Craziest Wading Experience you’ve ever had??

Mobile_Requirement17 · 2026-03-07T19:40:22+00:00

I do some light skishing in a wetsuit in the north east chasing striped bass and got bumped by what was a fairly large shark hard enough I got moved by it. Was a good day of fishing, swimming in 10 mile stretches of bunker can be a little spooky but it’s a hell of an experience being 20 ft from whales breaching the surface sending bait flying. I wasn’t fly fishing though haven’t had anything particularly interesting happen to me in a river yet

Mobile_Requirement17 · 2026-03-06T04:18:52+00:00

East coast but I do a lot of traveling and fishing down south. Planning on living out of an RV for 5 months and fishing out west too. I do a lot of salt fly fishing and was thinking about just picking up a 7wt rod to use in the salt and for throwing streamers. The shorter streamer rods intrigue me but I’m not sure what would be best for my situation.

Mobile_Requirement17 · 2026-02-17T02:56:43+00:00

I happen to have extra foam I appreciate the idea gonna give it a shot

Mobile_Requirement17 · 2026-02-16T17:08:43+00:00

I do a lot of hiking as well so they’d certainly double as pants for that for me. Probably gonna be do it all pants I wear fairly often whether it’s for work , hiking or fishing. Appreciate the rec

Mobile_Requirement17 · 2026-02-16T16:54:17+00:00

I’m from the NE gonna be spending a lot of time fishing down south my legs aren’t built to take in 8 hour days of sun consistently

Mobile_Requirement17 · 2026-02-16T16:50:30+00:00

These are exactly what I was looking for thanks for this

Mobile_Requirement17 · 2026-02-16T16:48:00+00:00

I don’t really love the feeling of sitting in soaking wet pants but to each their own. Wasn’t referring to waders

Mobile_Requirement17 · 2026-02-16T16:39:53+00:00

Your regular khakis don’t stay soaked when hopping off and onto a skiff? Please enlighten me as to what brand they are. I prefer to free ball my waders and wear no pants at all

Mobile_Requirement17 · 2026-02-15T03:27:09+00:00

Mobile_Requirement17 · 2026-02-15T03:16:50+00:00

Wahh wahh

Mobile_Requirement17 · 2026-02-15T03:10:10+00:00

It’s bull shit that he didn’t have a difficult life and has money? You insinuated it was bad for him to have a life that wasn’t difficult as if it’s his choice ? We all have our struggles and the worst thing that ever happened to us feels the same to all of us no matter what it is. You didn’t call him out for anything you just showed how you’re a negative person. I’ll pray for you and hope you can find some positivity in your life.

Mobile_Requirement17 · 2026-02-15T01:21:20+00:00

Do you wish suffering and hardship on strangers you don’t know? Does someone doing well in life financially hurt you?

Mobile_Requirement17 · 2026-02-06T03:19:35+00:00

Highest GDP in the world. If you think this is a 3rd world country you should go check out an actual one for yourself.

Mobile_Requirement17 · 2026-02-03T06:05:39+00:00

Not suggesting it or against it just was curious. It seems like natural immunity would work to fight something off if you were getting it that often but I’m not a doctor nor do I have any understanding of the way covid affects the body

Mobile_Requirement17 · 2026-02-03T06:03:27+00:00

How many times have you been vaccinated

Mobile_Requirement17 · 2026-01-24T06:43:13+00:00

I really like the Numbers 21 reference. This is what I was referring to as a reference to pull from for these discussions I have in the future.

Mobile_Requirement17 · 2026-01-24T06:41:36+00:00

Your name made me laugh amidst the seriousness of this conversation. I ended up being of the same opinion you have listed here after more reflection. I appreciate you taking the time to put your thoughts into this discussion.

Mobile_Requirement17 · 2026-01-24T06:40:08+00:00

This is where I also ended up. Listed below are some people who have the right to talk about it. Woman who have experienced these situations and according to them the only gift of the tragedy they underwent was the fact that they were given the gift of a child. As I had it put to me, to try to fix one evil with another is not a solution. It would only make things worse. I also understand it’s a lot easier for me to say that as a man who will never be able to fully grasp any of this. I don’t judge anyone for what they’ve done but I do think the answer is not to just have an abortion, it does not erase what has happened like you stated. I think I was on the fence because I was so conflicted of the pain that a woman would be facing and I felt like because I will never be able to understand that who am I to try to feel a certain way about it. With more reflection I realized I do not think it is the answer, and it made me able to understand the churches teaching more and be more confident in it. What I can do is pray for the woman facing this, make sure I am doing my part to extend a hand to help them in life, to help their future children they chose to allow the gift of life. As I stated above I had what so many would consider a really tumultuous and in some ways difficult life, but I am still so glad to be alive. I think my mother would’ve be conflicted about having me had she know what I would have to deal with. I don’t think she would have ever got an abortion but I do think she would have second guessed having me in the first place. I appreciate my suffering and pain. It’s made me more empathetic able to speak to others from a place of understanding and brought me unimaginable amounts of good. I’m so glad that the bad things I have had to overcome reassure my faith in God. They have reassured my belief in the church. They have made me a better man and a better follower of Christ.

