tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74499597728299946562024-03-12T19:06:51.341-07:00Fish B4U FlyThere is always a way to get in some fly fishing before you have to fly back home, back to work, back from vacation, or out of the country. The more of us that do it, the more eyes we have watching the quality of our precious streams. Catching and releasing is important but getting in some fishing is the goal.
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John Davenport - Denver - Let's fish Coloradofishb4uflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03994125326765549333noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449959772829994656.post-16469111536269567542020-05-30T15:40:00.001-07:002020-05-30T15:40:45.208-07:00Covid 19 - Response<div class="p1" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I never really considered death. Then, as the governor was describing sheltering in place, he gave as the reason, “flattening the curve.” OK, as an engineering student at Lehigh University in the 60’s, I understood how important it is to flatten the curve. Every course was graded on “THE CURVE” by the sadistic professors and grad students that took delight in creating hourly exams with a median score of 39%. By flattening the curve, my 15% could possibly be a “C”.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">In this pandemic however, the governor did not stop there. He went on to describe why this was important. If the curve was not flattened, Intensive Care Unit resources could be overwhelmed. As a healthy and active person, an ICU resource was not something I planned on overwhelming. Pandemic or not.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But as the governor explained, young healthy folks enjoying the Colorado lifestyle would probably not be stressing the ICUs. Experience from other countries was indicating that active healthy people from infants to 60 years olds were only experiencing mild or no symptoms at all from the Coronavirus. BUT, he hastened to add, for those over 60, it’s like “RUSSIAN ROULETTE.”</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Full stop. What??? Russian Roulette. I’m familiar enough with probability calculations to stay away from life or death gambling, especially if it involves putting a single bullet in a six shooter and spinning the cylinder. I have never understood the fascination with this party game. If there are six players it is guaranteed that there will be brains on the wall. Spin the cylinder, pull the trigger, pass the pistol. This is really a very stupid game. Do you win if you blow your brains out or do you lose and everyone else wins? I’ve often thought it is really just a test of bravery for the mathematically challenged. Is the player smart or stupid to spin, pull, … and maybe pass on the pistol?</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Was this just an ill considered simile or is my demographic in a spin, pull, ...OBLIVION … pandemic game of chance? I never gave two thoughts to oblivion? Death has always been far away and assigned to other people who are not as careful, smart, or fortunate. According to the Governor though, it is now right at the doorstep for me and he’s got lots of retirement and assisted living doorsteps to prove it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Russian Roulette though is a game of chance. Facebook is telling me that everyone is going to get it. That’s not chance. That’s certainty. The Governor is shutting things down, closing schools, closing barbershops, closing restaurants. But fortunately not gun shops so we can still buy a revolver. Shelter at home he says, or otherwise, for me it’s RUSSIAN ROULETTE. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">OK, so I Stay At Home to flatten the curve. ICU admissions are indeed pushed out over a longer period. Wait.... Am I not playing Russian Roulette or am I just not playing it now. Flattening the curve, if everyone is going to get it, just means spin, wait, wait, wait, pull….. OBLIVION.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">As the Stay at Home drags on, we all get masks, and the conventional Facebook wisdom morphs to “Open up. They’ll die sooner or later anyway.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">But it seems possible to me I can avoid oblivion by not picking up the revolver. A vaccine takes the Russian Roulette revolver away. I’ll wait with minor modifications to Stay at Home. Like stay out of restaurants, stay in the car, stay out of bars, stay in a mask, stay out of stores, stay in Zoom, and stay outdoors. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Now I can go back to ignoring death again.</span></div>
fishb4uflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03994125326765549333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449959772829994656.post-72908109418904552042020-03-28T18:20:00.000-07:002020-03-28T18:53:54.286-07:00At Home Fly Tying Hacks: Fly Tying with stuff you can find around the house.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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At Home Fly Tying Hacks:</h2>
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I've put together some videos showing how to tie at home with no equipment and no materials other than what you can find at home. Getting back to square one can open your eyes to what is essential and what is getting in the way as clutter.</div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Foam Backed Emerger <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://youtu.be/C9lpKFXX3B0">https://youtu.be/C9lpKFXX3B0</a></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Red Midge<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://youtu.be/Lyku-KwiU0s">https://youtu.be/Lyku-KwiU0s</a></span></div>
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The pandemic of 2020 gave an opportunity to look at new ways of doing things. Kids (with supervision and without the hook making challenge) are very good at fly tying with their small fingers and fine motor skills. Young anglers will learn patience, middle age anglers will learn why they need reading glasses, and senior obsessed anglers will finally be able to break free of the compulsive addiction to buy new materials for every new fly pattern. </div>
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Fly shops should not be intimidated that flies can actually be tied without equipment or the precise materials called for in a classic pattern. Fly tiers who master these flies will be in your shop as soon as you open to buy doodads and materials to improve their flies.</div>
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My books on "Fish Before You Fly" from Denver, BWI, or the Mountain West Cities are available in eBook format, often at discounted (cheap) rate on Amazon. <a href="http://amazon.com/author/john-h-davenport">amazon.com/author/john-h-davenport</a></div>
fishb4uflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03994125326765549333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449959772829994656.post-38508849178692530642018-04-06T15:26:00.000-07:002018-04-06T15:26:16.099-07:00What's for Dinner - Two Creeks in Colorado April 5, 2018<h2>
What Trout were Eating in Vail and Denver April 5th and What I Offered Them.</h2>
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4/5/2018 Gore Creek runs through the center of Vail, Colorado and has been nicely preserved as a wild stream in the center of a village. It has been screened from the highway and developments by large pines and open meadows. The freestone stream has been left quite untouched except for short stretch near the center of town. I've caught rainbows, cutthroats, browns, and brook trout in the village. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gore Creek Brook Trout took the Trico Dry.</td></tr>
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This west slope stream flows to the Eagle River which joins the Colorado River to flow to the Gulf of California and the Pacific or to irrigate the produce patches of California. At an elevation of 8,100 feet a rainbow trout was eating mature mayflies, midges (adult and nymph stage) and mayfly nymphs. You may be able to identify other species. I found a pool below a riffle that had many trout taking emergers. My three fly rig had an Elk Hair Caddis indicator fly, a Trico dry than was sometimes floating, a tiny blob of sink putty, and a foam back chocolate emerger. I caught a brook trout, brown, and a rainbow from the pool shown below drifting down the center and along both seams. Air temperature was about 40 degrees, water temperature was 39, water was crystal clear. This Gore Creek water is very near its Rocky Mountain source from the snows on Vail Pass.<br /><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A pumped rainbow was feasting on this during the "Taste of Vail"</td></tr>
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Later in the day on Clear Creek just upstream of Golden Colorado at an elevation of 5725, and air temperature of 65 and a water temperature of about 44, and the water was clear. There was no surface activity but the same three flies caught 10 fish, including this nice brown. Clear Creek drains to the South Platte which eventually joins the Missouri and enters to Gulf of Mexico or winds up on a crop circle of wheat or soybeans in Colorado. This water is 40 miles from its source and has traveled through one former superfund site, two small towns, and 40 miles of Interstate 70.<br /><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Clear Creek Brown also took the trico.</td></tr>
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My first sample of a small brown yielded just this midge and an annelida.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A small Clear Creek brown had just eaten an adult midge and a red annelida.</td></tr>
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My second sample of a 10 inch brown showed almost the same composition as the stomach sample 2,400 feet higher in the West Slope drainage. The fact that the bug sample is very similar is quite amazing. The fact that the same rig of flies was attractive to fish is also amazing. The fact that there was no surface feeding on Clear Creek is puzzling to me.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A 10 inch brown had eaten these in Clear Creek.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My offerings in both stream. Three fish took the foam back chocolate emerger. Seven took the trico dry which was fished below the surface.</td></tr>
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Fishing with the natives.</h2>
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Two weeks before departure it looked like it wasn't going to happen. I'd googled "Tenkara in Japan" in dozens of forms trying to make contact with a fly shop or guide to take me out for a day from Osaka. The only thing I'd been able to determine was that the fishing season sort-of ended in September but private stream fishing was possible until the end of October. I was surprised it was so difficult.</div>
