2018 tenkara logbook

[BobMc]

Not many fish pics, last weekend was tough.

[dfinn]

slow going up there? I'd think the browns would be starting to get fiesty.

[neckdeep]

Great dry fly sight fishing lately on tricos and terrestrials. That ends with this abrupt change to actual fall weather. Looks like today we make the transition over to cold weather, bwos and streamer season.

[skifishbum]

slow going up there? I'd think the browns would be starting to get fiesty.

low windy weedy and kokes must still be upstream
well ya knows
same ole same ole
soltice came another summer of pagan mountain hippies stuffs in the books

took sums vets fishins again
27 degrees that morn

got out on the sup fore the winds came up and vets showed up

lakes turned over and fall foliage has begun taken colors

my dude was cool staff seargent grunt with a tour of iraq and ganistan

put a good bakers dozen in the nets and shared stories and life experiences



god had fun and did sums swimmins

got loose while i was trying to get the boat on the trailer in the wind
a nice lady brought him back and told me i need to work on training as he was humping noel the seeing eye service god
yes mam his nuts are scheduled for removal and some works are perpetually in progress
tha't be both of us
cept the denutting part
removed and applied roofins products for nuffs ducketts needed to put fluids of combustible engines in the tank and gets the green things on again
old man bailed cause of wind forecasts and the bullshit his divorce from his 3rd wifes is consuming his time
my used to fish with real worms bro loaded up the cougar den and brought snowbird snowboard kid hes been fishin with
good young 20 sumthin kid with a newly developed fly flingin addiction
kind of look back ad see a bit of my younger self in him
well cept the euro nymphins and flat brims part

i went the still water belly boat full sink tug is the drugs route and didnt even learn river skills for a couple years
i shouda taken a picture of his, well damn if that didnt take a 1/2 hour to tie up,had multiple colors, dangling tippet participles, hanging chads,a brace o beadheads and possible a squrirmy wormy
and yup bout every piece of ever presence moss found em all
and welcome to big western river fishin outta a drifty
id go big dry/ long tungston dropper or inline nymph rig and grab a big ole pink ping pong thingomabobber my old man eyes can see
or watch me toss big junk from the drivers seat while youre in the penalty box again untanglin way more stuffs than id ever try to toss with a 4 weight
yeah its nice to feel the fight and a 10"ers can sure mend and lay em down sweet
did i mention winds were forecasted at 28mph today?
that flat brim on tight?
need a cap keeper?
catchin was tough low water moss and turnover and kokes must still be upstream, a few heads up and bugs early and late
did gets a nice one to eat the big junk and stay on

fishes with worms bro stuck a nice one jumped him and left em with a piercing and the kids nymph rig scored a couple dinks
and he manged some dusk dry success from shore at camp
while we managed to catch a fireside buzz



i told the kid lookin back best peices of advice i could give someone with the huge addiction
faster ya gets over the needs to gets em more youre gonna enjoy the lifelong addiction journey in the long run
and if ya wanna learn to throw line with the whippy stick do it on grass
well future pots works too


learn to enjoy

the early morning tunes cranked safty baked shuttle runs

the capitalist modern trappings of items the grind of gainfull employment bringith

shit enjoy the morning of missing brain cells, synapses not firing on all cylinders, tailing loops, cracked old line that needs to be replaced tanglin in clusterfuck of futility
new lines that need to be broken in doing the same
the lost opportunities
the ones yet to come
the blessings
the asswhoopins
the not even being able to stop at camp and don your cubbies embrace the suck shirt
cause ya managed to lost it and a simms clamshell bag full of good shit one your 1st trip of the season with jose hagen lando louie and the lass
that while only a few months ago seems like years
embrace new friends

try and learn a little sumthins from everyone youre blessed to share the doing of the things with
embrace the haul ,the load, the send jerry

the wind


the times there may be peeps homesteading where youd like to be

to the times youre solo and gots it all to yourself cept a watchful baldy

the cool shit you see that others hand created

old man manged 77 years of livin tuesday
thats like 27,775 days give or takes some leaps years
speakin of leap years my hops harvest fuckin crushed it this year

managed enough grapes to do a vino carboy

headed out to altamont to spend his bday out at south slope of the unintas ranch chasing


never seen the water this low there been a hell of a long hot dry summer

it'd been better if hed averaged 3 or 4 an hour and id gotton 4 or 5 all day
but i was havin a hard time not gettin em
spent most of the day on his favorite lake pullin streamers and we'd switch rods from the type 4 and intermediate full sink
and id row with the rod tween my legs and bam
fish on
id get em slow strippin on the wind drift
cast and git em while its dead sinkin
fast strip bam
nother fiesty bow


