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Started by 5xTippett, June 17, 2012, 16:15:23 PM

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Dougfish

Good stuff, Merv and Wade.

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"Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here?
 Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change? "
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But if I do,
It'll be 'cause of you..."
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Yallerhammer

Confucious say a day spent catching a few is better than a day spent looking at pictures of somebody else catching a lot. :D Good stuff.

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Woolly Bugger

#992
The smiff is fucked, dregs from the bottom of the lake are making the river too muddy to fish or wade IMHO!




But the Honda is getting great mpg !
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ex - I'm not going to live with you through one more fishing season!
me -There's a season?

Pastor explains icons to my son: you know like the fish symbol on the back of cars.
My son: My dad has two fish on his car and they're both trout!

creakycane

Back up to 500 CFS to clear out Matthew water and drop the lake.

Any news on the turbines/work on the dam?  Wondering if they will be back to normal releases before year's end?

Thanks!

Woolly Bugger

Hope they get it fixed soon, but I wouldn't net that it'll be on time


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me -There's a season?

Pastor explains icons to my son: you know like the fish symbol on the back of cars.
My son: My dad has two fish on his car and they're both trout!

Woolly Bugger


2016 – 78



What the fuck was I thinking? I had been up to the river a couple of weeks ago, before Matthew dumped all that rain and the dam was pouring mud then. Why I thought that it would be any different after they raised the release to dump the storm water is beyond me. To be fair, they had clamped down of the flow to 250 cfs, so at least it was wadable. But Jesus, it is muddier now that ever. I can only imagine that the constant flow from the very bottom of the dam has created an underwater canyon eroded out of the decades of sediment at the bottom of the fucking lake. I swore off this river that last time I visited, but I must be suffering from some sort of delusional episode.  The sad part is that I knew it was going to be fucked the moment I saw the river in Bassett, but no, I continued on up the road and then, while drinking the first of many ice cold Yeti cooled beers, I proceeded to don my waders in the 87 degree heat and then walk ¾ of a mile across the now harvested sun baked fields with the sun beating down on my back. Fuck, it's October, but it feels more like August. Anyway when I get to the water, it's a disaster, visibility is only about eight inches, and I know wading is going to be sketchy on this incredibly fucked up river bottom that is a bitch to wade in the best of conditions. I came prepared to throw small streamers on a sinking line, my back-up plan was some Sam Adams Rebel IPAs that I stashed in my vest, I also brought along a floating line and some dry flies in the off chance that there would be some risers on this fucked up muddy river. Well I hit seven or eight different runs, that almost always produce, with four different streamers before saying, "Fuck this shit!" and heading back to where I had stashed the beer. Cold and crisp the Sam Adams went down smoothly, especially well because I bought the twelver for 13 bucks.
I took some photos, drank another beer, watch the birds and even saw a bald eagle. I fished on some more, but my heart wasn't in it and I left before dusk.

Here is what the afternoon looked like!

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ex - I'm not going to live with you through one more fishing season!
me -There's a season?

Pastor explains icons to my son: you know like the fish symbol on the back of cars.
My son: My dad has two fish on his car and they're both trout!

Al

Quote from: Woolly Bugger on October 16, 2016, 17:37:14 PM
Hope they get it fixed soon, but I wouldn't net bet that it'll be on time
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The latest is we either need to buy a kayak, canoe or raft - it is going to be well into next year before they get the repairs done.

In the meantime they hope to lower the flows back to 100-150 as soon as they get the pool behind the dam a little below normal. Flows will increase anytime there is a significant rain. 

Woolly Bugger

Quote from: Al on October 20, 2016, 09:38:27 AM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on October 16, 2016, 17:37:14 PM
Hope they get it fixed soon, but I wouldn't net bet that it'll be on time
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The latest is we either need to buy a kayak, canoe or raft - it is going to be well into next year before they get the repairs done.

In the meantime they hope to lower the flows back to 100-150 as soon as they get the pool behind the dam a little below normal. Flows will increase anytime there is a significant rain.


Flow reduction won't help the damn dam muddy water---gonna take a long long time for the river to get back to normal. We might even have a low reproduction this year if that mud covers the redds.


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me -There's a season?

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My son: My dad has two fish on his car and they're both trout!

IFStultz

Maybe we can get them to throw a shit ton of Mysis shrimp in there when they get everything else sorted out. That'll fatten those little bastards right up.


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driver

Tjats would be badass if they could survive in the lake.

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Woolly Bugger

#1000


2016 - 79

Saturday morning at the coffee shop reading some Harrison, I came across this passage.

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Got me thinking about this election and I bailed, headed go the old local to check it out. Water temps are finally dropping back into safe range. Popped a beer while getting the gear ready. And hiked on down the trail. Stopped when I saw these mushrooms, oysters and honeys ...

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Resumed hiking and in a moment of disbelief I realized that the tip of the rod was missing. Jesus! What the fuck? Damn it. I knew I should have strung the rod back at the car. I turned back and carefully retraced my steps a half mile back to the car. I went slow as I knew it would be difficult to see the brown rod tip among the leaves littering the trail. No luck! Got another rod out and hiked back in again looking for the missing rod section. Finally got to the river and took a beer break.

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Clear skies and cloudy water, proved that the fishing wasn't easy, as I only caught one middling trout.

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Here's how I felt about the day so far.



I needed another beer, so I headed back to the car. Once again keeping an eye out for the rod tip. I stopped to check my Instagram to see if Buddy had offered up an ID on the mushrooms and then I was getting ready to take a photo of the leaf strewn floor of the forest, when I noticed, right there in front of me was the Sage Response Tip! Hell Yeah!

Can you see it?
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Loaded up with a couple of high gravity IPAs and headed on to the upper reach of this section of the river.

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Caught another fish that blew up on a streamer, iphone remained in my pocket.
Found a pair of clippers and fished on back downstream. Did not move another fish.

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Called it a day and headed on home.

ex - I'm not going to live with you through one more fishing season!
me -There's a season?

Pastor explains icons to my son: you know like the fish symbol on the back of cars.
My son: My dad has two fish on his car and they're both trout!

Dougfish

 :banana072:  You drove right by us?

At least I didn't pick up any snooty beer cans.
"Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here?
 Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change? "
Kelly's Heroes,1970

"I don't wanna go to hell,
But if I do,
It'll be 'cause of you..."
Strange Desire, The Black Keys, 2006

Woolly Bugger

I saw no other cars


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ex - I'm not going to live with you through one more fishing season!
me -There's a season?

Pastor explains icons to my son: you know like the fish symbol on the back of cars.
My son: My dad has two fish on his car and they're both trout!

NCsporksman

What passage?

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ptfranze

Don't know how you found that rod tip, I don't think I would ever have seen that.  Hell I can hardly see it in the picture