Bamboo Bash '09

Re: Bamboo Bash '09

feeds@yuku.com (varmint255) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:09:02 GMT

Sorry Christine and I missed it this year,I was looking forward to seeing everyone again.Work(that ugly 4-letter word)travel has kept me off the water for way too long.I also sincerely hope Michael is doing better,enjoyed having him and Shorty as our neighbors year before last.Next year...............that's what I keep telling myself............

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feeds@yuku.com (Bucktrout) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:43:36 GMT

Hey Ralph,

One of these days I'm going to make it down for your bash. I think your fishing strategy for next year is a good one. I gave up a long time ago in fishing water beside the road. I find that if I just walk a mile or two I can usually catch fish in about every hole. They're not big but they have fins and are wild and gorgeous.

Eric

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feeds@yuku.com (czkid) — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:38:06 GMT

The real secrets to wading are few. 1) Use a good wading staff. 2) Shuffle your feet, don't high step. 3) Make sure you have two of your three points of contact firmly in place before you move number three (two feet and a wading staff). 4) Don't get in a hurry. The most important is the two points of contact rule... it's been hard for me to pay attention to... but two artificial knees give it higher credence. The other good little tip is that, if while looking through the...

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feeds@yuku.com (recane1) — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:47:24 GMT

Do you have 2 left feet like me?

Aaron

Whoopeeeeee, I just noticed that this is post number 200. Over the hump now. It's all down hill from here.

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feeds@yuku.com (PaducahMichael) — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:29:38 GMT

recane1 wrote:
An old timer once told me, "You ain't gonna catch no fish until you bust yer ass and get good and wet. He also later told me "Don't ever wade past yer straddle.
But really, the key is to be sure of your right foot, before you move your left foot.

Aaron

Dang - I was doin' it backwards....

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feeds@yuku.com (recane1) — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:22:48 GMT

An old timer once told me, "You ain't gonna catch no fish until you bust yer ass and get good and wet. He also later told me "Don't ever wade past yer straddle.
But really, the key is to be sure of your right foot, before you move your left foot.

Aaron

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feeds@yuku.com (czkid) — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:34:00 GMT

And we had you guys on the Easy Stuff.... if you want bad wading we'll run you over to Abram's creek and watch you fall on your posteriors. Both Rich and I have managed to fall on the easy sections of Abram's standing still... and then had to hike over a mile back to the car... not pleasant at all.

Ralph

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feeds@yuku.com (PaducahMichael) — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:09:55 GMT

Chartist1 wrote:
The clarity of the water got me....It magnified the stream floor so the water didn't appear too deep....I stepped over a rock in the stream and went from 2 feet of water to 5 feet and over my waders....that was hairy.....And the stream was quick too....

That's surely true. Many of the rocks were shaped like bowling balls - and were slicker than snot, too. Adventures in wading on a daily...

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feeds@yuku.com (czkid) — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:39:39 GMT

We can and do put up with Yankees.... it's the California business that worries us. Heck, I did 4 years of college and 1 year in the USAF out there, and you never hear me mention it!!! I will deny it to my grave. Everyone used to give S. CA all the grief, but now the Northern section is getting fruity as well.

If you do come, remove all vestiges of California itis from your belongings, re-tag your cars, and never utter the CA word again... then you might be safe.

...

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feeds@yuku.com (OldCanerods) — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:45:11 GMT

Chartist1 wrote:
The clarity of the water got me....It magnified the stream floor so the water didn't appear too deep....I stepped over a rock in the stream and went from 2 feet of water to 5 feet and over my waders....that was hairy.....And the stream was quick too....

I dd that once in Solvenia and ended up up to my neck. Good thing it very slow moving, wasn't any deeper and I was able walk my...

Re: Bamboo Bash '09

feeds@yuku.com (Chartist1) — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:14:15 GMT

The clarity of the water got me....It magnified the stream floor so the water didn't appear too deep....I stepped over a rock in the stream and went from 2 feet of water to 5 feet and over my waders....that was hairy.....And the stream was quick too....

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feeds@yuku.com (OldCanerods) — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:09:22 GMT

I knew it was damn yankee, just didn't want to get in trouble with the owner/moderators. I grew up fishing, among other places, a beaver dammed brookie stream in central Ontario while with a 9' Montague Sunbeam of my dad's. So I know all about dense woods, no-see-em's, black bears and long rods. Plus a long love for DEET products.

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feeds@yuku.com (16parachuteadams) — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:07:35 GMT

Don't spend too much time worrying about the Yankee end of it- and by the way it's Damn Yankee- there are a lot of us already here. The natives are friendly, but you'll never be "from around here" no matter how long you stay. The fishing can be great weather and water willing but it is work and it helps to be part mountain goat. If you get up this way for any reason, give me a call and we'll see if a fish can be had. Regards, 16pa
PS regarding Ralph's...

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feeds@yuku.com (OldCanerods) — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:47:46 GMT

Sorry to join up on the forum too late to plan for this year's bash. Don't know if you let yankees come, worst than that - California-living yankees at that. A close friend that I've been trying to visit with for a couple of years, lived in Sevierville, just passed before I could come back and see him. Got cancer and went fast. I'm trying to convince my wife that we need to retire in...

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feeds@yuku.com (PaducahMichael) — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:01:37 GMT

Chartist1 wrote:
After about the sixth time of driving to a hole, climbing down to it, not catching a fish & climbing back to the car, I have to admit it got pretty overwhelming and I am only 47.......I am ready for a [BAM]boo bash at the White river or north fork river Arkansas.

There's been one there for the past 11 years. It's called...

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feeds@yuku.com (lkbamboo) — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:47:05 GMT

Southern Rodmakers Gathering October 22-24th

Lowell

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feeds@yuku.com (Chartist1) — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:15:50 GMT

After about the sixth time of driving to a hole, climbing down to it, not catching a fish & climbing back to the car, I have to admit it got pretty overwhelming and I am only 47.......I am ready for a boo bash at the White river or north fork river Arkansas.

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feeds@yuku.com (czkid) — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:26:03 GMT

There's nothing easy about fishing the Smoky Mtn streams I fear... and it's not the sort of place that you can just walk in and start catching trout... unless you get lucky. There are a few streams on the N side of Gatlinburg that might be termed "user friendly" (lower sections of Greenbrier come to mind), but all in all the Smoky Mtn fishing is a challenge.

Let me see if I can clarify that a bit... access is always a problem in the mountains. Any water that is...

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feeds@yuku.com (Chartist1) — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:44:48 GMT

At least I managed to catch one trout during my visit, a nice 12" brownie in one of the locations Rich showed us the day before. The key was having the wading staff as it allowed me better access to the hole.

I tried fishing in the stocked area with no luck. Just one of those weekends I guess. It was nice to see a part of the park other than Gatlinburg.

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feeds@yuku.com (92Esquire) — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:19:43 GMT

czkid-

It was a blast meeting you all at LRO. I don't often get a chance to check out bamboo rods, so that was a pretty neat gathering. Very interestng to see the different takes on small stream rods. As far as the fishing there, for me it was tough sledding. After I left the Boo Bash on Saturday, I managed 4 small trout along the Tremont road, but it was hard work. The only rises I got to dries were from warpaint shiners. The 4 trout all hit a BH Pheasant Tail variant I...

Bamboo Bash '09

feeds@yuku.com (czkid) — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:17:52 GMT

Well it's time to start thinking about Bamboo Bash '09 in Townsend, TN. Last year I had to drop out do to conflicts with my dear bride's ovarian cancer. But this year I'm happy to say she's helping me with the event. We are planning on the weekend of 14 -17 May 2009.