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FoldCatOne
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BobBobber
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 Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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I have seen ice fishermen use the ones you pictured when the ice was slick, not snow covered.
I have a pair, never used, that I bought for jetty fishing. If anybody wants to borrow tham and return in same condition, send me a PM. You can be the tester.
On slick algae covered rocks and even super slick slate river bottoms, we used felt-soled waders. The trout kissers had a campaign to make them illegal, so many stores stopped selling them, fearing boycott. Seems Trout Unlimited's perception was that zebra mussels would transfer from some places to infiltrate good trout streams.
Felt-soled waders do work great. We got ours from Cabelas. |
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Bigrock
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Location: Sherwood Tx
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 8:18 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I have a pair, never used, that I bought for jetty fishing. If anybody wants to borrow tham and return in same condition.... |
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hickroots07
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Location: cc, TEXAS!
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Roys carries those, or somethin similar i think. They are on the wall with waders and boots. They look like they might work.
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Central Scrutinizer
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Joined: 14 Jul 2009
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Location: Flour Bluff
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| BobBobber wrote: | | The trout kissers had a campaign to make them illegal, so many stores stopped selling them, fearing boycott. Seems Trout Unlimited's perception was that zebra mussels would transfer from some places to infiltrate good trout streams. |
While the zebra mussels are a problem, it's really the didymo or rock snot, (a species of diatom that blooms in freshwater rivers and streams with consistently cold water temperatures) that was behind the ban on felt-bottom river shoes. That stuff is a nasty invasive species.  It can transfer from water body to water body in as little as a single drop of water.
Trout kissers..... Had not heard that one before! |
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BobBobber
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| Central Scrutinizer wrote: | | While the zebra mussels are a problem, it's really the didymo or rock snot, (a species of diatom that blooms in freshwater rivers and streams with consistently cold water temperatures) that was behind the ban on felt-bottom river shoes. Trout kissers..... Had not heard that one before! |
Didymo is something I had not heard about. Thanks for that info.
Long ago, somebody coined the term "trout kissers," which probably came about from the trout kissers' passion to block off certain waters as their own. Those became known as "quality" fishing waters, either from mega-size limit restrictions or bans on using anything other than artificial flies.
Some great fishing areas were excluded, basically from the common man. Most guys don't fly fish. Also, minority races almost never fly fish, so at least in Michigan, restricting waters only to fly fishing, kept the urban dwellers away.
Thus in Yankee-land, the flies-only sections became more private, primarily for the pleasures of the property owners, who funded much of the push to restrict fishing rights. That included hiring well-paid lobbyists to ramrod their initiatives through.
We fished the flies-only waters many times. Even during trout season opening weekend, we usually were the only ones on the water. Let's face it, trout love worms, so most guys fished unrestricted waters.
Some may not know that stream trout fishing is vastly different from anything we do here on saltwater. Typical tippets on flylines lines might average 4# test.
Another extreme trout-kisser example follows:
Years ago, I was the guest of Barney Marquis, a curmudgeon Maine fishing guide, on a rich-man's private lake. There were no more than 20 dwellings on this picture postcard perfect lake, which was several miles down a graded two-track, once you were allowed past the security guard shack.
That's the most private fishin' spot I've fished . . . well . . . legally fished without trespassing. But that's another story.
Back to the trout kissers: Flyfishers in Maine were forbidden to cast from a drifting boat, because that was considered trolling, which was illegal on any waters in Maine that even might have trout. This rule was created by the trout kissers who revered wading as the only legitimate and ethical way to fly fish.
I spent a memorable week with Barney learning about how they fish in Maine and watching him restore century old Rangely lake boats. However, we never ate any brook trout from the lake, because they were totally infested with wiggly parasites that you could see underneath their skin. Yuk! But the private dining room at the camp usually had Maine lobster on the menu, which will make anybody easily forget about frying up some trout.
For the record, I was not a trout kisser. I held that anybody should be allowed to fish in any public waters as long as the state's fishing rules were observed. That's one of the reasons all of us here are so fortunate to be able to fish in the Texas Gulf.
But I digress . . . |
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Red eye
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Joined: 06 Dec 2011
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Location: Port A Tx
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| Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 11:01 am Post subject: Grippers to make jetty walking safer |
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My experience has been when wearing grippers on jetty, watch out. False sense of thinking I could walk any where. The boulders that are rough, the grippers are good. The boulders that have a smooth cement finish & then some slime will put you down fast & hard!!! Those slimers will temp you." if you come step on me, you'll be able to get to the best spot".
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