Comments on: Beef or Pork?

By: Don’t Turn Into a Cover Band of Your Own Music | Fly Fish Chick

Don’t Turn Into a Cover Band of Your Own Music | Fly Fish Chick — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:21:34 +0000

[...] Beef or Pork? – generated one of the most vivacious discussion on FFC. Was fun coordinating with the Flytalk blog over from Field and Stream [...]

By: Karen, a Florida foreclosure attorney

Karen, a Florida foreclosure attorney — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:12:50 +0000

This blog is cute. I have taken some time to think about these stuffs.hehe..lol. Thanks for sharing this one.

Regards,
Karen

By: ?ömine

?ömine — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:53:45 +0000

Thanks you for sharing

By: gusti

gusti — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 04:50:45 +0000

your blog is very nice… it’s been 15 i’m reading here….

By: fly fish chick

fly fish chick — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:49:06 +0000

weel, well, well.

THIS has been fun.

with all these thoughtful replies and wonderful comments, it’s only fair I jump in the mix and answer my own questions! tomorrow, though. it’s been a long long week and this bird is cooked. so I will respond with due focus and attention…tomorrow

in the meantime I’ll just say MANY THANKS to you all for jumping into the fray. good times…

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:29:34 +0000

DMJ it is great to hear that you are a long rod casting instructor for the ladies. The first image that popped into my mind was Kevin Costner in Tin Cup – let the big dog eat. Grip it and Rip It… Two bad instructions for fly casting 101.

By: dmj

dmj — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:25:23 +0000

Anthony, first of all thanks for reading my post-that’s a first. I agree that “fishing dries is not necessarially easier” than fishing nymphs. I guess I let my alligator mouth overload my hummingbird ass on that one. If the fish aren’t taking dries on the surface or emergers in the meniscus, I’ll put a small bead-head nymph on an attractor or go to streamers-I am very fond of streamers. Next I’ll go to a pure nymph rig. If that’s not effective, I’ll rack my brain trying to figure out what might work or gratefully tip my hat to the fish for making it a never-ending challenge. But, I won’t find something else to do for the day. I believe knowing how to fish a nymph properly is like seeing the unseen and that’s what I admired about the man I described. I made a poor attempt at expressing my admiration for those can expertly fish a nymph. Jimmy’s comments on the subject were much more articulate than mine.

Deeter. Since I spend a lot of time fishing with women, I often wondered the same thing. I’ve found its easier to teach a woman to cast than a man. I can have a woman casting a loop much quicker than a man. Perhaps its because I employ the spoon casting technique when instructing a woman. As far as angling is concerned, perhaps a woman’s intuition gives her an advantage.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:11:34 +0000

1)ipod-what is the fishing world coming to? Now if the new generation of flyfishers want to listen to My Morining Jacket while banging some attractor on the Madison, I am all for it-it just won’t be in my boat. Call me old school, but I have located many a trout with my ears!

2) maybe I am a cheater or my skills deficient-downstream it is-I love feeding that fly to them!!

3)good question- I recently had this discussion with a friend of mine on a saltwater trip. He commented that most avid flyfishers ending up favoring salt over fresh. I have to agree with him-now don’t get me wrong, grinding over a big bankfeeder can be the ultimate challenge and is special, but when you have a 100 pound plus tarpon explode 15 yards from the boat or hook up on 8# bone in shin deep water on a beautiful flat-you have pretty much arrived.

4)Dries or nymphs- I am the first to tell you I have wandered the Ranch for three days on the Henry’s Fork looking for that elusive rise or kicked back in the drifter for countless hours waiting for it to turn on. Dry fly action is why I trout fish. With this being said, I do believe that one must be a good nympher to be a good trout fisherman. Nymphing teachs one an understanding of entomology that is critical for success…

5)last banana I saw on a fishing trip was smashed inside one of my float tube’s pockets in 1988.

6)absolutely-not even a question if the boat is anchored up in heavy current-you just have to be real quick with the camera. On a slow day, a fish flashing on my nymph counts as a touch!!

7) not really sure i know the answer to this one other than socialize medicine is not the solution.

8)the Godfather II! the scene where the Senator gets set up is just classic not to mention all those great flashbacks…

9) I have answered this one, but Fly Fish Chick you have really stirred me on this one. I don’t care how it is cooked even if it involves some elaborate smoking process that makes it some kind of succulent delight that “falls of the bone.” It is still beef with a tomato sauce. I will give it up to Texas as having some of the greatest music on the planet but it just ain’t so with the Q. Pork reigns supreme!

By: Lou

Lou — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:26:19 +0000

Real barbecue is made from beef, smoked all day at least. You can barbecue almost anything and make it more edible, and I’ve been known to eat barbecued javelina, turkey, chicken, and even pork. But that’s variety meat, not real barbecue. I know there are people who prefer pork. There are also people who think chili is made from hamburger meat. I’m pretty sure they’re the same people.

By: KD

KD — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:06:50 +0000

Wow, I gotta “accentuate the positive” more often. I’m starting to get a complex.

This, however, is liberating. I can answer those questions over here. And I find this blog supremely entertaining.

Foam flies are indeed flies that elicit some of the best “eats.” What kinda A-hole asks a question like that?

iPod: Of course not. But the key to a great fishing day is having a killer song in your head. When it’s Queen “Im in Love with My Car,” good day. Theme from the Brady Bunch, bad day. iPod intervention is allowed in such cases.

Upstream, downstream, sidestream, all good. In my family, kids fish downstream until they’re 10, when they’re big enough that they can turn around and work against the current … a rite of passage, but no rules against going back.

Freshwater and saltwater.

Dries and nymphs, and streamers too.

Believe the banana juju warnings.

IGFA rules, baby, touch the leader, it counts. Those are my favorite kind when the water is 40 degrees and it’s snowing.

I’m an outdoor writer now because I spent 10 years working in healthcare marketing. If ever I were to write anything else on healthcare, it would be a book, title, “Enough to Make You Sick.”

I dunno… I kinda like Part II, with DiNiro as early Vito, and Michael goes over the badass edge. And that hot Italian chick, until she gets blown up…

Beef.

And here’s my tossup — can someone please explain to me why women are far and away better natural casters and anglers than men? I think someone here might have an opinion on that.

Deeter