Anybody else getting itchy?

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lstshkr	Anybody else getting itchy?		Lead	[-]
Posts: 225 01/30/2009 20:18	Tags : None Unfortunately, I haven't taken advantage of the limited winter trout season here in Minnesota - it's been too darned cold and I've had a long term cold this winter. So most of my time has been spent in the basement working on guitar and bamboo rod projects. I've been skiing a few times, and that's OK - I like the snow, but I'm ready to be done with winter. The local TU meeting the other night had more people in attendance than I've ever seen, and everyone had that hang-dog, cabin fever look about them - we were all ready to get back on the rivers and streams and do some serious playing! I can't recall a time when I've looked so forward to winter being over so I can start fly fishing again. Anybody else? Dean "I used to be clueless, but I've turned that situation around 360 degrees."
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spruce grouse		#1	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1218 01/30/2009 21:49	Dean, Funny you should mention it. I was thinking the same thing today. I was even thinking about starting a poll here about it. I can't wait for warmer weather and being out on the water trying a new rod or an old favorite. The first hatch of big mayflies anywhere near here is the Quill Gordon hatch in the Shenandoahs about 2 1/2 hours away. That's my definition of the beginning of Spring.
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bulldog1935		#2	[url]	[-]
Posts: 6792 01/30/2009 22:45 Bulldog1935	I plead the 5th. the rods are never obsolete - the marketing is.
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sharps4590		#3	[url]	[-]
Posts: 89 01/30/2009 22:50	We'll start getting some warmer days, tomorrow is supposed to be one of them, and I'll usually hit a creek when we get one. Ain't the same kind of cabin fever we'd get in NW Wyoming. We just got our first decent snow this past week so I've been spending a lot of time on XC skis. Gotta make hay when the sun shines! Vic
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Shoeless Joe		#4	[url]	[-]
Posts: 922 01/30/2009 23:26	bulldog1935 wrote: I plead the 5th. And I plead the 30th ... of January White Cliffs of Dover
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aquabonito		#5	[url]	[-]
Posts: 951 01/30/2009 23:44 Angry Andy	Ron, That Rainbow looks a bit skinny, like something out of the fish market seafood case. Color is a bit on the faded side. "You can't make new old friends" Andy
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Soft Hackle		#6	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1193 01/31/2009 08:39	Fortunately I am an XC ski addict and it has been a great year for it here in Mass , it is a wonderful sport and the best workout going,I even enjoy the waxing rituals, the woods in Winter are beautiful and fishing is not missed until late March or so. Beautiful FET there Ron!!
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sharps4590		#7	[url]	[-]
Posts: 90 01/31/2009 09:36	You got it Softhackle! Might have to hit the creek this afternoon tho. Gonna be too warm for the snow. Vic
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North country brookie	Itchy	#8	[url]	[-]
Posts: 53 01/31/2009 14:20	A-yuh. Just shoveled through a foot of snow and ice to salvage what remains of my firewood pile. Burned out 3 lightbulbs in my flytying lamp, ran out of size 14 hooks. Keep telling myself - eight and a half weeks....... If only I can stay sane till then......
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Larry Swearingen		#9	[url]	[-]
Posts: 395 01/31/2009 18:46	Hey "Itchy" ain't the word for it ! This afternoon I was standing in my back yard in snow up to my calves with a 15 mph wind and it's 10°. Test casting a new bamboo spey rod taper I just made. It's not even done yet. The 24" long cork grip is too long for my little lathe so I just rough filed it. Taped the guides on and went out in the snow. Neighbors must be getting used to me because no one driving by said a word. Then again maybe no one wanted to roll a window down to jeer. Larry Swearingen New Hoosier
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WatercolorMan		#10	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1277 01/31/2009 19:41	You may want to makes friends with some of us living in the SUN BELT and fishing all year long in the SUN ! ! ! Or not . . .
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seattlesetters		#11	[url]	[-]
Posts: 562 01/31/2009 20:19	I just want winter to be over because that will mean I'm a few months closer to healing from the massive shoulder reconstruction I had done Dec. 22. Casting is still about four months off....and it's driving me crazy!
