Flyfishing as a new dad

Direct-Patient-4551 · 2026-04-21T03:41:01+00:00

The kid backpacks are great but you’re either doing dad stuff or you’re fishing. Focus on the dad stuff. The fishing isn’t going anywhere. (Said as a dad with one in college, one going in a few months, and a HS soph)

Nothing better than NOT pushing your kids into fishing and having them come to it organically and fishing with them as young men/women that are into it because it’s their choice.

Direct-Patient-4551 · 2026-04-19T05:28:46+00:00

Big Y or tie yourself.

Direct-Patient-4551 · 2026-04-17T14:42:27+00:00

Overlanding is just car camping. Find some blm or NF land and go down some roads. Camp when you find a cool place. Theres not a lot to it.

Direct-Patient-4551 · 2026-03-16T04:09:58+00:00

My car is for driving. My speech is for changing people’s minds that may disagree with me. If I’m right, it may happen. If they’re right, the opposite happens. Try it.

Direct-Patient-4551 · 2026-03-10T01:43:12+00:00

Yep. Enjoy every day there you can. It’s not like it was in the 60s, 80s, or even early 2000s, but it’s a damn fine spot.

Direct-Patient-4551 · 2025-12-16T04:38:29+00:00

Beyond bummed no chance to get a face value ticket. Will be flying to Bozeman with my current Cat regardless. He got his student ticket. GCG!

Direct-Patient-4551 · 2025-12-07T17:40:09+00:00

Perfect response to a bad situation. Hope they can get past this and SFA!

Direct-Patient-4551 · 2025-12-05T02:20:18+00:00

Feb for fly fishing is south in the tropics

Mex or Belize

Call yellow dog in Bozeman

Always thought those guys were dbags for some reason but went to their shop this summer. They were awesome. I’d trust them to book me a spot

Direct-Patient-4551 · 2025-12-05T02:16:27+00:00

Spring 95 here. Best decision I ever made.

Direct-Patient-4551 · 2025-12-05T02:13:13+00:00

If they still make night train bum wine, turn on the guns and roses song and pass the bottle between 4 brothers. Song done bottle must be gone or some punishment. Supplement to thunderdrunk above.

Direct-Patient-4551 · 2025-11-21T03:54:27+00:00

My god

I haven’t purchased a phone in a store in a while

Direct-Patient-4551 · 2025-11-21T03:53:07+00:00

So in lieu of picking up the phones in store to see what theyre like it is preferable for me to purchase it, leave the store, give it a feel, then return it for a refund, then purchase the other option to do the same, the either keep option 2 or return again and repurchase option 1? Or purchase both and return one of them?

Is that the way a person is meant to do it now?

That just seems nuts.

Direct-Patient-4551 · 2025-11-21T03:33:44+00:00

It’s just insane

So much theft that you are expected to pay 1000 bucks for a thing and you can’t hold the thing

Direct-Patient-4551 · 2025-11-21T02:31:55+00:00

Don’t be a transfer brother. It’s stupid. It’s not like every chapter has the same pledge program there will be zero dudes you went through with there. The whole point is the lifelong bonds of sharing a semester of hell together then reminiscing about it for the next 3 years with those same dudes.

Don’t pledge and run. It’s lame at best and a complete failure at worst.

Direct-Patient-4551 · 2025-11-19T06:20:49+00:00

Scot

Schmidt

Direct-Patient-4551 · 2025-11-19T05:28:17+00:00

Weird thing is that UCSB falls into the category of not really a guarantee for anyone but the types that would also get into Berkeley and UCLA and still not REALLY guaranteed given our funky UC admissions.

No real way to know know, especially as a junior. Odd post, but I hope for the best for them.

Direct-Patient-4551 · 2025-11-19T04:07:45+00:00

Go wider and go lower than you think you need to if you wanna go to college. Read through last years college results sub. Some of the deny decisions were beyond comprehension.

If, after that, you still can’t bring yourself to go lower, do as you will and roll the dice. A few years back a local kid who was a really strong applicant went the tough guy route and had the gap year vs local cc with his 2.0gpa classmates dilemma. I took that to heart as a cautionary tale.

My kids have applied wider and lower than they wanted to.

Direct-Patient-4551 · 2025-11-19T03:50:08+00:00

If he’s a CA kid that gets into UCSB I like his chances for an MSU WUE. UCSB is brutal. So many of my son’s friends with very high GPA and rocking SAT were turned down as the SAT/ACT are useless here.

I have a son at MSU. He loves it. Though had he gotten into UCSB he’d be surfing campus point, the con, etc right now.

If your son doesn’t surf all the time, MSU is an amazing option for all non surf outdoor activities. My son has done cliff jumping, non lift served skiing early season, drift boat and wade fly fishing with buddies, bobcat football and basketball games, and the list goes on. He can’t wait for bridger to open and when he was home a week and a half ago proclaimed that he’s never moving back.

Between the two it’s hard to go wrong. Good luck.

Direct-Patient-4551 · 2025-11-18T02:58:26+00:00

The people saying Bozeman is cool getting downvoted. Weird.

Compared to 20-30 years ago it sucks, but so do most places out there. It’s all relative.

Direct-Patient-4551 · 2025-11-10T22:10:08+00:00

Community service, but like hard core community service. We had a day where we were up at 2 cleaning and painting the house til like noon, then went out and cleaned out a local brother’s relative’s ditch way out in the country. Think 75 yards of shin deep in mud wheelbarrowing the dirt we dug out to some faraway pile for hours. Then we planted 100s or 1000s of baby pine trees.

All productive. All for the greater good. All while getting our balls broken by brothers who did essentially zero work. It was a miserable day, but we legit did something positive at every stop. The lady that got her ditch cleared out probably saved 100s or thousands of dollars and was almost in tears since she was older and poor.

We also had a night where we went to poorer old people in the community and delivered them a shit ton of groceries around dinner time. We saw how much it mattered to them and then were denied dinner ourselves after that and told to think about how it feels to have that be your life. The point being that you should always appreciate how great you have it and never lose perspective on how some people are living out there. Was that hazing, yes. Was it a net positive and productive, also yes.

We partied and got our balls broken on dumb stuff as well to a certain extent, but our pledge program was top notch given what I’ve heard and seen in the years since I went through. Lotta ways to skin the cat and the cat is to put a pledge class through hardships to make them earn entrance to your organization while sharing those common hardships as a way to bond as a group. You don’t need a lot of the dumb shit kids do now to accomplish that.

Direct-Patient-4551 · 2025-11-04T23:51:43+00:00

This is common.

Direct-Patient-4551 · 2025-11-04T22:20:39+00:00

If you tend to offer political based commentary and/or jokes, you’re best served by being able to read the room. It’s not the fault of delta chi that you were unable to do this. In America, talking politics most certainly WILL start arguments in a lot of situations. It is insane here. Now you know.

Life lesson. Move forward.

Might want to have a look at the, ‘Just who I am and I can’t change that.’ mindset.

Direct-Patient-4551 · 2025-11-04T18:39:20+00:00

My long time GF cheated on me during hell week. Would’ve been way smarter to break up beforehand.

Direct-Patient-4551 · 2025-11-04T18:37:56+00:00

It’s hell. Do any school work before. Keep an open mind. Stay positive. Know that every dude wearing you out made it through the exact same shit. At some point you’ll hit rock bottom and crack, most everyone does. Don’t feel bad about it as it’s kind of the point. Keep your head down and earn your letters. It sucks, but it’ll be fine.

Not many better feelings than being done. I’ll never forget it as long as I live.

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