SouthernN'Proud
Southern Discomfort
...but not quickly enough!
I got fishin fever again. Couldn't go at all last year due to brushes with death and such.
We had us a drought last year, so the local trout stream all but dried up. Hopefully it'll be better this year.
I got to readin up on fly fishin some last week. I wanna learn. My dad has a fly rod, so I asked him if he'd teach me the basics. He glared at me, and said, "They's a fly rod down in the basement if you want the damn thing. It ain't all that hard to do, I can show you how to cast it and work the line, and you take it. I don't want anything to do with it no more."
O.......K. Score one fly rod I guess.
I have some flies for it I bought at yard sales and such. Plenty of time to dry cast in the yard and such to get the technique down some.
So then the discussion turned to a familiar topic. See, for about eight years now we have been taking turns talking the other one out of buying a boat. Neither of us can swim, so that's one concern. I said something about it the other night, about whether my brother-in-law might let me use his jet ski to fish off of a couple of times. He said it'd be awful hard to fish off one of them, so I replied that it would be, and that a boat would be easier. Nothing fancy, just a little aluminum johnboat with enough motor to get away from shore, anchor in, and fish. Something light, so my aged truck could easily tow it and one person could launch and land it without too much trouble.
He bit.
I start moonlighting again Monday. Think I'll set back a little over half what I think we'd need for the boat/motor/trailer, plus life jackets and a couple oars. Should be able to do that by the time a body'd want to be on the lake. This man could find a new Mercedes for $500 with enough time to look, so I'll leave the search to him.
Meanwhile, I wonder if I could slip up the creek tomorrow and find them fish...
I got fishin fever again. Couldn't go at all last year due to brushes with death and such.
We had us a drought last year, so the local trout stream all but dried up. Hopefully it'll be better this year.
I got to readin up on fly fishin some last week. I wanna learn. My dad has a fly rod, so I asked him if he'd teach me the basics. He glared at me, and said, "They's a fly rod down in the basement if you want the damn thing. It ain't all that hard to do, I can show you how to cast it and work the line, and you take it. I don't want anything to do with it no more."
O.......K. Score one fly rod I guess.
I have some flies for it I bought at yard sales and such. Plenty of time to dry cast in the yard and such to get the technique down some.
So then the discussion turned to a familiar topic. See, for about eight years now we have been taking turns talking the other one out of buying a boat. Neither of us can swim, so that's one concern. I said something about it the other night, about whether my brother-in-law might let me use his jet ski to fish off of a couple of times. He said it'd be awful hard to fish off one of them, so I replied that it would be, and that a boat would be easier. Nothing fancy, just a little aluminum johnboat with enough motor to get away from shore, anchor in, and fish. Something light, so my aged truck could easily tow it and one person could launch and land it without too much trouble.
He bit.
I start moonlighting again Monday. Think I'll set back a little over half what I think we'd need for the boat/motor/trailer, plus life jackets and a couple oars. Should be able to do that by the time a body'd want to be on the lake. This man could find a new Mercedes for $500 with enough time to look, so I'll leave the search to him.
Meanwhile, I wonder if I could slip up the creek tomorrow and find them fish...
...BTW...do you fish, or are you just being an arse?