4 months later, still wondering if he bought a hat

Liam Giardino i did

@@Raycefan LETS GOOOOO!!!!

4 months later, still wondering if he's 6'3" and 320lbs

Lee Przytula still 6’3”, but I’m actually down to 275lbs now

I would have thrown rocks...err, I meant skipped them until they left...

Then it's time to tie on a 2 or 3 hook pike streamer and start making double haul casts right up their ass. It usually is enough dissuade moderately sober people in inflatables and convince them to keep moving downstream. If they want to get belligerent or aggressive, the Glock 17 I keep in a very visible shoulder holster while fishing is a pretty effective deterrent to such tom-foolery in the more remote places I fish. I've actually destroyed an inflatable in this way and for the people I marooned, it was a very long walk out on a gravel road without any kind of cell-coverage (23.6 miles). People can be dicks to me if they want to be. It is advisable however, before they begin, to make damn sure I can't be an even bigger dick. What can I say? I'm a jerk.

@@gurumagoo Lol someone fishes where your are so you destroy their multi thousand dollar raft, sink all their gear, make them hike 24 miles out and threaten them with a low powered handgun that you carry for some reason even though it wouldnt even protect you against a bear? Thats more than being a jerk thats psychopathic. Even though your story is total BS, just be a normal person and tell them to leave

​@@bradenwarnock5782Who asked

Always!

That's great, as I am not a purist fly fishermen, I probably spend time on a spin rod and fly rod equally 50/50 its really not cool the way people act towards me just because I'm holding a different set up then they are. Sometimes I'll hit the river real early with my spin rod fish a run downstream and walk back to the truck and grab my fly set up. On the way to my truck I get dirty looks and people shaking there heads, then I return with a fly rod and all the sudden they are nice. Don't judge the style of there fishermen judge them on how they act and what they know on the river. It's just sad that there is a lot of division, we don't need that now a days fishermen are fishermen. But not all spin casters are beer belly havin sitting in a chair with worms and killing everything they catch and leaving trash on the bank. A lot of them just like the style better and some of them can out fly fish me any day of the week.

We should get that guy a fly pole.

@@HugeFlyFisherman What's wrong with using both lol? I fish both ways. I'm not afraid to throw a big lure out if it means catching a 20lb brown. I enjoy fly fishing, I enjoy all types of fishing, my dad lives in Cabo I do a lot of surf fishing tournaments down there. After spin casting into huge waves and ruff water with 13' rods I learned a lot and got a better appreciation of spinning with artificial lures. Its a challenge to hook up to a big smart trout on a 4" Rapala with one barbless hook on it. I love throwing big streamers to and dry's it just depends I like options...

​@@82rocksolid This is actually a valid point, and after years seeing both I have the following (somewhat complicated) perspective to share. I grew up fly fishing catch and release in many of the spots old boy here fishes. Some of my most fond memories were of Tuck Squire in Cheeseman Canyon telling me I had good catch and release "etiquette" because I didn't take the fish out of the water. Now, I help with a nonprofit that uses adaptive spinning equipment for individuals with spinal cord injuries as we haven't gotten to the point of replicating the fly casting motion -- it's really quite complex when variables like wind and placement are accounted for. I have seen some of our able bodied family and friends of guests catch some big fish on a section we float that is well known as a mecca for fly fisherman. It's big enough water that the lines won't get hung up and the fish won't get "put down" by a plunking lure. Having an 8 year old girl be able to cast and catch a big fish with a rapala on a guppy rod where I struggle as a seasoned fly fisherman -- I have no problem with this. She wouldn't be out there on the water, and that child will forever have a unique connection with that place and want to protect it. She'll fish maybe 1 hour of the day and play the rest. These fish are so used to seeing midges and fly fishing technique that they aren't used to lures -- and they respond readily to them. Herein lies the problem. After a couple of years watching fish and their interactions with both spinners and fly gear, I have seen more fish killed on our boat by seasoned spin casters with single lure rapalas than in my 30+ years of fly fishing. It's just a fact, I have seen it happen, and it kills me every time. The sets are harder, and if it's a bluff then the false hooks are far more severe. If you're catching and keeping -- go for it. But false hooking the side of a beautiful catch and release fish in managed water with a hard set should be, at a minimum, a day in jail if I had things my way. I lived in Europe for years, and these fish just don't exist out there. These critters have so much pressure that we, at a minimum, owe them the respect of keeping it a gentleman's game. A lot of people put a lot of time into creating and managing that fishery (Tuck Squire spent his entire life). If it's a kid who gets one fish on a large river in a day, and we're quick to get it off the line and it's hooked cleanly... then OK (we also replace all of the treble hooks with single hooks). If it's a vet who has one arm and it's his only shot at getting on the water and catching something -- great! But to the guy in the canyon who caught 100 fish (and I saw him drag a massive 20+" Brownie side hooked to the net) -- go back to Cabo and huck there. He only did that well because there aren't 200,000+ use days with lures instead of flies. If it's his own honey hole and nobody knows about it, and that's how he connects with the place -- then great! There's a time and a place (something our culture doesn't seem to care about), and that's why I'm giving you the dirty look on the way back to the truck. We get occasional dirty looks on the river, and I know some of the guides, but for our clientele it may be their last chance to get out and ever catch a fish. If we're in Cabo, then I'll join you and let's throw a fish on the grill! I honestly don't fish that much for pleasure any more as even fly hooks mutilate. Case in point: any fish over 20" on any tailwater in Colorado. But, that's after 1,000's of fisherman had their crack, and that connection is more important for the long term preservation of these places than the thousands of city folk who never get out. A long winded answer, but I hope it gives some perspective as to why that rift exists and how it changes, at least for me, by enjoyment of a place.

