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Ranch may suck but the stretch after the meadow to Riverside has always produced when I've fished it.
Agreed with box canyon sentiment....if you want to catch fish on a limited time allotment, it's pretty sure fire.
Just fished the Madison last week.... It was so so. Not worth the drive IMHO.
Trip completed. MANY thanks to all of you whom contributed to its success. We stayed in one of the rental cabins with a view that allowed for safe keeping of my old man while wading and stupid easy access at trying to sucker a fish. Dragging the boat over would have been the right call if it was an out and back trip. No room for the yacht on the Big Wood and Silver Creek after departing Island Park. Joe at TroutHunter was super helpful and graciously hooked up the kids with stickers and goodies while I absorbed all that he was throwing at me. Young Meeks at Lost River in 5B was the man. Busted out the map and sent us on a mission. That shop is open till 10pm too which is critical when major life decisions are made at the last minute. No world records set, just a father and his son getting to fish together. A husband and wife escaping their children to dip a line and feast on local fare all while sharing smiles and debauchery along the way.
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Morning views.
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Pelicans vs Dad.
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Ranch Rainbow out of water... Flame suit on...3.2.1 GO
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After working my way through Arco and past Blizzard Mtn I hit up Silver Creek.
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Stepped out of the water and was immediately greeted by mom. Looking down on me she backed up and made plenty of noise to let me know how happy she was that I was there. I almost shit myself when she moved as I had no clue she was there. As I backed up slowly and away these two watched me the whole time.
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Big Wood with the ol' lady and friends delivered fun times that must be repeated soon.
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Ranch housemates. Killed 3 in the night. Apparently the Railroad Ranch is a no kill zone... "next time use your fishing net to get them out safely." You tell that to my wife buddy.
Looks like a win win, homie.
Cool trip and pics, but you are definitely lame to kill the bats. Lame on many levels, but that fat bat is full of mosquitos.
Buy a few bat houses to make up for your stupidity:
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Coveside-Co...8aArzDEALw_wcB
I'd love to tell your wife about the benefits of a healthy bat population.
Yeah, killin bats, what the fuck man?
He lives in N. Idaho, see this thread for further explanation: https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...o-Sandpoint-ID
Well fuck... Had I known you were heading to 5B, I would have taken you out for a day. Lost River is a great shop.
oh shit, I'm getting dizzy...Quote:
Originally Posted by mooseknuckles
The trick to getting bats out of the house is to open the door and then go to the opposite side of the room from the door. Use a broom or a fishing net , whatever, make yourself bigger and then slowly try to herd to bat to the door by making your "sonic profile" as large as you can. The bat is pinging and it can find the door. If you are flopping around in the middle of the room swinging shit at the bat then it just gets confused and panicked and it can't find the door.
Looks like a Wyoming circle jerk is commencing this weekend. Gonna be a few of us at the Fonts this weekend, anyone invited that would like to come. (Even Birdhunter)
You two would probably get along well. I heard he’s a huge bait dunker.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobMc
Dibs witnessed me murder a bat with a cowboy hat one time. Fairly certain it was rapid, so you’re all very welcome.
You get yer rapid shots? Them rapid bats are bad news.Quote:
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Appreciate all of your concern for my young children and other family members where these bats were found flying after waking them up from a dead sleep in the middle of the night. How does one become awoken from a dead sleep by said bat...by bat flapping them in the face on multiple occasions as they circle a room and crawl and scratch on window screens. I killed the bats in the night on 2 separate evenings. The state park has multiple bat houses located within the park and surrounding these cabins. These little fucks had ample opportunities to digest their mosquitos elsewhere. While I am sure my wife would love to build a bat house for you, she is busy trying to figure out how we are going to pay the unexpected 10k out of pocket for the amazing experience of immune globulin and rabies vaccines. The 7 shots per person in the first round were amazing...only 3 more trips to the docs office to go.Quote:
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I will attempt to take you up on this generous offer upon our next visit. Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by The Reverend Floater
TGR image uploader hates my phone. If the photo is not taken in landscape mode it will be loaded upside down or sideways. Total luck of the draw. Appreciate the GTFO bat method. Much of that was attempted however when its 1am and I'm trying to not wake my 3 and 7 yr old who are sleeping in the room with me and the rodent is flopping around on them and circling back and forth, space turns to a premium. The bat had ample opportunity to avoid the fly swatter beat down.Quote:
Originally Posted by neckdeep
Man would I have loved to watch you trying to get the bats with a fly swatter.
