lakngolf
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Wow 4 hours of O2
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Wow 4 hours of O2
George
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Hard to beat a spring snow. Is there, then goes away quickly. Thot of you yesterday as was talking to a guy who hunted mule deer instead of elk in CO this year along the continental divide trail/ sucking air. They took some nice muleys but no elk. Weather was good for them. I never noticed the air until you get above 9000 ft, then lungs are taking deep breaths for a few days. Many don't know, but one of the first uses of
Viagra was by mountaineerers rock climbing as it allows the blood to hold more O2. And I guess would keep a person from rolling down the mountain.When you back to trout fishing? Waters been up too high to do so past few weeks here.
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My local rivers start calming down mid June.
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Merle Hawggard
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I couldn't imagine walking the woods and finding a shed like that!
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George
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Me neither, I'm still motivated to find a fresh one. Sunday we stayed closer to home and investigated a saddle in an east/ west running ridge dumping into this little valley.
We checked the flood plain
then started up an elk highway
The elk are definitely migrating back north through here, the first bench smelled like a cow yard.
1000' up our trail to the ridge top ended.
Chimney Rock National Monument.
No sheds found but two eyewitness reports from yesterday say antlers are still on heads in this area.
On a side note, I did this hike with out any food in me and no sugar in my pack, high on beta hydroxybutyrate.
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George
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Friday we went through the saddle
to check out the other side of the creek.
Look at the beautiful autumn olive thicket. No doubt, this wonderful habitat plant was introduced by Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
Back up an elk trail.
No country for old dogs.
No sheds.
Back ordered for months, on sale, a Cabela's 9' 5wt LSi and RLS+.
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to check out the other side of the creek.
Look at the beautiful autumn olive thicket. No doubt, this wonderful habitat plant was introduced by Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
Back up an elk trail.
No country for old dogs.
No sheds.
Back ordered for months, on sale, a Cabela's 9' 5wt LSi and RLS+.
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Gator
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I couldn't help but think of you when I just read this from Virginia conservation officer reports. It reads like some big win to me, I just had to laugh..
"Beginning in late September 2016, CPO Greg Hall received several reports of spotlighting in King William County. Several deer had been shot in fields in the area. Two callers reported seeing a large white pickup after hearing shots fired. Officer Hall began working spotlighting patrol in the area in early November 2016 and continued working the area throughout the hunting season. A landowner observed a truck spotlighting his field in early December 2016. He followed the truck to a road intersection to attempt to make contact with the driver. The landowner was run over by the same truck. He provided a description of the vehicle to the King William Sheriff’s Office, a large white pickup truck with white mirrors. Officer Hall interviewed the landowner and another person who reported seeing a spotlight, from the white truck, during the incident. Officer Hall spoke with several hunters and asked them to obtain license plate numbers of any vehicles they saw matching the description. In early January 2017, a hunter sent Officer Hall a photograph of a truck matching the description. Officer Hall forwarded the information to the King William Sheriff Office investigators. King William Investigators determined this was the truck which had struck the landowner. Officer Hall obtained Arrest Warrants for the four occupants of the truck in January, charging each with Spotlighting. The case was heard in March 2017. The driver’s hunting privileges were revoked for five years."
"Beginning in late September 2016, CPO Greg Hall received several reports of spotlighting in King William County. Several deer had been shot in fields in the area. Two callers reported seeing a large white pickup after hearing shots fired. Officer Hall began working spotlighting patrol in the area in early November 2016 and continued working the area throughout the hunting season. A landowner observed a truck spotlighting his field in early December 2016. He followed the truck to a road intersection to attempt to make contact with the driver. The landowner was run over by the same truck. He provided a description of the vehicle to the King William Sheriff’s Office, a large white pickup truck with white mirrors. Officer Hall interviewed the landowner and another person who reported seeing a spotlight, from the white truck, during the incident. Officer Hall spoke with several hunters and asked them to obtain license plate numbers of any vehicles they saw matching the description. In early January 2017, a hunter sent Officer Hall a photograph of a truck matching the description. Officer Hall forwarded the information to the King William Sheriff Office investigators. King William Investigators determined this was the truck which had struck the landowner. Officer Hall obtained Arrest Warrants for the four occupants of the truck in January, charging each with Spotlighting. The case was heard in March 2017. The driver’s hunting privileges were revoked for five years."
George
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So let me see if I have got this straight, In Iowa you can poach a buck without a license and if you get caught you face a $100 fine and you get to keep your gun, deer, and hunting privileges. In Virginia you can loose your hunting privileges for five years for owning a white truck?
