Re: I want to know the answer

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Date: July 11, 2008 at 06:33:05
From: KH, [ns1]
Subject: Re: I want to know the answer

You could if they resemble smaller fish.

Terms of endearment are subjective. A man might call his wife cupcake or dumpling for example but not his friends or other relatives. A wife might even call her husband musclehead.

Besides, this is rather silly. Somehow I can't believe you're really confused with the term. I posted an opinion and I think you simply dislike anything that might disagree with your opinion. Rather than address the content of my post you've chosen to focus on a word and turn the post into an etymological study of syntax.

I do not think anything I posted was disrespectful.
Yet, in your follow-up posts you reference Giffords book and allude to muscleheads.

I fail to see the need for such cynicism. I'd guess by the time most fishermen find your site they have become serious enthusiast and fairly seasoned at that. Do you think the readers of this page don't know how to handle a fish off the butt of a rod? Or are "muscleheads" that haul fish up on the rocks as they keep score?

One can land big fish on a 1 wt. rod if you point it at the fish and the tippet/leader/line/knot weakest link strength is sufficient.

I simply don't agree with the idea of "fair fight". To me there is no such thing. I don't like playing fish, I like angling for them, yet you allude that makes me disrespectful of fish.

"Muscleheads are fishing for some other reason than fishing alone and it shows.
They seldom respect the fish but they do count them."

With all due respect to Tom Gifford, he was chartering blue water for game fish. Much of his concern was keeping charters in the boat.

I'll ask, who really disrespects fish, those that play fish, see a "fair fight" as some anthropomorphic enobling act or those that handle fish with dispatch and release them quickly.

" Sometimes you lose. That can be a good thing."

For whom? The played fish which now has a good chance of swimming off with a hook in it's lip? Or the noble 'angler" whose otherwise inflated ego has been chastised.

I remember when Lee Wulff went off on short rods. He cast with a rod tip, then with just his arm extended to "prove" short rods were sufficient.

I also remember when Len Wright addressed the heresies of the long rod.

You mention using three weights. In what length? The last 3wt rod in 10 ft. length I used was represented as a float tube rod and it felt like a wet noodle.

When I was in the service years ago I was stationed in Montana and had a CO who from I learned nymphimg on the big rivers. He was one of the best and even wrote a couple of books about it. He fished multiple weighted fly rigs with split shot and liked long 8 wts for it. Most people thought this crazy because they knew a 5 wt. was a trout rod.

Light tackle in the wind. You mention 5 wt with 9 line and that might probably service but I'd be very surprised to see most 3 wts, with any line, handle wind in a comfortable way.

You never asked for them but's that's my 2 1/2 cents worth.
If you don't like people posting their opinions and being able to own them I suggest you make your page read only and disallow further comment.

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