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But then reading the material sent by Overseas Adventure Travel, I discovered I was facing a cultural problem. The shy Japanese nature does not allow the easy connections Americans might expect with others with similar interest. You needed to be introduced by a mutual friend or acquaintance. Aha. Like the old days in US fly shops where you couldn't even buy flies unless someone vouched for you.</div>
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Luckily, Daniel Galhardo, Tenkara USA, finally pulled my email plea from his junk mail and connected me with Eiji Yamakawa, a tenkara angler living near Osaka who, once introduced, was more than willing to take some time off and take me out on a stream in the mountain. The language of fishing is same the world over even without a common tongue. I've had a lot of fun engaging with native anglers for hours using only the props of our equipment, fingers pointing at the stream, and swapping rods and flies.</div>
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fishb4uflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03994125326765549333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449959772829994656.post-81831399798386597142016-09-05T15:37:00.004-07:002016-09-05T15:37:46.217-07:00Tenkara Cuts<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2011, on </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a stream we like in Colorado not far from Denver,</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Fred Miller and I decided on a themed trout outing. We'd do a throwback on our throwback and use bamboo to catch and then release some cutthroat trout. </span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Now, 5 years later it was time to visit again. We believe in resting a stream. Yes, we are that good.<br />Fred chose his 9 ft 3 weight and I brought my Sato Tenkara rod, extendable to 12' 9".<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCRbX2YYnqSILmuv3fb-ngsENYuPt5_SYhkyVX8MjJ3oWDbm2f3-8FgTDVblXrYgwPhC1cZTKcaTeTeCtU8UfEeD9ukIGtN5K0RkT_YQIgk-iFkFWIrAZNrUa8zvOmyRjmY-xneqEw_Eg/s1600/Tenkara+Cutthroats+-+2.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCRbX2YYnqSILmuv3fb-ngsENYuPt5_SYhkyVX8MjJ3oWDbm2f3-8FgTDVblXrYgwPhC1cZTKcaTeTeCtU8UfEeD9ukIGtN5K0RkT_YQIgk-iFkFWIrAZNrUa8zvOmyRjmY-xneqEw_Eg/s640/Tenkara+Cutthroats+-+2.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I fished all dries starting with a Jay Zimmerman Clown Shoe Yellow Sally.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The cutts cooperated. Nice sized and healthy they were.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Fred fished the banks with his 3 weight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I convinced Fred to try his hand with the tenkara and he landed a cutthroat on his 3rd drift. We'll see if he adds to his rod collection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">For traveling between stretches in this very bushy area, the tenkara rod telescopes nicely but managing the line is a challenge since, of course there is no reel on a tenkara rod. TenkaraUSA sells<a href="http://www.tenkarausa.com/shop/product_info.php/products_id/194" target="_blank"> "rod ties" </a> that look like this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNhj-QRalT49QgqDnBAV7g7UczXJyC6X1s3Ke04zjEOlAGBz6v61zf6Ufbk_0m4t-MBtwpGuVNraejyfZdVkhHaX67qJ3r6KEBZkGocKcb79GLhD7VU9P9Pct_0FoeIckJm4pTfFfDGTE/s1600/Tenkara+Rod+Ties.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNhj-QRalT49QgqDnBAV7g7UczXJyC6X1s3Ke04zjEOlAGBz6v61zf6Ufbk_0m4t-MBtwpGuVNraejyfZdVkhHaX67qJ3r6KEBZkGocKcb79GLhD7VU9P9Pct_0FoeIckJm4pTfFfDGTE/s320/Tenkara+Rod+Ties.png" width="256" /></a><br />I wanted something a little more permanent so I mounted a hook keeper onto the top of the first telescoping section and squeezed a small rubber O-ring between the screw off end cap and the cork handle.<br /><br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAIThdw1QrYsXKUfmwVuouZVwUDQJ7xI4AszvpIEUlWHNujEP9e03YeMbZV4WqlY8j5wFVOD51EtpCEGMCT_fusjF2i2mIryMZiKluvjHnbFPJW7arVDJEbPR9sEzipNsk2QSLz1BdKvg/s1600/IMG_0082.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAIThdw1QrYsXKUfmwVuouZVwUDQJ7xI4AszvpIEUlWHNujEP9e03YeMbZV4WqlY8j5wFVOD51EtpCEGMCT_fusjF2i2mIryMZiKluvjHnbFPJW7arVDJEbPR9sEzipNsk2QSLz1BdKvg/s320/IMG_0082.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Then when I collapse the rod I loop the extra line around the hook keeper and figure 8 around the rod plug in bottom. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivkPY_6DPcYjaCbHLg6DOBkUMuylm7Gw_yyoYiztc61ail2c-ASgMheEHHUKCASnpKZeYW0Ru-C5ixCEGbTbN7npHZtvOEtztcfIhQpvxks8QmfoEeCgiRCfMxRsxnjcQQw8Lnsp7jgmM/s1600/IMG_0083.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivkPY_6DPcYjaCbHLg6DOBkUMuylm7Gw_yyoYiztc61ail2c-ASgMheEHHUKCASnpKZeYW0Ru-C5ixCEGbTbN7npHZtvOEtztcfIhQpvxks8QmfoEeCgiRCfMxRsxnjcQQw8Lnsp7jgmM/s320/IMG_0083.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to put the fly is still a problem so I wind an elastic band around the grip and roll it up and down as the tippet gets longer and shorter to hook in the barbless fly. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3-qAlLNtRbbuN7swMVz951me87qXRbnROEm39fHoUYvr8FoucHBmo-Y9ad__l5z5qg3YWimZy9WIKyY7byVgJ4BNQGaLlrsspKpZD6UgWw3ebgMGu7Y43FUDmFuE5mA1M5Yl9jE9RNn8/s1600/IMG_0084.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3-qAlLNtRbbuN7swMVz951me87qXRbnROEm39fHoUYvr8FoucHBmo-Y9ad__l5z5qg3YWimZy9WIKyY7byVgJ4BNQGaLlrsspKpZD6UgWw3ebgMGu7Y43FUDmFuE5mA1M5Yl9jE9RNn8/s320/IMG_0084.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi02efgfUVFsC0vx-foFAevRzC6v9kq7xVvyPGu4y8GxS9PKOXBYjdVfwIkVwl60-WJ_y1Ua8vtqZ226Bp9YEvWDZPJQCc3bTU25yzz7Fg3rAR5EysBCP6ede7zXrfzCCV6TLW8_fLzPx8/s1600/IMG_9621.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi02efgfUVFsC0vx-foFAevRzC6v9kq7xVvyPGu4y8GxS9PKOXBYjdVfwIkVwl60-WJ_y1Ua8vtqZ226Bp9YEvWDZPJQCc3bTU25yzz7Fg3rAR5EysBCP6ede7zXrfzCCV6TLW8_fLzPx8/s320/IMG_9621.jpg" width="240" /></a><br /><br />Ready to bush whack.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW4TQmy-Sws8BwZUZoKo0a6wwoz_9HB7mtiI5vmNj19ZPuNTXLHIUm3RO2MiIw4FR1Ka1yABLB0tmRjNjM0CuHTt_KUIFVTqiTc7QIechiwHNRmpIVoy00B9esayURJsCjKogM2Eu3I0c/s1600/Tenkara+Cutthroats+-+11.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW4TQmy-Sws8BwZUZoKo0a6wwoz_9HB7mtiI5vmNj19ZPuNTXLHIUm3RO2MiIw4FR1Ka1yABLB0tmRjNjM0CuHTt_KUIFVTqiTc7QIechiwHNRmpIVoy00B9esayURJsCjKogM2Eu3I0c/s640/Tenkara+Cutthroats+-+11.jpg" width="480" /></a><br /><br />Much as I dislike removing a fish from the water, Fred insisted we pose this nice cutthroat for a portrait. At least I didn't touch him and he was only out for two breaths. Unfortunately, Fred encountered a proud father and his pre-teen daughter with a string of DEAD cutthroats. It was enough to make you cry. Fortunately for them, Fred was at a loss for words. Want to bet they are now getting freezer burn prior to being trashed in a few months. Why, oh why, can't we get over this obsession to flaunt a kill. </span><br /><br /><br /><br />
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fishb4uflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03994125326765549333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449959772829994656.post-16230377130335896362016-05-01T11:10:00.000-07:002016-05-01T11:10:16.786-07:00No Chance in Hell<h2>
A story of Statistics, Fine Bourbon, and Divine Intervention</h2>
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<li>David Nickum, E.D. </li>
<li>Colorado Trout Unlimited. </li>
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<li> A.D. American Rivers.</li>
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<li>Paula Fothergill, </li>
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<li> Instructor & Volunteer</li>
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David lured me to the table displaying 10 bottles of Boathouse Colorado Bourbon and whispered under his breath, "John, if you buy now, you'll have a one in one chance of winning the Scott 9 weight fly rod."<br />
I demurred. Too good to be true. $75 for a great tasting bottle of local bourbon and a fly rod. There must be a catch.<br />
Ten minutes later I wandered by again.<br />
"John, now you have one chance in five at the bourbon and fly rod," David said. Still, not bad odds. I decided to think about it and sampled another tumbler of the bourbon. It really was good.<br />
As the bourbon warmed my mid-section and clouded my mind with images of tarpon leaping, it became crystal clear that this was a good deal.I turned over my credit card to David who said, "OK, John, you're now at one chance in seven, but still that's pretty good odds."<br />
I had a good feeling about this as I checked my silent auction bids for a trip on the Fraser with Kirk Kancke, a pair of Smith Sunglasses, and an original watercolor of Chimney Rock. I passed on my optimism to Ken Neubecker.<br />
"I bought a bottle also," he said. "But I put Paula's name on it. She wins everything."<br />
Unlikely, I thought. Random chance is random chance. <br />
The tension built as David declared the silent auction closed and he opened bottle #8 for more sampling. I can only guess the liquor cabinet where bottles 9 and 10 were going. A hush grew over the nervous crowd of Colorado Trout Unlimited Chapter leaders as they waited for the drawing of the winner of the $795 Scott Fly Rod.<br />
A young fly caster from the CTU Youth Camp stuck his hand into the antique rattan creel and pulled out .....<br />
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Wait a minute, wait a minute. She always wins. <br />
I rushed over to Ken. "OK Ken. Something must be done. I'm calling the Pope. This is just not right." Paula, who was standing next to Ken, gave me that patented sly smile of hers and said, "Well it probably won't help. One time when I was in Argentina fishing and got really ill, my friend convinced me to come down to dinner and I was seated next to the Archbishop of Argentina. He's in Rome now and we really don't keep in close touch."<br />
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The moral of this story is that if Paula is in the room and you are going to enter the drawing, you better make a deal with her or you chances are no chance in hell.fishb4uflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03994125326765549333noreply@blogger.com0Glenwood Springs, CO 81601, USA39.5505376 -107.3247761999999739.4525636 -107.48613769999997 39.6485116 -107.16341469999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449959772829994656.post-4898008498696229482016-02-28T08:21:00.001-08:002016-02-28T08:21:50.204-08:00Fly Fishing in Ecuador - 2/2016 - Trout on the Equator? <h2>
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I thought it would be easy and I could be wrong about this but Google never lies. Hours of searching failed to reveal guides, regulations, fishing reports, fly shops, stream flows, or fishing lodges near Quito in Ecuador. Once there it appeared that "Pesca Deportiva" meant a concrete tank filled with rainbow trout, a piece of broom stick, a hook attached to a piece of string, and a ball of bread dough. You hook a fish, cough up $3 and then eat it grilled. <br />
