So what do you carry on your Fly Fishing Journey for protection?

Re: So what do you carry on your Fly Fishing Journey for protection?

feeds@yuku.com (canenut) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:34:03 GMT

uintaangler wrote:
Quoting Archie Bunker...... perfect!

I think so. Back in the day Archie, Edith, Fred Sandford, JJ Walker, George Jefferson, Lamont, Aunt Esther & Wezzie all spoke plain English on TV. They all brought to light difficult issues facing us as a Nation. I think both the truth and satire of those...

Re: So what do you carry on your Fly Fishing Journey for protection?

feeds@yuku.com (PYochim) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:29:23 GMT

uintaangler wrote:
Quoting Archie Bunker...... perfect!

Absolutely!! The lead character on the best sitcom of all time.

Re: So what do you carry on your Fly Fishing Journey for protection?

feeds@yuku.com (DrakeBob) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:04:18 GMT

Looks like you'd better start packing heat when you go to Subway... bear loves salami...

Re: So what do you carry on your Fly Fishing Journey for protection?

feeds@yuku.com (uintaangler) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:12:44 GMT

Quoting Archie Bunker...... perfect!

Re: So what do you carry on your Fly Fishing Journey for protection?

feeds@yuku.com (geojasstef) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:52:10 GMT

My fishing buddy is slower and fatter than me so thats the bear problem undercontrol. .

I don't carry a pistol in water but I do have my K-bar on me and there's a couple of guns in the truck. I had a work colleague murdered a few years ago by some scumbag so I am a lot more weary of people than animals.

Re: So what do you carry on your Fly Fishing Journey for protection?

feeds@yuku.com (canenut) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:27:47 GMT

Southbranch wrote:
I agree that this discussion has been pretty cordial. It's just lucky that nobody on this forum supports the right to arm bears.

They can indeed arm themselves, but how are they going to load and shoot with those big nasty claws getting in the way.

BTW, I can discuss things civilly and...

Re: So what do you carry on your Fly Fishing Journey for protection?

feeds@yuku.com (mr flymph) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:31:30 GMT

Southbranch wrote:

It's just lucky that nobody on this forum supports the right to arm bears.

When salmon conspire to start attacking bears I will support the right to arm bears!

Re: So what do you carry on your Fly Fishing Journey for protection?

feeds@yuku.com (mr flymph) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:24:41 GMT

PYochim wrote:
No discussion of handguns would be complete without the mention of one of my favorite scenes from "All in the Family". It goes like this:

Gloria: Daddy, 90 percent of the people murdered in the last ten years were killed with handguns.

Archie: Would it make you feel any better if they were pushed out of a window?

...

Re: So what do you carry on your Fly Fishing Journey for protection?

feeds@yuku.com (Southbranch) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:54:40 GMT

I agree that this discussion has been pretty cordial. It's just lucky that nobody on this forum supports the right to arm bears.

Re: So what do you carry on your Fly Fishing Journey for protection?

feeds@yuku.com (PYochim) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:11:14 GMT

No discussion of handguns would be complete without the mention of one of my favorite scenes from "All in the Family". It goes like this:

Gloria: Daddy, 90 percent of the people murdered in the last ten years were killed with handguns.

Archie: Would it make you feel any better if they were pushed out of a window?

Re: So what do you carry on your Fly Fishing Journey for protection?

feeds@yuku.com (pcg) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:55:45 GMT

Hey, Tigers. And I mean all of you. This thread has been amazingly courteous, particularly given the subject. But I worry when I start reading phrases like, "offensive and impertinent" and, "Good day to you Sir," which is, as I read the post, a bit of red flag waving done very politely.

Surely this topic has about run out of steam. If not, let's all guard against getting personal--however erudite and/or however polite we may be. Thanks.

Re: So what do you carry on your Fly Fishing Journey for protection?

feeds@yuku.com (canenut) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:44:03 GMT

BlackHillsBill wrote:

canenut wrote:
I only have one question: What is your life worth?
Recent experiences involving the most courageous and best people
I have known, and not your comments, have kept me aware of life's
worth. For you to assume you know what I should think about that
worth or how unaware I might be of it...

