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Posts: 650 05/07/2009 15:30 |
Hi Rich -
You can count on myself and my wife being there. Let me know if you want help setting up or whatever. We'll be in #17 a t Docks starting on Wednesday. PM me and I'll send you my cell # and email. See you there! Michael |
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czkid |
Michael, excited???? | #42 | ||
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Posts: 3958 05/07/2009 15:34 Moderator |
Michael isn't the least bit excited about this... can you tell????
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Posts: 232 05/07/2009 19:53 |
Ralph, You have me fired up, I'll be coming on Wed. and staying at Elkmont. The get together at Metcalf Bottoms sounds great as that is in the area of my
favorite fish area. I hope those yellow flies are coming off, the trouts really like them.
That super dooper thing is just what I need for one of those Boo's I just bought. |
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czkid |
Flies for Bamboo Bash '09 | #44 | ||
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Posts: 3959 05/07/2009 22:16 Moderator |
I probably covered this somewhere before... but, if you tie your own get out your recipe for soft hackles... any shade of yellow or green. Probably not larger
than a 14, and keep them simple. I just tyed up about 25 to supplement what I already have. I've actually had better luck with soft hackles than dry
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Just a hint. Ralph |
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Posts: 99 05/08/2009 14:29 |
Rich had me at "sausage" of course--I've just been juggling a few appointments to see how quickly I could get to 'em.
 Let me know if you need buns/ice/soft drinks, etc. and I'll head them that
way.
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czkid |
What a Team!!!! | #46 | ||
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Posts: 3960 05/09/2009 09:47 Moderator |
Jon; Thanks for all the help... we've got lots of folks really looking forward to this whole business. I'll make up a sign for the Bash weinnie roast
so folks know where we are located in the picnic grounds. I'll try to get there early and help Rich get stuff set up on Thursday. Now if the weather will
cooperate...........
Ralph |
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Posts: 336 05/10/2009 12:27 |
All the cool places to stay are booked up it seems so I had to settle for the Econolodge.....Well, the price was right anyway....Weather permitting, I am
planning on arriving around noon Thursday.....The little river is roaring from all the rain so I will watch the little river outfitters stream reports. Ralph,
I plugged your cell phone number in so if you see a call coming from 513 area code, that'd be me looking for directions.
Jim |
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czkid |
Weather Forecast | #48 | ||
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Posts: 3962 05/11/2009 11:16 Moderator |
I just got finished working with my buddies at the National Weather Service here in Huntsville, since the folks in TN seem so reticent to issue a real
forecast.
The story goes like this: We've had this "never ending story" of mini-fronts marching thru the South over the last few weeks. This appears to be weakening and what we can look for is almost perfect fishing weather before and during Trout Fest/Bamboo Bash. Tuesday is supposed to be clear and bright with temps in the 70s, Wed/Thurs/Fri/Sat are to be essentially cloudy to overcast with brief periods of rain possible. Right now, all precipitation looks to be either light or in isolated locations. There is fishing all over the Park... so if it has rained in one area, we can always fish another... that's the beauty of this fishery. Bring rain gear, but most importantly BRING YOUR WADING STAFF. There are trees all around, so you can always get out of the rain. Ralph |
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Posts: 129 05/11/2009 11:20 |
Ralph,
I will be around on Saturday. I plan on fishing the park on Saturday morning so if anyone would like to hook up send me a pm and I'll give you my number. ~marc~ |
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Gnome |
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Posts: 2156 05/11/2009 13:39 King of the Gnomes |
Have fun!!! Wish I could be there!!!
Jeff |
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czkid |
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Posts: 3963 05/11/2009 18:08 Moderator |
We wish you could be here as well Jeff. Why not kick the tall lanky one in the shin and you two could drive over non-stop in about 20 hours. Really give
everyone something to talk about!!!
Your rod will be on display along with others of the famous SRG crowd, as well as some vintage materials. The enviroment around Townsend would be just perfect for a genuine gnome.... Ralph |
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PaducahMichael |
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Posts: 678 05/11/2009 20:24 |
czkid wrote:Are you kidding me? Gnome would bound off into the greenery and would only be sighted on rare occasions when he ventured to the stream to cast a fly.... Heck, there probably ARE gnomes in the hills.
Last Edited By: czkid 05/11/2009 21:19.
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Gnome |
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Posts: 2161 05/12/2009 07:38 King of the Gnomes |
Darn the secret is out!!!! now you will be watching the hollows and riverbanks for my cousin "Bubba Gnome" of the Little river valley.
Never seen but he is there along with the rest of the clan;-) Jeff |
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Posts: 549 05/12/2009 10:18 |
Dear Mr. Western Gnome. Your Southern Appalachian cousin Bubba would live in a "holler" not a hollow and when the clan becomes larger they would move
to a "cove" where they would feast on taters.
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recane1 |
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Posts: 188 05/12/2009 11:34 |
Yesterday I was fishing on the Watauga River in Elizabethton Tennessee. My friend and I spotted something swimming upstream. He said that it was an Otter, But
I know better now. It must have been Bubba Gnome. I didn't realize that you guys could swim so fast.
But then again, I was sipping some "spring water" out of a Mason jar and my buddy was smoking some foul smelling stuff out of a funny little  .
Maybe that had something to do with the rare sighting.
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czkid |
No "Bubba" Gnome | #56 | ||
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Posts: 3965 05/12/2009 11:50 Moderator |
No known "Bubba" Gnome here... we've got Jethro and LeRoy, but no Bubba. Maybe in S. CO???
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Posts: 103 05/12/2009 14:05 |
Gnomes, you say? The Cherokee called them the Little People, the Yunwi Tsunsdi, as good an explanation as any why some folks get a little lost in these
hollers and wind up (very) late for supper.
http://books.google.com/books?id=jK_pZvr8YOIC&pg=PA333&lpg=PA333&dq=Myths+of+the+Cherokee+by+James+Mooney+little+people&source=bl&ots=lj0gLH2jrV&sig=JNYOOREs7v5KHjQQUEBIfH37W0Q&hl=en&ei=ObcJSozjBJqxtgfq7rTpCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3#PPA333,M1 |
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czkid |
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Posts: 3967 05/12/2009 15:26 Moderator |
Jon,
Have you been hitting the "mountain dew" again???? Ralph |
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czkid |
We're here! | #59 | ||
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Posts: 3972 05/13/2009 23:08 Moderator |
Paducah Michael and his wife "Shorty" are the lead contingent of the Bash crowd, along with myself. After we got them licenses and lunch we hit the
West Prong of the Little River and they managed to Christen their new rods... "Shorty" got a 7" Rainbow and Michael got a somewhat smaller
Brown. We then hit the Middle Prong above Tremont and Metcalf Bottoms before calling it a night.
Water is a bit high, but should be fine by Thursday PM if we don't get any more rain. Today was beautiful and sunny, things are quiet here in Townsend. All the big folks coming in tonight, Joe Humphrey's, Lefty Krey, Clouser, etc. ... Gary Lacy will be here some time Saturday morning, plus a load of folks from the manufacturers... should be interesting. Not too late to come. Ralph |
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Gnome |
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Posts: 2165 05/14/2009 08:44 King of the Gnomes |
recane1 wrote:Aaron, You are definitly on to something there  And I did use western verbage
as this gnome has most of the southern root's westernized at this point. 4 or more generations removed from the south will do that to you.
Jeff P.S. watch your buddy close, because when he blows the fish whistle magical things can happen!!!!! 
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