#fishingfriday — Public Fediverse posts

Looks like the Canada fishing trip is on! Fly from Tallahassee to Madison, WI September 9, then return to Tallahassee via Madison on September 20.

#Fishing #flyfishing #FishingFriday #canada #wisconsin #florida

What's the difference between a large pizza and a fishing guide?

A large pizza can feed a family.

-John Girach

#fishing #flyfishing #fishingfriday #outdoors #trout #bassfishing #humor

What's the difference between a large pizza and a fishing guide?

A large pizza can feed a family.

-John Girach

#fishing #flyfishing #fishingfriday #outdoors #trout #bassfishing #humor

#FishingFriday

After losing my first Rapala (sinking) after just three casts last week, I finally got a new little floating Rapala 🤩 Here’s hoping it lasts more than 10 casts 🙄

#FlyFishing #Fishing #Nature #Hiking #Walking #Creek #Photography

#FishingFriday

After losing my first Rapala (sinking) after just three casts last week, I finally got a new little floating Rapala 🤩 Here’s hoping it lasts more than 10 casts 🙄

#FlyFishing #Fishing #Nature #Hiking #Walking #Creek #Photography

#FishingFriday

After losing my first Rapala (sinking) after just three casts last week, I finally got a new little floating Rapala 🤩 Here’s hoping it lasts more than 10 casts 🙄

#FlyFishing #Fishing #Nature #Hiking #Walking #Creek #Photography

#FishingFriday

After losing my first Rapala (sinking) after just three casts last week, I finally got a new little floating Rapala 🤩 Here’s hoping it lasts more than 10 casts 🙄

#FlyFishing #Fishing #Nature #Hiking #Walking #Creek #Photography

#FishingFriday

After losing my first Rapala (sinking) after just three casts last week, I finally got a new little floating Rapala 🤩 Here’s hoping it lasts more than 10 casts 🙄

#FlyFishing #Fishing #Nature #Hiking #Walking #Creek #Photography

In some places the great tradition of shore lunch still survives. This is when you take a long enough break at noon to build a fire and grill fresh fish from the water they were caught, along with canned beans and fried potatoes and, if you get fancy, biscuits baked in a Dutch oven. This usually happens in far flung regions that are so lousy with fish that being able to keep a few for lunch is a foregone conclusion.

-John Girach

#fishing #flyfishing #fishingfriday

In some places the great tradition of shore lunch still survives. This is when you take a long enough break at noon to build a fire and grill fresh fish from the water they were caught, along with canned beans and fried potatoes and, if you get fancy, biscuits baked in a Dutch oven. This usually happens in far flung regions that are so lousy with fish that being able to keep a few for lunch is a foregone conclusion.

-John Girach

#fishing #flyfishing #fishingfriday

#FishingFriday (belated)

Impulsively bought this Rapala lure while my wife was buying her clothes 😁
My very first Rapala😉
Now I have to give it a try🤔
First on a fly rod… then on a spinning rod 😂

#FlyFishing #Fishing #Hiking #Walking #Nature #Creek #Photography

#FishingFriday (belated)

Impulsively bought this Rapala lure while my wife was buying her clothes 😁
My very first Rapala😉
Now I have to give it a try🤔
First on a fly rod… then on a spinning rod 😂

#FlyFishing #Fishing #Hiking #Walking #Nature #Creek #Photography

#FishingFriday (belated)

Impulsively bought this Rapala lure while my wife was buying her clothes 😁
My very first Rapala😉
Now I have to give it a try🤔
First on a fly rod… then on a spinning rod 😂

#FlyFishing #Fishing #Hiking #Walking #Nature #Creek #Photography

I suspect it will be about 8 weeks before it is safe to fish.

#Fishing #FishingFriday #bassfishing #Florida #illinois

I suspect it will be about 8 weeks before it is safe to fish.

#Fishing #FishingFriday #bassfishing #Florida #illinois

#fishing #fishinglures #FishingFriday #yyc

rockyviewlures.ca

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rockyviewlures.ca

@CowMan There's a few fish guys here. Use hashtags like #fishing #flyfishing #FishingFriday

@CowMan There's a few fish guys here. Use hashtags like #fishing #flyfishing #FishingFriday

Any fishy catching people on here?

I just got one of these fancy high end Seam fish landing nets. It's a really beefy, buy it for life type of thing ~~ and made local!

[ #Fishing #FlyFishing #FishingNets #FishingFriday #ElbowsUp #Nfld #MadeInCanada ]

Any fishy catching people on here?

I just got one of these fancy high end Seam fish landing nets. It's a really beefy, buy it for life type of thing ~~ and made local!

