The I Ain't Fishin' Thread

This will prolly quickly sink to the bottom of our forum but hell....


Anyone else need to bitch about not fishin'? I sure as hell need to!

Got a 6 week old daughter at home and working more than I ever have in my life. I have 1 damn afternoon wading and a day on the boat, (thankfully with two other fellas that can row!), in the last 6 weeks. This is usually the time of year I'm out every other day or so, at least for a little while. Seems strange to change the way of life but WAY worth it to hang with my daughter. So I can't really bitch too much but I still ain't fishin'.

If you ain't fishin', bitch here :

My daughter is now 2 and I am fishing alot more. ;)

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Originally Posted by 72Twenty

My daughter is now 2 and I am fishing alot more. ;)

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That's what I like to hear!

Dude, a couple weeks ago we were in a big sporting goods store down in Colorado, and my daughter was riding in the shopping cart (standing up, of course, just like she was in the bow of a Clacka). I picked up a landing net and put it in the cart. My daughter picked it up and said "I go fishing?" She then proceeded to "scoop" imaginary fish with it out the sides of the shopping cart. It was awesome!

Someday I will pass on my 8ft 6wt to her - it was my first fly rod that my dad bought me when I was like 6.

New waders: check
New 8/9wt Albright GP: check
New WF8 sinking tip: check
Steelhead and salmon working up the Wilson: check

Getting on the river: buzzkill. Seems like every weekend is something else, although I can't complain about the good riding lately, but the replacing-my-mailbox project makes me bitter.

I'm done for the winter.
Shoulder is screwed up bad enough that I'm getting it looked at this week.

It's been busy here as well. Not like having a newborn but busy with soccer, school activities, work and getting ready for winter. Yesterday was our twelve year anniversary and a beautiful Indian summer day with temps around 60 at 10,000 feet. We decided to to a small day hike, suck up some sunshine and do some fishing. We only caught one small one but it was fun to be outside with the whole crew.

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Even my wife got in on the action. It was her first time with a fly rod and she actually enjoyed it. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not?

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Try and steal an hour here and there and all will be right.

Nice Pics 45Hill. Looks like a perfect day to me!

Schwerty - I can relate. I have a 9 week old at home. I've made it out a handful of times, but it's pretty tough to get out these days. I did sneak out yesterday to Silver Creek, but the fucking wind put the ol' Kibash on any decent hatch coming off.

What's killing me are the lack of duck hunting days that are adding up! At least this warm fall has postponed the big flights of birds, so I still have hope to blast some beaks in November and December (hopefully Drake will be sleeping through the night at that point).

^^^^way to go on naming your kid!

Heh, I wanted to name my daughter Madison Sage (Sage as a middle name), but the wife 86'd me on that. Mostly because Madison was such a popular name at the time and she didn't want to be "following a trend" even though I was thinking of cool river names to use. I picked Madison because "Platte", "Snake" and "Sweetwater" were not very good names for a little girl. :D I'm still keeping Sage in the mix if we have another kid - especially a boy. I can name him Sage Orvis or something. Heh heh... Or maybe Woolly Bugger. :D

One of my wife's favorite memories was the first time she saw the Brown Drakes on Silver Creek. She even came up with the name! She likes that it has the outdoor conotations. When she came up with it I just gave my gentle approval as to not scare her away from the name, and here we are! My kid is named after a bug! Who'd a thunk it.

Funny, I tried the Madison route with my wife if we had a girl and got the same response!

P.S. Woolly Bugger, PHD has a nice ring to it!

I caught a 18.5" brown on the Colorado yesterday.

Oops, wrong thread.

highs are <30° F lately... not condusive to fishing, that and the ice covering the rivers...

Spent some time in Colorado and in DC a couple weeks back. Wearing shorts, fishing for Macks in Colorado, it was pretty nice down in the lower 48. On the tangent of kid stoke, I did get to hang out with my niece! And see a Bronco game. And DC was cool.
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Fly back to Fairbanks and now I gotta plug my truck in at night and layer up every morning. I think it got down to -18 this morning.
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So I packed up the pontoon boat for the winter. Winterized and stored all the gear and tackle. End of the fishing season. But it was a good one! Its hit that tough time of year. Can't fish any more and skiing is very limited. Time to get some low angle in 5" of snow turns in!

So yea I miss fishing but I guess there's always ice-fishing.:rolleyes: (not a big fan of ice-fishing)

I have not fished for a trout in two weeks and need to check into the steelie clinic soon.
The deer have been good to me though.

