Eat Beef - The West wasn't won on salad - the TR

[revfox]

Loos like a hell of a trip.

[croaker]

Grand TR!
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Old Army pass is up in there somewhere. Been a lot of rock slides and I am not sure you can even make it up that dingy lose gravelly cliff.

That brought back some memories.  That trail was dicey in 1975.  Looks like the switch backs to the pass are now covered with scree.

The view atop Old Army Pass at sunrise is still in my dreams...

[sanjuanwormhatch]

so awesome.  i personally love a little urban/wilderness mix (10/90). 

[Jfey]

And you only broke two fly rods.   Cheers buddy 0:0

[Big J]

  nicely played Mike. 

[Dougfish]

And you only broke two fly rods.   Cheers buddy 0:0

Yes. Forgot to applaud this effort. 
The streak is alive and well.

[Michael Toris]

I mean,  damn

[Grannyknot]

Fantastic.

[rbphoto]

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whs  ^

Cause I am speechless.

[RiverbumCO]

You sir, are a dick.


TR o' the year.

[bmadd]

I'd really like to make a trip like that. The delta and golden trouts in one trip is a great idea.

[Transylwader]

Thanks everyone. Shit, quite the reception, I feel like I came first in the retard class and everyone is cheering y;
Yeah, I am truly blessed with the wealth of connections I have across this great nation.
If any of y'all are interested in joining in on one of these cross country odysseys, holla.
The key to making this happen on the cheap? Book your tickets well in advance. I don't care who you are, I have flown stand by, it's too risky, I have managed to fly 1st class by incorporating a work trip with a few days after for vacay, it's not enough time and then I have flat out fucked up and paid high dollar last minute just to get out of town and ending up being broke for a good two weeks after coming home and eating nasty ramen noodles and losing like 40lbs. I lucked out and got round trip to Vegas for $300 per person back in March.
Rental car was next. Priceline is a good resource. Spicy has a hook up on Enterprise rentals but at $20 a day, I'd rather save that $9 on a 12 pack of Montejo (my newest fave sanche rangoon beer)
Vegas will NOT BE A PORT OF ENTRY in 2016.
That place flat out can kiss my ass. It makes Bangkok look and feel like Shangri-La. One evening on the strip, liquored up, Hayley and I observed a family of 5, three young girls, mum, dad, one turns to her mom pointing at the POS on the street corner and asks, mom, why does that lady look like the lady that comes by the house when you are gone? I nearly fucking died...
Family friendly? Yeah...Vegas is a mecca for those who can count cards and have a golden horse shoe buried in their jack, for the rest, it is a clear reminder that our society has gone to hell in a food lion plastic bag. 103 at 3AM is awesome too.
Besides, the drive to and from Vegas is not pretty. Once you have seen Death Valley and the White Mountains, it's just dust and lifeless salt pans, a vast expanse of wasted lands. Also, getting picked up doing 120 in the back country could cost you the rest of your life. Maybe some genius can figure out how to turn that dirt into bio-fuels, or magically grass it with some chemical that already messes you up if you buy store bought garbage that put tits on your 6 year old daughters chest and stick all those farting/shitting cattle we rely on so much there, that'd be great.
Gas wasn't expensive. Avg, $3.50 a gallon. I racked up just over 2000miles (drove well over 300 before I remembered to zero it out (this is what happens when you get off the plane at Denver and realize that there's dispensaries just outside the airport). Filled up 6 times @ $45.00 a tank. We did drive to San Fran so Wayley could ride the punies at Wratchfords ranch. Taht added a good 700 miles to the trip, but that Delta, Ho-Lee-Shiznit, large mouth/strippers paradise. I took they 8wt with for good measure, they have hyacinth and hydrilla that compares to the crap growing in my local, Zeekoevlei in Kaapstad. You need those 14lb+ leaders to get those green fishes out of that shit. ANNND there's 10lbers in there that will eat a fly, unlike those anal BASStards in Okeechobee.

I figure I spend $130 on gas to drive to Brevard to catch the same twat trouts every other weekend, buy $100 in grub, give my mate $30 for the cabin, $100 on booze, thats already your plane ticket to the Wess Coass.

Hayley and I will be doing homework, checking into what it takes to get permits to bring our OWN horses into Inyo. That way, we can plan on hitting those far to reach places that take two days to hike in. Places where 17" pure volcano creek goldens are an actuality and not these unicorn tigers my dumbass is so fixated on. Flying cuts your experience by 90%. Sure I'd love to jet thru a shithole like Kansas at 700MPH and get to RMNP and revisit those fake GBCT or hit up WY/MT/ID/NM/OR. Cross country trip would not be too bad with 4 paying people. If you are planning on quitting your job (like Hayley did when she got back) then this is the perfect trip for you. Heck, I'll pay for a round of beer and shuffle board and Double L's in Lone Pine.

I was going to hit NM this year in Sept. A good mate of mine's dad like close to Silver City and we were gonna chase another native, the Gila Trout. Alas, they are on the shit list with precip. Droughts for errbudday out that SW region. That trip was goingto be 10 days and would have involved at least 2 getting to the upper reaches of the wilderness. Who knows, maybe all of the rain I left will shift even further east and Dallas will make the call. Im readyto buy my ticket to Phoenix. It's dirt cheap right now.

Sorry for the ramble. Many are correct in saying I lead a boring life, I wake up, go to work, go back and forth from property to CadRoom like a tennis ball, but within the walls of this loony toon cranium of mine, I'm mind fishing the fuck out of my office, the work car, that nasty retention pond. Right now, I have already picked up the slam on a sz 14 pink stimi and I'm heading up to 11Kft to fire an 80ft cast through some sort of lightning struck tree at a Paiute Cutt. No wait, I foul hooked a 20lb carp and just broke the tip of my 8wt. Fuck sakes

Blessings to all 0:0

[TheYiman]

 0:0  To checking that off your bucket list! 

[Woolly Bugger]

That was pretty effin awesome and I even loled when reading about your intestinal distress. It's a wonder that the CA EPA didn't kick your ass outta the state

I would have replied earlier, but it took a week to download all those pics onto my phone.  WTF?

[Transylwader]

I would have replied earlier, but it took a week to download all those pics onto my phone.  WTF?

bossmin, all odat porn zaps bandwidth. Get a Quad Band phone. You could be in Bangkok jerkin it to Scandinavian titties.