ORIGINAL: doubletaper

shutupnfish, i had some sarcastic remarks but didn't mean to get personal. truly sorry about that.
you pinners get razzed more than most on the boards so i had to give my UFA snobbish remarks.(i forgot to use the sarcastic font)
sometime i'll have to fish with you while you're pinning. i'll use whatever you are using to see if i can keep up with my fly rod techniques.

one thing a fly guy, using imitations, can't imitate and that is smell. yes i agree we are at a disadvantage. that's the kind of challenge i like.

I would certainly take you up on that DT anytime. Would be fun...I appreciate you clarifying...I think its pretty funny c-pinners get razzed so, but the stereotype gets old sometimes thats all (I need to lighten up too). I'm glad this didn't go where I'm sure the original poster wanted it to...Also glad to see we were better men than that. We are all out there after the same thing, satisfaction and contentness...We all just have different ways to achieve those...I truely appreciate that.

My sentiments exactly....Its Friday!!

but I'll give most fishermen out there the benefit of the doubt when it comes to being "sportsmen"

I agree SUF.  Stereotyping someone based on the rod they are carrying is total B.S.   I use my fly rods with both flys and bait, and also use a spinning rod in the winter and on the smallest tribs.  I've meet many respectful fisherman and also many total D bags fishing in Erie, both carrying every kind of rod imaginable. 

Last year fishing up high on one of the larger tribs,  I was using live minnows on my fly rod and standing next to a fellow from Colorado who was spin fishing and using bead head nymphs.  For a couple hours we fished a single run that everyone kept walking past and were both hammering fish after fish, must have caught about 8 fish each in that time span.  We joked about being backwards with our bait, and shared our successful techniques with each other.  The next weekend I found myself back at that same run hamming fish again on a bead head nymph while using my fly rod.  It was the first time ever, that I had actually done well and had a high catch rate using a fly on my fly rod.  That whole experience gave me more confidence in using artificial flys, even though I still prefer live minnows and single eggs.

Just wanted to share a positive experience fishing in Erie with everyone, as there have been nothing but negative posts regarding fellow fisherman lately.  My point is that there are good people out there and likely you will run into them if you stay away from the crowds and the areas mentioned in the first post of this thread.  Sometimes that means waiting until at least mid oct to start fishing, when there are more fish spread throughout the streams.

To get in touch with your feminine side, I'd recommend a nice Honey flavored Dominican like an Arturo Fuente...The new Honey flavored Jack Daniels, I feel, would compliment well with that cigar too. No micro brew needed after that.

Hoppa Helpass

I think DT dips his triple threats in Gulp juice..WF..I have seen him fish and he gotta be doing that.

ORIGINAL: World Famous

I think DT dips his triple threats in Gulp juice..WF..I have seen him fish and he gotta be doing that.

 
tobacco juice maybe but not gulp!

I love steelhead season. See you in a couple weeks.

ORIGINAL: doubletaper

sheesh! i just got scolded from appoligizing to a pinner.
i see you pinners are having an outing. i'm banned from reading your thread!
maybe i'll see you guys on the crick, i'll bring my binocs to see who's upstream using that pencil float!
 
all in fun guys, all in fun.

My sentiments exactly....Its Friday!!

I'll let you in on the skinny if I can get the time off to go.

The Pinners have let me join their outings with my fleapole, I think beacuse they have seen me cast and it can clear out a pretty good chunk of water for them. Kinda feel like the redheaded stepchild that is allowed to participate.

Spoon said it best there are aholes and you will run into them, they are everwhere.

I look down at no one for the tackle they are using and could care less. So any fleapole, pinner, bait dunker comments from me are truly in jest. Although the guys with Zebcos are a little different in my book.

ORIGINAL: Flying Fish

Over the years I've met some really good people on the creek while steelhead fishing. I have also met some real idiots too! But it had nothing to do with the setup they were using. Some people are genetically programed to be jackarses....it has nothing to do with the type of gear they use to fish with.

I completely disagree. From experience I have noticed spinning rod users to be camo sporting white trash. Pinners to be number ****s. Fly rod guys to be snaggers. The only respectable people out there are the two handed fly rod guys.

ORIGINAL: troutsnagger

Going to the Circus and complaining about the Clowns. That's funny.

Or worse, going to the circus, and complaining that there are circus acts.

Hey the clowns is much better, but I never saw that post.

OK guys I appreciate all the responses!  Let me clarify a few things....first, the guy calling me stupid for fishing with spinning tackle is absolutely TRUE...no bullshat....I couldnt have made that up....as for the circus, I fully expected one at Manchester and was pleasantly surprised that at 5am I was the only one there (everyone else was at the CHutes) I hadnt been there in over 10 years, and only went there to see the stream conditions, which were dead low and clear....so I left and went to Elk, Where I usually fish. I fully expected a ton of guys there, but I can fish in a crowd easily!
 
My name is Bill, Im from Philly and work in the area alot and get a ton of "free" fishing time, I wear an Eagle's hat and catch all kinds of crap from other football teams fans, all in good fun (since I know the Eagles will NEVER win a Superbowl).....I have fished with ShutupandFIsh (remember Paul?  with my kids, etc) and his buddies and think hes a nice guy.I didnt want to start a shatstorm between differing types o fisherman, only wanted to ask about the preponderence of flyfishermen (some of which were obviously cluelessly beating the water) and the apperance of pinners(which I see in the Salmon River obviously lifting/lining fish)....it was a wierd site at least to me, and just wondered if some of these guys knew what they were doing.......
 
I agree with some of the guys who said that there are some nice guys out there fishing and totally agree!  I have helped many guys out who were fishing 20 pd test, giant trebles, etc and got them fishing jigs, single eggs, etc.I honestly dont care how people fish, just seems that the trendy thing is gettin outta control, and like one guy said it seems like "they dont even know what they dont know"....I have seen a lot of steelies lined by guys who think that they all hit with the outside corner of their mouths........not that I care, I just think they dont know what they are doing,just following someones else's instructions, etc
 
Sorry to get everyone stirred up!

Catch and release from Rt 5 to the lake would solve many problems.

ORIGINAL: coldfront

nice post, spoonchucker. in the end, it's fishing. nothing more. it's an escape, it's fun, sometimes it's a meal. death and illness and job loss and wars are serious. fishing is fun. for the little time we all get out, enjoy it. use what you will. it's no one's business what you use. people are screwed up anymore. everyone looks like a model out of cabela's or an orvis catalog. i have even heard comments about fishermen wearing a camo jacket. if that is the only warm or waterproof outer garment that you have, then wear it. it's no one's business. go fishing and enjoy yourself. shheeeeeeshh.

Good post from you, too. You got that right! I always think of Alan Iverson's it's just practice, and apply it to both golf and fishing. It's just fishing.Some of the younger folks have to go through some hard times to figure that out. Look at the stone on the path on lower 20 mile, and you'll remember, it's just fishing.

Camo is out....Ive evolved to fish-o -flauge.....

you are not a good fisherman unless you wear high end clothes.

What I find funny is the guys with nice rods and reels, decked out in simms gear and cannot even cast or understand the fact that when ur fly line if downstream of your fly dragging it three times faster than the water is moving, your not gonna catch a fish. Ran into too many of this type so far. They will learn eventually.