Catch as many fish in 9 hours as you can...
JEFFF: 8
sHELLy: 8
One might think that fly fishing is relaxing and enjoyable, but personally I found it to be a lot of work. Standing all day in a float boat trying to keep your balance while "casting," "tweaking" and "setting” for hours at a time is not an easy or enjoyable task - especially in the rain while being extremely cold. I will say that fly fishing is a great way to work your right wrist muscles and forearm (or set you up for a good case carpal tunnel syndrome). Jefff and I each caught 8 fish throughout the day, which sounds like a lot until you calculate the workload per fish ratio. Let me put this into perspective. I estimated that I casted the line about every minute or so, and within that minute I probably "tweaked”* the line about every 5 seconds. So let's say I was averaging 12 tweaks per min. Now, multiply this by the approximate hours of actual fishing time - 7 hours (420 minutes) x 12 (tweaks) = 5,040 flicks of the wrist and 420 full ROM arm swinging casts. This means the effort to catch one Bow River, mercury infested trout was approximately 630 wrist flicks and 53 arm swings. Think about this the next time you decide to catch or buy your dinner.
*A "tweak" is a basically a wrist flick that moves the line/flies to trick the fish into thinking the flies are alive and moving.
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| JEFF's third trout of the day - 1890 tweaks for this one |
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| Pumping trout's stomach to see if they've been eating paleo |
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| Looks like a paleo diet to me |
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| Mid wod picture break |
Leno couldn't write material this good
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