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I have friends who live in Silverthorne and I have fished that section of the Blue River three or four times.
Also, and I’m not trying to argumentative or anything, but Patrick is probably talking about a doubled multi overhand knot. A doubled surgeons knot is tied with a bite and used to create a loop, and what fisherman call a surgeons knot is most commonly water knot or doubled overhand (if you only go through the loop once), or if you go through the loop more than once its a cove knot, or a doubled multi overhand knot.
Are you sure you’re not mixing a “surgeon’s knot” and a “surgeon’s loop knot”?
It also means that cattle insurance is expensive, since one lightning strike will often wipe out a whole herd.
Can you save a bunch of money on your cattle insurance by switching to Geico?
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I’ve decided that the #8 super bugger in black, tan, or olive is just about the best carp fly in the world.
Something else I’ve picked up on after lots of hours on the water is when I see lots of butterflies (usually around the boat) the fishing is almost always very good?
Those are caddis, Tonto – it’s called a hatch.
But when they leave the boundaries, there needs to be some plan for these people that make their livelihood raising “Wolf food.”
The problem is that for too many people, “there needs to be some plan” is code for “kill them all.”
It’s obviously a selling point for some but how much influence does the warranty policy have on your rod choices?
I know for me it’s fairly low on the list of criteria.It’s a very important selling point for me. I wouldn’t pay several hundred dollars (or even a couple hundred) for a rod without a warranty for replacement or at least inexpensive repair. Stuff happens, and rod tips are easy to break. My first fly rod was a $200 Bass Pro rod with a 1-year warranty. At one year + 4 days, I made a bad cast and broke the tip with a clouser. No warranty, and they offer no repair options – my only choice was to go back and buy another rod.
I bought another rod, of course, but it wasn’t from Bass Pro. I don’t mind paying for the G.Loomis expeditor service a bit – $65 to replace a $600.00 rod is nothing.
It actually relieves me a bit to know they’re at least breaking even on the deal – even though the warranty is “no questions asked,” I always felt a bit guilty about sending in a rod broken through negligence (like the GLX that my two year old got hold of last year), because I don’t want to be hurting a rod company I like so much.
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Amazing that they would use carp as nothing more than target practice.
It’s just wholesale slaughter.
Zach, just a cautionary note about publicizing carp spots online. You are correct that there aren’t many people fly fishing for carp, and those few people aren’t likely to have much impact on a good flat even if you post directions on the Internet.
On the other hand, a couple rednecks with bows can wipe out your carp spot completely in half a day. I know, because a couple bowfishermen floated into my favorite carp spot toward the end of last July and shot every carp they saw. They just shot them, dropped them back into the water off their arrows, and left them dead, floating in the water. Best I could count, they killed over a hundred.
