Anybody Gettin' 'em on Dries Yet?

[serotonin]

What's that Frank Zappa song...?
'Flies all green and buzzin', ...in this dungeon of despair...'

1. A dark, often underground chamber or cell used to confine prisoners.


Daisy's been workin' 'em.

[serotonin]

I dedicate this small one to the Fishing Gods.

(praise to the Hendricksons too).

[serotonin]

Dries baby, Dries.

Plenty of bigger fish on the new roll of film, but they were caught on nymphs and buggers. It matters not. Can i hear a Hallelujiah?

All fished released!

Generally, for every 100 pounds of fish caught, i keep one.
There's a nice one going in the smoker tomorrow.
It tastes good and keeps my family from thinking i'm completely crazy for putting these fish back in the rivers. It matters not. They already know they can't stop me. It would be foolish to try. The funny fact is... they've begun to accept this behavior.



The moral of the story...?
Put some of those friggin' fish back in the water!

[serotonin]

Flies are still buzzin'...


Catfish are jumpin'.
Sewage is pumpin'.

[marzrw]

All fished release

The moral of the story...?
Put some of those friggin' fish back in the water!

WB and I were wondering the samething. Wouldn't it be nice if DEC didn't have to stock and ALL the fish we caught were WILD?

WB and I know of a stream (location witheld obviously) that hasn't been stocked since the 70's. The trout have become WILD. Sometimes you don't catch any. Sometimes they are small, very small. And sometimes they are brutes. But you wanna know something, regardless of the size, they are ALL beautiful. Perfect fins, absolutley perfect. Irredescent colors, you would swear they were fake (or maybe I mean REAL) like a painting.

I wish all streams could be like that.

[marzrw]

Daisy's been workin' 'em.

Riddle: "How many fish has this dog smelled?"

Answer: "Not enough."

[protocoldroid]

....i'm glad the sewage is still pumpin' lemme tell ya!

i haven't been fishing in a few days now.... and i'm having dreams about fishing every night. do I need professional help, or just some time out fishing? There's always good dry fly fishing in my dreams, great hatches, lots of fish, huuuge fish, and exotic fish you wouldn't ever find in such a location... "in my dreams" right??

....Cursed that I ever caught a fish on a dry, that's fun as hell.... and now it's always on my mind.

[serotonin]

Sounds like you need professional help.

I'm not licensed to distribute this advice, but what you have is incurable.
It is not necessarily contagious.
Nonetheless, you will have to live w/it for the rest of your life; you can't live without it.
You, dear sir, are hooked!

Those dreams are the symptoms of withdrawal.

Increase the dosage dramatically.

[marzrw]

....Cursed that I ever caught a fish on a dry, that's fun as hell.... and now it's always on my mind.

You now have the incurable disease called: "Trout Madness."
Pickup a copy of "Trout Madness" by Robert Traver. It explains the disease and it's symptoms.

[serotonin]

Gettin' my Fix

Decided to try some new water yesterday. It was sunny, and the water was a bit low; i wanted to concentrate on the riffs. Didn't find any really nice water in this stretch. Looked like it could be good when the levels are higher.

Thought i'd check it out anyhow. I flogged the water for a while. Met an irritated osprey; i had disturbed his fishing. Clumsy wading human... you're not gonna catch any fish like that! He wouldn't show me any of his favorite spots either. Then he flew away. I don't blame him. {Probably the same osprey we saw last week, a few miles upstream. He had made a plunge and came up empty. Fifteen minutes later, another splashdown. This time, he flies away w/a 15 inch trout. Not bad for two casts.}.

Went for a hike and picked some fiddleheads. Daisy did a little swimming. Fishing my way back to the truck, a nice hatch of Hendricksons came off. Fat protein packets. Size 12. A red-winged blackbird did his best impression of a hummingbird, picking off the morsels hovering over my head. His wings were like black ice. Flashes of bright red in the sun. He would rest in the nearby tree. Then repeat the performance above the stream, several times over. I guess the food value was worth the exertion.