[ #Fishing #FlyFishing #FishingNets #FishingFriday #ElbowsUp #Nfld #MadeInCanada ]

I still have my father's old tackle box just as he left it the last time he went fishing nearly a half century ago. I take it down from the pantry shelf & open it every few years for sentimental reasons. This is now done as a private observance, because in the past, I've shown it to collectors who all said it was a damn shame that the potentially valuable old lures weren't in mint condition in their original boxes but had actually been *fished*.
-John Girach

#fishing #fishingfriday #tackle

I still have my father's old tackle box just as he left it the last time he went fishing nearly a half century ago. I take it down from the pantry shelf & open it every few years for sentimental reasons. This is now done as a private observance, because in the past, I've shown it to collectors who all said it was a damn shame that the potentially valuable old lures weren't in mint condition in their original boxes but had actually been *fished*.
-John Girach

#fishing #fishingfriday #tackle

I still have my father's old tackle box just as he left it the last time he went fishing nearly a half century ago. I take it down from the pantry shelf & open it every few years for sentimental reasons. This is now done as a private observance, because in the past, I've shown it to collectors who all said it was a damn shame that the potentially valuable old lures weren't in mint condition in their original boxes but had actually been *fished*.
-John Girach

#fishing #fishingfriday #tackle

I still have my father's old tackle box just as he left it the last time he went fishing nearly a half century ago. I take it down from the pantry shelf & open it every few years for sentimental reasons. This is now done as a private observance, because in the past, I've shown it to collectors who all said it was a damn shame that the potentially valuable old lures weren't in mint condition in their original boxes but had actually been *fished*.
-John Girach

#fishing #fishingfriday #tackle

I've always been a sucker for all the paraphernalia that bogs down the sport. Even as a boy the fishermen I admired weren't necessarily the ones who caught the most fish but the ones with the biggest and best stocked tackle boxes-tray after tray of brightly colored plugs and stylized scales or frog spots and the blankly staring eyes of cartoon characters.

-John Girach

#Fishing #FishingFriday #bassfishing #trout #outdoors

Years ago, I was buying a non-resident fishing license online when my son called to tell me he was moving to Washington State. Totally unexpected.

Weeks later, back in the Midwest, a DNR guy asked how fishing was (great) & could he see my license (yes). Hmm, didn't have it with me. DNR guy says he can see on his phone I bought previous years not that year.

$225 later I was reminded to stay focused and always have a current license.

#Fishing #FishingFriday #bassfishing #trout #outdoors

Years ago, I was buying a non-resident fishing license online when my son called to tell me he was moving to Washington State. Totally unexpected.

Weeks later, back in the Midwest, a DNR guy asked how fishing was (great) & could he see my license (yes). Hmm, didn't have it with me. DNR guy says he can see on his phone I bought previous years not that year.

$225 later I was reminded to stay focused and always have a current license.

#Fishing #FishingFriday #bassfishing #trout #outdoors

Darren is studying for a degree in psychiatry-looking to "do something with his life" as my father would say-but the summer job would be good training. Guides get used to seeing raw emotions and exposed insecurities. And really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good guide can do is write prescriptions.

-John Girach

#fishing #fishingfriday #bassfishing #trout #outdoors

Fishing Line

It's a good time to check your boat batteries. Check the charge level and hook up the appropriate charger.

I connect my deep cycle battery within minutes of getting the boat in the garage or docked. It's always ready to go.

#Fishing #flyfishing #FishingFriday #bass #walleye #trout

(Fishermen) probably, are *liars*, but if we make the good stuff better than it really is, we also make the bad stuff worse, and we believe that balances out to be something very much like the truth.

-John Girach

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Age doesn't neccesarily bring wisdom, but you do build up a background of useful experience.

-John Gierach

#fishing #flyfishing #bassfishing #trout #outdoors #fishingfriday

I tried ice fishing and didn't like it. Way too difficult to cast 100' into a little hole in the ice.

#fishing #flyfishing #fishingfriday #bassfising #trout #outdoors

I tried ice fishing and didn't like it. Way too difficult to cast 100' into a little hole in the ice.

#fishing #flyfishing #fishingfriday #bassfising #trout #outdoors

I try to be mindful of my motivation when I go off alone. I mean if you are weary, sick but still ambulatory, fed up, overworked, heartbroken, need to think things over or stop thinking things over for awhile, you should definitely go fishing, and you should probably go alone so you don't bother anyone. But then fishing like most other simple human pleasures, is better done out of love, than when used as a painkiller.

-John Gierach

#fishing #flyfishing #bassfishing #trout #fishingfriday

It's not likely for a solitary trip to end in a great epiphany or anything, it's just that I think the way when you fish alone is the way you really fish: your own personal style, uninfluenced by crowds, guides, or friends, and it's interesting to plug back into that now and again. Solitude is educational and it can be satisfying. For instance, I have lived half my adult life by myself and found myself to be decent company.

