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Ketchikan. But moving to Juneau in a couple months.
You'll dig Juneau. Eaglecrest is rad.
Took a stroll up North. Spent a few days riding the unfrozen snow, riffles are the equivelant of pow days. Camped in style like I always do, even big god slept in the cougar tent.
Caught a few from the pontoon first float, buddy that brought a float tube found it epic conditions, heh. He swore that off and waded the rest of the weekend.
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Took an evening float and didn't catch a thing, but it didn't matter. It's lonely being a predator.
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Favorite camping pal showed up after blowing off the b-room reno once again. More fish were caught.
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Finally got on some Stripers on the fly. Went out last year with http://www.capefishing.net/. He lives in the same campground as my father and Capt. John is a great guide. We unfortunately got skunked on the outing lat year (his first skunk in 15 years) so we headed back out last Thursday and we were on fish on the first cast. Landed 4 stripers and a blue and had a few other takes and one blue that snapped off close to the boat. We headed towards Old Silver to try to find some Albies to get a slam but they had moved out of the area.
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Right on!
Caught this cutt Sunday. I caught two bigger ones on Saturday. Big ass fish for a WA high lake.
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Nice shot LB! We should get in a day or two this fall!
Connecticut fall brookie
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Hey Big Steve, bet that cutty was good eatin!!
Yup Schwerty, you need to get yer ass up here, stat. Gimme a call!
]mr toaster kesserwer and i hit the road to chase tiggers
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camped at empty campgrounds enjoyed on of them grand harvest full moons
scored a few the next morn
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saws some poopfish
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put mr toaster up front and on em and he put em where they coulda been eaten but no takers
stopped to scope out the kokes
eh
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the equinox brought
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and thoughts of gettin high followed by 5k down
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i'd committed to a return to the colored tailwater
left a couple needy loaner chessie gods home with and used what she claims is the last why aint the guest bathroom 2 year project done yet hall pass
to get back
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despite adverse travel conditions
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the spot was hot
real hot ifin bobbering beads on the koke reds is your thing
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strorm blew through and left a decent day
gotta few to eat
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sniffed em good
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consumed
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prepped for tommarrow
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cold ground was not our bed that night slept in the cougar den
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awoke late and in a frosty headed haze
and searched for nuffs brain cells left from the night befores cerbral strip mining to pull it together and float
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snapped a few before heading to the ramp
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put in was a bit of a shit show and the honey hole crews had already staked out their claims
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but got the gods sumthins to sniff
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floated into camp and rousted team patron
stuck a few more
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shouda staid monday but that woulda removed any chance of scoring a late oct pass
was kinda surprised at how many people were there
the inferstructures still closed and overgrowing
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the first section closes to protect the
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oct 1
almost blew by the exit for work monday to head up north to poopfish
made an excuse to come in late tues and headed south
funny cause i remember starting the season looking up at a snowcapped timp
and 6 months later
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walked out a frosty pipe got one to eat but came undones
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got one from shore
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before suppinupa few more
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Hey, I recognize that pic. I think I was there that day.Quote:
Originally Posted by skifishbum
You took it
I stoles it from the fritztrips or a tr here
Your ak stokes made me ask the mrs. If we can relocate
The minis growin fast and living my dream
Last coho of the season. Saltwater took a chunk out of the boat trailer which also then destroyed the hull haul out ring. Got some work to do before we move north next month.
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Breaching humpback out there. Did this over and over again, right next to that boat.
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You should. Life is pretty chill up here. I love it.Quote:
Originally Posted by skifishbum
Despite really low water levels, cooler water temps and fish can still be found in eastern CT
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One last run before I set off on a month of work travel hell.
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^Shizzam!
what's biting in WA these days?
Few pics from a week in Fernie and then fished my way south through MT on my way home
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Stalking browns in NZ.
I am totally new to fly fishing and fish stalking and NZ rivers. I caught a few 0.5lb browns spinning across shallow tannin water flowing over rock. Zero on the fly - a lot to learn. I was not really into the whole stalking thing. Then after a few days started to get the idea, moving up river and targeting places fish would feed. But still not really feeling the vibe. Didn't really feel like I was fishing. Then I came up behind what looked like a 2.5lb dude just picking up nymphs in a downstream protected pocket. Suddenly was all pretty exciting, and I was crawling up behind him and casting from my knees. He swerved out to look at my nymph, and a few casts later I spooked him. Then all I wanted to do was stalk more of them! I felt the vibe.
I doubt I'll catch anything on a fly until I go out with someone who knows what they are doing. It is amazing the difference in skill and catch rate.
I found some beautiful road side water, and hiked into an incredible river. An amazingly pretty walk for several miles of rapids and pools. It is great what you can find when you get out a map and drive down country roads.
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Cool Neckbeard!
Good Luck, you can do it.
You got to be sneaky as, to be Sweet As!
These guys can help
Brent Beadle on Lake Brunner is a classic
http://www.brentbeadle.com
Stu Tripney just south of Queenstown is very good
http://www.stusflyshop.com/
Beautiful even if you spook every single one
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Pickup the "kiwimaps / Pathfinder" Complete Drivers Atlas from a gas station.
100% worth it
i used to worries more about catchin
tills i reaized it was a lifelong journey of an addiction i caught
don't gets me wrong the catchin is the actualization or sum total of doing shit right and failing aint always fun
but the prep, the location, the choice of weapons, the stalk, the cast ,presentation, the eat, the set, the hookup, the line control, the fight and everything else brings me about as much pleasure these days as does watching others do it right.
try n enjoy the journey and learning and fuckups as much as the final fulfillment of the act.
thats some serious coolwater
and nice poopfish stokes stapes
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got one with
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39 degrees at 8ish didn't have em movin much
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picked up a bit once the sun cleared the peaks
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majority tight to shore and flooded cattails and timber
spent a couple hours fuckin up, splashdown spook casting and a foot to much distance into shore snagglefuckin
a few foul hooks on mudboils and tailers
turns out they were stacked up pretty good on the inlet side up in the water column cruising or stationary sunning
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which happens to be the tightest and timberest
gots one
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managed to keep him from spookin the rest of the pod and put his ass in the nets
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tossed the next one a foot or so off where i wanted it to be stripped er and was rewarded with the triple tail pump
full commitment 30"er eat
fucked up and tried to pull him out instead of chasing him down and he took advantage to bush me into a rub off of the unhappy endings and spooked the rest
took a break tossed a few from shore and gave em an hour or so to chill
before heading back to score one more
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started doin a bit of ski season ass needs to go uphill and get in shape stuffs
i likes it when there is a reward of piscatorial pursuit at the tops
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thinkin bout a hollowed weenies wyo weekend greens thing if anyone needs an excuse to git outs
and chase rainbows of dreams like telees gorgie fish
My birthday brown.
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went for a walk
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found some fall colors
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