Did you ever have anybody show up that just insisted on using their very bad flies?

Is that a scenario you've encountered?

It does all the time.

Usually, so when it's two people and it's like one of them, I'm not going to say the husband, but it's usually the husband.

There's one fly, only one total ever, that was like, nope, not doing it.

A grasshopper pattern.

And he had named it the miso foam weed.

Oh, come on, it's great!

They were like, no, no, nope, nope, nope, nope, no.

Oh, ha, I call that one Stan's hairpiece, kind of an inside joke about someone in the HR department at my job.

Come on, man.

Cut and retry that.

You know that's never going to work.

Good morning.

Friends, degenerate anglers, and people who convinced themselves something they found in the knitting section of Joanne Fabrics

will make better streamer tails than rabbit strip, only to learn, no, it won't, and be left with a whole skein of blossom cake's synthetic chinchilla yarn they'll never touch again.

And welcome to Cut and Retire, the Fishing

podcast that will buy that skein at your next yard sale for 50 cents and start the whole cycle

over again. Hey, kids, happy Friday. I'm Joe Cermelli. And fun fact, I actually waited to record my

intro later than usual this week because otherwise I'll just be living in the past. It's like a

weird trap, right? And I want to get to the present in this show because remember last week I said

I recorded that intro before the snow and ice apocalypse so I didn't know what happened. All right,

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