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Dave wrote:
Hope your mate there is praying the bacon doesn’t kill him before lunch time…
Dave, it’s not the bacon, but the sugar in the homemade Crumpet Tea Room orange rolls my wife made that will harden those arteries! Sorry, no photo of the rolls. But they are good. I actually was very good and only ate two of those all week. 🙂 The bacon and sausage came from Karl’s secretary’s hobbie farm. The hog was raised on left overs from the catered lunches in their office for drug reps :-/.
Patrick wrote:
dude the one of the bow and the hopper pattern is sick
Ah yes, one of our poor substandard hatchery stockers with an undeveloped upper lip. Some also have some gill desease from time to time. However, that fella with the powerbait rig will have him caught out and on the dinner table before long. It is amazing how quickly though the stockers pick up on the natural food items. They can become quite selective in a short while at times.
Cameron, We ate pretty sensibly the rest of the time. Karl and I went out to Roscoes–http://www.roscoesrestaurant.com Thursday night before Mike and Greg arrived. We had steak and salad. Their steaks are growth hormone free and very good. Lunches were a simple sandwich and fruit and some very fresh fig newtons. Mike brought some Tyson experimental chicken and fixed supper Friday night. It was a test chicken product injected with a hot spice. Exceptionally hot! Probably will not make it past the test groups. I had a taste and then finished supper with regular chicken. He made some sauteed apples and some mashed potatos also.
Enjoyed the photo of giving thanks from your previous trip!
Drifter, this was #2. Hope to see you make #3 next September. We may also start a sping fling. We stayed at Gary and Paul Flippin’s Jenkins Creek house at Rim Shoals. It was a great place for us.
Tim wrote:
I was thinking the same thing, however, your line rarely goes through the same place in your guides every time.
Except when you are playing fish. And as Mike indicated there’s the rub.
Hippie-
With the forage you mentioned- my first approach would be bead head chironomids wind drifted under an indicator- a hopper or floating beetle would be my choice in a little chop or – a bobber/yarn indicator if that’s your bent. In a dead calm I would just use a long leader and floating line with a 2-3″ hi -vis floating indicator line section attached.
Leeches I would fish hand twists or lift and drop/twitch on a type 3 or 4 full sink line- using Booby style/Foam back
Alpha Hippy?????- all I see is a cute cleancut guy and another guy in need of a haircut and a shave !!!!! both holding salmonids. I thought all the serious old school hippies were off chasing redfish/channel cats/carp on the fly and had long ago passed on mainstream fish like trout:)))) Ah well:))
Will
Ben-
I have a d200- went into my local store cash in hand to buy a Canon 5d and some lenses and walked out with a d200 and a bunch of lenses – lol so much for research on the net versus cam in the hand!!:)))
I’m not big on zooms to be honest- though I have the 12/24 DX- it’s ok but has some obvious CA issues through the zoom range- easily corrected in post though.
I also have the 105 f2.8 Macro
You also have to wear a glove or some protection on your stripping finger when casting because it will file through your finger after a few casts.
Guide wear over time?
Hey Mike. Great advice from everyone. Zach made some excellent points just now. I know I cannot afford to be switching camera makers–you have to buy a system. This is especially true if you are on a limited budget. When you look at it that way, Nikon or Canon is about the only real choice if you are going to expand your gear over the years. This falls in the category of upgrading equipment too. You need a strategy, and as has been suggested only you can make that determination.
There’s a good article on ‘The Upgrade Game” by Tim Grey in this issue of Digital Photo Pro at:
http://www.digitalphotopro.com/tech/the-upgrade-game.htmlIt might give you some further food for thought and help you identify a strategy for what you want to do with your photography and the gear you are then going to need to accomplish your goals.
Dave, that is an awesome brook trout photo!
I’d emphasize a few things that have already been mentioned:
1) Trolling with a streamer–very effective from a row boat or pontoon in calm conditions. Helps with the boredom. Can be extremely effective in windy conditions but hard to control the boat and drift.
2) Steve’s advice on “windlanes” is excellent advice. Pay attention to what the wind is doing. On slightly large lakes, 100 acres or more, especially if you have a windlane between two land points, the windlane will hold fish. Also, the leeward side of the lake may draw more fish in on a given day.
3) A slow sinking line will help on the streamer fishing while trolling. Sci Anglers Stillwater line is a great one.
I used to fish Jefferson Lake west of Denver on several trips there in the 80s and 90s. Is was fun to hike around and you could always fish the beaver ponds if you got bored with the lake fishing.
“Well, where did we put that Rotenone?”
;D
I loved this quote: “State and federal biologists will continue with other key parts of the recovery program, such as habitat restoration.”
What a demotion. All because of a dang doctoral student!
Ty for the link Simon
I use a lot foam patterns as suspenders combined with sink tips/full sink lines
Surprise Surprise:))- I,m going to come at this from a different perspective..
Just as there are many levels of guides- there are also many levels of clients:)))
Clients choose guides based on reputation etc etc – guides get the clients they get!!!!
A good guide will- given no other info- size up a client on meeting them and some cursory chat,
I am a 52 year-old native Arkansan, and have lived most of my life in Northwest Arkansas but also Toledo and Dallas. Have traveled a fair amount–about 30 states. Drove to and from Alaska in 2004. Fished the triangle–interior around Fairbanks, the Russian and Quartz Creek near the Kenai, and the Clearwater River at Delta Junction. Have never fished in Montana, but have fished Wyoming and Colorado quite a bit.
Formally educated in vocal and choral performance (U of A) and a graduate degree in theology and biblical languages (Dallas Theological Seminary). For fun, this year I have been teaching a few students beginning biblical Hebrew. However, I have always enjoyed and been draw to the outdoors as well. Started fly fishing in the 70s with my dad’s J.C. Higgins fiberglass rod and popping bugs.
In 1996 I built my first drift boat and started a full-time drift boat fly-fishing guide service on the White River tailwaters. Been doing some outdoor writing and photography for the Morning News of Northwest Arkansas since 2000.
My interests are: photography (first camera was a Brownie Bullet; 1st 35mm a Konica FD and Pentax K; presently use Canon bodies and lenses); computing (first computer a Timex Sinclair with 2K of Ram, BD=before DOS; presently use a Dell XPS with Windows Vista and older IBM thinkpad); building drift boats; teaching Bible studies (beginning an extended exposition in January through the Bible) and of course fly-fishing. Want to build a wooden teardrop trailer to travel with my wife some before we are too old to climb in and out of it–but at the present ratio or irons to the fire, it’s not happening.
My wife Sharon and I have been married 30 years. One grown son (more or less) and a stout Yorkshire terrier, useless cat and Betta fish.
Glad to get acquainted with so many talented flyfishers across the globe.
P.S. Also glad to see several of you involved professionally in conservation organizations and efforts.
Just saw your note Matt. It was great taking you and Brent out on the tailwaters and hope to see you on the river in your newly refurbished Hyde soon. We’ll be at Rim September 15th floating with another wooden boat from Springfield and perhaps Drifter (here on this board) if he can make it. Would love to see you too if you could find the time.
Zach-
some of the edge effects/frame effects in Tibor’s work may be polaroid neg. ( they made a 180 that was basically with a couple of tweaks a small view camera that used polaroid film that made a pos and neg at the same time) or PS versions thereof. Robert Frank really exploited that process way back, using the