Like many countries, Morocco for example, Ecuador is focused on ocean fishing at present and fresh water fishing is not yet on the radar. From facebook post, none within 2 years, I guessed that you could take a bus from Quito to Papallacta and fish the streams in the high Andes coming out of the Cayambe-coca Ecological Reserve.<br />
Brenda and I booked a night at the hot springs resort Termes del Papallacta. It looked to be about 2 hours away on an iffy road well up in the Andes on the way to the jungle. We were just finishing a tour of Machu Picchu and the Galapagos so I asked our tour leader to help me get a reliable taxi. He hooked us up with the transit company for the tour. It seemed a little salty at $75 but at least I had recourse if things fell apart. This is the vehicle that showed up to take us and only us to the resort. The road turned out to be new highway with little traffic and not nearly a scary as the 8 hour trip from Santiago, Chile to Mendosa, Argentina over the same mountain range.<br />
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The road turned out to be new highway with little traffic and not nearly a scary as the 8 hour trip from Santiago, Chile to Mendosa, Argentina over the same mountain range.<br />
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I always "only fish under normal regulations," so I got out my Tenkara and hiked up the trail. I'm more than happy to buy a license if only there is a way to do it. I've had the same problem in France, Morocco, Turks and Caicos, China, Fiji, and India. I give it three honest tries and then tie on a parachute adams, or in this case a tenkara fly.<br />
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Aha. A rainbow on the equator. Apparently rainbow trout were brought to Ecuador in the 1970's, probably to be farmed for "Pesca Desportiva." This little stream was loaded with their descendants. They were healthy and hungry and not that large as you would expect at this elevation. I hooked and released about 20 in two hours. There were decent hatches of mayflies and midges taking place. </div>
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<br />fishb4uflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03994125326765549333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449959772829994656.post-7566234036487930542016-01-17T09:44:00.004-08:002016-01-17T09:46:56.746-08:00Food Critic of the NYT, Peter Wells has lost his way.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Peter Wells, NYT Food Critic, has lost his way. Food critics have always been tempted to exaggeration and food foppery to build a following but Mr. Wells’ focus on the food has blurred beyond the visible range. But does it really matter to the diner? No. There are better ways to find a restaurant we will enjoy. Does it matter to the those earning a living there? Unfortunately, yes. The critic wields the power to ruin a restaurant and the livelihoods of those working there with just a few irrelevant nasty words. </div>
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Popular Western chefs (Michel Richard, Thomas Keller, Guy Fiere) have provided targets for his idiotic similes and unrighteous indignation. He makes me ill. </div>
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<b>11/13/2012 Guy Fiere </b> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/dining/reviews/restaurant-review-guys-american-kitchen-bar-in-times-square.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/dining/reviews/restaurant-review-guys-american-kitchen-bar-in-times-square.html?_r=0</a></div>
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<b>1/14/2014 Michel Richard</b> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/dining/reviews/restaurant-review-guys-american-kitchen-bar-in-times-square.html?_r=0" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/dining/restaurant-review-the-bistro-at-villard-michel-richard-in-midtown.html </a></div>
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<b>1/13/2016 Thomas Keller</b> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/13/dining/pete-wells-per-se-review.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/13/dining/pete-wells-per-se-review.html</a></div>
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Here are some quotes from his reviews that illustrate why I will probably not read a word of what he writes on restaurants or any topic in the future.</div>
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“When I asked to see the truffle being shaved over somebody else’s plate, it was whisked under my eyes for a nanosecond, as if the server were afraid I was going to sneeze. I know what truffles look like; what I wanted was to smell it.” OH THE HORROR. “May I smell the truffle?" would have worked.</div>
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“When my server asked, ‘Would you like the foie gras’— $40 more — ‘or the salad?,’ the question had an air of menace.” When foie gras and salad is a menace, walking from the cab to the restaurant must be truly terrifying. No wonder he doesn’t believe anyone should eat out.</div>
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“This unidentifiable paste coats your mouth until you can’t perceive textures or flavors. It is like edible Novocain.” Here Peter Wells reveals why he has no taste. He apparently knows what edible Novocain tastes like. We must assume it is what he snacks on in the cab on the way to his reviews.</div>
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“If soldiers had killed Escoffier’s family in front of him and then forced him to make dinner, this is what he would have cooked.” His worst characterization. Unfortunately one of Escoffier’s sons was indeed killed by a soldier. I’m sure karma will some day extract its due for this nasty comment. </div>
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Fortunately, the days when we had no choice but to follow Peter Wells are over. With careful reading, we the people can read what we the people have found during recent real dining experiences. Facebook, TripAdvisor, and Opentable, among others, give restaurants a chance to improve and diners a chance to see if the improvements have been made. It is not just the stars that fall when a single authority has lost his way and fallen onto the dark path of a nasty troll; the diners lose, the chef loses, and most important the lives of many workers are unfairly trashed. </div>
fishb4uflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03994125326765549333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449959772829994656.post-81524279749092909622015-12-22T09:15:00.000-08:002016-01-17T09:24:17.638-08:00What young guys think and what old guys know about fly fishing.<div style="line-height: normal;">
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Young guys think you must use a specific fly in a specific place like their buddies. Old guys know the drift is more important.<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Young guys think the published primetime tables will tell you when you must throw the first fly. Old guys know that the published primetimes are based on astrology not chronobiology and don't mean a thing.<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Young guys think using a fast rod and casting quicker will get them more fish. Old guys know that stealth and finesse are more important.<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Young guys think old guys will not walk pass the first spot. Old guys know that habitat rather than walking distance determines whether there will be fish holding in a spot.<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>6.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Young guys think that getting skunked ruins the whole day. Old guys believe that being out on the stream is reward enough.<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>7.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Young guys think they'll never be that old. Old guys know they will be and will still be fishing.<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>8.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Young guys think the catch and photo are most important. Old guys know the release is the most fun.<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>9.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Young guys think that size matters. Old guys think that fly selection, stalking and size matter.<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>10.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Young guys believe that it only happened if there's a photo. Old guys even count an in-stream release.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Abby and Dante both climbed the F&B ladder this year. Abby jumped back to the Hilton ladder as the Executive Assistant Food and Beverage Manager at the Waldorf Astoria in NYC and opened the new La Chine, a "Ritzy Regional Cuisine Chinese Restaurant." Meanwhile Dante jumped off the Hilton ladder to Food and Beverage Director at Savor/McCormick Place, the Western Hemisphere's largest convention center. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The 100 Valentines Day celebration in Nashville brought together a fine collection of the family cousins from both sides; some of whom had never met and were surprised how civilized each other were. Olive will be sending out her own Christmas letter; so, we won’t duplicate other than to say the reconstruction of Park Manor in Nashville really cut down on her walking with a predictable effect on her mobility. She quite enjoys receiving Skype calls on the “magic window” John installed in her room (an iMac). Charlie and Liz are still on duty, but Charlie claims John’s turn must be coming up again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> This year, our international research for places to emigrate if The Donald is elected included the Turks and Caicos and the Czech Republic. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> After a very complex money transfer we booked a VRBO on Grand Turk Island in January. Definitely off the Caribbean tourist trail; however, it is definitely on the Off Shore Banking trail. It was harder to get a fishing license than setup a multinational conglomerate. John persisted and scored a bonefish, probably legally, right out the front door of Sea Biscuit, our cottage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The Czech Republic tour was organized by Overseas Adventure Travel with a little side venture to fish with Jan Siman, a former Czech Fly Fishing Team member. We discovered that the “Iron Curtain”, named by George Kennan, was indeed made of iron and steel barbed wire and concrete bunkers. The Czechs and Slovakians were really undone by Chamberlain, Hitler, and the Russians. It is a testament to these Central Europeans’ resiliency and negotiations that the cities of Budapest, Cesky Krumlov, and Slovanice are so well preserved and the vineyards near Modra have been returned to their former greatness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> US travel included 100 days in Chicago, and a week in Belmar and Santa Fe. We look forward to Brent & Jennifer’s March wedding in St. Thomas and getting Evan as a bonus grandson. Plans for next year include more of the same with Machu Picchu and the Galapagos in January and an unknown destination far from Koch brother doorbell ringers and political campaigns in the fall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> John’s book count is now 10. “Bug the Bug 3-Fixing Fly Fishing Fails” with Eloise on the cover, now joins his other books unread by thousands. Francesca’s book “Greek Mytholagy A-Z” out sold him in all markets.</span></div>