10k? Good lawd!
They were, like, really fast bats.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2FUNKY
Our bat landed on my friend’s neck before I dispatched it. His shots, some of which were in his neck, were $11K. After it was all said and done we were able to get him his own rabies tags from a veterinarian.
Yeah, I'm up for this. Gonna be warm out there this weekend - about 90.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobMc
Somebody ( Dibs?) pm me some details on the campsite. I can read a map.
I found a minty looking antique - ish fly rod in the garage last night. It's a Herters grand reserve st. albans. Might bring that along to play with.
Seriously? Did the doctors tell you it was neccesary? Unless someone was bit, you got screwed. You can only get rabies from a bat if it bites you. For real. Look it up. Rabies is transmitted via saliva. I used to do a lot of caving in my youth, been around hundreds of bats in close quarters. Every day, cavers are around bats without contracting rabies. I've camped in caves full of bats. Less than 0.5% of bat colonies carry rabies. Histoplasmosis is what we worried about, not rabies.Quote:
Originally Posted by mooseknuckles
I guess next time you'll save the bats for testing?
Sounds like he got raked.
No disrespect to Mr. Mooseknuckles, but this sounds like a crazy overreaction. Wife-driven perhaps, by the previous comments...?
I don't blame him for trying to protect his family, but jeezus... dem be pricey shots
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And this.
I was totally against the shots and thought for sure everyone was over reacting. I tried to let it go but the drumbeat only got louder and louder. I read about it, looked it up and tried to calculate the odds as I have been around bats in barns and caves many times. Consulted with the PhD expert at the health department "bats are the sole source of rabies in Idaho...we consider you and your families risk of exposure as EXTREMELY HIGH...We advise you to go to the ER and get treated immediately." Then the MD consults began...Infectious Disease, Pediatrician, FP's, ED docs and the list goes on.
Norse, "Wife-driven" for sure. Instantly after the first night of hearing about the bat being killed where children were sleeping, from memory my wife recites me the CDC guidelines. You can't even imagine the reaction after night 2 in the cabin when the next two bats were found, one hitting her in the face and leg as well as my daughter, the other in my mothers room. Unfortunately the anomalies are far too common in her day to day life. No one held us down and forced us to get the shots. With rabies there is no wait and see. There is only one outcome, death.
ND, no bite required. http://www.wesh.com/article/6-year-o...ction/15169351
Hindsight, I should have saved the stock pile of bats I accumulated for testing instead of tossing them out to nature. Raked...possibly. My mother said she is going to die soon but my father said he is not ready to die tomorrow. I witnessed the bat grazing the faces of my sons as they were on a sleeping pad on the floor as I attempted to get it out of the bedroom and out of the house. My wife was hit in the face and leg and says she saw it close to my daughter as they were in the same room together. To loose a child or spouse due to a scratch from a rabid bat that I chose not to get vaccinated after multiple recommendations from countless field specialists and medical professionals, not sure I could deal with that.
The Great Bat Clusterfuck of 2018!
Sorry your fam went through this, man. And sorry to cunt up this thread by questioning your choices. I stand corrected now that the story is told.
Hopefully you can laugh about it all soon.
Bowing out.
due to an unforseen broken collarbone and a now postponed trip to whistler I may be able to make it. I think I can fish but won't know until a couple days when the swelling goes down. I definitely would not be able to row. Any chance someone would have a seat in a boat for a handicap?Quote:
Originally Posted by BobMc
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Originally Posted by BobMc
Appreciate the invite, but the Fonts in August doesn't sound too appealing to me. I don't think I've ever fished there in August before, maybe you know something I don't?
