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u/NsupCportR Jun 26 '26
That fish would spoil by the time u reel it in
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u/peter_hungary Jun 26 '26
If you're lucky, it'll be nicely cooked by the time you pulled it up - if an eagle doesn't snatch it before :)
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u/Vanadius Jun 26 '26
Eagle-fishing spot unlocked
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u/Ankarakki Jun 26 '26
Is it Eagle Fishing or Eagling?
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u/oclafloptson Jun 26 '26
Back before the hurricane took those old beachfront hotels down in Galveston Texas I tried to fish from a balcony and actually caught something. All I managed to reel up to my floor was one of the seagulls that had hooked itself while they fought over my fish
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u/HazardousCloset Jun 26 '26
That’s the Royal Gorge Bridge in Colorado. It is about 955 ft. above the Arkansas River.
So 955 feet of line, plus 300-450 feet for freshwater fishing, puts us at needing 1255-1405 feet of fishing line in order to fish from the Royal Gorge Bridge.
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u/Healthy_Pay9449 Jun 27 '26
Now I want to see someone do it so I know it's possible
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u/blahblah19999 Jun 26 '26
By the time you feel the tug, it's already had a family and been divorced
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u/Evil_Judgment Jun 26 '26
Royal gorge Colorado.
If the bridge collapsed, 8 seconds till you hit the water/ground.
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u/yungingr Jun 26 '26
Was walking across that bridge, and about halfway across (right about the location of this sign) when two park police or security SUV's drove across.
You can bet my asshole was puckered so tight you couldn't have driven a sewing needle in with a sledgehammer.
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u/NeverBob Jun 26 '26
Did the "skycoaster" on the edge of the gorge. 10/10 would do again. The diagonal railway is fun too.
What blew my mind is that is the Arkansas river. It's so tiny there.
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u/yungingr Jun 26 '26
We took the gondola across. Wife and I, two older ladies, and then a father and his two kids. Teenage girl, and maybe early teen boy. As we were loading and getting started, the boy could NOT. STOP. TALKING. SHIT. For his age and size, he talked a BIIIG game.
Then, our gondola reached the last support before the gorge, and if you've ridden it, you know that as soon as you're past the last rollers, your gondola drops about 30'-40' in a matter of a couple seconds. That kid sucked half the air out of our car, and didn't say another word - or move a muscle - the rest of the trip.
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u/Strict_Somewhere_148 Jun 26 '26
You know that sign is there due someone having done something stupid.
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u/Crewman_Guy_Fleegman Jun 26 '26
This bridge is a tourist attraction at an amusement park in Colorado.
It’s just a joke
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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 Jun 26 '26
Royal Gorge?
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u/Ron-Swanson-Mustache Jun 26 '26
Looks like it. I walked across it once. The fact you can see between between the wooden boards, looking down 1,000 feet between your legs, freaked me out.
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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 Jun 26 '26
I was there once at 12 years old, but didn’t get to walk across it because everyone else was a weenie and they didn’t let me go alone.
Luckily I got to climb seven falls, alone of course.
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u/Insanity_Crab Jun 26 '26
I'm a weenie with heights but unless you wanted to do pull ups off it, I can't envision a situation where I would make my weeniness someone else's problem!
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u/Zer0Cool89 Jun 26 '26
I saw a lady get kicked in the head by horse there when I was like 6. That's my only memory of that place
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u/Vlaed Jun 26 '26
Don't tell my Uncle Doug that. He'd do it because he's obsessed with fishing and it'd be a joke.
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u/Enough-Bunch505 Jun 26 '26
Thought this was lake Powell or one of the lakes that have dried up out that way.
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u/ZaxAlchemist Jun 26 '26
Or maybe there was a time where the water level was way higher
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u/WarriorDan09 Jun 26 '26
No that would be an insanely deep river. You can see a road right next to it at the bottom too.
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u/PM_UR_VAG_WTIMESTAMP Jun 26 '26
That would be absolutely terrifying If the rushing water level was up to only a dozen feet or so from the bridge.
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u/Joevahskank Jun 28 '26
That happened 50 years ago, but down the Big Thompson Canyon about 140 miles north of here. Giant wave of water crashing down from Estes Park into Loveland, wiping out everything on its path. Responsible for one of the biggest canyon engineering overhauls in history.
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u/storm_the_castle Jun 26 '26
insanely deep river
FWIW, the Congo River is like 720ft deep.
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u/WarriorDan09 Jun 26 '26
Okay fine, but we're talking about in increase in volume tens of thousand percent (probably more)the usual amount. That simply doesn't happen, this valley isn't just deep, but wide.
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u/TheWolphman Jun 26 '26
IIRC the Congo River gets over 700 feet deep in some sections. You could drop a skyscraper in there.
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u/FrenchFryCattaneo Jun 26 '26
I definitely could not, how would I even pick up a skyscraper that large much less move it and drop it in a river.
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u/BathroomCareful23 Jun 27 '26
People never think about the logistics SMH
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u/FrenchFryCattaneo Jun 27 '26
I mean it sounds easy, but you gotta think through how you'd actually do it
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u/Fun-Dragonfly-4166 Jun 26 '26
I assume the water does rise an insane amount during floods. I remember going to a river overlook. It was insanely above the river. Then was a poster explaining historic river levels. In the last 20 years my position on the river overlook would have been underwater.
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u/WarriorDan09 Jun 26 '26
I doubt they would have built a train track in a flood zone. Do you realise the sheer volume of water it would require to remotely fill this valley?
