August 28, 2020 #38
Gas $2.05
Snuck off Friday morning to raid Doug's playground and mess with his fish. I was the fourth car there but before I got geared up three more pulled in.
Stuck with the same fly still rigged up on the 3 wt., a royal wluff. Might have had better luck with a green weenie but it's too much fun catching them on the surface.
Had to leave early so I started fishing about ¾ of a mile in and up to the first bridge. A few more trees were blown down, some very recently.
On the way out a young hiker stood off the trail to let me pass and then a group of 6 put their masks on – new normal.
Six mostly different cars parked at the trailhead. Dude pulled in and asked about the fishing, he walked in carrying two spinning rods...
First fish...
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Biggest fish
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fungi
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What is the purpose of this badges
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Bad photo day for some unkonw reason things were blurred or out of focus
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Big craw
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Mostly brookies and browns but I got a few rainbows for the slam.
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ahhh
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Later.. hope Laura doesn't dump too much rain on y'all.
played around with the live photo mode and it's effects... but didn't do it correctly with the remote. but I learned how to import frames from a movie and then combine them to achieve a long exposure effect...
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also learned about iphone video formats and how to set it to 4k ... so maybe you will see some better videos in the future...
Got to love those creeks.
That creek must come with a condom dispenser.
before long it will have tour buses
Were those oyster mushrooms?
I'm curious about the orange shrooms as well. I have seen some that look like that near home
Quote from: wildmttwalleye on August 30, 2020, 23:24:39 PMWere those oyster mushrooms?
Think so, but I didn't harvest..
Quote from: bmadd on August 31, 2020, 08:57:21 AMI'm curious about the orange shrooms as well. I have seen some that look like that near home
don't have a clue, they were really small, about the size of a dime.
Browns are getting active........
Btw, I'm one of the, apparent, minority that has no clue what stream that is........
Woolly, I half of your photos are A- quality, and half are F-quality. Overall report = C...... but don't despair. If you are on the UNC grading scale, your grade becomes 'PASS'.
Quote from: bmadd on August 31, 2020, 08:57:21 AMI'm curious about the orange shrooms as well. I have seen some that look like that near home
Cantherellus minor, dwarf chaneterelles.
Quote from: Yallerhammer on August 31, 2020, 18:11:22 PMQuote from: bmadd on August 31, 2020, 08:57:21 AMI'm curious about the orange shrooms as well. I have seen some that look like that near home
Cantherellus minor, dwarf chaneterelles.
You mean if I collected about 2,500 of them I could have made a meal?
Quote from: The Dude on August 31, 2020, 11:34:25 AMWoolly, I half of your photos are A- quality, and half are F-quality. Overall report = C...... but don't despair. If you are on the UNC grading scale, your grade becomes 'PASS'.
I'll continue to show my longanimity and continue to post the bad and ugly along with the good and great photos
Special place for me, as I witnessed my son catch his first wild trouts on "Clayton's Little Crick" thirty some years ago.
Clayton was a colleague and friend of mine and use to live on the main branch of "Clayton's Crick" just upstream of where it goes under rte.8. Took my son up to fish for fresh stockers behind the house one day, and when we found it blown out, Clayton introduced us to his little crick with the little but much prettier trout. 😁
My son never developed an interest in stream fishing, but I go back up there periodically
to refresh old memories.❤️ Now and then, I even take a rod.
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on August 31, 2020, 18:41:40 PMQuote from: Yallerhammer on August 31, 2020, 18:11:22 PMQuote from: bmadd on August 31, 2020, 08:57:21 AMI'm curious about the orange shrooms as well. I have seen some that look like that near home
Cantherellus minor, dwarf chaneterelles.
You mean if I collected about 2,500 of them I could have made a meal?
Yep. They don't have much flavor, though. I like the little cinnabar chants, though.
more wild action...
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sometimes I even catch them on video... <-;:
September 4, 2020 #39
Gas $1.95
Three cars at the trail head as I pulled in, another fisherman pulled in before I hit the trail. He started down low and I later found out he fished up to the campground while I headed up to the bridge.
The first thing I encounter was a slew of cairns and rocks placed on fallen trees. I'm going to make some stickers "Don't Stack Rocks" to plaster at trail heads... Gofund my sticker campaign..
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The fish were looking at the fly and after a few misses I started hooking them. Brookies and Rainbows, no browns today. I took a lot of photos and videos. The iPhone live photo takes a 3 sec video which can be manipulated in camera for long exposure. Who knew, besides Raymond? I also changed the setting on video file format to most compatible instead of high efficiency, which has some compatibility issues. And I thought I had changed the video to 4k but it didn't "stick" and the videos were shot at 1080P 60fps. Shooting with the Oly TG-6 on this stream I didn't really notice how little light makes it through the canopy and with ISO set at 100 the exposure was 1/10 sec at f/2.0, slow enough to get noticeable camera movement blurred photos. I'll have to modify my settings for this stream.
I continued with my Royal theme and tied on a freshly tied Trude #16, but the wing was a little long,
Photo dump...
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Fished up past the house for a bit but the bite was off and I called it a day after 4 hours. Back at the trailhead, the other fly fisherman was packing up and reported a good day. As I was eating my snack another fisherman pulled in driving a Town Car and rigged up a pink rod and was planning to fish trout worms. Not entirely sure but aren't those considered bait?