Where art thou fishing hat…
I grow rather fond of my fishing gear, irrationally so…
I have lucky flies, lucky hats, lucky shirts, lucky fly bags and lucky fly rods. I’m not sure if these things are actually lucky, but I grow attached to my gear. We — meaning myself and my gear — bond during time together on the water, collecting memories as we go.
I’m a sentimental fool that way.
I’ve been piling up gear for a trip to Yellowstone next week and I can’t find my lucky Sage visor which is (of course) the only hat I wanted to take.
If I give into my superstitious nature, I’d say this indicates some type of bad omen. A premonition of bad juju that will occur on the trip.
The lead voodoo consequence playing through my mind currently:
Missing Lucky Sage Visor = I’m Grizzly Bear Bait for sure.
(Remember that prediction if I become a Grizzly Bear attack headline!)
For the life of me I can’t remember the exact location I last wore this specific hat. So if any of you are wandering the waters in Idaho, Oregon, Canada, or Montana and spot a lonely Sage visor on the banks, grab it for me.
If I survive Yellowstone without a Grizzly attack, we’ll set up a reunion.
Lucky Hats are priceless
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Oh you had to mention grizzly bear attacks didn’t you? Buy a new visor!!
I’ve been studying up on Grizzly evasive maneuvers this week! A new visor wouldn’t have any ‘luck’ in it yet.
Well, the good thing is that West Yellowstone has 173 fly shops. Surely one of them will have a suitable replacement.
And bear spray.
You know you can’t introduce a new hat in prime fly fishing territory. That’s a classic rule of fishing hats.
But Bear spray, unused is golden.
It’s a sign from the Fish Gods!!!
They are telling you that you really should have a Winston hat instead, and of course you should be fishing Winston rods!!!
LOL, well I don’t know about the Winston hat, but I would certainly be game for a Winston rod =)
Oh, but we are a superstitious lot aren’t we. You still have a week, keep looking.
Mark
Rebecca, isn’t it hilarious how we seem to put “luck” and good fishing hand in hand with some sort of hat, shirt, rod, etc.
On the other hand, a bad day of fishing, can cause a superstitious angler to resort to a lot of strange goings on. Hope you find your hat!
Not to mention diamond watches! Sorry we missed you guys last week. Hope everything is going well. We miss you!
What you need is a visor with a Counter Assault holder on one side and a Klaxon Air Horn holder on the other. Bears will fear you.
I feel your pain. I went to a wounded warriors event at the VA a few months ago. For some reason, I wore my lucky hat. While I was doing a fly tying demo the hat disappeared.
It seems we both made out okay on the bear front though we did have a few moments of anxiety. Now if only the fishing were better….
How was your fishing trip? Hope you find your missing hat