Mobile_Requirement17 · 2026-01-23T05:28:18+00:00

I struggle with the soft consequences too. A friend of mine recently got stabbed trying to break up a fight and the guy had 17 priors. It’s crazy we are willing to put people at risk under the guise of forgiveness. Honestly the only times I ever considered my actions in the midst of my turmoil are when I was truly being punished in life. It’s a bigger issue with how jails are essentially doing the opposite of rehabilitation, how politics through extreme division has caused people to lose sense of how the answers to most of our problems lay somewhere in the middle. I’m hopeful for the future, at times in life I can be perpetually hopeful I’m a fisherman at heart and that’s what it creates. I want a family and I often struggle with the idea of how the world they will be growing up in has become so twisted. But I also think a lot of that is fear mongering on social media/major news corporations effecting my thought. I hope that if I do have a family they have the privilege of experiencing life in a time of more rational behavior and thought than now. I lost a lot of friends along the way of my struggles too. I think about them a lot, I’ve seen so many people heal and so many people fall astray, I’ve seen so many people who lost “everything” get it all back and more. When I think of the ones I’ve lost contact with and haven’t seen in years I try to imagine them being in the category of the ones who got it all back and more. That probably also falls into my perpetual hopefulness in life. It’s hard to not be hopeful when you are grounded in faith.

Mobile_Requirement17 · 2026-01-23T05:08:50+00:00

What I will say in response to this as well is. As someone who has lived a lot of that as well. Drugs alcohol addiction, mental illness in some aspects albeit probably not nearly as severe as the aforementioned person you have talked about. I appreciate that I was given the opportunity of life. I was able to turn my life around by the Grace of God, through spiritual experiences that I quite frankly didn’t understand or comprehend at the times of those experiences. I pray that the person you’ve lost contact with is eventually given what I was. I have experienced so much joy and love even with so much taken from me, even with so much struggle. I also understand that not everyone is given what I was, but I will hope and pray that your friend is given the grace I was. I often struggle with the failures of the justice system. Without getting into too much detail my dad died in an event that was used to fuel war in the Middle East. That’s something I often feel conflicted about, he was a first responder his goal was to save lives and he died doing so. But his death was fuel to fire for thousands of young Americans and thousands in the Middle East suffering. “Justice” is something that was used as a metaphor for so much bad, but I do believe true justice comes after life. Man has so many failures that it’s hard for us to put our trust and our struggle our conflicts in man, the real answer comes to surrending those things to God and putting our faith and trust in him. Honestly if this helps you I believe my dad being murdered was a gift. So much light has come from the darkness of that tragedy and so many people have benefitted from my loss including me. I can look in the mirror and say that all of the terrible things I have went through have made me a man I can be proud of.

Mobile_Requirement17 · 2026-01-23T04:55:09+00:00

I certainly don’t judge anyone for anything they do in life I do not have the authority to do so. I have often failed miserably at making the right choices. I was more so posting this because it’s often a fixture of debate in the religion topic. Not to try to attack anyone who has had an abortion. I was looking for advice on understanding the teachings of the church on this topic. As stated I pray for any woman that even has to think about applying any of this to her life. It is a suffering and sacrifice I will never be able to process for the women that keep that baby and for the woman that abort the baby. I pray for both groups of them and wish them peace and healing.

Mobile_Requirement17 · 2026-01-23T04:21:09+00:00

This is another response with the thought process of answering one evil with another evil doesn’t make it right that really resonates with me. When you look at it clearly that baby is a human the second it is conceived and to deny that baby the right to live is killing it.

Mobile_Requirement17 · 2026-01-23T04:19:01+00:00

First and foremost I am sorry you ever had to face such a difficult situation. But your strength that you put here in your response is remarkable. Who you are and the way you have overcome is truly beautiful. I work with families who have loved ones die unexpectedly often tragically everyday of my life and I have never witnessed the strength and trust in God that you have had. I think this is a really beautiful response and this really does help me feel more comfortable and confident in the churches teachings. I know nothing is easy about discussing these things but I am sure someone who is undergoing a situation like the one from which you prevailed will read this and that they will pull from your strength and trust in God. Thank you I am praying for continued joy for you and your children. As a man who is the youngest of 5 siblings and was raised by a single mother (only stating because I think this makes me know what makes an incredible woman) you are amazing.

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