2021 GILL FUCKERS COMMUNITY THREAD

With the hill a gooey mess & 70deg weather, I decided to try out my 10’ 3 wt and the flies I’d started to learn how to tie this winter.

My Euro casting is not tight at all.
On the bright side, I picked up a frenchie, some kind of perdigon & a sculpin from a nearby tree while I recovered my own rig at the first spot I stepped in. Net fly count: +3 And bonus affirmation that I’m not the only asshat that liked the look of the spot but couldn’t cast a tight window. At least I cleaned up some plastic from the trees...

I was happy to connect on a hare’s ear and a caddis pupa I had tied. I gave a few I tied to my buddy as well and he hit on a perdigon and the hare’s ear as well

Burned my hands which haven’t seen sunshine in months and caught a few fish

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Cool stuff here. Just getting back into fly flailing after a long hiatus. Looking forward to regularly getting stiffed on the Metolius.

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Been on a bender

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Saw this and had a flashback to my college days. One of my roommates was really into tying. One day his sometimes live-in girlfriend left after him and apparently forgot to close his BR door completely.

That afternoon I’m in my room next door, hear him come up the stairs, then yelling “GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING ASSHOLES” or something to that effect.

Looked out the door just in time to see the two house cats flying down the stairwell, in the classic thrown-cat position. The air in his room was filled with feathers, like a pillow just exploded.

He blamed the cats, the rest of us blamed the GF. Other than the replacement cost, it was funny as fuck.

He broke up with GF 3mos later

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With the hill a gooey mess & 70deg weather, I decided to try out my 10’ 3 wt and the flies I’d started to learn how to tie this winter.

My Euro casting is not tight at all.
On the bright side, I picked up a frenchie, some kind of perdigon & a sculpin from a nearby tree while I recovered my own rig at the first spot I stepped in. Net fly count: +3 And bonus affirmation that I’m not the only asshat that liked the look of the spot but couldn’t cast a tight window. At least I cleaned up some plastic from the trees...

I was happy to connect on a hare’s ear and a caddis pupa I had tied. I gave a few I tied to my buddy as well and he hit on a perdigon and the hare’s ear as well

Burned my hands which haven’t seen sunshine in months and caught a few fish

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Deschutes? White River?
Nice fish

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Deschutes? White River?
Nice fish

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Deschutes
[I thought of Jonesy for the second shot]

The Metolius was the first place I ever tried fly fishing — it was a bit of a quiet day :)
It’s on the list for this summer

I mean, I guess it makes sense, I just didn’t think there were squawker’s on the Deschutes. It would be cool if there was like a sub thread for squawkers.

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Nice. Looks like Black Butte corner.

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I mean, I guess it makes sense, I just didn’t think there were squawker’s on the Deschutes. It would be cool if there was like a sub thread for squawkers.

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squawker == northern pikeminnow?

i was surprised to find them but they are native
no bounty program in the Deschutes, but there is in the Columbia

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no bounty program in the Deschutes, but there is in the Columbia

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I didn't know that. That's insane, frankly. There always seems to be some sort of human corrective action for the human created problem that fucked things up in the first place, and the corrective action never works.
Fake concrete spawning channels
Killing or transporting seals
Barging anadromous species
etc.

that one in the pic was actually a leaper so at first I wasn't certain what I'd hooked
it didn't feel rainbow-y, but out of the water is usually redside

They pull hard to start, and then ya reel 'em in. Never had one jump. Cool.

doubled up with a buddy on a guided trip in CO this weekend. Strikes were damned near simultaneous.

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Stuck quite a few decent browns too.

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Hey Harry be careful going into your favorite fishing hole. It’s probably good to go now they killed the bear, well unless another one moves in on the moose carcass.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbc...mp/ncna1264590

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Now all I need is a huge fly fisherman sticker

Great pic!

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Hey Harry be careful going into your favorite fishing hole. It’s probably good to go now they killed the bear, well unless another one moves in on the moose carcass.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbc...mp/ncna1264590

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FUCK. I knew the guy.

Not real well, first name basis only. Met him at this exact same fishing hole quite a few years ago. Bakers Hole is my favorite spot to fish, he was there all the time. We are both solitary people, we would see each other fishing, nod or wave, and go our separate ways. Could have easily been me.

RIP brother.




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Sorry to hear that, but glad you are ok. More lunch break trout:

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FUCK. I knew the guy.

Not real well, first name basis only. Met him at this exact same fishing hole quite a few years ago. Bakers Hole is my favorite spot to fish, he was there all the time. We are both solitary people, we would see each other fishing, nod or wave, and go our separate ways. Could have easily been me.

RIP brother.




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Damn Harry, this hits close to home. Good reminder to remember bear spray - something I forgot all to often.

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Anyone been down on the South Platte near Deckers? How’s is it fishing now?

Fun trip over to Colorado, fishing wasn’t the best and we could’ve lost one of us, but good times were had.

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That’s a hell of a mark — what happened? Jetboil fight?


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^^ hey sled
Where are you living these days ? I’ve been using that St Croix 8wt you sold me back here in Wisconsin.


