Row V. Wade

[skjl47]

Oh I know, you wouldn't catch me dead in one of those things, and I'm from the UK, lol. Using one in waters where you come from, well, you just wouldn't do it, lol.

My post was just a weak attempt at taking Jeff's post in its literal sense, as opposed to its cryptic one! Genius post S skjl47 . Lol.

Hello; I do not get too much credit. Saw the same sort of thing somewhere else. I did write my own text.

Also thanks for the term "cryptic". I knew i was doing something but did not know what it is called. Cryptic- i like it.

 

[skjl47]

Depends on how deep the water is for a start! Wade in shallowish rivers, boat in deeper water.

But I believe that a lot of modern day anglers use something like this now which is sort of a halfway house between the two....

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Hello; I did try one of these outfits decades ago. Not as fancy as the one pictured tho. Had little paddle-like devices you put on the ankles. Was way too awkward and i gave up before long. The one pictured may work better. Mine worked in shallow and deeper water. When shallow shoulder straps hold up the floats.

 

[esoxlucius]

Hello; I did try one of these outfits decades ago. Not as fancy as the one pictured tho. Had little paddle-like devices you put on the ankles. Was way too awkward and i gave up before long. The one pictured may work better. Mine worked in shallow and deeper water. When shallow shoulder straps hold up the floats.

I'd want to know exactly what was in the body of water I was fishing before I'd ever get in one of those things. In the UK I'd be confident, but the pic in post #5 clearly shows that in other countries there are some serious predators about.

Once you were confident your legs were safe and you started fishing I bet those things are very comfortable. I believe your feet go in flippers for propulsion so you'd be able to cover a fair expanse of water too.

 

[skjl47]

I believe your feet go in flippers for propulsion so you'd be able to cover a fair expanse of water too.

Hello; The flippers I had were not like swim fins. They fastened up around the ankle level on the outside. Theye were hinged so I could propel forward slowly. I guess i could have switched legs and pushed backward. The way the worked I could walk with them on. Never tried flippers on my feet.

The local lakes and ponds in KY and TN hold no crocks nor gators, so far.

 

[MetalRavioli]

Hello; Back in the late 1950's a friend's father had a 1954 Cadillac. The trunk was big enough to hold a 5HP outboard, a tent and all the camping gear for three. My friend and i were around 12 years old. His father would rent a dock boat with oars. The outboard was used to run us out to a fishing area. Then one of us boys had to row while the other two fished. it was always one of us boys who rowed. I got pretty good at rowing.

later in life I started fly fishing. I even had waders. I would wade in the shallow parts of rivers. Caught some nice smallmouth bass in a section of Clinch River in TN. The bottom was too uneven and wound up turning my ankles. I did use a neoprene wader in the Smoky MT's during winter one time. Too cold even with the thick wader. I sometimes waded in the Cumberland River between Harlan and Pineville KY.

I pretty much have given up wading and now have an electric trolling motor for my boat.

As a queer fishkeeper, I will admit this was very funny

 

[skjl47]

As a queer fishkeeper, I will admit this was very funny

Hello; Such was the general idea. Turns out i was being cryptic. Nedd to look that up. I kinda have a notion about what it means.

 

[johnny potatoes]

So it's called cryptic, didn't know that. You got me as well. As I started reading, my brain said to itself "the trunk was big enough to have a clinic in it".
That's how good you got me.

 

[Backfromthedead]

I started wading the Shenandoah around 10, when my dad thought I was strong enough to handle it. There's a couple mile stretch of rapids, islands and oxbows near rileyville, VA that we would wade and fish, usually taking all of a summer day to complete the loop. It was sort of an endurance challenge as well as an angling ritual. We always caught hellgrammites, madtoms, crayfish, and minnows with a seine net for bait, and if that ran dry we used the good old plastic green lizard to great success many times. Sometimes we caught 10 fish, sometimes 100. We would always have a fish fry the next day though.

The old man can't make the trip anymore, and the fish in the river are no longer edible apparently, but I still make at least one trip every summer around the islands.

 

[skjl47]

I started wading the Shenandoah around 10, when my dad thought I was strong enough to handle it. There's a couple mile stretch of rapids, islands and oxbows near rileyville, VA that we would wade and fish, usually taking all of a summer day to complete the loop. It was sort of an endurance challenge as well as an angling ritual. We always caught hellgrammites, madtoms, crayfish, and minnows with a seine net for bait, and if that ran dry we used the good old plastic green lizard to great success many times. Sometimes we caught 10 fish, sometimes 100. We would always have a fish fry the next day though.

The old man can't make the trip anymore, and the fish in the river are no longer edible apparently, but I still make at least one trip every summer around the islands.

Hello; I went on a boat trip in the James River one time.

 

[Backfromthedead]

Hello; I went on a boat trip in the James River one time.

The James is a beautiful river as well. I went to school in lynchburg, and for that 5 years I fished the James a lot. I caught my record bluegill by the dam in downtown L-burg. It was just over 12" and over 2 lbs., should still be preserved in formalin somewhere in Liberty U's science department.