06-25-2013, 10:15 PM
Short rant. I keep seeing commercials that show people fishing and it's profusely obvious that no one involved in the commercial knows the difference between a fishing pole and a polish sausage! There's a Centurylink commercial that runs during Rockies games on Root Sports that shows a guy fly fishing, sorta. He's got a fly rod and reel, but right next to his the reel is a very large mass of memory-ravaged monofilament. The rod isn't loading at all.
There's another one that I see all of the time that is a for a prescription drug of some sort. The main guy (grandpa) has a fishing vest and hat. The hat has flies and lures in it, but the vest looks like it should still have the store hanger in it. It's totally empty. They're using what look like a mooching or 1:1 trolling reel on a spinning rod. The cast involves throwing the bobber/bait and following it with the rod. Maybe that's what mooching is, but I don't know.
Another one that (thankfully) seems to have disappeared from the airwaves has a guy fly-fishing, but he looks like he's trying to beat the water both in front and behind him violently into submission. The rod tip goes underwater on both ends of the cast.
I don't think it would cost that much to have someone who knows you don't hang on the pointy end of the rod show up at the shoot to tell you "Dude, it ain't done that way."
Anyway. Enough of my ranting.
Yes, my wife hates watching movies or TV shows with me, especially if they have anything computer, fishing, gun, or electronic related in them with me.
Matt
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There's another one that I see all of the time that is a for a prescription drug of some sort. The main guy (grandpa) has a fishing vest and hat. The hat has flies and lures in it, but the vest looks like it should still have the store hanger in it. It's totally empty. They're using what look like a mooching or 1:1 trolling reel on a spinning rod. The cast involves throwing the bobber/bait and following it with the rod. Maybe that's what mooching is, but I don't know.
Another one that (thankfully) seems to have disappeared from the airwaves has a guy fly-fishing, but he looks like he's trying to beat the water both in front and behind him violently into submission. The rod tip goes underwater on both ends of the cast.
I don't think it would cost that much to have someone who knows you don't hang on the pointy end of the rod show up at the shoot to tell you "Dude, it ain't done that way."
Anyway. Enough of my ranting.
Yes, my wife hates watching movies or TV shows with me, especially if they have anything computer, fishing, gun, or electronic related in them with me.
Matt
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