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fished the S. Platte 7 or 8 miles below Deckers Fri 23, 2021....hadn't been there in five years....low flow NOT many people!! excellent BWO hatch from noon until 2 pm then dead....not lots of bugs but lots of noses up...a few on parachute 18 BWO and lots on a trailing 20 brown emerger a foot back......Chet

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fished the S. Platte 7 or 8 miles below Deckers Fri 23, 2021....hadn't been there in five years....low flow NOT many people!! excellent BWO hatch from noon until 2 pm then dead....not lots of bugs but lots of noses up...a few on parachute 18 BWO and lots on a trailing 20 brown emerger a foot back......Chet

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Thank you!

My 9 year old has shown interest in fishing rivers with me and I’m wondering if I should start her out on a small spinning rod while I fly fish? My typical fishing is in CO, on Clear Creek, South Platte near Deckers, Blue River, Eagle River and CO River.

^ Don’t think starting out on spinning gear is a necessity. Teach her how to casting basics in the yard first, make it into a game. First time on water go for panfish at a local pond or something (little casting required). Go from there


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My 9 year old has shown interest in fishing rivers with me and I’m wondering if I should start her out on a small spinning rod while I fly fish? My typical fishing is in CO, on Clear Creek, South Platte near Deckers, Blue River, Eagle River and CO River.

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My grampa taught me fly fishing at age 6 or so. Basically it was Tenkara. I caught shitloads of Perch with my little cane pole and a dry fly.


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^^ ok good ideas, thanks.

Hey Harry! Still BZN. I am a permanent fixture now. :)

Glad to hear it! That is a perfect sconi rod. How long you out that way?


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I was in the exact same position six years ago. Started my 9 y/o girl with a Ross Journey 7' 4wt rod/reel combo, Cabela's waders, and Simms boots. Not high end but definitely not junk. We fished Clear Creek at the gravel mine below Idaho Springs and she landed a couple of decent rainbows on real fly gear. I still remember the smiles. She's since moved on to bigger/better gear and fishes with me a few times every summer.

Still have all that gear and cleaned it up last summer for a friend's kid to use. If you're interested, I'd be happy to pass it along to help get another CO girl on the water. I'm in Denver. PM me if you're interested.

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Fun trip over to Colorado, fishing wasn’t the best and we could’ve lost one of us, but good times were had.

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Damn! Tell me more about this? Wondering if I need to rethink my Jetboil AM coffee


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If the canister is being funky because of the cold don’t heat it on another stove.

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If the canister is being funky because of the cold don’t heat it on another stove.

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no shit, eh?

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If the canister is being funky because of the cold don’t heat it on another stove.

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God damn! Duly noted. Glad it wasn’t worse.


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I was in the exact same position six years ago. Started my 9 y/o girl with a Ross Journey 7' 4wt rod/reel combo, Cabela's waders, and Simms boots. Not high end but definitely not junk. We fished Clear Creek at the gravel mine below Idaho Springs and she landed a couple of decent rainbows on real fly gear. I still remember the smiles. She's since moved on to bigger/better gear and fishes with me a few times every summer.

Still have all that gear and cleaned it up last summer for a friend's kid to use. If you're interested, I'd be happy to pass it along to help get another CO girl on the water. I'm in Denver. PM me if you're interested.

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That’s awesome. So she was able to learn to manage the line ok? I’m worried I’m going to run into nonstop meltdowns [emoji51]

Thank you for the offer. Let me think about it.

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If the canister is being funky because of the cold don’t heat it on another stove.

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What did it do?
The canister exploded?
Or it launched into someone?
Looks like a huge contusion with smaller cuts...
Glad it wasn’t too bad...

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What did it do?
The canister exploded?
Or it launched into someone?
Looks like a huge contusion with smaller cuts...
Glad it wasn’t too bad...

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It was super cold out in the morning, we’d put the jetboil in a pan of water on another stove to warm up the canister. It may have been on for a bit too long. A buddy of ours walked over and turned off the propane stove heating the water. As soon as he turned the stove off the jetboil exploded, it wasn’t a flame type explosion, more of superheated compressed gas.

It threw the cup portion of the jetboil into T’s shoulder, knocking him to the ground like he’d been hit by a truck. The burner and remnants of the canister shot at least 50’ in the air. I’m guessing that finned section hit him near the armpit and caused the cuts, that distinct line on his bruise on the bicep is from the top of the cup.

It could’ve been a lot worse, if it had hit him in the head I’m not sure what would’ve happened. We were a long freaking ways from any type of hospital.

Be careful heating those canisters.

Fuck, that looks and sounds brutal.

Somewhat related, our bellmen use air horns (horn attached to aerosol can) to signal loads on the crane. This morning, one of them had a defective horn and thought it would be a good idea to warm it up in the exhaust of one of the ground heaters. He literally put the can inside the exhaust and walked way.. A few minutes later there was a bang and puff of black smoke out of the exhaust. Everyone thought it was a backfire, then a couple seconds later the remnants of the horn landed next to the superintendent’s feet.


anyway, back to the fishing