-John Gierach

#fishing #flyfishing #bassfishing #fishingfriday

It's not likely for a solitary trip to end in a great epiphany or anything, it's just that I think the way when you fish alone is the way you really fish: your own personal style, uninfluenced by crowds, guides, or friends, and it's interesting to plug back into that now and again. Solitude is educational and it can be satisfying. For instance, I have lived half my adult life by myself and found myself to be decent company.

-John Gierach

#fishing #flyfishing #bassfishing #fishingfriday

Sometimes the wind was so strong it was a small victory just to make a decent cast without hooking yourself, and when it was a long time between strikes you could almost begin to wonder if it was worth the trouble. Almost but not quite. Lots of things can happen while you are in a fisherman's trance, but the day you actually begin to wonder why you do this is the day you might as well stay home sell your tackle and buy a bigger TV.

-John Gierach

#fishing #flyfishing #fishingfriday

When you are fishing from shore or in a boat, on a lake or stream, pause occasionally to take in the sights, smells, and sounds.

What are the clouds doing?

What birds can you see or hear?

Listen to the calming sound of the water lapping against boat or flowing over rocks.

You will return from you outing enriched no matter how successful your fishing and be more excited for your next fishing trip.

#fishing #flyfishing #bassfishing #trout #outdoors #fishingfriday

There's a saying 'Wind from west, fish bite best, wind from the east, fish bite least."

This year in #Canada, we had a tough bite. Wind from the east the whole week.

We had hard time getting a pattern set up. Typically we try lots of different lures early. In about day & a half narrow our lures to what works for different species and locations.

That didn't work for us this time. The other sports in camp had the same problem.

#fishing #flyfishing #fishingfriday #photography #Nikon

There's a saying 'Wind from west, fish bite best, wind from the east, fish bite least."

This year in #Canada, we had a tough bite. Wind from the east the whole week.

We had hard time getting a pattern set up. Typically we try lots of different lures early. In about day & a half narrow our lures to what works for different species and locations.

That didn't work for us this time. The other sports in camp had the same problem.

#fishing #flyfishing #fishingfriday #photography #Nikon

#FlyFishingFriday
#FishingFriday

I managed to harvest some before the birds got them all 😋
I feel good, even though I couldn’t make it out fly fishing today 😉

#FlyFishing #Bird #Blueberry #Yard #Photography

#FlyFishingFriday
#FishingFriday

I managed to harvest some before the birds got them all 😋
I feel good, even though I couldn’t make it out fly fishing today 😉

#FlyFishing #Bird #Blueberry #Yard #Photography

#FlyFishingFriday
#FishingFriday

Chester Creek, PA

Pretty hot today, not sure I feel like fishing. But I didn’t get out enough this week, and the weekend will be packed with my son’s soccer tournament. I think I should try to fish after work… although I still have a lot to get done today 🤔

#FlyFishing #Fishing #Nature #Hiking #Walking #Creek #Forest #ForestBathing #Photography

#FlyFishingFriday
#FishingFriday

Chester Creek, PA

Pretty hot today, not sure I feel like fishing. But I didn’t get out enough this week, and the weekend will be packed with my son’s soccer tournament. I think I should try to fish after work… although I still have a lot to get done today 🤔

#FlyFishing #Fishing #Nature #Hiking #Walking #Creek #Forest #ForestBathing #Photography

#FlyFishingFriday
#FishingFriday

Darby Creek, PA

Cast towards the foams and bubbles…they bring food 😉

#FlyFishing #Fishing #Nature #Hiking #Walking #Creek #Forest #ForestBathing #Photography

#FlyFishingFriday
#FishingFriday

Darby Creek, PA

Cast towards the foams and bubbles…they bring food 😉

#FlyFishing #Fishing #Nature #Hiking #Walking #Creek #Forest #ForestBathing #Photography

#FlyFishingFriday
#FishingFriday

Darby Creek, PA

Fly fishing and beer don’t quite mix, but this pebble beach in the middle of the creek feels like the perfect spot for it 🤔 I still don’t know how to mix them, though 🤔

#FlyFishing #Fishing #Nature #Hiking #Walking #Creek #Forest #Beer #ForestBathing #Photography

#FlyFishingFriday
#FishingFriday

Darby Creek, PA

Fly fishing and beer don’t quite mix, but this pebble beach in the middle of the creek feels like the perfect spot for it 🤔 I still don’t know how to mix them, though 🤔

#FlyFishing #Fishing #Nature #Hiking #Walking #Creek #Forest #Beer #ForestBathing #Photography

#FlyFishingFriday
#FishingFriday

My son’s soccer practice got cancelled for tonight😞
I will be going fishing instead 😉

#FlyFishing #Fishing #Nature #Hiking #Walking #Creek #Forest #ForestBathing #Photography