Well, I'd by lying if I said I had not had a chance to go fishing lately. Still trying to get out once a week for a couple hours. With the economy downturn and the housing in the crapper I'm working 4-times as hard for less than half the dough, so thats a killer.

Schwerty, I know the feeling when you can't get out and get some quality time on water. It starts compounding as the days go by. But with a new daughter on the way in March, working harder to put dough in the bank seems more likely passtime than fishing. For that matter, with the way the housing has gone, and the fact both my wife and I are in Real Estate and loan servicing, there's no Alta/Bird pass this year, the Lotus 120's have not been mounted, nor any skins or Dynafits purchased this year...just keeping afloat.

I think as long as I can get to moving water this winter, this is the part of the board I will frequent, try to ignore the heavy snowfall advisories, and think about spring when my daughter arrives..

On a less tepid note. Made it up to Island Park a couple weeks ago, stayed in my nieghbors cabin on Island Park Reservoir. Fished the arm the cabin was on several times and caught some really nice bow's...the biggest a 25-inch PIG. Got back to the cabin, and a guide who lived next door said he really never sees anyone fishing that arm of the lake, especially with a flyrod. The next afternoon, he was out there in his drift boat. Got skunked one flat calm morning on Henry's lake (saw one fish caught), and drooled driving by the Madison, Gibbon, and Firehole in the Park. I'm going back next fall!!!

i just got my cast off after my second wrist surgery this year. I still have to wear a brace so casting is pretty much out of the question. Adding in a shoulder surgery, i've had something like 6 months of right wing impairment in the last 9 months. so for 2008, i logged one day skiing, maybe 20 fishing, and three surgeries.

here's to the new year!

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Originally Posted by Lumpy

Well, I'd by lying if I said I had not had a chance to go fishing lately. Still trying to get out once a week for a couple hours. With the economy downturn and the housing in the crapper I'm working 4-times as hard for less than half the dough, so thats a killer.

Schwerty, I know the feeling when you can't get out and get some quality time on water. It starts compounding as the days go by. But with a new daughter on the way in March, working harder to put dough in the bank seems more likely passtime than fishing. For that matter, with the way the housing has gone, and the fact both my wife and I are in Real Estate and loan servicing, there's no Alta/Bird pass this year, the Lotus 120's have not been mounted, nor any skins or Dynafits purchased this year...just keeping afloat.

I think as long as I can get to moving water this winter, this is the part of the board I will frequent, try to ignore the heavy snowfall advisories, and think about spring when my daughter arrives..

On a less tepid note. Made it up to Island Park a couple weeks ago, stayed in my nieghbors cabin on Island Park Reservoir. Fished the arm the cabin was on several times and caught some really nice bow's...the biggest a 25-inch PIG. Got back to the cabin, and a guide who lived next door said he really never sees anyone fishing that arm of the lake, especially with a flyrod. The next afternoon, he was out there in his drift boat. Got skunked one flat calm morning on Henry's lake (saw one fish caught), and drooled driving by the Madison, Gibbon, and Firehole in the Park. I'm going back next fall!!!

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Lumpy - Having a kid is unbelievably incredible! I'm only 8 weeks into it but the journey has been well worth the fishing I have missed and the days on snow I will miss this season. It's important to figure things out and work time for yourself, your wife and the two of ya together! It will all be worth it! Congrats! She will have a maggette - fishing -skiing friend up here to visit!

Glad your I.P trip went well. I was wondering?? I have few, (;), days in on that lake...you picked a good spot! Henry's lake gets most of the fly fishing pressure and IP is largely overlooked. Especially where you were. People try to hard on that lake. If they just looked at a map....:rolleyes:

You outta plan on a trip to Jellystone next season. I've been in this region for 14 years and still drool over all those rivers, creeks and lakes.

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Originally Posted by fez

i just got my cast off after my second wrist surgery this year. I still have to wear a brace so casting is pretty much out of the question. Adding in a shoulder surgery, i've had something like 6 months of right wing impairment in the last 9 months. so for 2008, i logged one day skiing, maybe 20 fishing, and three surgeries.

here's to the new year!

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Good luck to you this season Fez! Sounds like it wasn't your casting arm?!

It was my casting arm, 20 days is a very light fishing season for me. No kids, an understanding wife and a trout stream in the back yard lets me get out pretty often.