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Re:The Shepherd, EXPOSED! 15 Years, 11 Months ago  
Shawn,

The Shepherd was indeed casting the spinnerbait 100+ feet with a six wt, and a floating line. This gives an entirely new meaning to the phrase "chuck and duck".... and yes, the spinnerbait was demolished, and reduced to scrap metal after the quick change in direction on the backcast while being subjected to the supersonic linespeeds,that the Living Legend, Senor Shepherd the Great had to generate in order to pitch a 3/8 ounce hunk of metal into the next zip code in just a few casts!

As stated the Shepherd did not view this as "flyfishing" and would NOT reccomend this, as this was just a mere experiment, to test the Shepherd's supernatural ability to stick everything with fins that swim on anything with a hook in it, and to demonstrate to Baaaarucie, that a proficient flyangler who knows how to drive the line with authority, can pitch a goddamned boat anchor further than an inept monkeyslapper who literally waves the rod back and forth like it was a friggin' flag and believes that is casting!

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The Shepherd is currently offering the Sheeople of this flock a chance to enroll in the Shepherd's Character Building course! For the small, nominal fee of $750 dollars, the Shepherd will travel to the Norcal location of your chosing, on a day and time that is convenient for you. Upon your arrival, the Shepherd will glove up and proceed to kick your ass up one side and down the other! Your asswhipping is guaranteed to include all of the following elements: cuts, abrasions, contusions, severe trama induced facial swelling, blackeyes, a fatlip or two, and significant but not life threatening blood loss! As a special bonus, you asswhipping may include the following: minor to medium severity concussions, a broken nose, bruised orbitals, califlower ear, and other assorted medium severity injuries. The Shepherd similarly guarantees that your asswhipping will NOT result in the following: broken limbs, fractured ribs, skull fractures, severe brain damage, or any other injuries that can be considered life threatening or altering, or that require prolonged medical treatment. However, if at any time during your asswhipping you elect to fight back, no such guarantee shall be given. Your whipping shall conclude with the landing of a flush power shot delivered with full leverage! This 'finishing touch' is likewise guaranteed to knock you into the middle of next week and render you into a perfect state of unconsciousness or your money back! Members of the flock whom the Shepherd is not fond of will qualify for a 50% discount!

"If it doesn't kill you, it serves to make you stronger" -The Shepherd

"The Trinity Dam Project will not result in the diversion of a single, solitary bucket of water."- Clair Engle, Former Senator, Crossdresser, Revisionist

"You should never trust a dude named after a chick!"- The Shepherd, Purveyor of the Truth, Angler extraordinaire, Living Legend

"Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche, another revisionist in the night!- Bruce Springsteen

"Tell me about those early rounds. When you were coming out what did you want to establish and prove in those first few rounds?" -Larry Merchant

"Establish who was gonna be the boss. There can only be one boss in here. I am the boss. This is my house. I live here."- Marlon Starling


"When the Shepherd talks, everybody listens!" E. F. Hutton

The Shepherd is also starting a hedge fund where members of the Shepherd's flock will be guaranteed a 25% annual rate of return! For more information about how you can become a member of the Shepherd's select flock, please send an e-mail containing all your account numbers to: Boatloadsofcash4theshepherd@fleecingofthesheeople.com

"....Yes we can!...."- Osama Obama, President, Eternal optimist and Harbinger of the Imminent Financial Doom!

