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Trinity Report 15 Years, 6 Months ago
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Just finished another week on the T. No numbers, no spots, but let it suffice to say that I did land SOMETHING. Fishing is tough and the weather was tougher. Monday thru Wednesday found me out on the river at dawn, with air temps between 18 and 21 degrees and the water temps from 36 to 38. I'd heard that fish do grab around dawn even on such miserable days, but when I finally queried a guide, he said that he wasn't starting until 10 a.m. From then on, I hit the river at 9:00, was much warmer and don't feel like I missed anything.
Structure, structure, structure. I'd heard that and read it, even experience it, but it didn't sink in until this trip. If you see a downed tree, cast to it! Repeatedly!! Be prepared to lose 3 or 4 rigs, but you just might find a fish there.
My favorite fish was one that I lost. He was mine, well hooked and almost played out. My net, connected to my vest by a bungy-corded magnet, was in my hand. A burst of energy from the fish and I had to let the net hang next to my leg as I needed both hands on my rod. Suddenly, he charged me. I reeled like mad as he passed between my leg and dangling net. My leader caught in the ring attaching the net to the bungy and the fish snapped the tippet. My hat was off to that dude. What a come back!
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gitt (User)
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Re:Trinity Report 15 Years, 6 Months ago
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Bruce,
You still target the salmon holes with the bait fishermen with all the accoutrements (streamside lounge chairs and cooler to keep their cheap beer from freezing)? What kind of fishing report is this (especially for a sand rat living as close to Mexico as you can get??) Very disappointing. How do you expect the reader to live vicariously through your experience? Why bother to even post?
I enjoyed your posts when you asked questions, no matter how moronic. Now that you have attained the level you have, the secret society restrictions rule the day. WTF?
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Re:Trinity Report PS 15 Years, 6 Months ago
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Do I have to visit a special fly shop in Marysville and ask Tony to visit his shrine of "the outer stater" in order to see the recent photos to get the real scoop?
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Last Edit: 2009/12/13 19:57 By gitt.
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Re:Trinity Report 15 Years, 6 Months ago
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you mean you missed the snow in phoenix.  |
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Re:Trinity Report 15 Years, 6 Months ago
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Well put Craig.
Petri Heil,
Paul
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Re:Trinity Report 15 Years, 6 Months ago
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Bruce,
My friend has a saying for a lost fish like you described, "You did your job, but the fish did his job better!"
Glad you found at least a few fish that I didn't on the recent trip. Seems like I always fished a run where someone had just landed a fish or two before I arrived. I will say it again, Low clear water on the Trinity equals tough fishing!
The rain coming might change a few things.
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A River Runs Through It
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Re:Trinity Report 15 Years, 6 Months ago
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Hey Gitt,
I just got back to the T today and was lucky enough to find a computer. You want a more exacting report with numbers and locations? Sorry. Not until after the season. You know how steelheaders like to disembowel those who have loose lips. I still need my bowels.
As for pix, wait until Christmas when I get back home and I'll try to post something.
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Re:Trinity Report 15 Years, 6 Months ago
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I thought you would take a look at Ed's fine example of a fishing report and take his que. Winter guides on the Truckee use the same tactic. Why freeze your arse off if you can wait for things to warm up. Still dread the thought of tredding thru the snow in order to get to the water.
We're on the road to the Klamath Thursday afternoon. If the short term memory doesn't fail me and we make it back alive, perhaps a report as well about frost bit days while flinging our offerings to the phantom fish. That is, unless I am overwhelmed by the secret society's invocation of the tight lips. In the meantime, I have notified the local constable to be on the look out for the nefarious road side urinator. Looking forward to your stories and exploits with the finned creatures. That is, if you take the liberty. Salmon holes are not considered structure no matter what you have been told. Neither are lounge chairs.
Be well.
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It's Official...... 15 Years, 6 Months ago
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Arizona Bruce wrote:
Fishing is tough and the weather was tougher. Monday thru Wednesday found me out on the river at dawn, with air temps between 18 and 21 degrees and the water temps from 36 to 38. I'd heard that fish do grab around dawn even on such miserable days, but when I finally queried a guide, he said that he wasn't starting until 10 a.m. From then on, I hit the river at 9:00, was much warmer and don't feel like I missed anything.
