coffin nails and silverbows
coffin nails and silverbows
Well, this is a question as old as time... all I know is when I was a 14 yr old I caught more fish with a zebco 202 reel and a scanoe than I do now with a g-g-loomis and a thunder jet..... proving its not your gear, so if you are not catching you should me moving. I have slayed rainbows in a creek that ran through a 3 month old forest burn, have smoked while fishing and even caught a bluegill on a cig butt as a joke so I think you are over thinking the question and soon fishing may stop being fun. So leave the science to the scientist, and leave half the gear you are taking at home, keep the dugans and start seeing whats happening, like the guy who posted today who had his kid with him and discovered the steel in the shallows.. he SAW what was going on and will now respond to it and he WILL catch more fish from now on.
and it is also hard to catch a fish that isn't even in the river yet, so if you enjoy a nice marb while standing in the rain on an oregon river... it sounds like catching is just a bonus.
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