"....No you can't!...." - The Shepherd, Prince of Economic Prognostication

"The S&P 500 shall come to be known as the S&P 300 by the end of 2009." -The Shepherd

"Citi and Morgan Stanley shall become one and merge into an offspring known as 'City Morgue'."- The Shepherd

"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheeople's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves." - The Shepherd

"In the Shepherd we trust, everyone else we monitor." - The Minions of the Truth™

"The darkness of fraud and deception ALWAYS retreats from the LIGHT OF THE TRUTH™!" - The Shepherd

"Everything is better in moderation, particularly moderation." - The Shepherd

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the fraud and the deception of the evil revisionists. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, that shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness for he is truly his brother's keeper and the savior of blind sheeople" - The Shepherd

"And the Shepherd said:'Let there be light!' and there was light; the darkness retreated and the truth was revealed!" - An enlightened sheeople

"Baaaaaaa!" - A blind sheeople

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning.... smells like... victory." - Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore

"...I wanna announce my presence with authority..." - Nuke Laloosh

"ARRRRrrrrrrrrGGGGGHHHHH!" - Godzilla

"Sing me a song, and you're a singer,do me a wrong and you're a bringer of evil." - Ronnie James Dio

"Receiver of light, the Kingdom of the Shepherd shall guide you and keep you from a restless heart, Deceiver of night, the revisionist that lies within you is the reason for your restless heart...." -Tony Martin

"We are poor little lambs, who have lost our way. Baa! Baa! Baa!" - The Flock

"...Put the hashpipe down...."-Greg "Hashpipe" Miller

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Re:The Shepherd, EXPOSED! 15 Years, 11 Months ago  
Arizona Bruce wrote:


Shawn, it's just fishing.


Then what was the point of starting this thread?
 
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Re:The Shepherd, EXPOSED! 15 Years, 11 Months ago  
You're like a moth to a flame ain't cha? You just have the inherent need to attempt to improve upon the "asswhipping ye hath already received" don't ya?

What Bug is attempting to point out, since you've gotten his hackles up (hackles happen to be those FEATHERS used in FLYTYING mind you.....)is that pitching a jig and a bobber 20 feet into the drink and stripping line off to let it drift 90 feet downstream does not constitute flyfishing! Nor does doing the same with a rapala. What this does constitute is a phenomenon known as denialism! .....And no, pitching a "fly and a bubble" 100+ feet with a Zebco pushbutton, will not mean you're a proficient flycaster! It will however very much like your insistance to fish "bait" with the improper gear(i.e. a flyrod), lead to you catching more fish than you would if you actually if you actually engaged in what a member of the enlightened would consider "flyfishing". Hell, if you took some casting lessons, along with your jigs, you might be able to pitch a goddamned gillnet into the river with your XP! Just think how many fish you'd be catching! And by your definition you'd still be flyfishing! Revisionist!

The Shepherd- He From Whom All Things Great, Eminate!
 
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The Shepherd is currently offering the Sheeople of this flock a chance to enroll in the Shepherd's Character Building course! For the small, nominal fee of $750 dollars, the Shepherd will travel to the Norcal location of your chosing, on a day and time that is convenient for you. Upon your arrival, the Shepherd will glove up and proceed to kick your ass up one side and down the other! Your asswhipping is guaranteed to include all of the following elements: cuts, abrasions, contusions, severe trama induced facial swelling, blackeyes, a fatlip or two, and significant but not life threatening blood loss! As a special bonus, you asswhipping may include the following: minor to medium severity concussions, a broken nose, bruised orbitals, califlower ear, and other assorted medium severity injuries. The Shepherd similarly guarantees that your asswhipping will NOT result in the following: broken limbs, fractured ribs, skull fractures, severe brain damage, or any other injuries that can be considered life threatening or altering, or that require prolonged medical treatment. However, if at any time during your asswhipping you elect to fight back, no such guarantee shall be given. Your whipping shall conclude with the landing of a flush power shot delivered with full leverage! This 'finishing touch' is likewise guaranteed to knock you into the middle of next week and render you into a perfect state of unconsciousness or your money back! Members of the flock whom the Shepherd is not fond of will qualify for a 50% discount!

