Healing vibes for SFB’s Dad. I hope to fish with him someday.
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Healing vibes for SFB’s Dad. I hope to fish with him someday.
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Originally Posted by plugboots
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Pilot and Index. Home sweet home!
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This area is so bad ass. Last night's sunset...killer.Quote:
Originally Posted by teleee
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To touch back on last year's thread, a block of 5 Taylor Flats lots came up for sale yesterday, 1.15 acres. Lumpy jumped on it for me, I'm now under contract with 25 days to do dilligence. We talked to the health department and they require 4 lots to allow a septic system install. We have calls into Daggett County to see exactly how much land we have to own to build. There are single lot owners adjacent to the five I'm buying so if we do indeed need 6 lots we've already sent letters to them inquiring if they want to sell their single lots.
The price was right and I figure if I need 6 lots someone will eventually sell or someone may come looking for me to buy mine. I'm pretty excited and hopefully it'll work out I can put my trailer there and leave it.
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Out-fished again…she made me lunch out of sheer pity.
Ah chasing bug dumb cutts in the beartooths is always a good time.
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Send out a stamped postcard to all surrounding lots, you'll get more response. I had 7 lots at one time. Got my first on the steps of the court house in Manilla Utah for 75$. Good times.Quote:
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So. Much. Fun.Quote:
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Whirlwinded out there and looked at it today. Now I’m even more excited, our lots are nice and flat, the wife is stoked and the views are stupendous. Curious, when I click around the Daggett county tax parcel map I see people with structures and not 6 lots? Did you have anything on your 7 lots? Were you able to leave a trailer there?Quote:
Originally Posted by new yabyum
I’m going in with the assumption I won’t be able to build or leave anything, gonna watch for a 6th and hope for the best. I am hoping I can pitch a tent and camp for a few days while dragging the lot with my 4 wheeler and chain to get rid of the sage/cacti.
Unless there’s a fly in the ointment I’m going to own these lots.
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Fun fact, when clicking around the map I noticed a “Kyle Beckerman” owns 12 lots south of mine. Googled the SLC address given and it’s up in Ensign Peak area. Drove past his 12 lots and saw the soccer ball in the weeds, pretty sure it’s “that” Kyle.
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Nice Bob! “That” kyle loves to fish, so wouldn’t surprise me.
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Damn you are making me home sick! That is my families summer range. I have spent days out there on horseback fishing when I was supposed to be checking on cows.Quote:
Originally Posted by swimmy
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That is awesome. We've driven through but this is our first time really exploring the area. This place is awesome. Yesterday we caught fish and then bagged a peak.Quote:
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Oh and look for it
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Nice fish
What flies do you all from CO put on the line in higher alpine lakes like Long Lake/Brainard Lake near Ward or Loch Lomond?
Why Royal Wulff, naturally. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by The SnowShow
Six biggins’ today in CR. That’s a lot of tuna
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I usually fish a dry -dropper rig. Chubby Chernobyl or an Amy's Ant with a black zebra midge or bead head hare's ear. I've also done really well with a stimulator in the IPW alpine lakes.Quote:
Originally Posted by The SnowShow
If you're going to Brainard, I'd skip Brainard Lake, it gets fished alot since it's next to the parking lot. Long is good, and Mitchell and Blue are worth a walk.
Don't miss the outlet stream from Long Lake -
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Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by Skistack
Wanted to hike, fish, bag a peak. No fish in the lake but views from the top were nice.
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Swimmy you are killing it! Love the photos. We decided on a change of venue and headed to Montana to meet some friends and fish some different waters
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It was smoky
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But at least we had the river to ourselves
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Makes me sad in the pants to see what has become of what used to be one of my favorite rivers. The guide traffic is unbelievable.
But it was awesome to hang out in camp, catch up with some old friends and drink some brown water and watch the locals walk by.
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Holy shit. Yeah, they can have it.
I think I'm pretty much done with main stems until September.
My game right now is alpine lakes.
Um, wowQuote:
Originally Posted by teleee
…since it’s clearly not a closely guarded secret…where is that?
