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the fishing school

nude ? at the fishing spot

park where i spotted first huge carp

fountain/pond where fished with a cuban yoyo (those pics are on point/shoot that the wife has, on her way home)

stairs down to river -spotted Liverworts (Hepatophyta) growing on walls. first time spotted in wild

our feet

fishing, leisurely

someone asked if i played for dc united at the hotel

eiffel tower at night in the pouring rain. wife yelling at me that we had to go, using top of a step for tripod

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BHC as it is known here is a real gem.

It has a lot of history, being near camp david and so close to d.c.

The stream can be fished year round. It is a great tail water with all sorts of water from plunge pools, riffles, runs, bends, bouldery pocket water, and man made obstructions like logs and falls. The browns have not been stocked since 40 years ago or something. All natural reproduction.

Did you get to see the Joe Brooks memorial?
Glad you got to see one of our local spots.

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what a great trip.
managed to put fishing gear in wife’s checked luggage, took a risk and had my rod in the sock so to speak.

ate macroons from laudre at a pond on the champs and saw some HUGE carp rolling.

ate and drank and ate and drank.

made it to the seine this past sunday. the fishing shop/school was closed so i slipped a card under their door and moved on. wanted to fish the island point near there but there were nudy sun bathers and not the kind you want to see.

wife and i sat by the pond at jardin du luxenberg. there were carp. couldn’t break out the rod so i tied a damsel nymph to some mono and made a cuban yo-yo. hooked one and it fell off.

met up with a childhood friend and bar hopped from the garden to the seine. we went to pont neuf (9th bridge) near notre damme and drank beer and smoked cigars on the bank. broke out the rod and fished without expecting to catch anything. didn’t catch a fish. it was just nice to be out with old friends and having a drink in paris.

i’ll convert pics to a url that this site will allow and get up soon.

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I sent you a PM. My buddy ties a lot of flies while on call as an ambulance driver in Denver. Maybe he can tie you some.

Where in the Midwest will you be fishing?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOAxtgQQJLw

1:57 into the clip.

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zach, check out lee’s avatar
its been a FT can

< 1 month till i get to colorado :) can't wait s

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sharp looking dungarees

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Richie @ urban angler can order some for me

feel free to hijack this thread with any items you are having trouble finding.

like bulk extaz (why don’t they sell it at the craft store in bulk like yarn?)

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please tell me you guys knew the term before this thread  🙂

urban dictionary for all your lingo these days.  try it there.

like i said, 30 rock season 3 had a great reference also john candy in the harry crumb (no pun) when his fake chest hair falls out. c’mon now guys.

you do know what a slump buster is (non baseball term) right ?

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here is an article on ^ subject

http://addictiveflyfishingadventures.blogspot.com/2007/08/what-hell-is-merkin-crab.html

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Del Brown, not the southern toupe -season 3 30 rock reference  😉
I read a recent story/article about the history of the fly and can’t remember off the top of my head.

here is a bio on del: http://www.danblanton.com/permit.html

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I’d go with websites of those with catalogs, not all webpages are user friendly, these are some more user friendly ones:

• Umpqua: http://www.umpqua.com/c-38-fly-gallery.aspx

• Orvis: http://www.orvis.com/store/shop.aspx?dir_id=1236&group_id=1594&cat_id=1288&shop_id=1447

• Cabelas: http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/subcategory/subcategory.jsp?id=cat20441&navCount=0&parentId=cat20431&navAction=jump

• Dan Baily: https://www.dan-bailey.com/Via/viaLauncher.jsp?targetPage=https://www.dan-bailey.com/Via/viaUserDoc.jsp&searchText=FLIES&reqTitle=TITLE_VIAUSERDOCLIST

• Brookside: http://www.brooksideflies.com/

• The Fly Shop: http://store.theflyshop.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=21

• LL Bean: http://www.llbean.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?page=dry-flies-mayfly&categoryId=5233&cat4=500155&storeId=1&catalogId=1&langId=-1&nav=va

• Solitude: http://www.solitudefly.com/flies.aspx

• online search: http://www.flydealflies.com/catalog1.html

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my normal LM/SM bass rod is my T3 10′ 6wt.
i think i’m throwing polyfuse bright orange something or other 7wt.

i don’t toss huge flies and my new foam bugs are mostly silhouette and no weight (craft foam + super hair) with a damsel nymph dropper.

i’ve taken my (7′) 3wt out on the lake and 5wt (8’6″-9′) which is fun, but the 6 allows me to cover more water and cast further.

small rod = more fun, more energy to fish
big rod = smidgen less fun, less energy expended

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bill,

as much as i dont’ want to lug around gear and deal with it on the plane and on my back, i’d rather put up with it than be with out. its like being with out “protection”. you go out with it and no luck. you return from albie fishing and go to a party with out it and the girls are all over you.  🙁

for example, i’ve learned my lesson from the past: we were on a zodiac around kauai on our honeymoon. captain said ‘there won’t be room on the boat for your gear and no time/place to fish’. we get to the lunch spot (and there was plenty of space on the boat- enough for our friend’s boyfirend to store all his clothes and be butt neked the whole day  :o, droped anchor, and low and behold, 20lb trigger fish fare everhwyere on the surface and fed top water for potato chips.  >:(

and having a broken 8wt in africa in ’98 with 4′ catfish eating olive bread off the surface of a river makes me want to travel with several rods  🙂

i’ll bet dollars to donuts in 2 weeks that you were 100% correct  🙂

only kauai pic i have now that was taken close to lunch spot:

here is the wife swimming with trash can lid sized fish

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flies as in what we throw to the fish or the actual insect that we are trying to represent with the thing we throw to the fish

to identify the actual fly thrown- look at fly fishing catalogs
to identify the insect – look at the above mentioned website

take a look at this site: http://www.flyfishusa.com/flies/02-pmd.htm

the page starts with a photograph of the insect with the flies used to represent the insect listed below

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i’d be too scared to take that out on anything but a lake.
looks awesome. wish i had one

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your criteria for ID above brings me back to entomology lab practicals.

we had to ID earwigs to the genus + species based on counting antannae segments.

counting those under a disect. scope gave the biggest headache

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so i’ve got just over a week till we take off.
i plan on taking a 9’6wt with floating line. i’ll take some split shot in lieu of a sink tip/line. probably just take some clousers, damsel nymphs, brassies, and a top water bug. some of my standard search patterns.

i’ve got the above mentioned locations printed out with maps to/from our hotel.

as mark s. knows, my back has been having a rough couple of months so we’ll see how i fare walking the city with camera + fishing gear in my daypack.

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many a shenanigans up there during the summer of my past.

i love the restaurant at the confluence of spruce x little j.
i think 4 of us ate a full meal, a few rounds of beer, and someone got a bag of chaw and the total was $20 with tip.

our favorite little j set ups:

foam hopper w/ san juan or egg dropper
mouserat fished at dusk
chernobyl (orvis used to sell ones that looked like circus peanut candy in black) ants splatted down under the trees

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from http://bugguide.net/node/view/205940 i was directed to http://www.troutnut.com/specimen/470

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