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fishb4uflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03994125326765549333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449959772829994656.post-19343321287126581762015-10-31T08:43:00.001-07:002015-10-31T15:24:26.638-07:00Getting into Fly Fishing for under $100<h2>
Presented at the Fall Fly Fishing Rendezvous - Denver Colorado - 11/1/2015</h2>
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Presented here is a low cost minimalist way of getting a person started. For less than $100 you will have all you need to start learning the basic skills and catch your first fish.</h2>
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Expanded info is available in eBook or printed form from Amazon.</h3>
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fishb4uflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03994125326765549333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449959772829994656.post-45717674374976988642015-09-15T23:31:00.000-07:002015-09-15T23:37:44.534-07:00Nymphing is not all they do in the Czech Republic.<br />
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Jan, http://www.goflyfish.cz, set me up with a 6 minute metro ride<br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A3IM7l5FasY/Vfj2OVzwT2I/AAAAAAAAGnk/hPP51TQmbaU/s1600/Czech%2BFishing%2B-%2B5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A3IM7l5FasY/Vfj2OVzwT2I/AAAAAAAAGnk/hPP51TQmbaU/s320/Czech%2BFishing%2B-%2B5.jpg" width="320" /></a>According to Jan, three time member of the Czech National Fly Fishing Team, the term Czech nymphing was invented by Orvis or some other American to explain the technique used by the Europeans that was cleaning the clock of the US Team in every championship. They are actually a little insulted that now the world thinks they invented it and don't know how to do anything else.<br />
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Let me set the record straight. If Jan Šiman is any example, they know how to do a lot of things right.<br />
First the technique know as Czech Nymphing. This is Jan doing it right. The stream is flowing from right to left. He's using a bi-color sighter (indicator) just off the water and is leading his weighted "czech nymph" down stream. Looks like high-sticking but look where the fly line is. He's probably using 15 feet of leader/tippet.<br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rG8CLmBxVKY/Vfj2FleDJMI/AAAAAAAAGmQ/a65yT7XJODA/s1600/Czech%2BFishing%2B-%2B11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rG8CLmBxVKY/Vfj2FleDJMI/AAAAAAAAGmQ/a65yT7XJODA/s1600/Czech%2BFishing%2B-%2B11.jpg" /></a> He rigged me up for tandem dries with a massive 18 feet of leader tippet ending in 7x. He uses what he calls a Spanish cast that collapses before rolling out the last 5 feet of tippet, putting no weight or force on the dry fly which drifts slowly and naturally to the surface near the loose piles of tippet. The result is a drag free drift of at least 10 feet. The Spanish cast puts a loop of leader up stream from the tippet pile so when line is gently pulled in the fly travels UPSTREAM just like a natural. Truly amazing and nicely effective. It works on Clear Creek near Denver also. I tried it and I like it.<br />
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LU61P33UfyU/Vfj2UUPYgpI/AAAAAAAAGoU/3DUlJfIiWFA/s1600/Docs%2Bfor%2BCzech%2BFishing%2B-%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LU61P33UfyU/Vfj2UUPYgpI/AAAAAAAAGoU/3DUlJfIiWFA/s320/Docs%2Bfor%2BCzech%2BFishing%2B-%2B1.jpg" width="320" /></a> The licenses, permits, access, and training needed to actually get on the river is daunting. You'd never be able to do it yourself. It is nothing like public waters in any state in the US. It's more like fishing on the Wigwam club property, e.g. State License, Local Permit, Personal Relationship with the River Keeper, Membership in a club with a 120 year waiting list, and then a gilley to tie on your flies, unhook your fish, an tell you precisely where to cast.<br />
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We fished Sumava Rivers in August 26-27. The Otava on the 27th.<br />
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Dinner stop at Chata Rovina so we could go back and fish the evening hatch.<br />
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<br />fishb4uflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03994125326765549333noreply@blogger.com0Sušice, Czech Republic49.2316758 13.52040929999998349.1487008 13.359047799999983 49.314650799999995 13.681770799999983tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449959772829994656.post-67075470012181275332015-07-28T08:29:00.001-07:002015-07-28T09:15:30.710-07:00<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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The July 14th flyby of New Horizons spacecraft gives new hope to anglers having difficulty landing a Yellow Dog reservation for fly fishing in Cuba. It will take 16 months to download all New Horizon's data and photos by which time it is expected most of the seats on the first Pluto flight will be booked. For those that like to get their fly fishing fix from far away destination, like my fishing buddy Dr. Fred, it would be wise to do a little research now and maybe put down a deposit the minute reservations open up.<br />
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A typical day fly fishing on Pluto.</h3>
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Pluto revolves a lot slower than earth so a day is actually 153.3 hours long. Fishing on Pluto will be very much like fishing in Alaska and Finland during their 24 hours of daylight. This is perfect for fishing an evening hatch which could go on for days. Luckily the flight time of 9 years will be long enough to reset your internal biological clock to account for "rocket lag." The challenge for the guides will be bringing enough flies to last you for 76 hours of continuous fishing. You will want to pack cold weather gear even if you are fishing the volcanic areas. Without considering wind chill, summer temperatures on Pluto are about -369F. A buff will be essential but should be comfortable under your oxygen helmet. Skies will be cloudy.<br />
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A typical stream.</h3>
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The photo above shows mountain peaks roughly 68 miles from <a href="http://cdn4.sci-news.com/images/enlarge2/image_3060_2e-Pluto.jpg" target="_blank">Hillary Montes in the Sputnik Planum.</a> This area is geologically young at 100 million years like the 80 million year Rocky Mountains. Over the next 16 months we should expect more and better photos. At that point we'll be able to find areas similar to Yellowstone National Park where volcanic activity is melting the ice that covers much of Pluto. Stick close to the "fire holes." Schedule a training trip to the Firehole River in the dead of winter for an idea of the conditions you'll face. Fishing in winter on South Boulder creek during the slush period will also hone your skills for the slush and frost in the streams of Pluto.<br />
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Casting should be relatively easy. Atmospheric wind speeds during storms is about 23 miles per hour, similar to early spring fishing on the South Platte River in South Park, Colorado. Since Pluto gravity is a mere 1/12 of Earth's, your 3.5 ounce Sage One Elite will only weigh 3/10 of an ounce. Fishing until your arm falls off will probably not be possible.<br />
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A typical fly.</h3>
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Just like the arctic Alaska stonefly, which can withstand -15C and builds glycol, the insects have probably evolved on Pluto the same way. We are all familiar with the <a href="http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs095/1102968923571/archive/1109256797760.html" target="_blank">winter stonefly</a> which has similar capabilities in our climate zone. Suggested patterns would be black size 50 stonefly nymphs, a parachute adams, of course, size 0 and everything in between. There will be tying benches and material supplied during the 9 year flight.<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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A typical fish.</h3>
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Lack of ground level details has never impeded a fly flinging angler from speculating on a fishery from an airplane window. Optimism reigns supreme. </div>
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With the same array of hydrocarbon building blocks as earth, and a similar geological history, we can guess that chance and the harsh environment probably played the most important roles in the evolution of fish on Pluto. Water, nitrogen, and methane ice cover the surface, although on close passes to the sun, melting creates a thin atmosphere. It is during this melting that the fish of Pluto will undoubtably spawn. Just as brown trout clean up after rainbows and vice versa, the fish not spawning will be most susceptible to a fly. (Fishing to spawning fish on Pluto in view of fellow anglers could leave one out in the cold.) Consider the Antarctic tooth fish, a close relative of the Patagonian Toothfish we know as the Chilean Sea Bass. They have evolved antifreeze proteins in their blood that keeps water molecules from nucleating into ice in the 28F polar ocean.<br />
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PATAGONIAN TOOTHFISH, ALSO CALLED CHILEAN SEA BASS. </div>
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PHOTO BY MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM SEAFOOD WATCH.</div>
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The Plutonian Toothfish must be strong to swim primarily in slush so 0X is a good recommended starting rig. Threading your size 50 arctic stonefly nymph on 0X tippet in the 23 mile and hour winds in -369F weather will make fly fishing on Pluto a trip to remember. So will the odor of methane.<br />
