Gink and Gasoline
Fly fishing
Gink & Gasoline
A fluffy, white indicator is drifting merrily along the current when suddenly it is yanked from site, only to emerge a second later to continue its voyage downstream before being lifted from the water’s surface.
Surprised, I look back at my buddy. “What was that?”
To which he replies, “What?”
“Why didn’t you set the hook?”
He came back at me with what many anglers often do in this situation, “I thought it was bottom.”
He THOUGHT he had just been momentarily stuck on the bottom of the streambed, so he didn’t feel the need in ruining his drift by setting the hook, when, in reality, he likely just missed out on hooking up with a trout.
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