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Gavin Newsom and Jake Tapper Performative Fly Fishing Brutally Mocked by Wildlife Experts
Newsbusters ^ | September 20, 2026 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 09/20/2026 6:10:56 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

For most people of a political bent, the big takeaway from Jake Tapper's interview of Gavin Newsom while engaged in performative fly fishing together in Montana which was aired by CNN on Monday was Newsom's pledge to not run for president in 2028 if fellow Californian Kamala Harris decides to once again throw her hat into the presidential race. However, wildlife experts focused in on the inadvertent comedy entertainment provided by the cosplaying fly fishermen.

You can get a sense of just how hilarious such outdoorsmen found the duo by reading the opinions of a couple of them in Wyoming's Cowboy State Daily. Reporter Clair McFarland revealed on Wednesday why many real outdoorsmen found Newsom and Tapper's blatant act of performative fly fishing so awkward yet funny in 'C.J. Box Says Everything About Newsom And Tapper Fly Fishing Is “Wrong”.'

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To: PJ-Comix

Yeah, both of those city slickers in dress shirts with collars and sleeves rolled up sure looks authentic and who needs a vest when flyfishing anyhow?


41 posted on 09/20/2026 9:47:40 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo )
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To: PJ-Comix

Democrats always do phony carp like this, and it always backfires.


42 posted on 09/20/2026 9:49:24 AM PDT by Trump_Triumphant ( “They recognized Him in the breaking of the Bread”)
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To: PJ-Comix

So the gov of California goes to Montana with a film crew and no doubt dozens of staff when California has some of the best fly fishing in the world.

So authentic.


43 posted on 09/20/2026 9:56:16 AM PDT by Organic Panic ( )
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To: DoodleBob

ABOUT AS FUNNY AS THE PIC WHEN HE COULD NOT NAVIGATE A GATE WITH AN UMBRELLA:) :)


44 posted on 09/20/2026 10:18:34 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: libertylover
"I think Kamala Harris will win very few votes
and not win a single state primary."

It is hard to believe she was even the Vice President
of the USA. Now consider how horrible Biden must have been.

45 posted on 09/20/2026 10:35:08 AM PDT by StormEye
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To: Who is John Galt?

“Reporting for duty, sir!”


46 posted on 09/20/2026 10:38:42 AM PDT by Repeat Offender ( )
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To: PJ-Comix

LOL. I grew up fly fishing and noticed things immediately. One of them seemed to be biting on the “bug” on the end of the line like maybe he was going to attach a worm or cricket to the bug. Fly fishing is an art and when you try it the first day with no adult supervision, this is what you get. And I wonder if they were using top water or underwater lures? Or if they know the difference or even if they knew what they were using.


47 posted on 09/20/2026 11:40:15 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: PJ-Comix

And did anyone check for their out of state fishing licenses?


48 posted on 09/20/2026 11:41:56 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: PJ-Comix

So, Newscum is Lord of the Flies?


49 posted on 09/20/2026 12:19:17 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: Kudsman

Fly fishing -

Newsom wanted to pull down Jake’s pants zipper.


50 posted on 09/20/2026 12:51:17 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob ( My pronoun is EXIT. Generally full of /S -- Living with Havana Syndrome -infected from Main Stream)
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To: piasa

Heck. I even wear an auto inflate life vest when I fly fish in even shallow rivers. Once those waders get flooded, you’re screwed.

But yeah. No extra flies, no net, no casting skills. I doubt there were even flies on those lines. Bunch of GD phonies.


51 posted on 09/20/2026 1:57:59 PM PDT by Organic Panic ( )
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To: ansel12

Well to be fair Dubya was known to buss ass on his ranch. And Trump builds sky scrapers.

I doubt Obama Biden or Clinton ever had a blister.


52 posted on 09/20/2026 2:00:03 PM PDT by Organic Panic ( )
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To: Liz

No one casts like that. He is wearing aviators. Going for the Chomo Joe look.


53 posted on 09/20/2026 2:01:14 PM PDT by Organic Panic ( )
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To: Organic Panic

I wasn’t talking about a guy who gets dirty working around his large yard, or who has his driver take him to the building site to see that the contractors are following the plans on his building.


54 posted on 09/20/2026 2:08:21 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Midwesterner53

Judging by the yellow line with Gruesome (couldn’t tell with Tapper) probably top water flies. Not that either of those idiots knew what they were doing. You only catch the little guys with dry flies...

How authentic is it meeting a New York urinalist and a California Governor in conservative Montana with a full film and sound crew.? I was born and raised in Cali in the high Sierras outside Tahoe. Some of the best fly fishing in the world. Who do they think they are fooling. And they think it works. What a bunch of phonies.


55 posted on 09/20/2026 2:13:40 PM PDT by Organic Panic ( )
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To: ansel12

So nice to have this brief reprieve of Trump as the western world genocides itself. A big man, chubby, vulgar, a man’s man.

I fear what comes in 2029.


56 posted on 09/20/2026 2:30:52 PM PDT by Organic Panic ( )
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To: Organic Panic

I also see it as a reprieve, the next wave of the left is going to be brutal.

By the way, with Reagan in post 31, that was about his half decade as a 1930s horse cavalryman, he would have done some rough living out in the elements and outdoors and using and handling of horses in a gritty old school western fashion.


57 posted on 09/20/2026 2:39:40 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: PJ-Comix
I'm still chuckling over Newsom wearing a form fitting shirt while fly fishing.

Sort of like David Muir's 'form-fitting' firefighter's jacket.


58 posted on 09/20/2026 3:16:51 PM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (If you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive across it.)
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To: cyclotic

“Wouldn’t it have been great for a warden to check Newsom and Tappers licenses.”

You sure they were in Wyoming? The libs have lied about everything else.

wy69


59 posted on 09/20/2026 4:28:27 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: PJ-Comix

You do not cast directly downstream. The fish would see you and not react to whatever you threw at them. Those casts might go 20 feet at the most. Again, the fish see you.


60 posted on 09/20/2026 6:23:08 PM PDT by mfish13 ( )
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