River fishing rant

[Goodburbon]

You know I might like to try fishing here. I haven't bothered since I moved. I can fly fish, I guess it's just a matter of deciding to go.

[Mtn.man]

It is tough as hell tying them little buggers to the hook, they won't be still.

[JM Ver. 2.0]

What the hell is wrong with people. Fishing the south platte for trout with a spin cast is like trying to take a 1000 yard shot with a fricken BB gun. In the past two weeks I've seen dozens of these fools on the river, tearing crap up, snagging lures and and then leaving umpteen yards of line in the the water after snapping their line off... Seriously, get a Fn clue, put the POS down, and slowly back away from the stream.

If you can't fly fish, then you are not really fishing for trout in a mountain stream or river. You are simply in my and every other fly fisherman's way. You might get lucky and catch one fish. We are going to catch dozens and not leave shitloads of line everywhere. If fly fishing is too hard for you, find a lake or pond and leave the "too hard to cast a fly rod" type fishing to those of us that spent the time and energy to learn how to do the hard stuff. BTW, I taught my daughter how to do the hard stuff when she was ten, ya, you suck that bad. Now get away from my Fn river.

This attitude is why 90% of fisherman HATE fly fisherman.... Your river, huh? Better never see you at MY lake then, clown.

[SA Friday]

This attitude is why 90% of fisherman HATE fly fisherman.... Your river, huh? Better never see you at MY lake then, clown.

Whatever... I have yet to see anyone out fish a fly rod on a river with a spin cast for trout. I'm sure we can arrange a time for you to bring your spin cast out to Deckers and we can see where things stand, clown.

[Irving]

Whatever... I have yet to see anyone out fish a fly rod on a river with a spin cast for trout. I'm sure we can arrange a time for you to bring your spin cast out to Deckers and we can see where things stand, clown.

This entire thread is unlike you. Fishing makes me angry, but I don't take it out on people here.

[JM Ver. 2.0]

Whatever... I have yet to see anyone out fish a fly rod on a river with a spin cast for trout. I'm sure we can arrange a time for you to bring your spin cast out to Deckers and we can see where things stand, clown.

My post had nothing to do with skill or amount of fish caught. You took it there, not me, so slow your roll, Whippy Stick.

All I said was, your attitude is bullshit. That's right, I typed it out.

YOUR river? Is your name on it somewhere? Do you own the land around and under said river? What's that? No you say? Well then it's not your river and you should stop acting like you're some how better at life than the rest of us.

If you want to ban everyone but Flyfishermen from rivers then I expect no bitching from you when fees go up and access goes down.

That shouldn't bother you much though. You're a FlyFisherman... You're better than everyone else.

I'd still have a Pepsi with ya, even though you're a Flyfisherman who thinks himself better than the rest of us. I don't drink beer.

[Holger Danske]

Whatever... I have yet to see anyone out fish a fly rod on a river with a spin cast for trout. I'm sure we can arrange a time for you to bring your spin cast out to Deckers and we can see where things stand, clown.

I've had days where I've fished circles around fly fishermen. And I've had days when they have out fished me. That's all.

[Holger Danske]

I grew up within walking distance to the Colorado and the Roaring Fork. Been fishing with a spin reel my whole life and don't see a need to learn something new.

[223kev]

I love to flyfish but here's the deal:

We complain that others don't do it right. This leads to segregation...fly fishing and lures only. Bait casters go elsewhere! Pretty soon, the fly fishers and lure fishers hove thier own sections. Soon, the novice fly fishers get upset with the beginner fly fishers. Now we have to segregate them and break the river down to more sections. The older fly fishers can't wade in the heavier currents so they get their own section and so on and so on. Lastly, we have individual permits assigned to 20 yard sections of the river and after 10 years of the same section, we don't realize that they moved the application deadline up from the 31st of December to the 30th of November and we loose that permit and have to take up golf as we no longer have a spot in the river to fly fish.

Just saying, be careful what you wish for, it might come back to bite you in the ass!

[Big Wall]

I think people hear about the great fishing and big fish in the south platte and want to go fish it. They don't realize the amount of people from the US and around the world that go there to fish. They don't realize how selective these fish have become and they don't realize those people are using TINY flies and that the river is so famous that every pool and riffle has a name.

I had a couple neighbors that took their 8 yr old sons there to spin fish and were disapointed that they didn't even get a bite.