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Authors note: <a href="http://goo.gl/JBFfsY" target="_blank">"Bug the Bug -3"</a> is now available on Amazon. Targeted at new anglers and those who have lost their cell phones in the river, it is a recap of perplexing fly fishing question from the Fly Fishing Community facebook group answered by aquatic insects using an iPhone dropped in Clear Creek Colorado. If you are just getting into fly fishing and can't afford this eBook, send me a pm to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/john.davenport.mac" target="_blank">my facebook page</a> and I'll send you the link to a free review copy. <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">http://goo.gl/JBFfsY </span><br />
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fishb4uflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03994125326765549333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449959772829994656.post-50677374392590168592015-05-25T08:36:00.000-07:002015-05-25T08:41:29.211-07:00#CleanWaterRules .... What’s the diff? Polluting the banks or polluting the waters.<h2 style="border: 0px; clear: both; color: #a82f0b; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.8125em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">
What’s the diff? Polluting the banks or polluting the waters.</h2>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">Is there a difference between those that toss PBR and Coors cans along the banks of our streams and The American Farm Bureau Federation and friends trying to mandate the right to pollute the water in the same streams?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">Anglers, boaters, hikers, swimmers and downstream water users can’t understand either group. We can pick up the litter and tsk,tsk the thoughtless who did it, but once the dirt, bacteria, fertilizers, manure, acid, and heavy metals have killed the bugs and fish, we CAN NOT clean it up on our own. We have to wait until the EPA declares it a superfund site, and then with tax payer money and fines we, the people, clean it up. Clear Creek, Overland Park, Rocky Mountain Arsenal<a href="http://www2.epa.gov/region8/colorado-cleanup-sites" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"> are examples of EPA cleanups we enjoy in Colorado. </a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">As we all know, it is illegal to litter and when caught you’ll be fined. But thanks to a couple narrow court cases and some confusing administrative guidance in 2003, it’s really easy to get away with polluting upstream water and destroying wetlands.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">The Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency are close to promulgating a simple rule that defines what <a href="http://www2.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2014-06/documents/proposed_regulatory_wus_text_40cfr230_0.pdf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">“The Waters of the United States”</a> are for purposes of Clean Water Act of 1972. The purpose of that act was to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation’s waters … and maintaining the integrity of wetlands. Sounds just like the Trout Unlimited mission.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">When the 2003 Bush administrative guidance gutted enforcement of the 1972 Clean Water Act, polluters could foul millions of wetlands, lakes and ponds that are within a state and streams that aren’t obviously connected by surface water to other navigable streams, rivers or coastal waters. The “guidance” barred Clean Water Act enforcement for 117 million people in the US who get their drinking water in part from intermittent, ephemeral or headwater streams. Between 2006 and 2010 EPA reported at least 1,500 major pollution investigations were shelved because of the uncertainty created by the guidance. Hazardous waste may not be dumped directly into your drinking-water supply. But a polluter may be within the law if he dumps it into a stream that feeds that supply if the stream is not obviously connected. The 2003 guidance has made it impossible for the Corps of Engineers and EPA to do their job in making and keeping our streams fishable and swimmable and our water drinkable.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">The Farm Bureau has gotten itself into a position more in tune with the destruction of the EPA than in the interest of farmers. Unlike most farmers, it believes that keeping the EPA out of the water is more important that assuring the water the livestock drink won’t kill them. This is not surprising since it is in fact the voice of grain and meat processors and opposes the Clean Air Act, Voting Rights Act, Department of Education, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Their lobbying effort and <a href="http://ditchtherule.fb.org/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">social media campaign </a>against the “Definition of Waters” rule focus on building fear that the EPA rule will force farmers to get permits to build fences, use pesticides, and dig ditches. Here is the <a href="http://www2.epa.gov/cleanwaterrule" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">EPA’s campaign.</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">Decide for yourself who is “overreaching.” Here are the <a href="http://www2.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2014-06/documents/proposed_regulatory_wus_text_40cfr230_0.pdf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">two pages of the rule.</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">Support the Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency rule “Definition of ‘The Waters of the United States’ Under the Clean Water Act” so that once again it is clear which specific waters of the US are protected from pollution.</span></div>
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<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">It protects all tributary streams and waters adjacent to such streams or other covered waters (adjacent meaning along the bank of, or in the floodplain area of, covered waters), because the science confirms they have a significant effect on the biological, chemical, or physical condition of downstream water bodies that are navigable or that are interstate.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">It does not fully protect “other waters” – ones more distant from covered waters. It would allow them to be protected if they are shown to collectively play a significant function with respect to downstream waters in the watershed.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">It lays out what activities and what water bodies are not covered by the law’s programs, by reaffirming a number of pre-existing exemptions and by codifying for the first time exemptions that had previously only been followed as a matter of administrative policy (for instance, stock ponds dug in uplands). The rules will also specifically exclude certain things that nobody really thought were waters of the US, such as groundwater and tile drains.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">It explains that certain agricultural practices aimed at improving water quality are entitled to an exemption from the Corps’ permit program, an action the agencies made immediately effective.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">To support this rule and <a href="https://twitter.com/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">tweet our Senators</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">@SenBennetCO @SenCoryGardner Support #CleanWaterRules We must restore and maintain the biological integrity of the nation’s waters.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">More opinions and facts about this rule:</span></div>
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It's absolutely true that dogs and dog owners start to resemble each other as they age. (I know, because I read it on the internet.) Yesterday Cheesman canyon gave me an excellent example of a woman who is starting to resemble her dogs droppings. </div>
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I've seen her before. She must have a travel routine that puts her and her yippy little dog in the Cheesman trail parking lot just as Fifi has to dump a load. Unless she can't read, this Forest Service Trail is clearly marked with the following rules:</div>
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I'd just enjoyed a great, exhausting, humiliating, but invigorating day in this glorious canyon that I shared with a dozen other Colorado Troutbums and their friends. </div>
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All had meticulously keep the trail spotless. Yesterday, an insecure Hansel had left a trail of orange peel pieces along the trail, but I managed to scarf them up. (Hansel, there's no sub-rule that says bio-degradables are ok to leave behind. Next you'll be bringing down your compost.)</div>
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I did bring it home. And I'd like to return it to you Babs. Some day, Babs, we will meet again. Better bring a big, big, blue bag because I've got an awful lot of shit to deliver to you about how you are treating the Colorado outdoors. You are a bag of dog shit.</div>
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I left the hole for a couple hours and moved up stream. A mature bald eagle had been cruising up and down the river all day. I'd seen him four times. On my way back I noticed another angler had just hooked up to a nice fish under the eyes of a bald eagle in the hole I had left.</div>
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<br />fishb4uflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03994125326765549333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449959772829994656.post-78170996996605472012014-08-24T12:09:00.000-07:002014-08-24T20:52:39.810-07:00Improving a natural 3,000 trout/mi stream to a hatchery put & take fishery.<br />
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Is it a good idea to do "aquatic habitat" improvements on a stream that supports 3,000 fish per mile and has some of the most iconic feeding lies in the Rocky Mountains ?</h3>
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Tarryall Creek flows through the Pike National Forest close to the Lost Creek Wilderness area. Most of the stream flows through private property that has been preserved for fly fishing. This very fertile stream holds cutthroats, cutbows, rainbows, and brown trout self sustaining populations. South Park Fly Fishers, Rocky Mountain Angling Club, and a few private clubs hold leases on the creek. The elevation is about 9,500 to 10,500 feet and traffic along 2 lane Route 77 is limited, giving the fly caster a nice quiet experience. I actually saw a cougar chasing prey on 8/20/201. (Luckily it wasn't me.) </div>
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Then along comes a deep pocket resort that creates a fishing-camp and "improves" the stream. Most of the landowners have done some modest bank stabilization, or rock placement to improve stream habitat, but IMHO, the <a href="http://www.broadmoor.com/fishing-camp/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Broadmoor Fishing-Camp</a> has improved the character right out of this stream in their 1.3 mile section. It no longer looks like Tarryall Creek. It now looks like the exclusive Wigwam Club. Not everyone needs botox and plastic surgery, even if we can afford it, and sometimes it makes you uglier. Here are some examples:</div>
