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Did our annual post Labor Day mini-summit. Smaller crew this year but I FINALLY met SFB’s (much) better half. Had a blast, as always.
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Nice pics. Looks like a great trip. Two things that stood out.
That drift boat is massive.
That camp looks sweet.
Dude! Sign me up.Quote:
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better weather than last year
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went up sunday holiday weekend clusterfuck in full effect
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res is at 70ish % river flows 1500 cfsish
stoked the spanser finally made one she came up monday and we got a few to eat the hoppers
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the crew o roos showed up and the weekend warriors left
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sheldon made a new friend
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loaded up and launched at the dam
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Passed a gagle of bobber weilding guide boats the 1st mile and saw very few boats after
good to be back on the home waters or in em in sheldons case
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stuck a few
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left a canyon to a hole and floated on downrivers
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my guide put me into a few more
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limit out on smiles
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never sucks to row the sik gnars clean
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puts me at 50% for the year:cool:
pulled into camp and set up
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mallow roasting smores life skills matter
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sheldons swum till he bonked
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another day dawns
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there really isnt a bad camp on the river
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betties and gogurts
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sheldon swam and we busted out the big sticks of both hands needed
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mr brown continued to eat the hoppers
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the mrs. split to git my dad in for another ticker test at taylors
i dont often ditch the fur kid but i did
tried to put the grommet into a fish
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floated on
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the roo jumped up front and stuck a hopper sippin hog with the groms 6 1/2 foot glass echo geko
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rolled into camp and busted out the shade and the sup
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sunburn ill gitcha
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the rude god, huge one and i got up early and stuck a few from camp
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bfast conventional style
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and unconventional
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loaded up and headed down
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the river miles flow by and before you know it your at the takeout
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made a few final casts loaded up the big blue roo carriers and said goodbyes with plans to git the float on again in the future
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went to go find boblandia
1st step in curb appeal
diggin the curbs
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spreads got potential
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willow came and says tell me more about these boat things you speak off
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i headed back to the river camp as i had left the groover and tent set up
friday dawned I reminded myself i was using pto from work and the 1st step to being a professional poopfisherman
is gittin paid to do it
weather /wind forecast looked good all morn
drove to the res and threw the king kamia mia sup in
didnt take long to find em and it never sucks to git em from the gits go
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the high clouds and wind help off most of the morning
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managed a few slobs
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wind picked up road it around jug hollow to the next bay
found a few more tailers tearing up the flats in spring creek
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hiked back to the truck and drove over to pull out the sup and head back to boblandia
where the hell is boblandia?
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up on bobs bluff
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lumpy showed up with the skin and fur kid and we were treated to a banner sunset and dug out a fire pit
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bucked my camp at swallow and headed to boblandia 4 breakfast via griddle and to roust the crew
tried to put in at cowboy but the water hadnt come up yet
inflated the duckie for the grommets and drove it downstream of the white waters
loaded up and got the float on
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put the skin kids in the ducky and lumpys furkid in the back despite her wanting to ride up front
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lumpy tied a couple on
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and stuck some fish
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the abodes of the canyons denizens mr powell namesaked a century and 1/2 ago
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floated on
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stopped for lunch
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and the lab to do lab
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the willow one says i guess these boat things you spoke off aint bad
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floated on
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lumpy stuck a few mur
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kids had fun
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winds cranked up and a front was coming through
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pulled out n back to boblandia loaded up n made er home fore dark
Swung a bit in the morning on the Rogue on a day long Southern Oregon work boomerang. Caught a few troot but not the kind i wanted. Loved it tho.
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This guy’s been caught a few times, but he’s pretty.
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fishing jong question, but how can you tell they’ve been caught prior? I’m assuming something obvious in the mouth / fish palate (or pallet if you are mtt [emoji23])Quote:
Originally Posted by plugboots
His jaws are kinda beat up from hooks/line cutting into them.Quote:
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Been diggin' the upper river the past week or so.
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my brother found an old rod in a goodwill store -- $8
at that price, why not get it?
he gave it to me for my birthday as an [sarcastically] "improved" euro rod
16' fiberglass telescoping rod...lots of flex
i put an old broken 4/5/6 wt scientific anglers reel on it and took it to the river to try out
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it delivered a couple whitefish on its first "tighline" outing
next trial: distance casting
i like the fall turn
stillwaters cool down and the fish git frisky and the throttle monkey power squadron of wave makers give up
the scenic route doesnt suck
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nor does calm flat water mornings
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the creeper from heber
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timp
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the berry
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the newf
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mur turn colored slutty cutties
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cheers og
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Yup fall fishing is the best.
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Check out the sucker nose on this brown:
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Also, turns out Jessie is great to fish with:
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Love a fall Saturday
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Yesterday was likely my last day of trout fishing for the season. The hike up to Diamond Lake is hours of bushwacking and climbing over deadfalls, but worth it. Great weather, a bald eagle, two groups of mountain goats and willing cutthroat made for a great day.
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Diamond is legit. Nice work.
Things around town are popping right now. Incredible weather all over SW Montana.
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We could have used more hours of daylight and fewer deadfalls, but a really spectacular spot.Quote:
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its that magical a dozen an hour all day stillwaters slimer smackdown time of year that will just keep going till ice up
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Midge season.
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