Baaarucie,
You're officially the most nadless pansy on the face of the planet. Real anglers fish from dawn 'til dusk. No exceptions.
The Shepherd
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****** News Flash*****
The Shepherd is currently offering the Sheeople of this flock a chance to enroll in the Shepherd's Character Building course! For the small, nominal fee of $750 dollars, the Shepherd will travel to the Norcal location of your chosing, on a day and time that is convenient for you. Upon your arrival, the Shepherd will glove up and proceed to kick your ass up one side and down the other! Your asswhipping is guaranteed to include all of the following elements: cuts, abrasions, contusions, severe trama induced facial swelling, blackeyes, a fatlip or two, and significant but not life threatening blood loss! As a special bonus, you asswhipping may include the following: minor to medium severity concussions, a broken nose, bruised orbitals, califlower ear, and other assorted medium severity injuries. The Shepherd similarly guarantees that your asswhipping will NOT result in the following: broken limbs, fractured ribs, skull fractures, severe brain damage, or any other injuries that can be considered life threatening or altering, or that require prolonged medical treatment. However, if at any time during your asswhipping you elect to fight back, no such guarantee shall be given. Your whipping shall conclude with the landing of a flush power shot delivered with full leverage! This 'finishing touch' is likewise guaranteed to knock you into the middle of next week and render you into a perfect state of unconsciousness or your money back! Members of the flock whom the Shepherd is not fond of will qualify for a 50% discount!
"If it doesn't kill you, it serves to make you stronger" -The Shepherd
"The Trinity Dam Project will not result in the diversion of a single, solitary bucket of water."- Clair Engle, Former Senator, Crossdresser, Revisionist
"You should never trust a dude named after a chick!"- The Shepherd, Purveyor of the Truth, Angler extraordinaire, Living Legend
"Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche, another revisionist in the night!- Bruce Springsteen
"Tell me about those early rounds. When you were coming out what did you want to establish and prove in those first few rounds?" -Larry Merchant
"Establish who was gonna be the boss. There can only be one boss in here. I am the boss. This is my house. I live here."- Marlon Starling
"When the Shepherd talks, everybody listens!" E. F. Hutton
The Shepherd is also starting a hedge fund where members of the Shepherd's flock will be guaranteed a 25% annual rate of return! For more information about how you can become a member of the Shepherd's select flock, please send an e-mail containing all your account numbers to: Boatloadsofcash4theshepherd@fleecingofthesheeople.com
"....Yes we can!...."- Osama Obama, President, Eternal optimist and Harbinger of the Imminent Financial Doom!
"....No you can't!...." - The Shepherd, Prince of Economic Prognostication
"The S&P 500 shall come to be known as the S&P 300 by the end of 2009." -The Shepherd
"Citi and Morgan Stanley shall become one and merge into an offspring known as 'City Morgue'."- The Shepherd
"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheeople's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves." - The Shepherd
"In the Shepherd we trust, everyone else we monitor." - The Minions of the Truth™
"The darkness of fraud and deception ALWAYS retreats from the LIGHT OF THE TRUTH™!" - The Shepherd
"Everything is better in moderation, particularly moderation." - The Shepherd
"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the fraud and the deception of the evil revisionists. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, that shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness for he is truly his brother's keeper and the savior of blind sheeople" - The Shepherd
"And the Shepherd said:'Let there be light!' and there was light; the darkness retreated and the truth was revealed!" - An enlightened sheeople
"Baaaaaaa!" - A blind sheeople
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning.... smells like... victory." - Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore
"...I wanna announce my presence with authority..." - Nuke Laloosh
"ARRRRrrrrrrrrGGGGGHHHHH!" - Godzilla
"Sing me a song, and you're a singer,do me a wrong and you're a bringer of evil." - Ronnie James Dio
"Receiver of light, the Kingdom of the Shepherd shall guide you and keep you from a restless heart, Deceiver of night, the revisionist that lies within you is the reason for your restless heart...." -Tony Martin
"We are poor little lambs, who have lost our way. Baa! Baa! Baa!" - The Flock
"...Put the hashpipe down...."-Greg "Hashpipe" Miller
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Uncle Jack had a saying also..... 15 Years, 6 Months ago
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"You're both idiots!"