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cwood		#12	[url]	[-]
Posts: 495 01/31/2009 20:29	Ahh, the beauty of living in the southeast..... tailwaters with year long hatches, wild streams that produce on all but the coldest days, bass and sunfish when you get board, and the coast to fish for winter stripers and redfish. We may not have the best fishing, but we have a lot of it and it last all year. CWood
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bulldog1935		#13	[url]	[-]
Posts: 6796 01/31/2009 21:15 Bulldog1935	aquabonito wrote: Ron, That Rainbow looks a bit skinny, like something out of the fish market seafood case. Color is a bit on the faded side. I caught him off a gravel bar polka-dotted with redds. He's had other things on his mind than eating. Our fish are Emerson-strain rainbows, which spawn in December and January the rods are never obsolete - the marketing is. Last Edited By: bulldog1935 01/31/2009 22:28. Edited 1 time.
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cwood		#14	[url]	[-]
Posts: 497 01/31/2009 21:47	That's a really neat shot, Bulldog! What does Emerson strain mean? CWood
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bulldog1935		#15	[url]	[-]
Posts: 6798 01/31/2009 22:27 Bulldog1935	they are the warmest-water-tolerant strain of rainbows. They are a registered hatchery strain being bred in Missouri since 1951. Last year we held over about 12 miles of fish in our tailwater, the southernmost in the US. We also had a pretty good spawn last year, as well as this year. Our TU chapter and the state stock them in the winter. The weekend after Thanksgiving, I caught a wild-born trout that was about 10" long from last year's spawn. It was a week before any winter stocking, so we know it was wild - it was also in the same spot a friend was catching 3" fry last April. In fact that was my goal that day - I got out just before a front was blowing in was hoping to catch a wild trout before 10am - I did it. We have tried stocking browns mostly without success; although I caught a 20" male brown with a 4" mouth a few years ago. Our water is probably too alkaline for browns. The rainbows do quite well. In addition to the cold tailwater, there are springs coming into the river every 20 to 50 yards. There are winter stocking in a lot of private game ranches, and we find rainbows in the most unexpected places when we're warmwater fishing. I was fishing for Guadalupe bass in one of the headwaters forks a couple of summers ago and caught a 19" rainbow at the end of June. We found a 25" rainbow in a falls plunge pool that had to spend the previous summer there. These were all way upriver from our tailrace, and had washed down from prior winter stockings on the private ranches. Spanish naturalists reported trout in the Guadalupe headwaters 300 years ago (separately describing Guadalupe bass) - they were likely Rio Grande cutts hanging over from the little ice age that were finally wiped out by one of our droughts. the rods are never obsolete - the marketing is. Last Edited By: bulldog1935 01/31/2009 22:44. Edited 4 times.
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Hap		#16	[url]	[-]
Posts: 58 02/01/2009 07:51	Living in the upper Hudson valley of New York, this year is more like a normal winter. Except for an earlier ice storm, its been cold and a good cover of snow. So when your tired of reading or tying flies,you do the next best thing. You grab your Vexilar, your jigging rods, your ice auger and some warm clothing and you go chase trout thru the ice. If you can't find any trout, those bluegills, perch, crappie and walleye will usually cooperate. Besides, they taste real good deep fried, along with some of your favorite potatoes sliced real thin and fried the same way. After that you'll be to tired to think of trout fishing at least until the next morning. While I can't gaurantee this will scratch your itch, it helps to pass the time until you can get on your favorite trout stream. Hap
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andre49		#17	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1084 02/01/2009 09:20 Deeply Shallow	Will be leaving in an hour to hopefully fish midges and olives on a PA spring creek. There is always the camraderie if the fish are't rising. We fish year round here in the Mid-Atlantic states
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tedgolden		#18	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2690 02/02/2009 11:21 Moderator	I returned from Chilean Patagonia yesterday. My itch has been scratched for a while.
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tight loops	Anybody else getting itchy?	#19	[url]	[-]
Posts: 245 02/02/2009 11:45	Hey, while you guys are waiting for the weather to warm up, I'm dying of heat-stroke. I can't wait for winter; enough of this hot weather. Bring on the cold and those hungry ol' rainbows! To the change of seasons - cheers! Tom
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DarkstarCrashes		#20	[url]	[-]
Posts: 6 02/02/2009 17:07	Itchy? I hit a great BWO hatch in Shenandoah NP yesterday. Got pretty toasty up that way, and those brookies were getting fiesty!
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