stoke of piscatorial pursuits 16

[skifishbum]

gots a project heain waters vets outing fri if any yous fruitloops wanna spend a day helping those who serve
cheers

[2FUNKY]

Bitchin, SFB!

[Happy Fun Ball]

Well played, SFB...well played!

[skifishbum]

some https://www.projecthealingwaters.org/ stokes
got to fish with Chis a blind vet and his guide dog Noel again





fishing with the visually impaired teaches ya to be descriptive in your narratives

gots my fish sniffer into the action

more gods



more troots



more






more healin smiles


it aint to hard for me to show up for things i'm passionate about
huge props to the people who set these up, find people wiling to donate food time and resources, handle the logistics
and make it happen

peace

[adipose]

[Ccard257]

took the kiddo for some piscatorial action. He loved it. Fish were crashing everything they could at the edge of the grass all day. I tied on a big blue and white popper and never changed it.

[2FUNKY]

Are you wanted by the mafia,law? Nice work getting the kid out!

[2FUNKY]

Trinity lake shore fishing. Wind was crazy in the morning. We threw in a couple rods and drove out to the launch just to get out and see the lake. The wind had died, not for long and we were able to slay some smallies from the bank.

[skifishbum]

mur maggots kids fishin stokes
sponge bob with the skunk breaker

1st fish everzs complete with the i want a real worm nots the gummis that got em


fuc skinkid



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bmc

whipey



bent rod holiday of memorializing those who gave all cheers

[BobMc]

1st fish everzs complete with the i want a real worm nots the gummis that got em]

He wasn't real happy on the whole catch and release prospect either! Thx for rowing us around.

[KenJongIll]

Not recent, and I thought I'd posted before but couldn't find that I had posted it...I've gotten to where I don't take any photos while fishing anymore,,as I all carry is the iPhone which stays in the ziplock pouch in the Silversonics...but felt like contributing. No huge fish in this TR...sorry.

Anyway, not too long long ago....in a place not to be named...

Decided to hit a high elevation blue line in North Carolina. Relatively easy hike in to a small stream. This was an exploratory mission as I'd not been here before. But wanted to chase native App Brookies.


Only ran into two other fisher persons who were together...but saw a few hikers. This is looking back from where I started...not too far from the goal.

Only a small portion of the creek has a real trail after reaching , it's not a far hike down, till it appears to drop off the face of the earth..

This small fall creates a nice natural barrier which creates some nice size pools for such a tiny flow otherwise..


Which brought me to this pool.

I tHink it was my first or 2nd cast into the flow, withYellow stimulator...hooked into a fish. Man, this fish seemed to big, and fought too hard to be a tiny app Brookie ..must be a Rainbow. But that would be impossible at over 5k feet with a gigantic falls barrier...needles to say I was bit shocked at the size of the brook tour I pulled out.almost all TR reports I'd seen for Apps Brookies, were really small fish..this is pretty much a trophy for a wild Brookies in NC, and I was just getting started.
This pool and a few others yielded some beautiful fish...I ran into the other fisher persons, and after a few reluctant minutes of questioning, with both revealed our astonishment of the quality of this high elevation, infertile stream...

Lone sentinel watching my hike out...

Edit: well trying to do this on an iPad with edits was a complete shit show...don't feel like putting back in order or uploading higher Rez again.

[east or bust]

small stream brookies are some of my favorite fish to catch, nice work!

[stapes]

Nice brookies.

[Underoos]

[happytimefunbox]

[dfinn]

everything is bigger in texas


finally feeling like summer in UT. rode bikes on some trails that were covered in snow until very recently and then cooled off by wet wading a small creek and throwing hoppers to hungry browns

[snapt]

The fishing is on fire in Yellowstone, the crowds are light, and critters are super friendly right now. Go there.