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Downstream around the bend as the Tarryall comes out of a canyon where the tracked excavators could not work, the glides and riffles have been replaced by log over pour dams like most private clubs seem to favor and deep, deep, hatchery like pools.<br />
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J-Hooks and resting nooks built with imported stone, all perfectly placed complete the 3/4 mile of improvements. </div>
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All these types of "aquatic habitat improvements" are permitted and encouraged under the Federal Clean Water Protection Act and the Corps of Engineers permitting process. These type of aquatic habitat improvements are what we are hoping for to restore the Denver South Platte river from it's current state of a trapezoidal shaped flood control conduit to a natural river setting. But here the creek already was perfect. </div>
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These "improvements" will definitely enable the Broadmoor Fishing Camp to:</div>
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3. Feed the fish a healthy diet of fish chow and use nymphs that look like pellets to assure fishing success. </div>
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Here is the first fish caught just after the tractors left the scene. A pale stocked rainbow probably from the spring stocking of a neighboring ranch. Many more stockers are sure to follow.</div>
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Whether the existing bugs and wild trout will like these new and quite different digs is another matter. You be the judge. Here are some photos areas left natural. Except for this one fish above, I could not catch or even glimpse any wild trout in the new improved areas. Admittedly this was a limited study.</div>
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What is the purpose of grandparents if not for getting their grandkids, bonus grandkids, and god grandkids into fly fishing? </div>
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But how? Tradition says hook them up with worms, bamboo pole and a lake shore full of sunfish. Yuk! Starting them out by killing worms won't point them in right conservation direction and letting them thrash about with a $5,000 bamboo fly rod seems a little bit risky. </div>
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Then there's the question of starting them out with a spinning rod or a fly rod. As an obsessed fly angler I just couldn't bring myself to do the spinning rod, although Patrick above seems to have mastered it quickly on the lake. Last year he told me, "Grand Peré, I'll probably only use the fly rod you made me when I'm fishing with you."<div>
Given the competition from electronic gizmos with immediate feedback, convincing a 4 to 8 year old that fishing is fun seems to require some nearly immediate hook-ups. The excitement and fascination of connecting to a wild creature is a phenomenal experience for all involved.</div>
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But fly casting could be a hang-up. Adults believe that fly fishing is actually fly casting and spend an enormous amount of effort when they are getting started reading, studying, practicing, and getting instruction in putting the fly in the air. I decided that kids are smarter than this and actually don't have the patience for it since casting in the parking lot is only esoterically linked to fishing on a stream.</div>
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Four year old Eloise convinced me of this while watching her cast without an prior instruction on a lake near Chicago. Here's what her cast looks like a month later in Colorado :</div>
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I had a chance to take Max out on the iconic Gold Medal Roaring Fork River in Colorado. </div>
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At over a dozen trout 14 inches or over per acre, fishing here, like most famous rivers is not all that easy. These fish get large due to the fertile water and by surviving the heavy pressure of fly anglers. I was nervous that he'd not get any action. </div>
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I told him where he should try to get his indicator to drift and he figured out how to flick or roll cast it there by himself. I helped him put in a couple mends but that seemed to be too much detail. We only spent about 10 casts in each pool as we walked up stream. I was astounded that after 45 minutes he was still at it and still interested. And then this happened.</div>
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It is certainly true that a life-time warranty can save your life and that of your fly rod. But it does take time, usually some negotiations, and occasionally an up-front cost. On the other hand, if you made the rod yourself, (See reposted Blog entry below) sending it back for repair means back to your own work room. </div>
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To retrieve my favorite 7 piece 5 weight travel rod, sadly snapped in an upper section, I stumbled across a suggestion in the http://www.rodbuildingforum.com to use a chunk of carbon arrow made of the same material, the same way and what appears to be the same wall thickness as our graphite fly rods except on a constant diameter rather than a tapered mandrel.</div>
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The broken pieces are made to snugly fit inside the piece of arrow using thread draped over the ends rather than masking tape and then epoxied. This will work for breaks only on certain upper sections of rods, but this is where I always break mine. The guys at RMSGear Archery Supply in Denver are also fly casters and were more than happy to cut me a couple pieces from their scrap box at no charge. Don't try cutting it yourself because it shatters and the dust is probably carcinogenic.</div>
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Here is a photo of my light weight emergency fly rod mending kit. The glue is to melt on a rod tip when it breaks off in the first section. The mended section is shown below the samples. So far so good. It seems to cast just the same. Now I'll try it on an 18 inch brown (I'm wishing.)</div>
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No matter how many times you count your fly rods the answer is always the same. You need one more. Using a 9 ft 5 weight above 10,000 feet for Greenback Cutthroats probably violates a dozen law of natures like, Newton's Second Law, "A body, like a parachute Adams, when acted upon by a force, like a loaded 5 weight fly rod, will travel in a straight line." In the tiny creeks where the greenbacks live, your fly will travel in which ever direction will result in an irretrievable hang up. The answer is obvious. You need a 7 foot 4 weight.<br />
Building your own rods is actually a lot simpler than Orvis or the Scott pro would have you believe.<br />
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Everything else either comes in the rod building kit or you can order a la carte on line at places like <a href="http://www.hookhack.com/" target="_blank">Hook and Hackle.</a> Hand built fly rods make great gifts, especially for people who otherwise would not have sufficient guilt or motivation to come fishing with you.<br />
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As far as skills go, you don't need any. What you need are these two tricks that I'm about to give you. One I invented myself, thank you very much, and the other came from the storehouse of cheap, quick, and dirty tricks for parsimonious people, <a href="http://www.rodbuildingforum.com/index.php?showforum=15" target="_blank">The Rod Building Forum. </a><br />
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Figuring out where to place the guides on the blank piece of graphite can take hours and over 5 shots of single malt. Screw this up and you might as well use a hand line. Formulae based on Newtons Third Law, F1 = F2 but opposite, don't exist and the cookbook tables that come with the kits have no idea how you are going to fish the rod.<br />
Wire ties to the rescue. After you have found the spline of the rod, epoxied it to the cork grip and rod seat, masking tape it to a coffee table with the reel installed. Then guess at the number of rod guides you're going to use, make small loops, and slip them on the rod. Thread the rod with your fly line through these faux guides, and stretch the line out to about the spot where you normally break off big fish and tie the line to the barbell. Then go back and slide the ties to a places where the line runs as close to parallel as possible to the bend of the rod. Then just mark the rod with a lead pencil at each wire tie, undo the whole thing and write down the measurement to each rod guide location.<br />
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The next biggest challenge is attaching the rod guides to the rod while you wrap them. Thanks go to Perchjerker in the above mentioned rod building forum. He/she suggested using 15-25# monofilament and a <a href="http://www.animatedknots.com/duncan/index.php" target="_blank">Duncan Knot</a>. Brilliant. They are moveable for alignment and when you are ready to take them off, the toenail clippers snap them off faster than a Skylark bartender on ladies night.<br />
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The final challenge is marking the rod. You need to do this because after your 6th or 7th rod you'll lose track of their provenance. Further more, when it inevitably falls off the top of your car as you drive away from the creek, or gets lost with your luggage, you may get it back if you've put contact info on the rod. Should you find your lost or stolen rod in the hands of an unauthorized user, it will give you cause to use your carry permit. I'm trying an ink jet printed label stuck fast to a clear piece of USPS package tape smoothly wrapped around the rod, then wrapped with guide thread at both ends and covered in epoxy finish. I'll post a photo if it works.<br />
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In making a 10ft 4Wt for granddaughter Eloise, I couldn't find the wire ties, so I just used more Duncan knotted 25lb monofilament. It actually worked ok and I skipped one step by not having to mark the rod where the guides went. The rod turned out to be 10ft 4 inches because I used the first section, rod seat, and cork handle of another rod that I made but broke a few years ago. I built up the first section of the rod with masking tape, just as I would have for slipping the reel seat over a fly rod blank, but instead I epoxied it inside a new 9 ft wt blank making the rod now 10 ft 4 inches long.<br />
