I Have a Problem
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I have spent this Easter afternoon with my Father watching one of the best final rounds of the Masters in recent memory. The problem is every time they show the ponds on 13 and 15, I am focused on the proliferation of rise rings on the water. Great golf is happening and all I am thinking about is casting dries to the rising fish in the pond. My name is Shane and I am an addict.
I have spent this Easter afternoon with my Father watching one of the best final rounds of the Masters in recent memory. The problem is every time they show the ponds on 13 and 15, I am focused on the proliferation of rise rings on the water. Great golf is happening and all I am thinking about is casting dries to the rising fish in the pond. My name is Shane and I am an addict.
Sounds like a good ad for HD television.
I wonder if anyone has crept in at night and cast a frog popper across the pond on 15? Hmmmm…..
Now that would be the shiz 😀
I have spent this Easter afternoon with my Father watching one of the best final rounds of the Masters in recent memory. The problem is every time they show the ponds on 13 and 15, I am focused on the proliferation of rise rings on the water. Great golf is happening and all I am thinking about is casting dries to the rising fish in the pond. My name is Shane and I am an addict.
The problem isn’t you, it’s the golf courses.
Years ago, long before the popularity of Golf exploded, I used to play a course that didn’t mind the odd person fishing their ponds. On a few occassions I put a light rod in my bag and would make a few cast into a couple ponds as we played the hole. Back then groups weren’t stacked every 5 minutes trying to push as many foursome through per day as possible and you could easily spend 10 minutes on holes looking for balls (making a couple cast) without people fuming on the T box behind you.
/sigh
So glad I gave up golfI guess for the Pros putting a 4wt in the bag would mean one less legal club in the bag though  ::)
I worked at a great country club in high school — it was always a great place to catch some fat bass that never had any fising pressure.
President Eisenhower enjoyed fishing the Augusta National ponds, particularly the pond on the par 3 course, during his visits to Augusta after his presidency. Cliff Robertson had the ponds stocked for that purpose and I have heard that some of the members still occasionally fish the par 3 pond.
Wow, I noticed that as well in the short clip we got on the news..
I’m an Australian addict.. 😀
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I too noticed it and man were there a bunch of rings going off I almost thought it was sprinkling a few times. I heard they import special coy in their ponds at 5,000 a piece
My buddy was at Augusta on Wenesday. Â He called me Wednesday night to tell me about his day –
On the par three course they have one of those small TV cameras attached to a wire that hangs over the water to track the flight of the ball. Â Like the ones the NFL uses. Â He said that as the camera reached the middle of the wire it would sag fairly close to the water. Â No kidding, he said he saw a huge largemouth make a move for the camera! Â Maybe the bass thought it was an enormous dragonfly.
This thread is confirmation for me that I am not the only nutcase out there. Â I played four years of college golf and one of my biggest regrets from college (other than Kim :() is that I did not do more fishing! Â
Kbilcher
Shane
You are not alone — like others here I was watching the Masters too and noticed those rings on the water from fish rising — and all I could think about was how nice it’d be to cast a line there — not really thinking as much about Phil’s charge on the first nine or Tiger getting close or even the finish with a three way playoff — no instead of three way playoff I was thinking 3wt rod!!!!!
So my name is Mike and I’m fly fishing addict too — bring on the 12 Step program….The rumor is true.
Night security at Augusta is about to increase Im thinking 🙂
Theres an exective coarse about 10 minutes from my house, it has a stream running through it. These shots were either taken on the coarse grounds, or within a hundred yards. Right now anglers and winter rules golfers share the course.
FORE!
JohnB, I remember in last year’s Canadian Open TV coverage, the annoucer talking about taking his fly rod out that morning onto Glenn Abbey golf course (where the Canadian Open was played last year and again this year) — on how in past Canadian Opens there he’d been able to go after salmon and steelhead when tournament was in September — and that the Sixteen Mile Creek which was a great place to fish — then watching couple of guys in kayaks floating through the course — would think they’ll add more security at Glenn Abbey as a result
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