Re: So what do you carry on your Fly Fishing Journey for protection?

feeds@yuku.com (Battenkiller) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:36:09 GMT

I always carry at least a couple of knives, sometimes three. On my lanyard is a small red Gerber knife that I found in the shallows on the Bighorn. I have a bigger Gerber that I keep with a spare car key on another cord around my neck. Both knives are kept razor sharp.

My main knife is a bit more effort to deploy when I'm wearing waders, but it is a sturdy and particularly lethal little Spyderco "Native".

About 20 years ago I spent a crazy summer studying...

Re: So what do you carry on your Fly Fishing Journey for protection?

feeds@yuku.com (mr flymph) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:26:14 GMT

Ask any police officer and, if they are honest about it, they will tell you that in most instances they are NOT going to come to your aid in a timely manner, much as they would like to. We can talk about the RIGHT to carry a gun, but how about the citizen taking RESPONSIBILITY for their own safety and not relying on law enforcement to come to their rescue?
The first thing you should do in any of the encounters mentioned is ENGAGE YOUR BRAIN and "skin your smokewagon" as a...

Re: So what do you carry on your Fly Fishing Journey for protection?

feeds@yuku.com (Arctic Grayling) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:24:36 GMT

This is all interesting reading, but I live in a different world. I have fished, hunted, and camped in Alaska since I came up here in the military in 1971. Even Anchorage is bear country as we were reminded last summer when a teenage girl on her bicycle and a woman jogger were both mauled in the city.

We don't have any carry permit requirements. We are not required to have our weapons in cases in our vehicles. We are not required to transport our weapons unloaded in our...

Re: So what do you carry on your Fly Fishing Journey for protection?

feeds@yuku.com (gofish60) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:55:32 GMT

Although I don't agree with him, a good friend who is a police officer told me that under no circumstances would he go cross country with his family without a firearm, legal or not, in this day and age. He said if the public really knew about all of the stuff that goes on out there they'd be too scared to go out.
So, staged or not, I still side with the guy in the Beemer. He didn't do anything aggressive until totally provoked and threatened by a couple of pretty scary and...

Re: So what do you carry on your Fly Fishing Journey for protection?

feeds@yuku.com (Old Baleine) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:02:24 GMT

I'm with Southbranch on this one. The entire time I was watching, I thought it was staged. And talk about playing to stereotypes!

Like everyone on this forum, I have no intention of being whacked by criminals. In my experience, few of them have enough intelligence or energy to outwit me. I have found my vestpocket telephone with digital camera to be a huge deterrent in the couple of vocal confrontations I have had with trespassers. The mere threat that I was phoning in images to...

Re: So what do you carry on your Fly Fishing Journey for protection?

feeds@yuku.com (Southbranch) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:31:00 GMT

After carefully viewing that video, I'm of the opinion that it was all an act by a local drama club. The participants just didn't exhibit the appropriate amount of road rage for the context. The actors didn't seem very well cast either. I'm almost 60 and I could have knocked the...

Re: So what do you carry on your Fly Fishing Journey for protection?

feeds@yuku.com (Finn) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:25:52 GMT

No insult read into it. Washington and Idaho are shall issue and open carry States. Anyone seeing an open box of ammunition in a car or truck anywhere would be a fool to think the owner didn't have the weapon with him. Not knowing where that was could be fatal.

You don't hear of many break ins of Hunter's vehicles either.

I do know guys who always drive old beaters to...

Re: So what do you carry on your Fly Fishing Journey for protection?

feeds@yuku.com (blacknosedace) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:18:10 GMT

I stand by my statement. The last time I checked, taking property at the point of a gun was armed robbery -- a felony. The BMW driver set those guys up. He could have proceeded to a police station instead of luring them down a dead end road and pulling an illegal gun on them.

So what do you carry on your Fly Fishing Journey for protection?

feeds@yuku.com (canenut) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:21:06 GMT

This is not really aimed at those going into big bear country, but those opinions are welcomed also. I'm talking about taking a 2 or 3 day trip or even a day trip to a favorite stream / river. Do you have a concealed carry license and do you take a weapon, be it pocket pistol or larger hand gun to protect yourself from the two legged predators? Robbery of vehicles is on the rise because the bad guys figured out fly fishers have...