I got to go fishing

[phatdaddy]

Not a big fan of fresh water fishing, too many stumps & snakes. Crappie is very mild soft meat, i d rather eat bream.

Cajuns call them sac-o-lait, means bag of milk because the meat is so white.

I do like to fly fish in fresh water

[scook]

One thing we don’t have to worry about west of the mountains in the Pacific NW is snakes - that would definitely put me off.

I’m not much of a hand at fly casting, but enjoy trying. I’ve gone to British Columbia, Kamloops lakes area a few years with my fishing buddy, got some good practice in and had some epic days dragging leach patterns in smallish lakes. We use small inflatables with flipper or oar power and have hit one lake, two lines in the water and lots of time both going off, clear one, throw it back and it’s going off while cleaning the other. The eagles have learned to watch fishermen, and I had one stolen complete with the fly, about 3’ from me.

I do envy how many species you guys have in the east - with the diminished Salmon runs here, I’m working on targeting more species. Fishing’s nice, but catching is better.

[phatdaddy]

I m not very good at fly fishing,mostly sit on a kayak and roll cast. We use floating rubber bugs, look like water spiders.

[scook]

Had to laugh - the roll cast is definitely my friend. I think if I could get the timing into muscle memory, or loosen up and learn to feel the rod load on the back cast, I’d do a lot better. For me, I think it’s one of those automatic “try harder” things that makes it worse.

[oteps]

Im not good at fly fishing. Someone gave me an old bamboo fly rod. Maybe im afraid of breaking it.

[scook]

Well, I went Crappie fishing Thursday with an old friend that I met in 7th grade. He’s done a lot of all kinds of fishing and we came back with 7 Crappie and one Blue Gill, so my wife and I cooked up 4 Crappie for dinner. I only caught one Crappie, but we split the catch down the middle. Had a good day on the water and the fish were very good - they grew up in cold water - were firm and sweet.

I thought someone posted a really simple way to paste photos directly into posts, without having to upload into another site first. Was that you, Blue, or does anyone recall the post?

[phatdaddy]

Glad u got to go and bring home some supper. one of the guys i fish with was in little league with me. Nice having OLD friends like that.

If u want i can PM u my email and I ll post them for u