Who could ever
forget the iconic double fist pump and fall to the knees from Tiger Woods after
he chipped in at the Masters or Husker fans will never forget Tommie Frazier’s
smiling face after he broke the 7 tackles and was heading for the end zone in
the National championship game. This blog is not about those glorious times. If
you are old enough to remember Jose Canseco, one of the bash brothers, then you
probably remember the time he was racing back to the warning track and while
reaching up to catch the fly ball, he miss judged and the ball bounced off his
head and up and over the fence for a home run. The first thing he did was look
at his glove then the ground and back at the wall, then he dropped the
shoulders of shame on us all. We have all seen it on National TV, the shoulders
drop and usually coupled with a head grab and finally followed by anger as to
why they screwed up.
Luckily for
flyfisherman we don’t usually have high def cameras following us around all day.
When Cat and I started doing the videos we never even considered adding in any
failures in fear that some of our readers would not still think of us as
perfect anglers(hehe), so all you guys get to watch are all the double fist
pumps and the touchdown runs. I have found that on most guide trips that
clients don’t understand that not all takes will produce a landed fish. Late
spring can be especially frustrating and I don’t know if it could possibly be a
physical change to the fish’s mouths or the way they take thy fly because it
seems to be the time of the year when we lose the most fish. May guide trips
are a lot of strong takes broken lines or just fish off and clients dropping
the shoulders of shame and turning around and asking me what they did wrong.
Maybe this or maybe that or maybe, they are just better than us. They don’t get
that big by being dumb and lazy (the fish).
Today was especially
frustrating for Cat, just before I started videoing one of the clips I saw fish
run and come out of the water about 3 feet and she was able to keep control
when it hit the water and fought it for another minute or so till pop, all
three flies. Like me the night before, I think she hooked seven before she
finally landed a fish. I can’t help but laugh when I see her Shoulder of shame accompanied
by the rod wave of anger, if you know Cat, she never gets angry. My” shoulders
of shame” video moment was quite calm and I think it was more because I had
already landed several, and not because of my cool, calm demeanor.
Scarlett O’Hara
finished off Gone With the Wind by remarking that “tomorrow is another day”.
She may not have been a flyfisherman but I think it is a great quote we can
live by. Maybe not tomorrow, how about “the next cast” or “the next rock
cluster”. Remember that we pay a ton of money and spend a lot of time trying to
enjoy this sport so we might as well enjoy it. And by the way, Cat finished the
day by landing a 21inch bow and I landed the largest fish I have ever landed on
this river. I know the pics don’t do it justice but it was a full 24 inch
rainbow, the battle’s was fierce but victory was ours…………..
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