisely left your sunglasses in the truck
If you can pull all this off convincingly, there's gonna be a line of hawgs waiting to give you a drive by knowing you won't set the hook, or likely that you already broke your hook on your "backcast" into the cobble.
From there it's as simple as flipping the switch from incompetent to competent and it's fish on.
Variants on this involve eating your lunch, taking a leak with a line in the water or lighting a cigarette. Those are all strike indicators for fish, in that they are indications to strike.
That seems like an awful lot of work!Rally caps work, but there's a limit to how many rallys you can influence. You gotta pick your spots, you only get a handful of magically influential moments, and you should save them for the playoff stretch or playing the Astros.
I'm in the Patrick McManus school of superstition. For me, it's a part of my camouflage to make myself seem inept, distracted and unaware of what's about to happen. I believe the fish or the birds or whatever quarry you chase get no bigger thrill than making the guy with the stick and the hook gnash 4 letter words through this teeth.
Believe me, to fool the fish into thinking you're the dummy they're gonna pull one over on, you gotta start at home, before the trip. There is essential forgetting to be done at this stage. I suggest oars if going for a float, and don't you dare realize it until you're at the launch. It's critical that the fish hear you lament your idiocy, your cries of "this never happens" and "probably no use fishing after this" are the actual chum you're throwing in the water.
Now that you've got their interest, you gotta sell it. Dump your flybox in the mud. Miss a guide on your rod and just fish it. Get blinded by the sun, cuz you wisely left your sunglasses in the truck
If you can pull all this off convincingly, there's gonna be a line of hawgs waiting to give you a drive by knowing you won't set the hook, or likely that you already broke your hook on your "backcast" into the cobble.
From there it's as simple as flipping the switch from incompetent to competent and it's fish on.
Variants on this involve eating your lunch, taking a leak with a line in the water or lighting a cigarette. Those are all strike indicators for fish, in that they are indications to strike.
In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king…
Ooooh! I kinda like the idea of that! BRB.
My old fishing buddy, may he rest in peace, had a bannana in his lunch every single time we went fishing and he caught plenty of fish. I have no issues with bannanas.
Other stinky things like Oranges, or other fragrant foods do not get in my lunch though. I do not use perfumed soap or sunscreen on my hands just before fishing.
I like to rub my hands with a fistful of mud from the lakeshore and then rinse to get rid of any unnatural smells.
I don't really think these are superstitions though.
Other stinky things like Oranges, or other fragrant foods do not get in my lunch though. I do not use perfumed soap or sunscreen on my hands just before fishing.
I like to rub my hands with a fistful of mud from the lakeshore and then rinse to get rid of any unnatural smells.
I don't really think these are superstitions though.
Yard Sale
Life of the Party
I can't tell you how many of my D rookie buddies have eaten a salmon fly their first time in the hatch. Pretty nasty...
Can't really think of any I have. Maybe taking 4 "last" casts for my pops. He was ranked 4th in motocross in the 70s and 4 has always been my lucky number.