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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/21 20:13:10
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AAAWWWWWW poop-
Just when I thought I was a 10% fisherguy somebody goes out and hooks up 100 to my lousy one. Wanna just snap my noodle.
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/21 20:59:30
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Welcome new guy! You have to be there for the salmon run!!!! It is a madhouse. But it is fun.
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/21 23:48:59
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Again, thanks everyone for the tips. Why does Redfield get more snow than Altmar? So, I've been reading these posts for a while now, and everyone is talking about going out and getting fish, yet I see no pictures, like others have asked for. I know it's called fishing not catching, but I would think I would see more proof by now...
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/22 00:09:05
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Two things here. First your hundred hook up day was based on numbers you picked out of your a um hat and plugged into my formula. If you had said a million fish instead of 2000 the hook ups would have been much higher. No more real mind you but higher according to the math. Been posted in a couple places before but this is one so far that shows clearly where the fly is [image]  [/image]. Look on the blue bros thread for some other peeps.
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/22 00:44:10
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One more question about tackle.....what kind of weight is the best? Split-shot, or the bullet type? It seems the split shot is easier to use, since you wouldn't have to cut your line every time you wanted to change weight...
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/22 01:02:28
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Shot.
No more than to occasionaly find bottom.
If you are hanging up either you have to much weight or are casting at to great an upstream angle.
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/22 08:08:42
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ORIGINAL: dtrobe
Again, thanks everyone for the tips. Why does Redfield get more snow than Altmar? So, I've been reading these posts for a while now, and everyone is talking about going out and getting fish, yet I see no pictures, like others have asked for. I know it's called fishing not catching, but I would think I would see more proof by now...
Pictures you say ? Proof ? wow I think I posted well over 100 pictures. Many were last years Chrome or Browns but the 2 outings so far for Salmon this year we posted plenty.. Now thats a first, I was feeling like ppl were getting tired of my pic's.. Look at the top few posts I'm going to bring up and you'll se pictures my friend !!
"whats that smell like fish oh baby" .. J. Kaukonen
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/22 10:30:14
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Why does Redfield get more snow than Altmar?
I don't know, but I was not BS'ng about the flag poles on roadside mailboxes - used either to find them or keep the plow driver from removing them...ask your new neighbors.
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/22 11:31:55
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I believe its due to the lake effect snow coming off the lake and hitting the elevation increase...
Example: common case scenario... pulaski will have 6 on the ground; Altmar will have 12; redfield will have 2 +.... then refer to a topographic map with elevations... it kinnda makes sense to me...
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/22 12:37:13
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Dime lets get back to your fuzzy math.
I give a math formula.
You make up numbers out of thin air to plug into said formula.
Those purely BS numbers support your BS bragging.
Somehow I say you have 100 hook up days.
Quite a trick, blaming me for your ego trip.
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/22 12:50:14
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Waderboy; come on man; looks like drakes wittiness got the best of me here... not blaming you at all man; you're post just made me think a little... simple as that; and yes I threw in the comment WITH A WINK about 100 hookups which is in referrence to the endless "NUMBERS" battles that have gone on in here... half joke half truth.... please pm me if you wanna discuss this any further...
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/22 13:01:08
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/22 13:12:37
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Waderboy; come on man; looks like drakes wittiness got the best of me here...
fyi - I put more more thought into my 6am bowel movement  just bustin on ya 2...
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/22 14:53:33
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The song and my fishing are similar- one IS the loneliest number
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/23 15:23:13
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So with the weight? Split shot is the consensus. I have heard anywhere from 14in to 4 ft from the hook. Are we using one or as many at different sizes to get the desired depth? Thanks all. Looking forward to going up there.
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/23 15:29:33
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I guess I'm a tweener.
I carry everything from B size-BB-3/0-7-5 short.
My home river fishes best at about 1100cfs but fishes to about 2000 cfs on a regular basis.
My weight is somewhere between 18 inches and 24 inches from my fly.
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/23 15:30:42
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I believe the law is shot must be between 2 and 4 feet from the hook, no more or less.
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/23 15:38:07
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Changed from minimum 2 feet to maximum of 4 feet.
2 foot minimum is no longer in effect.
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/23 15:44:51
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Still cant bring myself to putem closer than coupla feet or more from the hook- even then use bout half what the others seem ta use- 90/10 ?
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/23 15:50:57
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I went to 3 BBs yesterday about 18 inches from the fly.
Tree about 2 feet in diameter laying downstrem into the head of the hole.
If you couldn't drop in right by the tree you missed a good part of the drift.
I feel so dirty now!
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/23 16:02:58
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Filthy filthy weight monger
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/23 16:07:05
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So it seems like the new "mask" for an ego trip around here is proclaiming how little of weight one can use.... 
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/23 16:09:07
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I know I know ishouldve posted that one in the thingamabobbers thread... hope no one g  ets a little sensitive now now...
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/23 16:12:07
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More like how little you can get away with using
so you get a drift though a hole not a drag though a hole.
Or put more clearly get a natural drift.
EGO SMEGO
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/23 16:19:51
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ORIGINAL: waDerboy
More like how little you can get away with using
so you get a drift though a hole not a drag though a hole.
Or put more clearly get a natural drift.
EGO SMEGO
I see the ego is growing...lmao...
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/23 16:22:39
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I see you are color blind.
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/23 16:28:01
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More like how little you can get away with using
so you get a drift though a hole not a drag though a hole.
Or put more clearly get a natural drift.
EGO SMEGO
agreed wb
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/23 16:36:58
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so wader boy; whats your take on high stick nymphing
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/23 16:48:25
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I fish the way I fish because it is what I prefer.
It allows me to cast more naturaly, I can roll cast,really a modified single spey cast,30-40 feet plus leader with little effort.
With a little care in mending I can fish from just below the surface to 4-5 feet deep on the water that is running now.
Now in Feb when the water temp may be below 32 degrees and the steel are slugish will I add a couple #5s and high stick nymph slowly for them.
Sure will.
When I have fish hanging in a slot 2-3 feet wide and 30 feet long will I throw a boober at them running my fly straight down that slot.
Place bets on it if you get a chance no matter what the odds cause its gonna happen.
Will I add a sink tip and swing the bigger holes sloooooow and deeeeep.
Yep not a doubt in the world.
While they are not my preferred method I will use them when they are by far more productive.
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/09/23 16:51:56
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Said so perfe fly I knew you had it in ya; I honestly use much less than 2 #5s when high sticking though... I love high sticking with 2 handed rods also; gives you way more time in the zone; which makes a longer drift and less weight is required..
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