"If it doesn't kill you, it serves to make you stronger" -The Shepherd

"The Trinity Dam Project will not result in the diversion of a single, solitary bucket of water."- Clair Engle, Former Senator, Crossdresser, Revisionist

"You should never trust a dude named after a chick!"- The Shepherd, Purveyor of the Truth, Angler extraordinaire, Living Legend

"Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche, another revisionist in the night!- Bruce Springsteen

"Tell me about those early rounds. When you were coming out what did you want to establish and prove in those first few rounds?" -Larry Merchant

"Establish who was gonna be the boss. There can only be one boss in here. I am the boss. This is my house. I live here."- Marlon Starling


"When the Shepherd talks, everybody listens!" E. F. Hutton

The Shepherd is also starting a hedge fund where members of the Shepherd's flock will be guaranteed a 25% annual rate of return! For more information about how you can become a member of the Shepherd's select flock, please send an e-mail containing all your account numbers to: Boatloadsofcash4theshepherd@fleecingofthesheeople.com

"....Yes we can!...."- Osama Obama, President, Eternal optimist and Harbinger of the Imminent Financial Doom!

"....No you can't!...." - The Shepherd, Prince of Economic Prognostication

"The S&P 500 shall come to be known as the S&P 300 by the end of 2009." -The Shepherd

"Citi and Morgan Stanley shall become one and merge into an offspring known as 'City Morgue'."- The Shepherd

"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheeople's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves." - The Shepherd

"In the Shepherd we trust, everyone else we monitor." - The Minions of the Truth™

"The darkness of fraud and deception ALWAYS retreats from the LIGHT OF THE TRUTH™!" - The Shepherd

"Everything is better in moderation, particularly moderation." - The Shepherd

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the fraud and the deception of the evil revisionists. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, that shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness for he is truly his brother's keeper and the savior of blind sheeople" - The Shepherd

"And the Shepherd said:'Let there be light!' and there was light; the darkness retreated and the truth was revealed!" - An enlightened sheeople

"Baaaaaaa!" - A blind sheeople

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning.... smells like... victory." - Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore

"...I wanna announce my presence with authority..." - Nuke Laloosh

"ARRRRrrrrrrrrGGGGGHHHHH!" - Godzilla

"Sing me a song, and you're a singer,do me a wrong and you're a bringer of evil." - Ronnie James Dio

"Receiver of light, the Kingdom of the Shepherd shall guide you and keep you from a restless heart, Deceiver of night, the revisionist that lies within you is the reason for your restless heart...." -Tony Martin

"We are poor little lambs, who have lost our way. Baa! Baa! Baa!" - The Flock

"...Put the hashpipe down...."-Greg "Hashpipe" Miller

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Re:Hey Shep 15 Years, 11 Months ago  
DG,

The Shepherd has never dined on ear! The Shepherd reccomends that you target your question to someone who has. Iron Mikey comes to mind!

The Shepherd
 
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The Shepherd is currently offering the Sheeople of this flock a chance to enroll in the Shepherd's Character Building course! For the small, nominal fee of $750 dollars, the Shepherd will travel to the Norcal location of your chosing, on a day and time that is convenient for you. Upon your arrival, the Shepherd will glove up and proceed to kick your ass up one side and down the other! Your asswhipping is guaranteed to include all of the following elements: cuts, abrasions, contusions, severe trama induced facial swelling, blackeyes, a fatlip or two, and significant but not life threatening blood loss! As a special bonus, you asswhipping may include the following: minor to medium severity concussions, a broken nose, bruised orbitals, califlower ear, and other assorted medium severity injuries. The Shepherd similarly guarantees that your asswhipping will NOT result in the following: broken limbs, fractured ribs, skull fractures, severe brain damage, or any other injuries that can be considered life threatening or altering, or that require prolonged medical treatment. However, if at any time during your asswhipping you elect to fight back, no such guarantee shall be given. Your whipping shall conclude with the landing of a flush power shot delivered with full leverage! This 'finishing touch' is likewise guaranteed to knock you into the middle of next week and render you into a perfect state of unconsciousness or your money back! Members of the flock whom the Shepherd is not fond of will qualify for a 50% discount!

"If it doesn't kill you, it serves to make you stronger" -The Shepherd

"The Trinity Dam Project will not result in the diversion of a single, solitary bucket of water."- Clair Engle, Former Senator, Crossdresser, Revisionist

"You should never trust a dude named after a chick!"- The Shepherd, Purveyor of the Truth, Angler extraordinaire, Living Legend

"Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche, another revisionist in the night!- Bruce Springsteen

"Tell me about those early rounds. When you were coming out what did you want to establish and prove in those first few rounds?" -Larry Merchant

"Establish who was gonna be the boss. There can only be one boss in here. I am the boss. This is my house. I live here."- Marlon Starling


"When the Shepherd talks, everybody listens!" E. F. Hutton

The Shepherd is also starting a hedge fund where members of the Shepherd's flock will be guaranteed a 25% annual rate of return! For more information about how you can become a member of the Shepherd's select flock, please send an e-mail containing all your account numbers to: Boatloadsofcash4theshepherd@fleecingofthesheeople.com

"....Yes we can!...."- Osama Obama, President, Eternal optimist and Harbinger of the Imminent Financial Doom!

"....No you can't!...." - The Shepherd, Prince of Economic Prognostication

"The S&P 500 shall come to be known as the S&P 300 by the end of 2009." -The Shepherd

"Citi and Morgan Stanley shall become one and merge into an offspring known as 'City Morgue'."- The Shepherd

"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheeople's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves." - The Shepherd

"In the Shepherd we trust, everyone else we monitor." - The Minions of the Truth™

"The darkness of fraud and deception ALWAYS retreats from the LIGHT OF THE TRUTH™!" - The Shepherd

"Everything is better in moderation, particularly moderation." - The Shepherd

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the fraud and the deception of the evil revisionists. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, that shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness for he is truly his brother's keeper and the savior of blind sheeople" - The Shepherd

"And the Shepherd said:'Let there be light!' and there was light; the darkness retreated and the truth was revealed!" - An enlightened sheeople

"Baaaaaaa!" - A blind sheeople

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning.... smells like... victory." - Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore

"...I wanna announce my presence with authority..." - Nuke Laloosh

"ARRRRrrrrrrrrGGGGGHHHHH!" - Godzilla

"Sing me a song, and you're a singer,do me a wrong and you're a bringer of evil." - Ronnie James Dio

"Receiver of light, the Kingdom of the Shepherd shall guide you and keep you from a restless heart, Deceiver of night, the revisionist that lies within you is the reason for your restless heart...." -Tony Martin

"We are poor little lambs, who have lost our way. Baa! Baa! Baa!" - The Flock

"...Put the hashpipe down...."-Greg "Hashpipe" Miller

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Re:The Shepherd, EXPOSED! 15 Years, 11 Months ago  
Young man,

You have sinned! It is good that you have recognized your sin and that coninuing to sin in the future is inherently wrong! If one repents of his sins, one's sins will be expunged! Leave the darkness of fraud and deception, and step into the light!


The Shepherd
 
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****** News Flash*****

The Shepherd is currently offering the Sheeople of this flock a chance to enroll in the Shepherd's Character Building course! For the small, nominal fee of $750 dollars, the Shepherd will travel to the Norcal location of your chosing, on a day and time that is convenient for you. Upon your arrival, the Shepherd will glove up and proceed to kick your ass up one side and down the other! Your asswhipping is guaranteed to include all of the following elements: cuts, abrasions, contusions, severe trama induced facial swelling, blackeyes, a fatlip or two, and significant but not life threatening blood loss! As a special bonus, you asswhipping may include the following: minor to medium severity concussions, a broken nose, bruised orbitals, califlower ear, and other assorted medium severity injuries. The Shepherd similarly guarantees that your asswhipping will NOT result in the following: broken limbs, fractured ribs, skull fractures, severe brain damage, or any other injuries that can be considered life threatening or altering, or that require prolonged medical treatment. However, if at any time during your asswhipping you elect to fight back, no such guarantee shall be given. Your whipping shall conclude with the landing of a flush power shot delivered with full leverage! This 'finishing touch' is likewise guaranteed to knock you into the middle of next week and render you into a perfect state of unconsciousness or your money back! Members of the flock whom the Shepherd is not fond of will qualify for a 50% discount!

"If it doesn't kill you, it serves to make you stronger" -The Shepherd

"The Trinity Dam Project will not result in the diversion of a single, solitary bucket of water."- Clair Engle, Former Senator, Crossdresser, Revisionist

"You should never trust a dude named after a chick!"- The Shepherd, Purveyor of the Truth, Angler extraordinaire, Living Legend

"Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche, another revisionist in the night!- Bruce Springsteen

"Tell me about those early rounds. When you were coming out what did you want to establish and prove in those first few rounds?" -Larry Merchant

"Establish who was gonna be the boss. There can only be one boss in here. I am the boss. This is my house. I live here."- Marlon Starling


"When the Shepherd talks, everybody listens!" E. F. Hutton

The Shepherd is also starting a hedge fund where members of the Shepherd's flock will be guaranteed a 25% annual rate of return! For more information about how you can become a member of the Shepherd's select flock, please send an e-mail containing all your account numbers to: Boatloadsofcash4theshepherd@fleecingofthesheeople.com

"....Yes we can!...."- Osama Obama, President, Eternal optimist and Harbinger of the Imminent Financial Doom!

"....No you can't!...." - The Shepherd, Prince of Economic Prognostication

"The S&P 500 shall come to be known as the S&P 300 by the end of 2009." -The Shepherd

"Citi and Morgan Stanley shall become one and merge into an offspring known as 'City Morgue'."- The Shepherd

"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheeople's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves." - The Shepherd

"In the Shepherd we trust, everyone else we monitor." - The Minions of the Truth™

"The darkness of fraud and deception ALWAYS retreats from the LIGHT OF THE TRUTH™!" - The Shepherd

"Everything is better in moderation, particularly moderation." - The Shepherd

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the fraud and the deception of the evil revisionists. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, that shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness for he is truly his brother's keeper and the savior of blind sheeople" - The Shepherd

"And the Shepherd said:'Let there be light!' and there was light; the darkness retreated and the truth was revealed!" - An enlightened sheeople

"Baaaaaaa!" - A blind sheeople

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning.... smells like... victory." - Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore

"...I wanna announce my presence with authority..." - Nuke Laloosh

"ARRRRrrrrrrrrGGGGGHHHHH!" - Godzilla

"Sing me a song, and you're a singer,do me a wrong and you're a bringer of evil." - Ronnie James Dio

"Receiver of light, the Kingdom of the Shepherd shall guide you and keep you from a restless heart, Deceiver of night, the revisionist that lies within you is the reason for your restless heart...." -Tony Martin

"We are poor little lambs, who have lost our way. Baa! Baa! Baa!" - The Flock

"...Put the hashpipe down...."-Greg "Hashpipe" Miller

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Re:The Shepherd, EXPOSED! 15 Years, 11 Months ago  
Ribbing a buddy, all in good fun. Isn't that obvious?
 
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Skunked again 15 Years, 11 Months ago  
The_Keeper_of_the_Light wrote:
DG,

The Shepherd has never dined on ear! The Shepherd reccomends that you target your question to someone who has. Iron Mikey comes to mind!

The Shepherd


It serves me right for trying to match intelligence with the enlightened One. Nevertheless, I feel the cast was near excellent (all things considered), the drift pitiful. Still, I am humbled by the outcome.

I beg you should not hold my transgression against me. I truely have learned the futility of such endeavour.

