The Winter Olympics ….
Once again the fishing world has been ignored.
As I sit watching the spine tingling, heart thumping, always tension packed Olympic Curling event competition, I can not help but wonder why a fishing event has never been represented at the Olympics.
What are they trying to say?
They say there is no athletic prowess involved in trying to flick a # 12 Adams to a 20 inch ring created by the kiss of a rainbow trout of 18 inches!
Isfiring a high powered rifle after skiing around a pair of planks of wood, not more demanding than fording a river wrapped gun and throwing a piece of powerbait adroitly in honeyhole "pocket Store containing a 8 inch?
I see no difference.
But then I'm an idiot.
Or am I? Let's at least take a look at some options for future Winter Olympics, which may finally give the fisherman his due when it comes to skills and athletic ….
1) What event shows enduranceand sand over ice fishing? I propose a Winter Olympic event, which consists of ice fishing. In this case, competitors will be timed on their ability to cut a hole in 8 to 10 inches of a frozen lake surface, run in sneakers on the frozen ice to a designated area of transit where they will grab a rod, and feces, and Sprint back on the ice for the open hole, bait up and sit for hours in a fierce northerly wind. The athlete then hopefully catch a fish eventually take his fishice hole, drop in a bucket, and Sprint back across the ice in a 1975 Ford pickup-up, cross the finish line to cheers, flags, and the cowbell clatter of his compatriots .
More challenges? Maybe a couple of guys name Swen and Ole can sit in front of the competitor and be constantly throwing a verbal barrage of "You Betcha" and "Do not ya know's" to the athlete because he or she tries painfully to coax a fish out of water.
Talk aboutgrain!
Of course, the Norwegian contingent could not have a problem with that and be at a decided advantage.HOW do you say "And how!" In Norwegian anyway?
We will all watch as the hole begins to slide on the ice, and the athlete frantically chipping into the hole while ice free.All clicks away valuable time that fish do not bite the bait.
They may even hold this event indoors at the Olympic hockey or figure skating scene. It could evenmaking hockey games more interesting with a few holes in the ice and figure skating? PLEASE … a twin axle into a gaping hole in the ice will add more excitement than Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan living in the same trailer park. Or they can leave some fish on the frozen ice to help add to the Olympic atmosphere.
Events can also be easily organized as "two men" competition with an athlete fishing, while another built a shack ice.
If extreme excitementthe descent is your cup of tea, imagine if they hold the event on the melting of thin ice. The races now famous Franz Klammer and Hermann Maier will pale in comparison with the crackling of ice in the ice fishing stool as he struggles to shore before disappearing into the frigid waters.
Talk about the agony of defeat ….
2) Boat Slalom. Regardless of the luge, bobsled, or skeleton (which at first sight appear to require the two major sporting qualities of courage and alcohol), tryStanding in a drift boat while running a quick classIV with a salmon 40 pounds stripping line off your reel, hell bent on returning to the ocean. Yes, athletes in ten layers of clothing including the mandatory flannel outer jacket, try to stay up while "the driver" navigates the channel of a choked Boulder Creek. Not only do candidates choose the time of this event, but style points are given for the degree of difficulty the athlete shows while doing "punctures Gunnel", "towers", andever-popular "branches". Throw in a number of slalom gates, and you have to do an event for television. Fall or lose your salmon, and he is sorry Charlie – see you in four years.
"Ooohhh, tough break Vern – Elwood has been training his whole life for this moment and see everything go to sea in an instant is sad …."
3) No offense to our Canadian friends to the north of the border, but – Curling! CURLING! A combination of bowling on ice and a group of traderstrying to keep the front Spiffy.
Gawd, the winters must be terrible up there.
Apart from the obvious "sex appeal" of the Olympic curling
Exciting events and the only thing more would be to watch Dick Cheney to hunt quail.
But since there is a place on the podium for athletes carved curling, I'm sure we could find a place for athletics Skilled Winter Fly Tying Team!
This event will obviously be dominated by the U.S. team, which formedall year in a meat locker in Detroit. Size # 28 midge after miserable size # 28 midge, Americans have always been formed by linking these little buggers to 8x Tippet – in a meat locker kept at 14 degrees below zero.
It's minus 26 degrees Celsius for our European competitors.
There at the Olympic Arena Fly Tying by freezing weather, the teams of the floors will fly to vice, and tie flys different. We'll watch the pained expressions and complete an intense concentration that athletes tryFor their fingers to work in the freezing cold. We hold our breath as they try to get the perfect dubbing and hackle. Precious time will tick away the box that they blow on their hands, and we show screen images of fractionation where Olympic hopefuls lost time on the road.
Of course, in this two-day event, athletes are judged on speed, style, difficulty, and the ability to catch and release fish.
So, here for the athletes of the XX th Olympiad, and I want to see fishing rod inhand, in Vancouver in 2010.
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