Places

Posted in open thread motherfuckers!, Cast and Blast, clearing out the memory card, fill that freezer, Great White Hunter, hook & effin bullet, I Got Yer Hotspot Right Here on January 17th, 2010 by creeklover

 The Dollhouse, which actually used to be an actual doll house.

We all have special names  for our favorite spots. It’s just what we do….Whether it’s a favorite pool or run on a river or a favorite greenfield where you still wait on that 11-point you saw last summer. And it just sounds better when you’re retelling a story to use a special name. Easier to remember also. Some favorite places of mine:

Long Shot/Big Sandy/Turtleback/Back40/Blue Hole/Snakepit/Shopping Mall/Double Stump/Cooterville/Car Line/Little Hole/Cabbage Patch

Let’s hear some of yours…..

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so badass in so many ways

Posted in Night Ops, Know from where your dinner comes, Sick Point Sick on the Sickter Scale, River's Blown, Near Death In Real Life, Great White Hunter, Eat This Jim Harrison, Dead Animal Meals, Laser Awesomnality on January 15th, 2010 by thee

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Would you trust your sister with this man?

Posted in Real Heroes of Fly Fishing, Laser Awesomnality on January 14th, 2010 by bacon_to_fry

Piscatorial Predator/Kanektok Spiritual Leader/Sod Layer THE Elaminator sluts out in the latest FFJ* ad in trade for more brown liquor and an extra set of night vision goggles.

Prolly your sister’s never been to third base. Yet, ’cause Elam rocks the dirty, dirty night prowl, that scamp, and he plays himself some wicked hardball. He’ll make a fine brother-in-law.

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*We wholeheartedly endorse the FFJ’s awesomenality in trade for more whisky. thanks guys. anything else you need us to say? damn, this blog thing’s really working out.

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Time Is Subjective

Posted in who eats that?, beatdown, Basss! on January 13th, 2010 by WT

The bass are content to inhale whatever leech or snail or larva locates itself within range. Thusly they feed, so often as to be uneventful. Such fish cannot be bothered to rise so far as the surface, not even for a morsel as large and succulent as a frog or a woefully rendered imitation thereof.  The disposition of this fish does not lend itself to game.

Fishing is slow.

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1st in ‘10

Posted in Nevermind, Good Fishing Is Where You're At, Spey, I Got Yer Hotspot Right Here, Laser Awesomnality on January 11th, 2010 by banknote

1st in ‘10
Twenty-ten wild hen! And yes, she was a screamer.

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Your Holiday Beaver News

Posted in fuck you you fucking fucks, AWWW! It hurts my eyes, Photoshoppery, Holy Crap!, admit it -- it sucks, In Depth Beaver Analysis, Holy Ghey!, Absolute Horseshit, All that is way fucking wrong, Beaver Hunt on January 4th, 2010 by Salty

Nominated for an Award from the Nature Conservancy (Fuck those assholes and their access policie$)

November 20, 2009 

Mr. Donald L. Beaver, Jr.Chief Executive OfficerSpring Ridge Club, LLC

4719 Spruce Creek Road
P.O. Box 88
Spruce Creek, PA

16683 

Dear Mr. Beaver, 

Congratulations! Spring Ridge Club was selected by an independent panel of judges as a finalist in the Investing in Nature program in the Ecotourism category. 

Selecting award finalists was a difficult task for our blue-ribbon panel of judges. It is an honor of which to be proud. There was a robust field of nominees from across

Pennsylvania with many excellent conservation initiatives to improve the bottom line and help create a more sustainable planet. The Nature Conservancy is proud to recognize many conservation-minded companies operating in 

pennsylvania, and pleased to award Spring Ridge Club as a finalist in the 2009 Investing in Nature program. Enclosed you will find your certificate of recognition and a copy of the press release that names the winners and finalists. Thanks you again for participating and for your commitment to the environment.

 Sincerely, 

Teresa Howell Saxton

Donor Relations Manager

  And from the newsletter, Cathy Beck on a private Lake Erie trib.

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 Epol fixed it though:

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Merry Christmas.

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Variable Ratio Schedule of Reinforcement

Posted in Nihilists, Science!, beatdown, You Won't Find This Shit On The Fly Fishing Rabbi, Lazy Ass YouTube Posting on December 26th, 2009 by banknote

I’m pretty sure old Burrhus would have been fascinated by winter steelheaders.

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Feliz Piscatores!

Posted in yet another excuse fer drinkin', happy holidays, Revelry, Ask Izaak on December 24th, 2009 by Wook

It’s the Hideous Jabbering Head of Izaak Walton’s Olde Timey Holidaye Songe Revue! He’s just like Bing Crosby only twice as drunk and mean!

Yes it's a reanimated jabbering Christmas head. So what?

Oh the gallant Fishers life,
It is the best of any,
’Tis full of pleasure, void of strife,
And ’tis belov’d of many:
Other joyes
are but toyes,
and I hope I get the one with Kunge Fu Grippe!

Something from Brother Glista’s holiday fly candy stash:

Improved Guvna

Here’s one we like to enjoy at the same time every year, just like Rudolph.

Booker T. & The MGs. That’s analog, kiddies. Still the best medium for the Sex Pistols, but it lends a nice traditional warmth here I think.

Ze Great Wakkorotti:

Now go make merrye!

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Wreck Rapid

Posted in History Lesson Part 1 on December 12th, 2009 by bacon_to_fry

Stumbled into a pretty cool little photo joint called the William Joseph Gallery yesterday and among the billion sweet historical shots of the American West, including work by the legendary Ray Atkeson (Warren Miller’s contemporary, considered by many the Ansel Adams of the Northwest), Larry Olson and the badass Umpqua photog Dan Callaghan, i found this shot from Allen deLay. Always suspected Wreck Rapid was named such because of an um, wreck or something, but it’s pretty bomber to actually see.

Description reads: Maupin train wreck. a head-on collision between northbound steam engine 3128 and southbound diesel engine 440 occurred 57.6 miles up the Deschutes River on the west bank rail tracks. The location is 3.8 miles up the river from Sherars Bridge, which is near Maupin, Oregon. Since then, this site has been called Wreck Rapids. Three men running the trains died. Train 440 was carrying a load of horses and only one survived in good condition.

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Anyway, anyone in PDX oughta stop in there sometime and chat up the guy behind the counter. Fella knows a ton of cool stuff about the history behind a ton of killer old river shots.

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More Skagitmasternality

Posted in BWTF Seal Of Approval, Friends of Buster, Spey, Dirty Hippies, Badass Flies, Laser Awesomnality on December 10th, 2009 by banknote

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You’ve seen the trailer. May be you want to see the whole video. May be you have seen the whole video. May be you should go here to see a little bit of what you might or might not have seen already. Some of it for the sure the latter.

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