Justin Witt
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Gary I have been looking for morels for the last couple seasons. Any tips on where exactly to find them in Georgia? Other than obvious places like big burns I don’t really know where to look.
Zach
I hunted Morels up in Wisconsin as a kid, and I remember always finding them in deep woods where most of the light was blocked out by the canopy.
I think everyone’s really missing the point here… A THIRTY DAY FLOAT TRIP?!?! That sounds unbelievably epic. I did a few 4 or so day ones this season and they were physically draining enough (admittedly we pushed the boundaries of daylight)… I can’t even imagine thirty days. That sounds absolutely fantastic though. How are you planning on dealing with things like camera batteries for that duration?
I agree. It’s unbelievable that a 30 day float trip is even possible anymore. That is unreal. After listening to your podcast episode recently, Justin, I must say that I am extremely jealous of your lifestyle.
Hey Guys,
Sorry this has taken so long; I just got back in from Rio Pico with my last group of the year.
This kind of thing is just so unfortunately common, but also an excellent example of why the Itinerant Angler Message Board stands out so much from the crowd. The internet, being a window of anonymity through which anyone can throw any brick they like into the traffic below without chance of repercussion, tends to bring out the worst in a lot of people, and most webmasters either turn a blind eye to that occurrence, or even worse, encourage it. Zach has done a great job of keeping this space positive, informative, cordial, and fun, and I’m sure it hasn’t been easy at times. Its a matter of culture, I think, in the end. And the culture here is just better than other places on the web. Several years ago I had one of my favorite clients in the world down, a guy who you just feel deep in your bones is the type of person who would never even think about doing the wrong thing, in any situation, and he caught a spectacular fish. It was a hen rainbow of 32″, and I encouraged him to enter our photo of it in another website’s contest. It got a lot of comments, and most of them were wonderful, but then some guy, who knows why, wrote “Dude looks like a retard”, and that got posted to the board. I felt terrible. My client wasn’t sensitive about it, and he still comes down every year. But the whole thing just still bothers me.
Like the others say in the threads above Zach, just ignore it. You can’t manage what goes on on the iTunes page, but you do a heck of a good job managing what goes on here, and there are a lot of us, I think a whole lot of us, that really appreciate all your work and the wonderful community space you have created.
I’ve been through the lot of them, starting with Canons and then going through the waterproof Pentax, and now with the waterproof Nikon.
I have clients arrive frequently down here in Argentina with fly boxes and also rods in carry on luggage.
Some very familiar sites there… Great stuff Justin! It brought me back there for sure!
Joel
Thanks Joel!
Sweet vid – the editing is fun. Are those giant browns lake run or resident river fish?
KbAbout half of what appears in the video in the way of browns are in fact lake run fish, and the other half not.
Nice! Thanks for posting this Maarten; I can’t wait to try it out down on the Santa Cruz this April.
I do quite a bit of bird hunting down here in Argentina during the winter months while fishing is closed. Ducks and geese make up the majority of our table fare throughout those months, but the real attraction for me are the California Quail and the Snipe. Two or even three hundred birds flushed in a day is actually common (the Quail covey up in chunks of fifty or more throughout most of the early season). So far I am hunting with a geriatric (and Alzheimers-ish) yellow lab who often forgets by the time she gets to shore with the first duck that two more hit the water right behind it, and a mutt I found way up int he Andes – La Negra. Negra is coming along this year though, and has in fact retrieved several quail from thick in the brush this year, only eating one of them, the first. She learned her lesson there! I have dreams of an English Pointer or German Shorthair for next year. Since I just built a house in the little Welsh town of Trevelin and have good neighbors, there are several area estancias I have permission to hunt – properties of up to twenty thousand hectares, which is far more than I can hunt in a day. I was away from hunting birds the first years I moved down here, and missed it terribly. I count myself blessed now to have these properties just five minutes drive from my front door, and quail picking their way through the front yard almost every morning. As the Eels once sang – “I like,… Birds.”
I had a really good fishing dog up in the states – Jenny. When she was a puppy I was in a phase of fishing a lot of small streams, and I taught her to stay behind me, regardless of whether I was moving upstream or down, so as not to spook fish. It was just a matter of verbal correction, and she picked it up pretty fast. I remember years later fishing on a stream up there with Danny Waldrop, on a stream up in the mountains with steep hillsides covered in mountain laurel. Danny kept worrying about Jenny and I told him, “Don’t worry, she’s up there, and she can see us” She would just keep up like that, right in her place, and appear at our sides from the brush the minute we sat down for lunch. Awesome dog. Most of the “fishing dogs” I have known to show up with friends though have been more like Riley- http://www.thisriveriswild.com/2012/10/fishing-with-riley.html.
I generally subscribe to the idea that if a dog is of a decent sort to begin with, and by this I mean as an individual, not as a breed, then it can be taught to act accordingly in whatever situations you plan to put it in.
I also have used a bunch of different materials for this including Firewire, and while it worked well it eventually does wear out. This winter I’ve been tying them all with Rio bite tippett, 20 LB, which is nice and limp for rear-fly movement, should last a long time, and will also work well with the Golden Dorado up in the North after my season down here.
