Another whuppin'

No long story here, just an announcement: the score now stands at Steelhead: 23 - Tinker: 0, and I am now at 1,107 casts towards the cursed beasts.  SIGH

No long story here, just an announcement: the score now stands at Steelhead: 23 - Tinker: 0, and I am now at 1,107 casts towards the cursed beasts.  SIGH

only 8,893 casts to go...   

NOO-OO-O!   

Are you keeping your hooks sharp?

Couple of questions for the sake of my curiosity:
(1) is that 23 hookups, or 23 trips?
(2) do you really count each cast?

Thanks for your posts -- they're enjoyable!

Are you keeping your hooks sharp?

I sharpen every one of them when they come out of the vise, and I carry a pocket whetstone in case I bang a fly on something.  Deadly sharp.  Good point, 'though (I'm more than a wee bit proud of that pun).

(1) is that 23 hookups, or 23 trips?
(2) do you really count each cast?

Yes to 1a, and yes to 2 (I use a spreadsheet and just add how many casts I made that day).

So, stop trying so hard with classic tackle, go buy a pink dock demon and some pink steelhead jigsaw and go have fun....   

Du-ude!  If I don't catch it on the flies I tie with my very own hands, it doesn't count.

(Settle down... that rule only applies to me.)

Throw bugs with the dock demon!

Tempting, but alas, I shan't be coming down from Mt. Olympus anytime soon.

But I do own both a 30" Daiwa spinning rod and the same as a casting rod - they're the only rods I couldn't talk my kids into accepting as gifts.

30" ??

30" ??

Yeah.  Thirty inches, ML action.  Very nicely made rods, just shorties.  If I weren't so comfortable right now, I'd walk over to the garage and get the model name.  I'll do it in the morning.

Yeah.  Thirty inches, ML action.  Very nicely made rods, just shorties.  If I weren't so comfortable right now, I'd walk over to the garage and get the model name.  I'll do it in the morning.

Funneee! Don't move. The garage is too far.  It'll be there in the morning.

They're the Daiwa Triforce rods.  Older ones with full-length cork grips, not the new split-grip version.

The Boss bought the casting version because she wanted a short rod for kayak fishing - don't ask me why, I never asked about her reasoning - but she hated the baitcasting reel, so I ought her the spinning version.

Today was forecast to be rainy, but it wasn't - if you don't count my tears of frustration as rain.

Steelhead 24: Tinker 0.

[SIGH]

I blame that hdpwipmonkey fella. Only 8,861 casts left...

On the bright side, that was probably the last steelhead in these rivers for 2020.  I'm grateful.