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| 12-pounder hooked at the bottom of the falls. |
The ancient art of terrier fishing began more than 10,000 years ago when the first cave man had to fight off a small wolf from making off with a bit of skinned rabbit or deer.
Since then, the sport has progressed by leaps and bounds, and has gone noticeably high-tech with expensive rods made by FlowGuard (this is the "Gold" model) and special terrier-line (this is 200 weight).
Much to do is made about lures, but a good fisherman can do wonders with a bit of old towel or a torn sock, and often prefers it to the more expensive lures and fancy rigs fluttered over by the less skilled.
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| Rod, lure, and patented American Terrier Tenkara line retrieval system. |
I go for the cowhide attached to a lunge whip myself. Even gets my ancient, senile rat terrier going.
ReplyDeleteProbably one of the luckiest dogs around, he was brought in as a euth request for being vicious and unpredictable, while I was standing in the shelter lobby. He started licking me, so I said I'd take him.
I was only there to transfer a cat to a foster home, so my spouse was pretty shocked when I came home with an old dog under my arm going, "He's old. They were gonna kill him."
And that's how Poppi came to me. He's an ornery, mostly blind pillow humper that doesn't know where he is half the time, but he's hilarious and definitely not the sociopath he was made out to be. Just typical old man issues like getting spooked because he can't see well.
I'm blaming the video you posted about Denali for bringing out the story.
Love it. Best line I will read all day: "He's an ornery, mostly blind pillow humper that doesn't know where he is half the time, but he's hilarious and definitely not the sociopath he was made out to be."
ReplyDeleteI think that will describe me pretty well in a few years! :)