Smite me, label me a dick, call me out to back it up - I don't care. But, when it comes to fly fishing, I am truly psycho - trust me. The rest of you who call yourselves PFFs should call it Pussy Fly Fishers. On Saturday I fished some rugged streams at elevations that ranged from 5800' down to 4200', and then back up. One of the streams I fished wasn't just a blue line with no name on a topo - it didn't even show up on a topo map other than just some contour lines that showed a draw. But the springs flow everywhere up here and my suspicions were confirmed about the presence of just enough water to hold brook trout.
Bloodhound Gang - Mama Say (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6AdRB_wrBI#)
Dropping in on the stream from the top. I swear the blackberry bushes were 8-10 feet tall here.
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LoginHere is a lame video. Don't mind the audio.
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LoginI had the biggest brook trout I've ever seen break me off in this pool. That's right, I said break me off. Sure my tippet probably got a bit nicked up coming through the briars to get to this stream, but this fish was big enough and wild enough to have some teeth and shoulders enough to pop my fly off.
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LoginI can't say for sure, but I'm pretty sure this was/is a meth lab site. It was so remote, miles from the nearest trail, and no backpacker in their right mind would bring 7 pans with them.....and then just leave them.
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LoginI did a TON of crawling on all fours that day. I'm not kidding, but I bet all totaled I probably crawled over a mile and a half to two miles throughout the day.
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LoginNot a good place to be with thunderstorms in the area.
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LoginSomehow I got myself stuck in a pickle on the side of a mountain with no place to go but across some sheer rock faces. I literally had to carry my dog by the scruff of his neck to get across. The craziest part, I found an old busted up shakespeare fly rod - like a 12-wt. How it got there, I'll never know. There are no trails above it, and only I could be stupid enough to claw up that rock face to try and access the stream on this side.
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LoginIt took me 7.5 hours of hiking, crawling, scaling, swimming and jumping from the time I stopped fishing to finally making it back to the car. At one point I almost gave up and prepared to spend the night out there, but stuck with it and made it back eventually. In the end, I decided that I am not going to go fishing on streams that have no trails near them by myself anymore. If anybody wants to fish some remote streams sometime, give me a ring, cuz I ain't doing it alone no mo'. Peace out.
And now it's time for another workweek back to the land of.....
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