That's when the baetis spinners started landing on me. Getting ready to mate. Plenty of midges too. No rising fish. Dredged w/a bugger and nymph for a little bit. There's gotta be fish here; lots of otter tracks on the shore. The osprey. Maybe it's a bad time of day, too sunny and not enough water. What's that i smell... faint whiffs of skunk...?

Hmmm. I wonder what's going on at that slow deep pool upstream. I could almost see the dimples in the water, 2 miles away. I've been waiting for it to pop. Maybe today is the day. Better get up there before this hatch is over.

Never made it there. Stopped at a pool only 1/2 mile away, to take a quick look. Up until now, i had only seen one rise on this stream all year. Probably to a midge. That was a week ago. Yep, this pool is poppin' and the fish are on them.

Switch to dry-fly battle gear. Take my time. Rebuild the leader. Choose flies. Get it right. Wade Slowly into position. Don't even cast for ten minutes. Stand in the stream. Smoke a cigarette. Watch.

OK... Now! Nice drift over a riser. ...Nothing.
2nd cast... Nice drift... Nice drift... Bam! I'm an osprey!

This went on quite nicely for an hour or so. After about a dozen small trout, i left the pool. Daisy had been roaming around doing her thing. She doesn't bother watching me w/concern, in slow water like this. We share a beer, and watch the dimples. Fade.

[marzrw]

An Osprey aye. When WB releases his fish and they are tired he makes sure they are ok because he had an osprey staring down from a tree at one his trout once and was afraid to leave until the fish swam off for fear the osprey would not catch and release that fish.

PS the wild flowers did the trick. Thanks.

[wildbrookies]

See, I told you those yellow thing-a-ma-jigs were going to save you butt.Would of been a better bouquet ,if we could`ve went back and picked those lavender ones.

Maybe ,I will start this trend ,once I start going too often.HeHeHe!!!!

Do to the maturation process of the fiddle heads in the area Marzrw and I were,I could`nt try his new recipe.Darn,Darn,Darn..Is`nt that what Herman Munster used to say??? Maybe next friday,up north ,will still have the tasty morsels.....

WB

[serotonin]

Lavender Munster

Smacked 'em like crazy today. All on top on dries. Still fishing the same fly from yesterday. Two different streams today.
This fly caught thirty-plus trout and still looks almost new. It's a parachute hendrickson emerger from rising trout. It's small but easy to see. Little white button of styro on top. Don't ask me why, but this fly is the Lavender Munster.

What a hoot! Even the dark! I can't see it but the fish can!
Two guys i met at dark were going like this: How are you doing that?

Lucky i guess. I didn't know what to tell them. Intuition. Fishin'.
Blessed i am.
Not as modest as marz.

[marzrw]

I told WB they were Hendrickson's coming off, I bet if we could ahve stayed longer, maybe , just maybe....
We haven't hit a good rise in avery long time, actually I can't remember when it's been that long. For various reasins we never go at the right time, therefore it's woolly bugger time. It's a wonder we catch as many fish as we do, going at the wrong time most of the time.
That sounds like a very good fly. What's the white styrofoam for, so you can see it or to imitate wings or something?

[serotonin]

The white styro is for the fisherman's eyes.
If the fly lands properly, the fish never sees the post.
Most of the fly sits low, in the meniscus.
It looks vulnerable.
It's even got a sexy trailing shuck.
Plus, it's nearly indestructible.

Who can resist a sexy trailing shuck at feeding time...?

They hit it so hard, i had to use the forceps several times.
Nothing ugly, but... that almost never happens...

I tried to give these flies to each of these guys.
One guy took the fly. The other guy took my phone #.

Relax, we're just going fishing...
If he calls me, i'll put him onto those slabs.
They're catch-and-release guys.

...Drivin' one of the meanest trucks i've ever seen.
:headbang: