screw trout!

[jjsjigs]

I'm ready for Smallie fishing. I so am!

Every year, a month or two prior to the PFBC's kickoff to the annual put-and-take trout stocking program, the chatter on the "other sites" turns heavy to the salmonids.

I’d let it go on for a little while, then change my avatar to this one !



It always got a few chuckles and always raised a few hackles, too. It was supposed to be an “if you have to ask, you’ll never know” type thing but invariably someone would end up explaining it to the unwashed.

Basically, the argument behind my avatar was that you don’t have to travel out of state to fly fish for decent fighting fish (meaning that hellish drive up to the Salmon River). And you don’t have to only fish for trout just because you’re using a fly rod, either. I'm in love with fly fishing for smallies. Fully, and completely!

I’ll admit that I really don’t have anything against trout, heck, I grew up fishing for them and still consider myself a trout bum. I still go after them until the mighty smallies 'kick it up a notch' on my beloved North Branch Susquehanna River. Even though I do like trout, having my conservation dollars go to a Bradford County put-and-take fishery for a species that can’t even survive on their own once it warms up seems silly. I’d much rather have the PFBC blow up some dams on the Susquehanna River and give the WHOLE state a shad fishery, for example.

So on this one, the joke is based in the truth. Even so, the phrase “Screw Trout!” is just funny.

Since I’ve gone the shameless commerce route by starting up JJ's Jigs and JJ's Jigs is really about fishing for bass. I thought I’d add some zazz and heckle the purist crowd getting ready ironing their tweed coats and picking out their finest briar pipe to smoke while fishing dry flies, upstream, to only rising trout. Hey, sue me. I’m trying to figure out if it’s possible to be a capitalist and a carper. Here is my design:



I guess if you’re gonna go capitalist, you might as well go all the way, right?

[John Lorenzo]

I agree and while we're at it screw walleye too!!!!!!!!

[hunterdeneugene]

and while were at it....screw bass. Salmon and steelhead are where it's at. Ice fishing is just something to do until I can fish salmon and steelhead again!

[zenrider]

That looks like a GAY trout to me.

[cwilliams]

how about screw steel head, screw big water brown trout, and screw tu elitists.....

[jjsjigs]

Sure!! Let's just do a general statement!! SCREW 'EM ALL!!!!

[jjsjigs]

That looks like a GAY trout to me.

Yes, it's quite gay now that I look at it. It was meant to be a rainbow trout... but I guess you could call it a San Franciso Trout?

[cwilliams]

Sure!! Let's just do a general statement!! SCREW 'EM ALL!!!!

nope not screw them all, screw all of them except stream and smaller river fishing. I just get anoyyed when people talk **** about how small my trout are when they caught there trout in a freakin ocean lol....

[John Lorenzo]

and while were at it....screw bass. Salmon and steelhead are where it's at. Ice fishing is just something to do until I can fish salmon and steelhead again!

now Denny you are just plain screw happy and nothing more!

[hunterdeneugene]

now Denny you are just plain screw happy and nothing more!

Now, I am just plain screwy....

[jjsjigs]

Lol! That's just funny!

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[cwilliams]

lol................

[mikeymjr23]

Now, I am just plain screwy....

Yes, yes sir, you are.

[ratherbhuntin]

i take great offenese to this and will now have to steal all of jjsjigs out of treerats tackle box and catch some trout on them and ruin jj's reputation as a good bass lure.

[fishinjohn]

rbh, now that's FUNNY!! That would really ruin jj'sjigs reputation now wouldn't it

[cwilliams]

i take great offenese to this and will now have to steal all of jjsjigs out of treerats tackle box and catch some trout on them and ruin jj's reputation as a good bass lure.

I used your spinners last summer to catch bass with. did that ruin there reputation as a trout lure?

[hunterdeneugene]

I tried to screw a trout once, but it was too slippery to hold on to....

[mikeymjr23]

You just aint right!

[Lance Dunham]

i take great offenese to this and will now have to steal all of jjsjigs out of treerats tackle box and catch some trout on them and ruin jj's reputation as a good bass lure.

Opps, I've already done that. Last spring while fishing with his 2/0 hair jig in a 3" woolybooger pattern, we caught several brook and rainbow trout escapee's in the river where the creek dumps into it. JJ's was thrilled when I told him. He said "Yep, they must catch everything" , and they pretty much do.

[cwilliams]

I tried to screw a trout once, but it was too slippery to hold on to....

we could have done with out that post.... but hey what ever you like.