11/22

You are a fishing machine you lucky dog! Was hopeing to get a float in before the turkey hits the table on thursday but my fishing buddy crapped out on me.

More Cowbell! Thx for the Great Report!

Hoping to get one more Saturday this week, when it is forecast to hit (maybe) 60.

RG is right, it never goes away, 5 years of W+K cure, and I'm right back off the wagon!

L13

Got 16 days(at least) off starting Sat--plan on alot of combo trips(blast then cast--lol).

Clint; awesome man... don't be afraid to try above and below town once december hits; some hot fish should be running then... keep the reports coming man...

ORIGINAL: Clint S

Took about 15 minutes and I got it on the bank and went for the camera and it flopped back in the water.   Guessing it was around 8lbs or so. 

Clint - I got a quetion 4 ya.

I know that oftentimes fishy report info is a wee bit embellished (KUDOS to you for not describing the fish as an 18lber)..

butt

did it really take 15 min for you to bring it to the bank?

Not trying to make a negative PETA-TYPE judgement that you are over-stressing the fish, but just thinkin that 15 min is a long friggin time to battle with an 8 lber.

Just curious - that's all..

Good job on the hookups.. Keep the reports coming.

later

Clint - I don't have a problem with the improved clinch knot with Fluoro line (just make sure you wet the line before you cinch it down so you don't scrape it up with thumb nail).

You don't have to match line test to size of fish (afterall, many guys catch 10lb+ fish with 4 or 6 lb tippet).
In low clear water - light test line is required).

I'm just thinkin out loud (and living vicariously through your fishy reports), but since you mentioned that you are hooking fish (and losing them), may I suggest that you are using sharp hooks, and when you set the hook, make sure you give the fish a sore jaw and bury it..

I never used a net, I just walk backwards and beach the fish. Sometimes they "flip out" then get off when their bellies tough the rocks, but that's part of the game I guess.

Good luck tomorrow.

Dime,here I thought you only worked in the off season,no fishing reports from you?
By the way ,with the rain and rainy forecast next week I'll be heading west first week of December to Steelhead Fantasyland,I'll give a report on that trip.

Clint great report and seems like you have found a groove.. Being happy and having fun is what makes life easier.. Catching helps too.. Glad you are getting into it and how are the flies coming along ?

Pa, all this rain here has me itchin for fishin'.. havent had time to ck weather reports .. Snow in pulaski ? Oneonta ? .. deer or fish ? hum.. the fish will be there the deer wont for long..
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Drake, The boy got that one.. He just steps into it..It won't last long in our house.. Got 2 DMP permits and a buck tag.. where I hunt it is solitude forever.. Mountains, well , large hills throughout and no shots heard on day 2..
Wind kinda puts the deer down..

Happy Celebration day all , catch a bunch and save 1 for me:)

Peace & Tuna

Guys it is so bad I have not even set foot in the woods hunting this year.
HT no snow up here is forcasted for a bit.   The flies are coming fine I guess.  Concentrating mostly on glo bugs and Estaz patterns, also been messing around with a sort of estaz bodied  stone fly. Have gotten all my hits on stuff I tied.    Still using a homemade vice concoction as I was promised a nice fly vice for Christmas.   Rick and Dale at Pineville shop have helped me out some too.   I  bought a 120 yard spool of 10 lb flouro (not tippet flouro) and have been making tippets off that when my leader gets short,  via a very small swivel.   I will look tomorrow and see the brand.  Could that be part of the problem?  It never breaks at the swivel just the hook. 

Vanish should vanish,it's not a quality line.

drennan is definitely great; i will add though that ive had no problems with vanish... one time i went to fish dsr and all i had was my spin reel with 4 lb. vanish on it from trout season before... managed to land 4 out of 10 on it... not looking to start a leader war just telling it how ive seen it...

clint, if yoour tippet is breaking off at the hook, this means that your knots are perfect... you dont want it to snap at the swivel...

one comment on your choice of #10 tippet: i believe its a little heavy especially as the water is getting cooler and is still low... yes, you have had success with it, but if you jump down to #6 you may find you have more hook ups, and youd be surprised with the wood you can put to the fish with 6 lb.


either way, keep up the good work and; youre obviously doing something right...

btw; have you tried that tranlucent white estaz with with a colored underlye yet???

also, with those stones, try making the head with the estaz while keeping the body a thinned taper up towards the head... double goose fibbets for a tail and maybe even a bead on the head... with the stones, i find natural/dark colors have worked best for me as winter approaches, byut it doesnt hurt to have some bright ones... good luck

  Dime- nice to hear from you --- gotta count your lucky stars if ya got work in these times--even with the fishing having been cut down. For other reasons this was one of my least fished years too-darn.
   Hey is it the fishing or something else- no DSR report in a week .
  Has also been nice to hear now and then on this or that forum  bout some Kings still being on a bed or two here and there and some fresh Hos around.
Keep fishin guys its never over up there.

Hey Trevor; more than work; let's just say life ;) i'll save the kumbaya for another time though...lol

Im hoping to do a few trips this winter... hopefully 2 in december and 2 in february... hopefully yourself and a few others can coincide with one of my trips... maybe we can having a polar bear party at my place sometime... tight lines... and keep up the reports clint...

ORIGINAL: retired guy

Then again did manage to drag that dead deer out alone the other day.

considerin the fact that it was a granola-crunchin CT deer that probably weighed all of 70lbs, that ain't sayin much...

just bustin on ya RT

you can't eat antlers, tender is definitely better!!

Heading down the mtn to relatives for T-day feast, after a quick detour to old man Martinelli's cellar - the Dego Red wine is ready !!

I feel a RIP, da sweats, high BP, and possible stroke comin on!!!

yeeehah !!!!


Happy Thanksgiving to all you d00ds..