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Hard to beat a spring snow. Is there, then goes away quickly. Thot of you yesterday as was talking to a guy who hunted mule deer instead of elk in CO this year along the continental divide trail/ sucking air. They took some nice muleys but no elk. Weather was good for them. I never noticed the air until you get above 9000 ft, then lungs are taking deep breaths for a few days. Many don't know, but one of the first uses of
Viagra was by mountaineerers rock climbing as it allows the blood to hold more O2. And I guess would keep a person from rolling down the mountain.
Just goes to show what I know about it.
Last week me and Hank go and check up on our favorite home fishing creek, Williams and I was thinking no way that you can catch fish here now. Well I went to town yesterday to get some backing, a leader, and some tippet material and Peter backed me up. Peter, a guy that I generally have not been able to get two words out of this past year would have spent the whole day with me and the flies talking entomology. Right now the water below the lake is warmer because it flows off of the surface of the lake and the 20" + fish out of the Piedra come up Williams for the warmer water and the huge stone flies that pupate Memorial Day. I think that I may play hooky tomorrow.
The orange bugs are the pupated stone, salmon dry flies.
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Satguy
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Those stoneflys are killer. A guide I used on the middle fork of the snake river would put a slight bend in the middle of the fly to give it curvature. We tore them up that day.
George
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Thanks Satguy, I'll keep that in mind. I shot this video last Memorial in the same location.
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George
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Last week I fished the tail waters below the spillway.
I fished this outer bend as the sun went down but failed to find all of those 20 inchers.
Trip two, I fished some good looking holes but still no fish.
Trip three, we walked around the lake and fished the inlet.
This is a neat stretch of river with holes deep enough to float your hat. The river wasn't much of an obstacle for Hank when he heard what we thought to be prairie dogs chirping on the other side. He loves playing whack a mole in prairie dog towns.
I'm still looking for my first trout on fly.
Saturday I went to town and bought some of last years merchandise half price, a 3 weight 8 1/2' Ross and a little discontinued Orvis.
I've been training 4 and 5 days a week, rolling live 2 or 3 times a week. I trained through the injuries, foot, knees, hips, groin, piriformis (both sides), neck, ribs, arms, shoulders, and back and I am now training injury free with a big tournament in Albuquerque fast approaching. I received my first promotion yesterday.
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I fished this outer bend as the sun went down but failed to find all of those 20 inchers.
Trip two, I fished some good looking holes but still no fish.
Trip three, we walked around the lake and fished the inlet.
This is a neat stretch of river with holes deep enough to float your hat. The river wasn't much of an obstacle for Hank when he heard what we thought to be prairie dogs chirping on the other side. He loves playing whack a mole in prairie dog towns.
I'm still looking for my first trout on fly.
Saturday I went to town and bought some of last years merchandise half price, a 3 weight 8 1/2' Ross and a little discontinued Orvis.
I've been training 4 and 5 days a week, rolling live 2 or 3 times a week. I trained through the injuries, foot, knees, hips, groin, piriformis (both sides), neck, ribs, arms, shoulders, and back and I am now training injury free with a big tournament in Albuquerque fast approaching. I received my first promotion yesterday.
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Native Hunter
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The good life appears to be suiting both you and Hank very well. Love the serenity of the water pic. You won't find that at 76 Falls anymore - except maybe in the cold winter.
George
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Since you mentioned it Steve, I've been thinking about the trout under the spillway in your home tail water fishery, I need to try a corn kernel imitation.
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Chainsaw
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Used to fish the larger streams east of Baxter State Park Maine with Wassataquoik being a favorite. Wassataquoik looked similar to your pictures--ran fast and out of the higher grounds. By June 1 the waters were coming down, running clear and looking fish-able. Used to throw everything we had at em and would be lucky to get a single look let alone a hit. Being a mountain stream the water was just too cold. By June 15 the fishing would peak and any old bright bucktail would yield aggressive hitting fish all day long.
There were a few spots where a warmer small creek ran in and the fish would get active a day or two earlier there. Early before the peak, warm sunny afternoons were our friend. The couple of degrees warmer in the afternoons made the difference.
Maybe its different in the streams there--never fished them. Good luck and I'm enjoying the story and pictures. Keep them coming.
There were a few spots where a warmer small creek ran in and the fish would get active a day or two earlier there. Early before the peak, warm sunny afternoons were our friend. The couple of degrees warmer in the afternoons made the difference.
Maybe its different in the streams there--never fished them. Good luck and I'm enjoying the story and pictures. Keep them coming.
George
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Thanks Dave, so far my story is much like your story. For some reason yesterday I thought that I was going to wade wet below the spillway, nah, instant ice cream head ache.
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