The other day, as I was in the waiting room, I picked up a fishing magazine. Now, I am not a fisherman, so the magazine didn’t hold a whole lot of interest for me. But I flipped through it anyway.
When I opened it up, the first thing that I saw was a full page ad for a propane torch. Now boats and rods and reels and tackle are all ads that I would have expected to see in a fishing magazine but not a propane torch.
As I said before, I am not a fisherman so I have no idea why a fisherman would be interested in a propane torch. Do they use it for setting up tackle? Or do they use it for cleaning fish? Maybe they use if for cooking the fish. I don’t know. I guess I will have to ask a fisherman.
According to Field & Stream the Complete Fisherman – By Peter Owen, C. Boyd Pfeiffer, Mark Sosin, Bill Dance, Editors of Field & Stream – As quoted from chapter 9: The fisherman Toolkit – “A heat source, or sources, is needed for several tasks including removing a tiptop, metal butt caps, reel seats, and metal ferrules. When removing a tiptop, it’s hard to beat a disposable butane lighter. For larger tasks, a laboratory-type alcohol lamp has a clean flame and works well. A propane torch may be needed for tasks such as removing metal ferrules on offshore rods and metal seats. ”
But us REAL fishin’ men jus’ us’r teath.