[schindlerpiste]

My friend just sent me this from Guanacaste, CR

[skifishbum]

i wanna go backs to costa ricas or sums sorta salt in my diets
strong work ya alls are crushin its
weekend comes hells or highwaters tr

the better 1/2 has a large tight polish catholic family
The mrs. dad Rich passed away from a heart attack a couple winters ago
i miss the guy, he had the ability to fix remodel build or engineer bout anything and a work ethic my slacker ass sadly aspires to.
stoked i got to float him down the snake fore he left us
Since then we've referred to her mom her sister and richs sister as the holy trinirty
well the neices hs graduation wifes bday ment they were comin to town
been buggin them to get the flaming g on with us

went up early and floated a quick A before the showed up
celebrated the mrs, b day with dinner and a red canyon sunset


powers that be decided somes erdanghered snot nosed humped back minner needed a spring flood to better procreate
not that i dont think it does wonders for the fishery and river health wwiw
and not that the aspect of a 5 hour inlaw float being condensed by half was a bummers
or the majority of the one manned trying to row kick or fish captain of their own craft crew being outgunned and absent
8680 both bypass barrels bitches

my bro came along despite the well the first couple days of high water aint never fished great warning and if ya gets em it'll probably be a heavily weighted big bobbers slut rig
rented a raft and after a safety briefing for them or 2 or 10 for us set out

got sum new sticks as the mrs. isn't happy with 10 1/2 foot counter balanced clunkers
switch over to row sum rubbers or toss sum junk outta the back of the raft

follow me and i'll eddy out before steamboat rapid if ya don't wanna run it
and no anchoring or pullin over in this flow cleat it well knifes on the rod tube
well next thing i know the wifes not eddying out up along shore oar outta the lock fuckin with the anchor in panic mode screaming
thanfully she took the get the fuckin oar back in get your shit togather and row intructions and the 10 1/2 year old geriatric god 2 senior citizens whose life skills dont include swimmin and a boat full of most of the gear i own manged to
straighten up and catch the wave bump off the largest boat eater in the river
the mrs. and i help pull some people and a raft off that rock and helped out a ducky drama situation last time we floated high water
so i'm thankin the karma dogs and sweets baby jeebus for the trips oh shit moment being somethin they'll laugh about
after a bloody mary and reiteration of safeties briefin we rowed down to the small hole, took a small one over the bow
for a bonus
Toph and i decide to take their let us buy your b shuttle bonus offer
woulda been better if the shuttle people didn't show up an hour early all sad puppy dog eyed and me being a sucker for not making another senior citizen sit in the heat for an hour
ment way more shit than needed endin up in the boat
took the slut rigs all off about 1 cast to score a fatty bow who wont be makin an e apperrance due to either bad fish handling poor rowing or photography probably the trinity of fail
did gets a few brownies 2 eat
not that the photography improved much

found one of the river shrines

left a shot o jag and the reninants of a luau lei for blessings received

when the fishin gets tough
the tough ask for a divine intervention or stronger brew

fly retrieval skills were honed

the fruitations of friends labors were consumed.

topher wants to know why my god aint in the mag

cause i don't pimp him or i hards nuffs he's worthy though
hes gots a bad tumor growin on his eye gonna try n cut it off this week
if ya got a spare goddy prayer or positive healins vibes toss it his way got the trinty of holiness and the rest of his fam hopin positives prognosis for hims i just savor the bonus years and every rodeos he's still ridin in
1st rule of groover duty
if your gonna shit in the woods scenicshitsmatter

and when jj sings songs of riversboats listen

ate well celebrated hard till it was sunday a day of rigthtousness
slept well and dreamt of hogs my present level of bummery is gonna make hard to aquire

awoke n went to morning mass

loaded up

scouted safely


n sent er
cheers

in memory of my father in law
and the pretty good not bad creedo

[stapes]

collabs and works w/ the mrs


fucking midges





high country opening up








worms!!!!




and of course these guys


in search of ice out


not quite yet




back to warmwater


small water wet wading









poopfish wouldn't cooperate. had an eat and fucked up the set. but the little sunfish are about the opposite. good way to celebrate memorial day.





local browntown water nice for post work pre daycare pickup sessions






more fucking nymphs

[happytimefunbox]

Thread keeps delivering. Glad your spancer and kin didn't swim the big water sfb. Stapes reminded me I lost my fucken midge box.... fuck

[east or bust]

got to visit one of the most famous fisheries in the country yesterday. unfortunately didn't have any rods with me.

[dfinn]

clever pisser


no fish were touched in the making of this photo. lots of tail'ers seen though. redfish remain elusive.

[The Reverend Floater]

Caught my personal best the other night in the brown trout category. 29" on the tape--a beast by my meager standards and really, really fun.

[gnarbro365]

Tuolomne feesh