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I don't like to be where I am not wanted. The culture in the United States provides a plethora of places for me to be unwanted. Somehow I've developed the sensitivity to be absolutely convinced that I'm always on the wrong side of the fence, in the wrong line, or have shown up at the wrong time. </div>
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In England for instance, walking paths through feudal estates have a tradition and acceptance by the lords of the manor. In the United States, setting foot on a stone at the edge of someone's rented camp site is treated like a federal offense.</div>
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There are huge National Forests near Denver with idyllic trout streams far from the noise of highways. Unfortunately through legal mechanisms I don't understand yet, access to these streams is often landlocked by bordering private properties. A quarter acre plot of fenced and posted private property along a public road that passes through a National Forest effectively blocks the ethical and responsible fly caster from access to miles of stream and at the same time provides the private property owner with a 100,000 acre back yard at no cost. In Colorado, unfortunately, the property owner has title to the stream bottom. </div>
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So the public is denied access to their lands acquired and maintained at large cost while the neighboring private property owner is given control of land they don't own. On the other hand, the fly caster has not paid the taxes, mortgage, fencing, or surveillance fees for the property owner and a property right certainly is the right to enjoy the property without the annoyance of seeing or hearing a stranger crossing your land. </div>
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I've been researching ways of getting to this piece of water for three years and think I'm getting close. I've found a piece of abandoned property along the stream who's ownership and control is muddled in the Colorado and Indiana University Systems. There must be a right of way conveyance in bordering property deeds allowing access to this isolated mountain plot. I thought I locate it yesterday.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My goal was to be within the National Forest Service Boundary. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The trail behind me seems to be the missing route to the abandoned mountain lab.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After an hour of bushwhacking along a canyon wall I found this obvious road to the lab.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There was plenty of elk scat but this is obviously a hereford patty which meant to me that I was on Forest Service property leased to a cattle rancher which would make it publicly available for a free pass to the stream.</td></tr>
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I had to cross one ancient barbwire fence breeched by a fallen tree at least ten years ago. I keep carefully to the outside of a string of "Private Property" signs and well out of the sight line to cabins. I trekked down through a canyon with a tiny stream which held brook trout.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Healthy and colorful brook along the way through the canyon. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally I spotted one of the lab buildings used to house students during summer projects.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Water in the main stream was a little high and unwadable due to the monster runoff of 2014.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just as expected in a natural stream there were side pools where trout can rest and feed during periods of high water. I worked this pool for 30 minutes with 10 flies, hooking one on a flashback size 20 nymph and finally releasing on that fell for a size 20 barrs emerger.</td></tr>
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There was no way I was going to trudge back up through the canyon to get to my car when I could just fish back upstream to the road. This meant crossing that one 1/4 acre plot of posted property along the shore line behind the trees and brush. I took my chances and did not encounter either the property owner, an electric fence, or a large doberman. But just thinking about it kind of ruined the whole great outdoors experience. I've got to figure out how to get a free pass.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> The "Driftless Region" of Wisconsin is driftless because it doesn't have any drift, that is silt, clay, sand, gravel, and boulders usually left behind by retreating glaciers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Crystal clear water after a recent flood exposed these pods of 10-14 inch browns. But they acted shiftless. Nothing seemed to interest them like the only teenager at a family reunion. They'd feed occasionally, ignored nice hatches of caddis and mayflies but completely refused every fly in my box.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> I knelt in the tall grasses along the banks and crawled up to get a shot at these browns with a 12 foot leader ending in 6x. I was rigged with a size 18 parachute adams, dropped down to a Lafontaine style size 20 caddis emerger, followed by a size 22 <a aria-haspopup="true" aria-owns="js_27" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100003120020576&extragetparams=%7B%22hc_location%22%3A%22timeline%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/pat.dorsey.1232?hc_location=timeline" id="js_28" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;">Pat Dorsey</a> style foam backed chocolate emerger.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">There were a couple follows and a refusal or two but I was completely ignored by these shiftless trout. My drifts were perfect. I had not spooked a single fish in the pod. Finally in desperation I started retrieving my fly back like a streamer at the end of the drift. <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/boris-mamontoff/39/11b/912" target="_blank">Boris Momontoff</a>, the Russian guide at Estancia San Pablo in Tupungat, Argentina taught us to do with prince nymphs in the fast water of the foothills of the Andes. WHAM, a nice strike on the first retrieve on the size 20 emerger. As I moved down the pools I found I could tease out a strike driftless with a teased retrieve instead of a drift. I first saw <a aria-haspopup="true" aria-owns="js_22" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=754827575&extragetparams=%7B%22hc_location%22%3A%22friends_tab%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=754827575" id="js_23" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;">Alfonso Aragon</a> do this to a couple shiftless golden dorado in Bolivia.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Timber Coulee Creek was one of the first of the Driftless Area streams with habitat restoration. Most of the work was to correct grazing problem along the creek banks. </td></tr>
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There are those who believe that all trout fishing destinations should remain undisclosed. But since my followers number in the teens, the chances of a run on these banks is zero to none. Unbelievably this spot can be scouted with Google Street View. <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@43.582452,-90.94168,3a,75y,226.47h,55.15t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sCfFhMlnd_WjYbwZNOFzp7A!2e0" target="_blank">Stand on the bridge</a> and spot the trout and it's shadow in the water.</h3>
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fishb4uflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03994125326765549333noreply@blogger.com0Viroqua, WI 54665, USA43.5569174 -90.88874129999999243.5108909 -90.969422299999991 43.602943900000007 -90.8080603tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449959772829994656.post-5655950677710348532014-05-11T12:16:00.000-07:002014-05-11T12:16:48.976-07:00Don't listen to your mother about the Arkansas River Mothers Day Caddis Fly Hatch.<h2 style="text-align: center;">
Does Mother know best about fishing the Arkansas River Mothers Day Caddis Hatch? Does anyone know?</h2>
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The Mothers Day caddis fly hatch on the Arkansas river from Cañon City upstream to Salida is legendary.</h3>
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But just like the explanation of the birds and bees, why Aunt Greta has a mustache, why Uncle Bert wears a dress, and why Grandma Porche won't talk about her "husband" there is more to the story than momma is telling you. </div>
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I now have 5 days experience fishing this hatch, spread over ten years and will share with you what I've been told, what I've found, and what I just can't figure out. </div>
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First the object of our affection, a caddis fly. Some time around Mothers Day when the river temperature, flow, phase of the moon, atmospheric pressure and no one knows what else, is just right the caddis will start to hatch around Cañon City, en masse. Conventional wisdom is that the hatch will move upstream as water temperatures rise during this period before the major snow melt from the Collegiate Peaks begins to runoff. </div>
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Brenda and I had made reservations for a couple of days in Salida at the renovated old time Palace Hotel and it looked like the caddis hatch would hit town just as we would, a week before Mothers Day on May 4th. I tied some caddis emerges in the Lafontaine style according to the <a href="http://midcurrent.com/videos/how-to-tie-a-caddis-emerger/" target="_blank">Midcurrents video.</a> I also tied some goddard caddis dries to use on rising trout or as a strike indicator for the dropped emergers as well as some barrs emerges that were working well the last time I hit the Ark a week or so ago. </div>
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The Arkansas was flowing at a healthy 800-900 cfs due to releases from upstream reservoirs trying to make room for the above average snow pack. Our room was only a hundred yards from the river. I fished the afternoon we arrived from 3:00 to 5:00 PM downstream in town and saw none else fishing. Who would come all the way to Salida and then fish in town? Ha. Don't tell the fish that. I landed 5 or 6 on the barrs emerger but didn't see anything rising to the sparse caddis hatch. A local fly shop reported that the fabled hatch from Cotopaxi to Coaldale in Big Sheep Canyon. Water temperature was a surprising 55 degrees.</div>
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The next morning (7:00AM to 9:00AM) I scouted a spot upstream to fish with Brenda and landed a couple nice browns on the caddis emerger. I was driven to stick with the three flies I tied for this outing. From 10:00 to Noon there was a nice hatch of both blue wing olives and caddis along the bank that Brenda got into with fish jumping at her feet. Brenda tied into a nice brown that gave her a good run.</div>