he was gettin eats but not a lot of solid hookups
and id get hit on safety break no strip set hooked up phat
i finally got him to get out of the boat
and he scored a couple in one of the smaller lakes

got a couple tiggers to eat but blew the big slos mos dry eat i wanted


jumped back in the boat and ended with a nice colorful fall brownie


i sure hope im still able to spend a good 10 hours flinging flies with a whippy stick at that age
and always good to spend quality time in a family matters
coulda done without the white knuckle all of Septembers rain falling in inches an hour 30 mph on 80 comin down from parleys summit high
suck factor
and hope theres still another visit or 2 to home waters fore old man winter and the season of snow bummery arrives
fuck it all seems to go by fast these days
its there
might as well enjoy it

[dfinn]

possibly my favorite little ditch in Utah. Normally by this time of year I'd have fished it a few times already and had some quality hopper days. Summer got busy, bones got broken, I heard it had just about dried up and wasn't worth fishing with our dry ass summer. A week of wet weather and I felt like it was at least worth a look, I didn't have shit else going on today.


What a fucking day. Plenty of water, fish in every spot that they should be in and willing to play along, some of them even so eager to eat the streamer that they went full airborne. Lots of people out and about looking to kill things but none of them looking to catch any brown trout.

[Mr. Mike]

damn, I got another one.

[happytimefunbox]

possibly my favorite little ditch in Utah. Normally by this time of year I'd have fished it a few times already and had some quality hopper days. Summer got busy, bones got broken, I heard it had just about dried up and wasn't worth fishing with our dry ass summer. A week of wet weather and I felt like it was at least worth a look, I didn't have shit else going on today.


What a fucking day. Plenty of water, fish in every spot that they should be in and willing to play along, some of them even so eager to eat the streamer that they went full airborne. Lots of people out and about looking to kill things but none of them looking to catch any brown trout.

I need some ditch fishing in my life!

[Underoos]

https://soundcloud.com/user-95965900...-and-on-and-on

[dfinn]

nice little high bank above a spring creek


perfect for watching these guys come out of hiding and smash my ant

[snapt]

My new book Advanced Tactical Indicator Nymphing for Lake Trout Volume 1 is coming out in the Spring, I'm happy to sign copies for maggs. Keep an eye out. I'm hoping to follow up with Mop Fles: An Anthology if my publisher is happy with the Laker book sales.



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[gretch6364]

Congrats on the book snapt

[Underoos]

Will the book have a forward by Geoff Courier?


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[happytimefunbox]

nice little high bank above a spring creek


perfect for watching these guys come out of hiding and smash my ant

WY? Man my foot can't heal fast enough so that I can resume the piscatorial pursuits

[dfinn]

Imahoe

Hopefully there's a Mop Flies for Steelhead chapter snapped. Can't wait to steal it off the internet. Is that halloween trip happening this year?

[Underoos]

Imahoe

Mop Flies for Steelhead. ?

Forward by Geoff Rajeff.

[teleee]

Forward by Geoff Rajeff.

Is Geoff French for mop fly?

[snapt]

Imahoe

Hopefully there's a Mop Flies for Steelhead chapter snapped. Can't wait to steal it off the internet. Is that halloween trip happening this year?

Unfortunately I’ll be on an ambulance in Boise on Halloween. Final week of this madness.

[schwerty]

Teleee- Salt-Southy doubleheader today. Time to make that first fall trip to check out the cabin. Might need some “work”.

[teleee]

Teleee- Salt-Southy doubleheader today. Time to make that first fall trip to check out the cabin. Might need some “work”.

Oh I am thinking the same thing!! I am hoping for an early November run, stay tuned! If not we are discussing the possibility of spending Thanksgiving there!

[dfinn]

If you need someone to go and check in on the place...

[teleee]

If you need someone to go and check in on the place...

You are welcome there anytime.

[dfinn]

Might have to take you up on that when I get back from the NW, especially if this nice weather keeps up

[neckdeep]

[schwerty]

Oh I am thinking the same thing!! I am hoping for an early November run, stay tuned! If not we are discussing the possibility of spending Thanksgiving there!

I have plans to be up in the Park for the last wknd. If you head this way lemme know.

U2 Dfinn

[skifishbum]

i probably aint gonna write a book
but i could be on the tele

maybe even a poopin on the sup show next season or a spew tube channel
i ams on the Ethiopian hudge flyfisherman pro staffs ya knows




#backstreetjellyrolled








23 degrees at the berry sunrise


lakes turnin over and fishins turning on and will only get better








happy tails fuckos