Yawn, is that supposed to be .. like .. extreme?
By KBarton10 on Apr 15, 2009 in commentary, Fly Fishing
Like you I’m the recipient of every strange aberration that is loosely connected to fishing. Today some well meaning cubicle denizen sends me a link to body piercing, featuring fish hooks and the traditional, “Dude, check it out!”
Any guide worth his salt would suggest fish hooks and flesh have a natural attraction – with client owning the hook(s) and guide owning the flesh.
… and as I’m poring through the pictures of nutcase’s insisting that meat impaled on hooks is a mixture of Jesu Christo and colonic cleansing – how their Shaman insisted it was the fast track to Oneness, I’m only mildly amused.
With tattooing, branding, and shaped scarring in great demand – what does a fly fisherman stab in his arm to prove he’s worthy – and will you want to erase the Sage tattoo if you become enamored of G. Loomis?
Just a thought…
My experience with piercing always involves being many miles from civilization with me asking, “did you pinch the barb like I asked, or will I have to operate?”
A good clean “through and through” on an earlobe is a thing of beauty. A combination of precise timing and a gust of wind; are we a tad hasty on the removal, and with most of the urbane sophisticates sporting the simple “pirate” hoop or stud, what fashion message is conveyed with a full dress Jock Scott?
James Marsh | Apr 15, 2009 | Reply
Its now acceptable to tattoo anything on your rear. Under the “stimulus package” the Feds just spent a few million of your grandchildren’s future earnings (to be taken in the form of tax to pay the interest on the money we are borrowing from China) to remove tattoos.
the roughfisher | Apr 15, 2009 | Reply
So do you count the size 4 hook impaled on my arm last week from skagit casting a “piercing”
P.S. what’s that website?
KBarton10 | Apr 15, 2009 | Reply
Roughfisher, Hell yes – but only if you leave it in place… http://www.oddee.com/item_96617.aspx
SMJ | Apr 15, 2009 | Reply
Random body piercing = Singlebarbed with a spey rod. No telling where that fly is going to end up.
Jim Batsel | Apr 15, 2009 | Reply
I can’t see all of africa on that map!
KBarton10 | Apr 15, 2009 | Reply
Suddenly I’ve spawned multiple hundreds of cartography buffs – and TC is gnashing teeth as he hadn’t exploited this one yet…
@SMJ – Spey casting merely adds velocity, I can get a clean through and through on a brick building so long as it’s not where I’m aiming.
Trout Underground | Apr 15, 2009 | Reply
Gee, thanks for the pointer to the body alteration site. Now I won’t sleep for a week.
DS Fly Fishing | Apr 15, 2009 | Reply
You know, you may have made a good point, but from the top I could only daydream of globetrotting. What was it you were saying?
Trout Underground | Apr 15, 2009 | Reply
I see Paris, I see France, I see…
Igneous Rock | Apr 15, 2009 | Reply
No Keith; This is NOT what Globalization looks like. That would be a Chevron tatoo.
Ray | Apr 16, 2009 | Reply
Well, try as I may… I can’t enter the right search terms in google to find more of the nice young lady’s arse with the map on it… Damn, I was hoping to see if Antarctica is on the map.