Shamefully yours,
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— Harry Middleton (Rivers of Memory)

"Each night as I haul myself onto the back of county garbage truck no. 2, there is a familiar wind, some thread of moonglow or starlight, a splatter of dark rain on my skin, something that stirs my memory, and again, if even for a brief moment, I am on some mountain river, some stretch of bright water, full of possibilities, including the possibility of trout, perhaps one that, when hooked, will haul me in and out of time, in and out of life's mysterious and frightening, wondrous and incomprehensible continuum, even to the edges of the universe." -- Harry Middleton
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Re:The Shepherd, EXPOSED! 15 Years, 11 Months ago  
I was simply pointing out the fact that you are the last one that should be passing judgement on the way someone fishes. Your post may have been meant to be humorous but the irony in it really overshadowed that and reminded me of the pot and the kettle story. The integrity line was directed at your fishing practices and not necessarily you in general so don't get bent. I should have said that you lack integrity as an angler.
 
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Re:The Shepherd, EXPOSED! 15 Years, 11 Months ago  
The_Keeper_of_the_Light wrote:
Young man,

You have sinned! It is good that you have recognized your sin and that coninuing to sin in the future is inherently wrong! If one repents of his sins, one's sins will be expunged! Leave the darkness of fraud and deception, and step into the light!


The Shepherd



Young Man? If only that were true there might be time for me...

Alas, I am lost and most certainly not worthy of salvation. Trust me on this. For even today, should the "egg hatch" occur on the LSac, you will find me chucking an indicator rig behind the salmon. I am weak and helpless on this. Alack, no twelve-step program exists.

My only consolation being I'm a man who knows his limitations. (This is obviously a grasp at staws. Pitiful at best)...Damn!

Should you find it in your infinite wisdom to take pity on a soul so hopelessly lost as oldtrout; I'd be honored to stand in a river wayving a stick with you anytime, anywhere.

Your faithless and most worthless follower,
DG


PS May I ask a favor? I've lost contact with he who is known by a certain garment worn by the fairer sex.
Should you ever speak with such a person, please give him my sincerest regards.
 
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"Rivers course through my dreams, rivers cold and fast, rivers well-known and rivers nameless, rivers that seem like ribbons of blue water twisting through wide valleys, narrow rivers folded in layers of darkening shadow, rivers that have eroded down deep in a mountain's belly, sculpted the land, peeled back the planet's history exposing the texture of time itself."
— Harry Middleton (Rivers of Memory)

"Each night as I haul myself onto the back of county garbage truck no. 2, there is a familiar wind, some thread of moonglow or starlight, a splatter of dark rain on my skin, something that stirs my memory, and again, if even for a brief moment, I am on some mountain river, some stretch of bright water, full of possibilities, including the possibility of trout, perhaps one that, when hooked, will haul me in and out of time, in and out of life's mysterious and frightening, wondrous and incomprehensible continuum, even to the edges of the universe." -- Harry Middleton
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Re:The Shepherd, EXPOSED! 15 Years, 11 Months ago  
The_Keeper_of_the_Light wrote:
...Hell, if you took some casting lessons, along with your jigs, you might be able to pitch a goddamned gillnet into the river with your XP! Just think how many fish you'd be catching! And by your definition you'd still be flyfishing! Revisionist!

Amen Shepherd, however your words of wisdom show that some are not worthy of your enlightenment...

FITCTAJ!

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Re:The Shepherd, EXPOSED! 15 Years, 11 Months ago  
OT, you know a guy named "Thong"?
 
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Re:The Shepherd, EXPOSED! 15 Years, 11 Months ago  
No offense taken, and you're absolutely right that I'm certainly not a purist...unless I'm using my new bamboo rod. (I DO fly fish much of the time, WITH flies.)
The only way I can describe it is I'm still needing certain skills that I use when fly fishing, the cast, the mend, the fight on a long, thin wand, I really like all of that, whatever it is! But I have no problem NOT calling it fly fishing.
 
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