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Post by clarencebunsen on Jan 11, 2012 13:05:46 GMT -5
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Post by dgriffin on Jan 11, 2012 15:37:49 GMT -5
Pretty neat. What were the small green round things skittering along on the floor at 1:05? They look like fly fishing reels. Or are we just too far into winter and it's my imagination?
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Post by chris on Jan 11, 2012 15:59:41 GMT -5
Dave.......I expanded the screen to full view (looks even better larger) stopped the vid and they look like small world globes but still to hard to tell but I don't think they are fishing reels...just wishful thinking.....wait you can fish now down there in SC ...no??
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Post by Clipper on Jan 11, 2012 16:51:15 GMT -5
I hope you are able to adapt to the fishing in SC Dave. I like to surf fish, and deep sea fish, but even here in Tennessee, the trout fishing does not hold a candle to the fly fishing or any other form of trout fishing that we are used to. Every trout I have caught since moving here has been a disappointing size and was a hatchery trout.
We camped near Townsend Tn once and I fished a stream in the Smokey Mt National Park. I ate only one of the trout I caught, as I am normally a catch and release fisherman anyway when it comes to trout or bass. It reminded me of the liver like flavor of the stock trout we were plagued with in early spring in NY.
Hopefully you will still be found fly fishing along the streams in the Catskills or along the West Canada during the summer months.
I seldom even bother to fish anymore. The streams and lakes here are not what I am used to or fond of, and catfish are not my favorite meal.
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Post by dgriffin on Jan 11, 2012 21:40:44 GMT -5
The only trout fishing in SoCarolina I'm aware of is really on the slope of North Carolina Mountains that descend into South Carolina. Pretty far away from the coast down here. Our plan is to come north in the summer. I'll hopefully fish some favorite Catskill waters and without a doubt the West Canada. Probably not the Adirondacks. Many of the creek bottoms in Adirondack streams (because of their steep descents) have basketball size boulder bottoms which are getting dangerous for me to walk on (never mind uncomfortable!) For as long as I can do it, I'm a stream guy and avoid boats, unless I can find one in the shade of a tree!
Yes, that's what they feed them in the hatcheries, liver pills. Nothing more aesthetically displeasing than pulling a green trout out of the water.
I gotta get tying. I'm out of my one of my favorites, The Professor. It’s an old fly, and was a favorite of Mary Orvis Marbury, daughter of the Vermont family that turned fishing into a retail empire. Mary was no 19th century wilting lily. She published a book of favorite flies more than a century ago, and I’ve heard she was a killer fisherman with a bamboo rod.
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Post by dgriffin on Jan 11, 2012 21:46:29 GMT -5
oh, yeah! Globes.
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Post by Clipper on Jan 11, 2012 22:41:51 GMT -5
Many of the mountain streams here in NE Tennessee, as well as in NE North Carolina are much as you describe Adirondack streams, exept that they tumble down the sides of mountains and are far too hard for my old arthritic knees to access or navigate. There are plenty of people around here that fly fish for the trout that are predominately stock trout. I know a man and his wife from the bowling league that are retired and spend their spare time tying flys and jigs for sale. We have a weir dam on the tailwaters below the dam of South Holston Reservoir where people fish for trout, but the trout are the stock variety, and it is like shooting fish in a barrel to catch them.
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