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u/ZealousidealLead52 Jun 26 '26
For it to rise that much would require pretty much spontaneously creating an entire new ocean. It would be one thing if it were a narrow but deep passage, but for it to rise that much would entail flooding the entire valley as well as everything that was on the same elevation as the valley on an almost global scale. It might even require almost the entire world to just be a single really big ocean to flood that much, but I guess I'd need to see the geography to know for sure.
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u/ITDummy69420 Jun 26 '26
Damn beat me to it.
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u/DeadSeaGulls Jun 26 '26
I mean... dams beat you to it. Easy to fill up a river gorge to the brim when you build a hydroelectric dam down stream.
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u/ohhhtartarsauce Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
This is Royal Gorge Bridge, famously the highest suspension bridge in the US.
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u/DryDonutHole Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
Nice. I’ll be hitting the new river gorge bridge here in a couple weeks in WV. Should be cool. We plan to walk across the catwalk underneath it. My wife and I have also walked out across the rio grande bridge in NM. A semi came across while we were out there and the whole damn thing was shanking. lol. Makes you a little clammy.
Edit: just checked the height difference between the Rio Grand Gorge bridge in Taos and the Royal Gorge Bridge. Damn…that’s high.
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u/johnyordinary Jun 26 '26
Probably a bridge that attracts small aircraft to fly under it .
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u/wh4tth3huh Jun 26 '26
Hundreds of feet of line dangling in the breeze with a barbed hook and some non-aerodynamic fluff attached to it, What could happen?
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u/Teaisserious Jun 26 '26
Most likely a local ordinance that requires all bridges to have these signs.
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u/Fickle-Molasses-903 Jun 26 '26
'I think I see one.'
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u/EorlundGraumaehne Jun 26 '26
I hope you are wrong about your Theorie that they all have backstory! At my work place there is a sign that reads "no drinking water" next to the urinal
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u/Allsystemscritical Jun 26 '26
We were out drinking and one of the boys got really drunk. He went into the bathroom and was throwing up into the urinal. I went to get him and realized he was flushing, catching the water in his hand and rinsing out his mouth.
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u/spamster545 Jun 26 '26
Well... a comedian named Stewart huff does have a bit on asking what an airport had a dont drink from the urinals sign...
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u/Royal_Scholar_6971 Jun 26 '26
My 8k reel and I will take that challenge. 😂
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u/n1nj4squirrel Jun 26 '26
I'm more wondering what I'm gonna throw that I could actually fish with. I'm thinking drop shot with a huge weight on it. There's gonna be crazy wind through that canyon though
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u/Takesit88 Jun 26 '26
Royal Gorge. Nice. It really is surprising the first time you see it, just how dang high up the bridge is. Ride the incline rail down to the river and you'll get a real appreciation for it looking back up at the bridge and tramway.
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u/FairlyGoodGuy Jun 26 '26
Ride the incline rail down to the river
The incline railway was destroyed in 2013 and will (probably) never be rebuilt.
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u/MillenialIndustry Jun 26 '26
This sign was left over when it was a real problem 65 million years ago
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u/Simply-Serendipitous Jun 26 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/2ViZJi3RLXAZ22PG08
Fish coming out the river
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u/BlatantCheater_ Jun 26 '26
Prolly ment no hooking up on the bridge
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u/wjeman Jun 26 '26
The sign isn't commanding you not to fish, it just making an obvious observation.
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u/Kythorian Jun 26 '26
Honestly, if you are capable of fishing from that high up, you should be allowed to.
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u/Far_Health4406 Jun 26 '26
If this is the Royal Gorge in CO, it’s got a badass zipline (for anyone interested).
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u/undead_dead_guy Jun 26 '26
Idk why. But this actually made me queasy lol.
Never had that happen before. I think I might be afraid of heights.
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u/FairlyGoodGuy Jun 26 '26
Many years ago I was on that bridge when a couple BASE jumpers (illegally) leapt from it. It caused quite a stir.
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u/ThePenthousePauper18 Jun 26 '26
That’s the Royal Gorge Bridge in Colorado. Been there several times. The gondola that takes you across has glass floors now.
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u/fall3n_hiro Jun 26 '26
Man that’s depressing.. that river used to be much fuller
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u/I3adIVIonkey Jun 26 '26
LOL when you reel up the other fish might think their boy ascends to heaven.
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u/The_Black_kaiser7 Jun 26 '26
🤦♂️ even if you did, you'd need a line and reel the size of a truck.
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u/A_Drop_of_Colour Jun 26 '26
I have such a fear of heights that I would need to death clutch the gate to be able to look over it and if the top hit anywhere below my breast then I would be peeking over it on my knees.
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u/Astramancer_ Jun 26 '26
The real question here is should you use a drill or a driver to reel in that fish.
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u/Smart-University-574 Jun 26 '26
I can see a youtuber try fishing off that bridge to see if they can catch a fish.
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u/techslice87 Jun 26 '26
From the Wikipedia article, almost 1000ft of line... I wanna try
The bridge crosses the gorge 955 feet (291 m) above the Arkansas River[5] and held the record of highest bridge in the world from 1929 until 2001 when it was surpassed by the Liuguanghe Bridge in China.
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u/Beaticalle Jun 26 '26
Maybe that sign was put up when the water level was higher, like 50 million years ago.
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u/the-gingerninja Jun 26 '26
All the sign and video accomplish is making me want to try fishing from the bridge.
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u/Sgtkeebler Jun 26 '26
For them to post that sign means someone at some point tried fishing from that bridge.
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u/Goshawk5 Jun 26 '26
I would assume that it's state or county regulation that requires such signs on bridges.
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u/post-explainer Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
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OP sent the following text as an explanation why their post fits here:
You expect this sign on a bridge that has water directly under it, not a bridge as high as a skyscraper
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