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Fred, the owner of the Palace and obsessed fly fisher advised against trying to get right in the middle of the hatch that was reported to have moved upstream to Howard on May 5th, Cinco de Mayo. We fished above Howard at the Stockyard Bridge in the evening hoping to get into the hatch and sure enough, a carpet hatch started about 5:00 PM. But for some reason, the fish were not rising.</div>
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The flow was now over 900. There not many places to fish the edges without risking a dunking. Brenda said, "This river is just too big for me." I landed a couple more nice fish on the bead head barrs emergers.</div>
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Ten years ago in the same area, the hatch was 10 times the size with caddis covering the bushes, crawling into our ears, and driving feeding fish crazy. It could very well be that the same thing is happening somewhere just down stream from where we were but intelligence from flyshops, locals, and other fly anglers, was very sparse. To find the peak spot ten years ago, Terry Stegehuis, would not stop his truck on the hour ride from Cañon City until he saw the peak. I guess that's how you have to do it. </div>
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No fishing trip is complete with a stop in great gritty Colorado bar, like the iconic Silver Dollar Saloon in Leadville. When we walked in the place had the ambiance of a funeral parlor. The Rockies game was on flat screen in the corner playing with the volume off, the juke box was silent, and none of the other patrons had anything to say to each other. Finally, a guy at the bar went to the internet connected jukebox and announce, "Well what does everyone want to hear? This place is like a funeral parlor." That cracked the ice, the music and conversation started to flow and the Fat Tire kicked in.</div>
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Three days later, I returned with Fred and Ned to fish the Cotopaxi to Coaldale stretch, thinking that the hatch certainly had moved upstream but Taylor, at the Royal Gorge Flyshop, told us the hatch had stalled at Howard for the last week and his guides were fishing up river. We fished at the Trading Post, just downstream from Coaldale and it seemed to me that the fish were gorged and very uninterested in whatever I was throwing. I landed a couple on caddis emerges and barrs emergers again but only after a lot of work. How can a hatch "stall?" Where are the pupa coming from for the stalled hatch? Does anyone understand this massive static hatch? I guess if ten times the bugs could hatch in a short period of time, a smaller but still blanket hatch could go on for a longer period of time in one place. </div>
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After all the experience with this hatch, it appears that even something as predictable as the yearly coming of Mothers Day, still has too many variables to figure out. Just like mothers and fishing.<br /><br />
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We scheduled a late April date with Reid Baker, Freestone Outfitters, assuming balmy pre-run off, blue bird sky, spring in Colorado conditions. Reid, suggested we postpone due to an early and extraordinary run off, a winter that was hanging on, and blown out private water that he'd planned to fish.</div>
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But we already had it on the calendar and having fished with Reid a number of times, we knew he'd figure it out. I believe that Fred and I were the only fools in the entire state to believe a 20 degree day with gusting 40 mph winds was a fishable day.</div>
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Reid decided not to setup the folding chairs, carpet, and hot coffee for us to use while putting on our waders because they'd be blown to New Mexico before our butts hit the canvas. As Reid opened the back door of the SUV, the wind tunnel effect, nearly pushed Fred and me out of the car.</div>
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I rigged up my rod but Fred decided to wait. I think he wanted to confirm that this water was indeed fishable. After a long, long, trek downwind thankfully, to our starting position, Reid tied on a pegged egg with a juju baetis dropper, pointed out the redds we must avoid, and put me on the far bank in the above photo. He then started to set up Fred's rod. Fred and Reid both had brought wool fold over mittens to keep their finger tips warm. I had assumed we were past that and only had my cotton half finger gloves. I knew my finger tips where still there, I just could not tell exactly where they were. I bunched them inside my gloves and gripped my rod between my thumb and palm and attempted to control my free line for a cast with the claw left on my left hand. I managed to get a roll cast into the wind and let it drift. Not bad. </div>
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WHAM, the indicator disappear and DAMN, I'm hung up already. But wait, the hang up is moving. A huge rainbow rolled on the surface and started a run pulling line from my reel. Luckily, I didn't have much line out and I'd adjusted the drag so I could keep tension on the fish without fancy finger work. I brought him in quickly and even though I hate doing it, we got a quick "grip and grin" photo before releasing the 19 in fat, healthy, lake run, already spawned rainbow hen. </div>
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While I attempted to get circulation back into my fingers and cower out of the wind, I passed my rod to Fred while he was waiting to have his rod rigged by Reid. He made about a half dozen casts to the same run. When Reid was finished, Fred handed my rod back to me in mid-drift. I fished out the rest of the drift and WHAM, another nice fish. I'd only cast once and already had landed two fish. If it wasn't a 45 minute hike against the 40 mph gusts of 20F wind, I would've loved to just call it a day and drink coffee, have lunch, stop for some bourbon, and mosey home. But honor among obsessed fly anglers, and dedication among guides dictated that we had to consider that Fred had not yet had a hook-up.</div>
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It was another couple hours of leap frogging upstream under Reid's guidance before Fred starting pulling out two fish per hole on eggs and nymphs. His beloved streamers were not getting any love at all.<br />
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Reid came through:</div>
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There were moments when the wind gusts nearly toppled us into the water, when a little roll cast down wind would carry my line 80 feet perfectly into a stream seam, where all the guides on the rod were frozen shut but the guide on the ground miraculously was still tying blood knots in our 4x, and where the wind was so strong that the stream appeared to be moving in the opposite direction. And we were still catching fish. We caught, released, and hooked up to at least 20 fish between us.</div>
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Mark Twain said that it's not really an adventure unless half way there you wish you were home. Well Mark, this blown away adventure will certainly qualify in my top 10. </div>
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Sometime you hit it just right. The Williams Fork 4/24/2014.</h2>
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We had discussed, ad nauseaum the night before via email, how we were going to get to the Willie. Would we walk 1.2 miles in from the Breeze Unit parking lot and then across the bridge over the roaring Colorado? Fred insisted the bridge was not there although Google Earth photos showed that it was there. (Anyone know if that's open to public use without gunfire?) Or, would we take the parking lot just off RT 3 in Parshall and walk 1.0 miles to the Willie near the mouth.</div>
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We chose the latter. Fred said, "It's just over that hill...." Then, "Damn. They've moved the river."</div>
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We did eventually arrive at the river to find it crystal clear under bright blue skies and running about 80 CFS at 42F. Perfect. It wasn't long before I had a nice brown (about 14in) on a pegged egg. Fred went on to the confluence with the Colorado just in case he could throw his streamer. </div>
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We leap frogged up the stream. Fred finally switching to dries when fish started to rise about 12:15 PM. I found a really nice looking spot that unfortunately seemed to have a dead brown lying in state off to the side. Damn. I hate to see that. Then I noticed that the clump of logs and brush it was lying against was actually a huge submerged elk, lying on its side with its rib cage torn open. Hmm. I'll bet that was an interesting story. Neither seemed to me to have been dead very long.</div>
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There was a brown feeding just off the far bank which fell to my powers of persuasion on a size 18 caddis emerger.</div>
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Just upstream of this rock was another brown taking blue winged olives from the surface. This one launched a monster take of my size 16 parachute adams which I was using as an indicator fly. Scared the s..t out of me.</div>
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I stopped to eat my ham and cheese tortilla wrap and a couple malted milk balls and then snuck up on a likely looking pool behind a big rock. I was concentrating on my drift when WHOOSH! What sounded like a 2,000 pound moose hit the water just to my left. </div>
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"JEEZE!!!" I gasped and fell backwards a couple steps. I looked to the left and a 50 pound adult beaver was madly clawing at the bank from which he must have slipped when I broke his concentration. He frantically started swimming around the edges of the pool toward me and passed about 3 feet as he disappeared under an overhanding rock. My heart rate was 180, which if you know me, is clearly impossible. </div>
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Later I recounted it to Fred who was only mildly impressed since I didn't actually have a hookup with the beaver. </div>
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I asked Fred about the dead trout and he said he'd pulled it out and put it on the bank. </div>
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I asked him what he thought of the dead elk next to it and he said, "What dead elk?" </div>
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That's the wondrous thing about fly fishing in these wild places. Something unusual always happens and we all experience it differently. </div>
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Here's another release sequence. Doesn't it make you just feel good all over?</div>
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