The MadisonQuote:
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This is crazy to see. It’s one of my favorite destination waters as well. Tough year for the MT crowd. Low/no water on the big hole, high water for irrigation on the beaver head, hopefully this is a result of these guides having nowhere else to go.Quote:
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I may be wrong, but the Madison doesn’t require the same outfitter permitting as some of the other waters in the area? I heard from some buddies that this may be changing??
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Wifey got into a couple big rainbows out in dirt road WY.
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hopefully it's temporary?Quote:
Originally Posted by jpcmoriarty
i wondered if fire/smoke pressure & hoot owl was just creating a natural squeeze?
i can't imagine the guides love that kind of scene either
It is a little bit from the other rivers, but the Madison has the same hoot owl regs in place, the problem is they have NO control on the amount of guides allowed in the water. I passed or was passed by probably 50 plus boats on Saturday, other than my boat I counted 4 other boats who weren't guides. I keep hearing rumblings of them changing this but I will believe it when I see it, money seems to do most of the talking in that town.Quote:
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By the way nice bow by your wife, I love that dirt road.
Yet they tell us traffic on that river is something like 80-20 private to commercial. That is such bullshit. I'd love to see how they gathered that data.Quote:
Originally Posted by teleee
EXACTLY!! Complete and utter horseshit - just follow the money on that whole scenario. It ain’t the private boats.Quote:
Originally Posted by swimmy
Every boat in that picture had a guide in it We were the only 2 boats at the ramp that didn’t have a guide placard - and we were already out when I took that picture.
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I was watching that ZOOM conference when they said that. Comments went crazy with people calling bullshit. The guide lobby has a lot of political pull, that Teabagger state legislature nut from Ennis does anything they ask for.Quote:
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damn looks like a lot of dudes and dudettes do care that they are guides;)
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aint seen another boat yet this season
probably wont till waterfowl whackin season starts
dont needs to hoot the poops and they eat more when its hot and it takes more than elevated water temp to kill em
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yup id concurQuote:
"A man who habitually fishes for carp has a strange look in his eyes"
-Arthur Ransome "Carp" Rod and Line (1929)
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waits till .....
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Teleee- that’s crazy up there! Summer is always nuts but that’s extra nuts.
Was shooting the shit with a guy I used to guide with long ago yesterday evening on my porch, (much better than an over crowded bar!). We were sharing recent info from the guys and gals we know still in the fishin business. Pretty much everyone says things are fucked around here too. Guide day limits are being “stretched”, (basically blown off in many cases). Both sides of the hill. But…not by all outfitters. Seems like there are some honest folks still left.
Tough. Especially when tribs of the big water and small streams are to hot to explore.
I guess there is a bright side to the climate change and mass influx of people…my wife hasn’t remarked yet this fishing season that she feels like a single parent. So I might be winning points for a trip to see the boys in KW.
I’m hanging up my gear til fall. But, I can still drink brown water. We will share one soon.
My paltry pictoral offerings from the Metolius River.
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Not sure what y'all do, but it's fucking hard for me to juggle rod, net and camera while standing thigh deep in the current and trying to treat the fish gently. I've lost two at the kodak moment and was unable to photo two others.
Life link split: got your PM and responded.
www.muskyshop.com is in Minoqua and they will have what you need. That’s real close to your sister’s place. The Musky Shop is probably the best place in northern Wisconsin for musky info and gear.
Also there is a place in downtown Ladysmith that is a fishing/archery place that has “some” flies, but they are not fly fishermen themselves and don’t know shit. Wear your red MAGA hat if you want to fit in with those bozos.
If I understand your route, you are passing about 6 miles from my Mom’s house, and will be crossing a bridge over River X, the river that supposedly has zero Muskys, but everyone knows it has state record 50+ inchers. Locals here are sworn to secrecy. I talked to a DNR agent at the boat ramp and he confirmed that they know all about River X and are not publicly talking about it. That guy who used to guide for Headhunters in Craig is now doing guided trips on River X, surprised he has not been shot at.
My digits are in my PM, but I am a ways from your family’s place and I understand how important it is for you to see your Dad right now, so I am not really expecting you to call. Best wishes for your Dads health.
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Are we talking muskies on a fly rod? I'm guessing that a mallard hatchling fly with an elk hide muskrat dropper would be effective. No need to tell me the name of the river, but I do want to fish it even if it means taking turns providing covering fire while the other fishes.Quote:
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