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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Jan 14, 2012 - 05:30pm PT
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I'm thinking fondly of 70 degree summer days & friendly Cutthroat on the S. Fork Snake R.
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Rattlesnake Arch
Social climber
Home is where we park it
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Jan 15, 2012 - 07:32am PT
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Now we are getting into my usual kind of fishing experience.
Looks like microlizards are suckers for a properly tied crab.
Were you throwin' at permit, Mike?
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Jan 15, 2012 - 12:02pm PT
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I think I caught that monster lizard fish while casting for bones in the flats by Diamondhead.
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BLD
climber
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Jan 15, 2012 - 01:11pm PT
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American River Steel head.......Oh man we need some rain.
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Rattlesnake Arch
Social climber
Home is where we park it
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Jan 26, 2012 - 07:31am PT
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Good beginners article, craigQ.
I'm having a little trouble getting my mind around this, though
Casting up stream enables you to present your fly without drag - drag on your line makes your fly look funny to a fish. Casting gently up stream into slower moving water will give you a drag free drift.
If you cast a tight line upstream into slower moving water you will get drag right away.
You have to introduce slack in the sections of line moving the fastest by mending the line (or other techniques). Beginners need to start working on mending from day one if they want to catch trout in streams.
Just my $0.02 worth.
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Crag Q
Trad climber
Louisville, Colorado
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Jan 27, 2012 - 07:34pm PT
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Rattlesnake,
Thanks for taking the time read it and provide some feedback. I was thinking about the situation when you are situated directly down stream of a seam. But, I see what you mean. It's so hard to describe what water is doing especially when you throw your line on it. I'll see if I can edit that and make it better. This is the first thing I have ever written about fly fishing and the first thing I have written in quite a while.
Cheers!
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BLD
climber
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Jan 27, 2012 - 09:38pm PT
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The rain sure helped the fishing here!
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grover
climber
Dabville. Gnarlandia
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Jan 27, 2012 - 09:47pm PT
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Whatever Blair I've sharted out bigger hunks of corn.
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Stimbo
Trad climber
Crowley Lake
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Jan 27, 2012 - 09:53pm PT
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Very nice!
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BLD
climber
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Jan 27, 2012 - 10:48pm PT
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Silver,
I agree this hen and others like it should be released. I always put them back with care. The adipose fin or lump you see is grow back from the clipped area. She was a hatchery fish. The reason this fish ended up on a stringer is that the hook ripped into the gills from the inside. She put up quite a fight in the current and then ran out of blood. I then reeled her into shore nearly bled out.
Even if a fish was born in a hatchery when they go to the ocean for 3 years or so I believe they are same as wild and should be put back so they are able to spawn.
Love this thread..
B
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BLD
climber
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Jan 27, 2012 - 11:21pm PT
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Bruce Kay,
Interesting read.
No wonder they grow back!
If we are to help the runs of any of these fish we need to provide passage to their original spawning grounds. I know we need the dams but when we built them we missed something.
Its not just about us humans and the Canadians.
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Stimbo
Trad climber
Crowley Lake
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Jan 28, 2012 - 01:36am PT
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Random fishing scenics, enjoy
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BLD
climber
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Jan 28, 2012 - 01:41am PT
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Awesome!
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Abend
Social climber
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Jan 28, 2012 - 12:00pm PT
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Nice photos Stimbo! Thanks for sharing
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BLD
climber
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Jan 28, 2012 - 10:20pm PT
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So, my daughter asked if she could get one of her fishing pictures on the Fish Taco thread.....here it is.
Also a cropped photo of my friends (recent) catch.
26 lbs in Canada.
That fish gives me chills!
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Jan 29, 2012 - 01:34am PT
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wow - that is a monster steelhead. The Dean River?
Have been fishing the San Lorenzo for 21 seasons. Biggest steelhead was a 31" (maybe 14lbs) and it was a monster. Had to imagine that 26lb beast.
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Rattlesnake Arch
Social climber
Home is where we park it
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A Texas trout of a different color. Very tasty!
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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from a totally rehabiitated fisherman, some other kinds of trout love:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd8_fLqz3gk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=W57JAfeiKFk&feature=endscreen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUvTYTIeIGU&NR=1&feature=endscreen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziZYzZgwV9I&NR=1&feature=endscreen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNZENADxGCY&NR=1&feature=endscreen
do listen when you have time for all five movements. it'll take about 40 minutes. the 4th movement is the crux--at 3:13 comes a piano break that, in the right hands, develops a ragtime syncopation.
i love to play the trout this time of year--we're finally getting some winter storms, the snow will fly, it'll melt next spring, and the trout will be out!
(notice the geezer at the piano--those hands will never become arthritic--"old guys rule!")
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and one more off kilter tidbit here, hard to post given my atheist streak, but it's great poetry:
Pied Beauty
Glory be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.
-- g.m. hopkins
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