9/1/2007

Trout Bum (found on the 'net)

If you've ever used 5x as dental floss...you might be a trout bum. 

If you are walking through a college campus on sunny day with short skirts everywhere, but you are looking at carp in the pond...you might be a trout bum.

If you insist on playing beer pong with a 5 foot 1 weight...you might be a trout bum.

If you've ever invented a beer pong game that involved 20 cut pieces of pvc pipe  and a fly rod...you might be a trout bum

If pt, bhpt, bwo, pmd, rq, rs2, wd40, wd50, etc. means anything to you...you might be a trout bum

If your dinning room tail is scattered with tying materials...you might be a trout bum.

If you've ever removed the lint thingy from the drier and thought dubbing...you might be a trout bum.

If there is a rod strong across the inside of your car 365 days a year...you might be a trout bum.

If you refer to the viser in your vehicle with flies poked in the ceiling as the "dash of fame"...you might be a trout bum

If the gear in your car you leave your keys to for a shuttle driver on the front tire is worth more then the vehicle itself...you might be a trout bum.

If every time you see a worm container on the side of the river...you say bait dunker yet fail to remember you leave 100's of spools of nondegreadable flourocarbon tippet in the rocks every year...you might be a trout bum.

If you've ever been promptly slapt by your girlfriend after slamming the breaks at a red light because you promptly grabbed the rod strong over her head to protect it instead of her...you might be a trout bum.

If you've ever swam to a hole during run-off you knew was loaded...you might be a trout bum.

If the number to check the flows is the first number in your phone...you might be a trout bum.

If everytime you've almost gone of the road while drving near a river (you know why)...you might be trout bum.

If you've ever had to sit in side your car for more then ten minutes before removing your wading boots because the laces were too frozen...you might be a trout bum.

If you've ever walked into class or work with the smell of fish on your hands and wet shorts...you might be a trout bum.

If the dentist has ever told you that you have an unusual wear between your top and bottom k9 teeth and you insist you don't know why, but know perfectly well its because you don't use your clippers...you might be a trout bum.

If you advice people to walk carefully in your home because there are hooks in the carpet...you might be a trout bum.

Last but not least this afternoon...

If your girlfriend has every called you screaming because she just removed a size 24 nymph hook from the inside of her leg that was stuck in her panties....you ARE  a trout bum. 

BONUS POINTS IF: Your reply is a size 24??? Darlin' I rowed a boat six miles with a streamer a client put in the back of my neck (I didn't have the nerve for that one).

12/27/2006

This is something I came across and fully support.

Pink Fly Contest

The North Country Angler is holding the first ever "Pink Fly Contest". The contest is being held to raise funds for Casting For Recovery. Casting for Recovery is an national nonprofit organization devoted to supporting breast cancer survivors through fly fishing. The winning entry will be presented a Temple Fork Outfitters Casting for Recovery fly rod. The rod is an 8 1/2 ft. 5 weight 4 pc with special cosmetics. The rod blank is TFO’s popular Pro Series rod in an attractive maroon finish. The inscription is in pink with the breast cancer pink ribbon. TFO contributes $25 to Casting for Recovery each time a CFR rod is sold through an authorized dealer. This is a sweet rod and would make a fine addition to your rod collection. If you are a guy and a little up tight about fishing a pink rod you could always give it to your significant other. What a great way to introduce your wife, girlfriend or daughter to fly fishing.

The Rules

1. The fly must feature the color pink.
2. A $5 entry fee is charged for each entry. There is no limit to how many flies entered per contestant. All proceeds will be donated to Casting for Recovery.
3. Flies may be of any type, trout, saltwater, bass or what ever. Pink must be the featured color.
4. Entries must be received at the North Country Angler no later than February 23, 2006.
5. All entries will be displayed at the Trout Unlimited show in Pelham.
6. All tiers are eligible regardless of age or ability
7. Those wishing to have their flies returned must enclose postage and return address.
8. Decision of the judges is final.

To answer your questions: first make your checks out to Casting for Recovery and second all of the flies not picked up after the contest will be sent to Casting for Recovery.  And by the way you can make a donation of flies any time to CFR. Their web site is Casting for Recovery

Flies may be mailed or dropped off at the North Country Angler in North Conway.

North Country Angler
P.O. Box 1901
North Conway, NH 03860
Phone (603) 356-6000

THINK PINK

Here are two of my entries, The Grandma D on the left and the Holo Pink Flash on the right.

10/16/2006

"Fishing Ethics

Heard of it?
If not – learn it!
If so – take a refresher course.

If I wanted to fish within 50 yds of
somebody I would have stayed @ the boat launch!
Have a nice day."

This happened to me yesterday on the Brown’s Canyon area of the Arkansas River when I went down there with two friends from work. I think I know which person it was that left the note. I remember seeing this guy in one spot, so we moved well upstream (a lot more than 50 yards) of him before starting to fish, giving him three or four good spots to fish. I didn’t see him for the rest of the day.

I was a little miffed at first after reading the note. Who did this guy think he was thinking his ethics were better than mine? Did this guy want the river all to himself? Come on. It’s Sunday on a popular river. You are going to see a lot of other anglers. Why didn’t he say something on the river instead of leaving a note? I would have apologized profusely and moved on.

When I have clients out on a fishing trip, and we come across someone else fishing the same stream, I make a point of telling the client that we will give the other fisherman lots of room and leave several holding areas for them to fish. Not wanting to lose an opportunity to give my client more fishing information, I will point out the spots where there is likely to be fish as we pass them by at a distance so not to spook the fish for the other guy.

But, maybe there is a point. Just because you think you have given someone ample room to fish, maybe they don’t think so. Just keep that in mind.

Anyway, the reason for my trip to the Arkansas was to test out a new fly that I have been working on. I call it the Holo-Beatis. For the record, the nymph works great! Caught all my fish on it. It wasn’t a dry fly kind of day, so the jury is still out on the dry version.

Here's the first fish caught on the Holo-Beatis.

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