@@tywheeler7131 Hmm, yeah idk why so many of your fish are dying. Spinners will deff. kill fish. The flashing and the size of the spinner make the fish hit hard and thats a small target. Honestly for every 100 fish I catch I can say 99 to 100 of em swim off with no harm done. When I spin fish I use big Rapalas, never use spinners I find that boring and not much talent required. I use inline VMC barbless hooks, I probably actually hook up to maybe 30% of the fish that bite the lure. When I do hook up its normally a pretty hard hit and the hook ends up right in the corner of their mouth. Just because your fish are dying doesn't mean mine are. I also don't eat trout not ever, If I wanna eat fish I'll grab some Tuna or Wahoo out of my freezer. When fishing in Cabo we tag and release all Billfish no matter what size, as I am a lifetime Member of The Billfish Foundation! We tag fish for studies and do a lot of great things for them. I release all Rooster Fish, Jacks, and any other species that is small or very large. I release the smaller fish because I want them to grow, I release the bigger fish because I respect how long they have survived and I want that Gene pool to keep going! I hate to see a nice trout on a stringer trust me I have the same feelings. If I thought I was harming the Trout I catch when I do fish with a spin rod then I wouldn't use a spin rod on them at all! I've caught Browns over 20# and released them and had old timer fly fishermen ask me why I didn't keep that fish "It's a once and a lifetime fish". My reply "I let it go so someone, someday, might get a chance at that same life time fish". As far as the stink eye goes leave that shit at home, this world is messed up enough. Who wants to spend their time on the water getting angry look for no reason? I don't have that feeling when I'm on the water I respect everyone that floats past me and every person I walk up to I greet with a smile and ask them how they are doing. I love fly fishing but some of these cry babies need to find a different sport. Feel like I'm fishing with a bunch of snowflakes! Back in the day fly fishermen where tuff, and well mannered. Now people act the same way on the water as they do when their stuck in traffic or something. It's sad and pathetic at the same time! But what do I know, I'm just an ol' Cowboy that rode bulls for to long I guess, maybe I have Brain damage....

Thanks Ralph!

Me too.

Good luck with that .... what a circus.

Gracias

Tron Kleds I’ve had the same thing happen to me on the Bow by a guide ( and I’m a guide) !! Unbelievable that guides don’t have a sense of proper etiquette ( or probably don’t care).

Should also study up on how not to be a dick and a hot head, it's all how you talk to people. If there pissing you off you should come at them in a polite way. Especially if its a beginner. In a world full of nerds and men wearing high heels you should try to help that person not just be there to give them a hard time, maybe they weren't lucky like us and had no one to teach them how to fish and the do's and don'ts... Just a thought.

guess it's the only time you ever came close to a hole

Amen

Can't really fault them for not knowing. It's the people who DO know, but do it anyway. That's what you should be upset about.

Oh shut the fuck uppp dude. Get to fishing

I agree that 15 ft is silly, but I could show you where it is the norm.

@@HugeFlyFisherman If you are inside my normal casting distance .... you are too close. Also, people that approach the water you are fishing from the opposite side of the stream, decide to stop and fish for the fish you are casting to. They clearly can see you, and have 1000's of yards of stream they passed up, as well as miles of stream they can continue on up to fish.

What's the deal w those?

@@JohnDrach it looks cool to hipsters

@@slickydicky it looks cool to hipsters? To stack rocks? Very simply and for no reason hurting anyone? Interesting motive to smash them down lol

We do it in Pulaski NY for salmon, it's literally a shit show though

Arty Fire Calgary guides need to watch this!!

Well said, Dave.

“Art.”

@@HugeFlyFisherman Heard it was a Native American thing.

That makes a lot of sense.

Let God sort them out.

The rock piles I’m talking about aren’t cairns.

i'm 1 month late, but those straight stacked towers are dumb artsy towers for instagram. Trail markings are wider, stable stacked pyramid/cube/cylinder shaped stacks meant to last, not tip over at the first gust of wind.

Absolutely

Maybe approach them from a different angle. Little to the side.

Huge Fly Fisherman its not etiquette to ask or answer a question unrelated to the video. Lol

"People with...Pronoun problems?" To whom are you referring here sir?

No clue.

Suck it, Corey!

I just start trying to look like a new fly fishermen which isn’t hard since I just started 4 months ago lol

You should click that link and see where it takes you.

www.hugeflyfisherman.com

That’s bullshit. He should have yielded to the wading angler. In a boat he has access to much more water. He could have fished the other side.

Lol you dont own the water bro

I'M A FLY FISHING GUIDE!!!!*&%^^&%#$&

Probably either PBR or High Life.