08-26-2003, 01:01 AM
[cool]And that brings back memories for me. My first fishing gear was an old steel telescope pole, with a single action baitcaster that was not much more than line storage. Worked fine for trudging along the creeks in Idaho and derricking out the little wild trout.
I also used it by laying the rod on the ground and feeding line back into the culverts where Willow Creek ran under the roads near my house in Idaho Falls. I floated a grasshopper back in there until I heard a splash. Then, I counted to ten and handlined the trout out. Many of them were well over two pounds. Like you say, not high dollar, but I probably caught more fish...and more big fish...on that makeshift tackle than a lot of the Abercrombie and Fitch crowd.
By, the way, the administrators on the board prefer the images to be no more than 400 pixels wide. I edited your great pics down to fit the format. I didn't dare touch those gators though. Didn't want them to take a bite out of my hard drive.
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I also used it by laying the rod on the ground and feeding line back into the culverts where Willow Creek ran under the roads near my house in Idaho Falls. I floated a grasshopper back in there until I heard a splash. Then, I counted to ten and handlined the trout out. Many of them were well over two pounds. Like you say, not high dollar, but I probably caught more fish...and more big fish...on that makeshift tackle than a lot of the Abercrombie and Fitch crowd.
By, the way, the administrators on the board prefer the images to be no more than 400 pixels wide. I edited your great pics down to fit the format. I didn't dare touch those gators though. Didn't want them to take a bite out of my hard drive.
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