brian dunigan
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Keep in mind that most of us who own boats will kill you if you climb into our boats with studded wading boots on.
I’m shopping for wading boots right now so I’m following this thread with great interest.
It’s always tough to pick out a pair of sunglasses in a shop, where you can’t see how they actually perform streamside.
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What did we ever do before we could plug “stone to pounds” into Google and get a quick conversion?
It always drives me crazy that when I need a unit of measurement the most, it’s always given to me in the least accessible format.
If you Google “Pellet Fly” you will see all you need to know about flies for supplemental fed trout.
I don’t believe this stretch where I’ll be is supplemental fed, Roy. It’s private, but it’s nowhere near expensive enough to be pay to play, pellet-fed pig water.
I’m okay with stocked water, since that’s much of what we’ve got in the South (all the tailwaters, most of the non-mountain creeks, Tellico, Gatlinburg area, etc), but I don’t get any special thrill out of fishing to fed fish.
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I just lost a pair of Kaenons that had spectacular clarity. They were a little bad to fog up though. I think it was a function of the frame and how tightly they fit to my face. I’d definitely buy another pair, but probably with a different style frame.
Smith Action Optics makes a really nice pair of sunglasses too.
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A drift boat is only good to fish out of if you can sucker someone else into rowing. Otherwise give me something more manageable.
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Just remember to always go straight into the rapids.
Yeah this sounds really easy!
I have lots of experience going sideways into the rapids and straight into the strainers.
If you have ever read the story of the last guy who held the record, he kind of went through hell after he caught the fish. He had family conflicts because relatives thought he’d get a lot of money and they wanted handouts, he was taken advantage of in business deals, and he was really treated badly by other anglers who were envious or skeptical of the catch. He wrote at one point that he hated that he ever caught the fish.
Hopefully this guy gets better treatment than that, though the initial false stories circulating on the Internet aren’t encouraging.
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The pepper makes the bears sneeze so they can’t sneak up on you in your tent. It’s important to make sure your hunting partner camps closest to the woods, and put a little pepper on him, too.
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Mine is a Custom Gheenoe Classic. It is roomier than the Highsider but the Highsider is actually a really nice boat for a small skiff. Custom Gheenoe makes a special heavier nose cap for trolling motor mounting – I would be willing to bet the one fitted for the No Motor Zone model would also fit the Highsider since the specs are pretty much the same.
I just linked the site for the tournament standings – all you can see is a little bit of my boat floor. The rest of the boat is covered in dirt and funk right now though – carp fishing is much, much tougher on boats and gear than trout fishing.
I just got done fishing the Fly South Carp Tournament (http://flysouth.net/carp-tournament/) throughout the month of July. I probably need to clean it first. 🙂
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Brian,
I rebuilt my boat for fly fishing, and the design is based around a clean casting deck up front with nothing to tangle line on, so a bow mounted tolling motor would kind of defeat the purpose.Sorry for the minor thread hijack, but I assure you, my Gheenoe is 100 percent geared for fly fishing. That’s pretty much all I do out of it. I have a raised front deck that is large and clean. However, I also have a bow mount trolling motor – specifically a Minn Kota PowerDrive V II. It’s mounted all the way at the end of the nose cap and it has a very small “footprint,” so unless you stand right up against it, it would take a klutz of the highest order to have trouble tangling line on it. It’s not a problem for any flycaster who is remotely competent.
I’ve got a poling platform too, which is all well and good, but (1) a poling platform is no good unless you’ve got a second person along to pole you around, and I fish solo a lot; and (2) I can direct my boat a whole lot more precisely with the bow mount trolling motor than most people can with a pole.
The Minn Kota can be controlled with a low-profile foot control, or if even that is too much of an obstacle for your flyline, you can get a wireless control that fits around your wrist like a watch. Either way, there’s no tiller handle to get in your way.
Without a bow mount motor, fishing solo means either running a trolling motor off the back, which doesn’t maneuver well, or using a paddle in your free hand to make course adjustments, which inevitably costs you a fish sooner or later because one hits while you’re screwing with the paddle.
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So I guess the question is…in the last five years…has Bob (aka Dunfly) had any more close calls being bumped in the night while kayak fishing?
If he doesn’t post a reply soon I think we can all safely assume he got eaten by a shark.
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