Btw, hands down the best bait at the fonts is live crawdads. I have no doubt that Bob will represent us bait tanglers well.
Hope you got a refund on the cabins. I looked it up and you are correct, the standard CDC protocol now is if a bat is found in a room with sleeping children then shots are administered prophylactically.Quote:
Originally Posted by mooseknuckles
SlatecreekQuote:
Originally Posted by Djongo Unchained
I will chauffeur row you my gimpy friend and we can throw DJ in the back. I would drag the red rocket out but I need to figure out a fender situation and clean the l3aky op valve in the floor. Might throw a late night at it but probably not.Quote:
Originally Posted by dfinn
Caught a wyo cuttslam around the tribasin divide last Sun. Phone went for a long swim in a deep hole along with fartographic proof. Surprisingly bigguns in one of them cricks too. That is goddamn gods country in the wyo range can't wait to get back up there
bummers bout the bats
i seem to recall bat boys bat being dispatched
but not into the river leo who showed up soon afters possession
ill probably head up this afternoon/eve
if we aint at slate creek
weeping rock has better swinging run
and were there
pm you my digits
bummer bout the wing d
ill bring your project wounded warrior shirt and a south bend auto strip oreno reel and
if ya wanna float we all aint gonna fit in a 17' boat
fingers crossed but I am no where near as mobile or feeling all awesome like like the doc said I'd be by the end of the week. He may have been a bit aggressive on his timing. Not a chance in hell I could wave a fly pole around right now, definitely not one attached to a heavy sink tip and a 6" streamer.
Just bring a bait caster and some rubber worms....
Or a Tenkara rod!
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Or a tenkara stick and a bucket of crawlersQuote:
Originally Posted by BobMc
Transport issues kept me out of this weekends whydaho circlejerk.
Hope you guys tenkara the fuk outta some whitefish
They caught some Utah chubs. I do know that. I’m hoping someone stuck a J hook through one of them and sunk it to the bottom of a deep hole.
Fish were caught. Coulda used the other generator and some A/C for the mid afternoon siestas. Spent most of my time being a hugeflyfisherman, but did delve into the worms for a float and 1/10th of another. Pink bobbers definitely outperformed worms.
I hooked a lot of fish and could get them to the boat, that’s where it seemed to usually break down. Lotta hook pulls at the boat.
Djongo came over from Jackson and helped to row the Tupparware mothership. (And bring us beers and goodies, thanks man!). The Ugly Stick from Lando was paid forward, be sure to get out and use it!
My Pax took a dunking on Saturday afternoon and refused to turn on until magically coming to life this morning to make breaking camp more enjoyable.
Pre-trip pontoon maintenance.
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Bindi wants off the pontoon
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My dog always looks HAF
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Bindi spent at least three minutes chasing that around a trailer tire.
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She was pleased.
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i missed the chub part on shuttleQuote:
Originally Posted by Underoos
not sure of his fate
but i do slay the colorado chubbler my bro kicked down
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good shit kids
pleasure as always
sharin piscatorial pursuits
other than that
anti bat gear
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worked great
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Man, what a really fun time. Thanks BobMC and Skifishbum for introducing me to the wonderful world of fishing The Green.
Good living right there. I could do that again in the fall. Do let's.
Sheldon and Bindi - pleased to make yer acquaintances. Doglove.
That kid's a chubbler...Quote:
Originally Posted by mooseknuckles
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Not mine even though all of mine started way off the charts.Quote:
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Fall gatherings are alive and well on the western slope of Idaho. Geared up for chrome domes. For all you 2 handed line tossers, be warned "this type of fishing will make you fat" -2Funky
2Funky and a Vegas transient on the prowl
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First timer steelhead stoke (TGR hates me fone, enjoy some side slinging action)
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dem be some DSL
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This is some serious ass shit, look tough
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Bobber game was high and dry
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Native evening action
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Smiles all around
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Meat snacks for the road
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Mediocre angler acting as a guide, send bro forms.
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Open invite to all to share the water.
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Good times man! Cut a few filets off that pig then the rest was cut for smoking which will take place Sunday.
I need to move to Idaho.