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Post by dainw on Mar 23, 2017 8:21:58 GMT -6
Okay since everyone is talking about what trips they're planning on taking in the coming months, figured I'd chime in. I have a pretty cool schedule lined up.
-April 7-9 will be in Arkansas fishing the white and Norfork rivers with Nathaneal Ferguson.
-May 4-7 is a fly fishing themed bachelor party at Westover Farms in Missouri. Will also be floating huzzah and/or courtois creeks with the focus being on beer drinking. Smallies are prolific here though and fly rods will be along for the ride.
-Memorial day weekend headed to hill country to float the llano.
-June 2 - Wedding. No fishing allowed on this day
-June 3-10 is the honeymoon. Headed to Ambergris Caye in Belize and have gotten permission from the wife to book one day with Tres Pescados fly shop. Will bring own gear and plan on wading the flats in my downtime.
-August? - SW Colorado (God willing)
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Post by slim on Mar 23, 2017 9:21:30 GMT -6
Big old congratulations on your up coming marriage.......
Quite an impressive fishing schedule.
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Post by greenman on Mar 23, 2017 10:18:07 GMT -6
Dain, Get in all the fishing you can before the "Honey Do's" start piling up. LOL. JK. Hope your future wife is as forgiving as mine on the fishing. She actually encourages me to get out and fish. Hope all your trips are filled with Tight Lines. And I'm jealous of that belize trip.
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Post by hankinsfly on Mar 23, 2017 10:55:01 GMT -6
April will be a full year of being married. She likes to fly fish, but I still fish less than I would prefer. Of course, that's how I felt single as well. There will never be enough fishing.
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Post by dainw on Mar 23, 2017 11:41:17 GMT -6
Definitely looking forward to Belize. I wouldn't say she "encourages me to fish" necessarily but Kristine is pretty cool about letting me fish when I want and will fish with me once or twice a year even. Telling you guys I got really lucky with her.
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Post by golferjeff on Mar 26, 2017 15:02:47 GMT -6
Now she just needs to rake in the big bucks so you can retire and fish with pops!
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Post by slim on Mar 27, 2017 12:28:24 GMT -6
Slim got ell expenses paid for a trip to Borger, TX refinery. Does that count ?
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Post by hankinsfly on Mar 27, 2017 12:51:54 GMT -6
Slim, I have some an in-law in Borger. He likes to fly fish, but their lake dried up. 😂
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Post by jonbo on Mar 27, 2017 20:13:37 GMT -6
Yeah, Dain, I hope you're marrying well. It'll be a shame if you can't retire at 40 (at the latest) and spend the rest of your time fishing. Naaah, just kidding, bro! Congratulations! I'm sure you're marrying a wonderful woman. Here's to much happiness!
Oh, and don't forget to keep making fishing reports!
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Post by golferjeff on Mar 28, 2017 9:40:46 GMT -6
GJ headed to Colorado (Arkansas Basin) in April, Canadian Rockies (Calgary) in July, SW Colorado (Rio Grande/Gunnison) in August, ?? in September, and back to CO (South Platte) in October. 6 people headed to Canada, trying to meet Dain in Creede in August, and usually find one guy to chase Lake Run Browns in October.
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Post by jonbo on Mar 28, 2017 10:30:44 GMT -6
LMF, Lil'Mo', LMF, Lil' Mo', probably make it to the White in about November. Da' "Uszz'".
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Post by mirvc17 on Mar 28, 2017 10:40:36 GMT -6
I'll be meeting up with Golferjeff and hankinsfly end of April at the LMF. No other trips planned, but I know we'll be camping some this summer--probably Cimarron Canyon at least a couple of times. I'd like to try some other places, but the Cimarron is hard to beat for travel time required and quality small stream fishing. Might link up with my brother and his family in CO this fall and get a cabin somewhere.
I'd be up for CO in October possibly.
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Post by hankinsfly on Mar 28, 2017 11:54:22 GMT -6
GolferJeff, dammit man. I wanna be be like you when I grow up.
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Post by turfdawg on Mar 29, 2017 18:55:52 GMT -6
Maybe Utah in June.
I'm kind of like Jon, right now only thing planned is renting coach's cabin on May 5&6 and see if Peter can take us on a 1/2 day trip.
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Post by kingnothing on Mar 30, 2017 8:51:07 GMT -6
LMF in mid-May
RMNP in late Aug-early Sept, planning to fish the Big T, Loch, Icy Brook, etc. Also open for suggestions for fishing in the area around Estes Park.
