Mike Cline
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Air New Zealand http://www.airnewzealand.com/bookings/airfares-deals/the-perfect-time-to-travel-to-new-zealand.htm has RT airfares as low as $998 from LAX over the Winter (their summer) months.
Cole,
You might find some interesting advice as this forum: http://louisianakayakfishingassociation.com/
I am very impressed at the number of dudes willing to vote football on a fishing site myself.
Might be two reasons 1) They’ve already caught a 30″ trout 2) they don’t know how long 30″‘s really is.
Having a football program win the national title is a once in a lifetime experience that you’d get to remember for years, much like catching a 30″ brown.
Not if you are a Southern Cal fan 😉
I don’t like the thought of snakes, Cole. I get creeped out in the pit of my stomach just thinking about them.
Sure you aren’t related to the Laneys of Alabama.
Leaders for streamer fishing can perform more than a single function. I learned from Harry Murray–the Smallmouth guy–years ago to add about 18″ of Amnesia line in 20# for 5wgt and 30# for 7wgt to the end of my sink tips and sinking fly lines. This highly visible flouresent line makes for a great indicatior. The Amnesia ends in a perfection loop and I merely add 4′ of 0X or 1X when chucking streamers.
Streamers are all about pounding banks and structure with accurate casts–keeping the fly in the water. Since sink tips and sinking lines have to be retrieved to some extent before the fly can be recast, the amnesia gives the angler an accurate indicator as to the amount of line remaining in the water, even at some depth. The indicator allows line pickup to be made at the optimal time for recasting in a single stroke. No False casting required. Keeps the fly in the water and on target.
Between 15 minutes and a couple of hours depending on how fast you drive (We do 90+ in Montana most of the time), what few miles of the 1000’s available within a 150 mile radius of home you want to fish and how bad you need the wife to do a shuttle.
The following is an excerpt of an essay I wrote several years ago on my must read river fishing books. It is about my first angling book which has now led to a library of over 400 titles plus over 300 digital versions of pre-1928 literature.
Worming and Spinning For Trout – Jerome B. Wood (1959). Without a doubt, this one book published seven years before I graduated from high school, has had more influence on my fishing success than any other. The cover price was $3.95 and my mother brought it home one afternoon and gave it to me after she found it on a bargain table for $1 at a local bookstore in my home town of Pasadena, California. It still has the $1 price tag on the cover. At the time, my fishing was limited to an occasional trip to the beach piers at Newport or Huntington Beach with my parents or one of the local reservoirs in search of “Velveta Trout”. But things were changing. A friend of mine and I at the time were beginning to venture off into the canyons of the San Gabriel Mountains behind where we lived in search of native rainbow trout. Completely uneducated about real trout fishing, my mom decided I needed a book. Thus I came into procession of Worming and Spinning For Trout—a book solely devoted to catching difficult trout in heavily fished waters in Western New York. Unlikely as that might seem to apply to a Southern California teenager, three chapters—13-How to Spot Trout Hides, 17-Stream Approach, and 18-Spinning for Big Trout taught me how to catch fish in rivers and streams. A mere 156 pages, this book has been read countless times. Out of this book, I learned the technique of upstream spinning.
“Only now and then will you hear or read about upstream spinning for trout. It is a relatively rare method, [in 1959] but one that will consistently out fish any other spinning technique on most trout streams.”
That’s the opening paragraph in Chapter 18-Spinning for Big Trout. It was true in 1959, and although not unknown as a technique today, I still believe it is the most consistently successful method for fishing rivers and streams for trout, bass and anything else that swims therein. I catch a lot of fish and I would estimate that 90% or more of my casts when using ultra-light spinning gear are of the upstream techniques I learned in this book. In Chapter 17-Stream Approach I learned probably one of the most singularly important pieces of stream fishing advice in my fishing life:
“Be constantly on the lookout for such second-best opportunities. You must find them if you want to do better than average. Many other anglers are making the obvious approaches, fishing the obvious hides. What you want in heavily-fished streams is the less-obvious setup. Be a piscatorial rebel who refuses to follow the flock. It pays off.”
As I matured and entered the U.S. Air Force in the late 1960s I was blessed with lots of opportunities to fish in rivers and streams. Whenever I did, I was geared up for and using upstream spinning and stream reading techniques I learned in this wonderful book. Worming and Spinning for Trout was my inspiration.
Although I subsequently became devoted to Fly Fishing, this book and its lessons are still valid today.
Mike –
Biggest one I saw was about right at 20″ and the largest I landed was about 16-17″. And they were definitely all cutties. Are there rainbows out in the depths? How deep is that lake anyway? Buck Lake looked to be sterile.
Zach
Buck Lake is indeed sterile–Richard Parks.