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Post by paul01 on Mar 30, 2017 16:55:01 GMT -6
Doesn't anyone on this site fish the Northeast besides me?
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Post by dainw on Mar 30, 2017 17:45:47 GMT -6
Paul I think there are a few guys here that do. I've got family in Albany and I'm sure I'll make it back there and fish one of these days. Some of that stuff looks pretty neat. But then again when Arkansas and Colorado are as close as they are, it's hard to pass those places up.
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Post by jonbo on Mar 31, 2017 3:42:37 GMT -6
I'd love to fish a classic New England trout stream someday when I get the opportunity. I did get to fish for native(?)/wild brook trout in a Smoky Mountains National Park creek (LeConte Creek) probably smaller than Lost Creek was, spilling down a rhodedendron covered mountainside. The highlight was catching a couple of brookies about 7 inches long in pools about the size of a goldfish pond in a big-city condo backyard. It was really fun.
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Post by kingnothing on Mar 31, 2017 12:02:42 GMT -6
I'd love to fish a classic New England trout stream someday when I get the opportunity. I did get to fish for native(?)/wild brook trout in a Smoky Mountains National Park creek (LeConte Creek) probably smaller than Lost Creek was, spilling down a rhodedendron covered mountainside. The highlight was catching a couple of brookies about 7 inches long in pools about the size of a goldfish pond in a big-city condo backyard. It was really fun. I grew up in western PA, catching native brookies from streams no wider than 3 to 5 feet. Lots of fun for a kid to sneak up on each little pool and drop the fly down in front of the rock and watch the 8 inch brook trout swim out from underneath and grab it. . Also fished the bigger streams for holdovers and stockers, mostly the Slippery Rock creek around Rose Point and McConnells Mill
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Post by golferjeff on Mar 31, 2017 17:56:17 GMT -6
I grew up in Western PA as well, catching stockers on nightcrawlers. That was in the Ligonier/Latrobe area. When I finally got to fly fish the area, I caught some native brookies on the WV border, and some stocked holdovers near Somerset. The central PA region has some of the most technical, challenging fishing anywhere (penns creek, upper Delaware, etc). Near Penn State U, there are several great streams, I like the Little Juniata. Like King above, some of the brookie streams were trickles of water where you just had to get a fly on the water without spooking them. Fun stuff. I may be in the area June 2-6 and I may take a fly rod with me.....
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Post by kingnothing on Apr 1, 2017 13:01:46 GMT -6
I grew up in Western PA as well, catching stockers on nightcrawlers. That was in the Ligonier/Latrobe area. When I finally got to fly fish the area, I caught some native brookies on the WV border, and some stocked holdovers near Somerset. The central PA region has some of the most technical, challenging fishing anywhere (penns creek, upper Delaware, etc). Near Penn State U, there are several great streams, I like the Little Juniata. Like King above, some of the brookie streams were trickles of water where you just had to get a fly on the water without spooking them. Fun stuff. I may be in the area June 2-6 and I may take a fly rod with me..... I'm from New Castle, which I hear is a good place to be FROM nowadays. Wen I got out of the army in 79, I worked for a roofer for a couple of summers, we put a new roof on Ligonier High School.
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Post by hankinsfly on Apr 1, 2017 13:10:02 GMT -6
Got some local trips coming up- upper Illinois for smallmouth, LMF for de trouts. Bass pond for bass all summer. I take at least one trip somewhere in the Rockies in the summer. I'd like to go up in October when crowds are less and lodging cheaper. Thought it would be cool to go up with some friends who ski and go fish a tailwater. I don't ski and can handle the cold, so I'd be down for some winter midging/BWO's.
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Post by jonbo on Apr 1, 2017 15:46:29 GMT -6
Once as a very young man I had the chance to spend part of a summer in McKeesport, PA. While running around with some other little hoodlums we snuck on to Arnold Palmer's private golf course in Latrobe and fished his ponds for bass.
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Post by golferjeff on Apr 1, 2017 19:49:53 GMT -6
Jonbo - Latrobe Country Club - I have played it. great ponds for LMB and bluegill. King - Ligonier High is still there. Tubmill Run and Loyalhanna Creek are nearby. Hankinsfly (Stephen) - I go up to Colorado to hunt big browns the 3rd weekend in October every year. Hit creeks and the Arkansas during the day, the Dream Stream at night into morning for the big boys and girls. We can discuss later this month
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Post by dainw on Apr 9, 2017 12:12:15 GMT -6
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