The Shepherd
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****** News Flash*****
The Shepherd is currently offering the Sheeople of this flock a chance to enroll in the Shepherd's Character Building course! For the small, nominal fee of $750 dollars, the Shepherd will travel to the Norcal location of your chosing, on a day and time that is convenient for you. Upon your arrival, the Shepherd will glove up and proceed to kick your ass up one side and down the other! Your asswhipping is guaranteed to include all of the following elements: cuts, abrasions, contusions, severe trama induced facial swelling, blackeyes, a fatlip or two, and significant but not life threatening blood loss! As a special bonus, you asswhipping may include the following: minor to medium severity concussions, a broken nose, bruised orbitals, califlower ear, and other assorted medium severity injuries. The Shepherd similarly guarantees that your asswhipping will NOT result in the following: broken limbs, fractured ribs, skull fractures, severe brain damage, or any other injuries that can be considered life threatening or altering, or that require prolonged medical treatment. However, if at any time during your asswhipping you elect to fight back, no such guarantee shall be given. Your whipping shall conclude with the landing of a flush power shot delivered with full leverage! This 'finishing touch' is likewise guaranteed to knock you into the middle of next week and render you into a perfect state of unconsciousness or your money back! Members of the flock whom the Shepherd is not fond of will qualify for a 50% discount!
"If it doesn't kill you, it serves to make you stronger" -The Shepherd
"The Trinity Dam Project will not result in the diversion of a single, solitary bucket of water."- Clair Engle, Former Senator, Crossdresser, Revisionist
"You should never trust a dude named after a chick!"- The Shepherd, Purveyor of the Truth, Angler extraordinaire, Living Legend
"Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche, another revisionist in the night!- Bruce Springsteen
"Tell me about those early rounds. When you were coming out what did you want to establish and prove in those first few rounds?" -Larry Merchant
"Establish who was gonna be the boss. There can only be one boss in here. I am the boss. This is my house. I live here."- Marlon Starling
"When the Shepherd talks, everybody listens!" E. F. Hutton
The Shepherd is also starting a hedge fund where members of the Shepherd's flock will be guaranteed a 25% annual rate of return! For more information about how you can become a member of the Shepherd's select flock, please send an e-mail containing all your account numbers to: Boatloadsofcash4theshepherd@fleecingofthesheeople.com
"....Yes we can!...."- Osama Obama, President, Eternal optimist and Harbinger of the Imminent Financial Doom!
"....No you can't!...." - The Shepherd, Prince of Economic Prognostication
"The S&P 500 shall come to be known as the S&P 300 by the end of 2009." -The Shepherd
"Citi and Morgan Stanley shall become one and merge into an offspring known as 'City Morgue'."- The Shepherd
"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheeople's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves." - The Shepherd
"In the Shepherd we trust, everyone else we monitor." - The Minions of the Truth™
"The darkness of fraud and deception ALWAYS retreats from the LIGHT OF THE TRUTH™!" - The Shepherd
"Everything is better in moderation, particularly moderation." - The Shepherd
"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the fraud and the deception of the evil revisionists. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, that shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness for he is truly his brother's keeper and the savior of blind sheeople" - The Shepherd
"And the Shepherd said:'Let there be light!' and there was light; the darkness retreated and the truth was revealed!" - An enlightened sheeople
"Baaaaaaa!" - A blind sheeople
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning.... smells like... victory." - Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore
"...I wanna announce my presence with authority..." - Nuke Laloosh
"ARRRRrrrrrrrrGGGGGHHHHH!" - Godzilla
"Sing me a song, and you're a singer,do me a wrong and you're a bringer of evil." - Ronnie James Dio
"Receiver of light, the Kingdom of the Shepherd shall guide you and keep you from a restless heart, Deceiver of night, the revisionist that lies within you is the reason for your restless heart...." -Tony Martin
"We are poor little lambs, who have lost our way. Baa! Baa! Baa!" - The Flock
"...Put the hashpipe down...."-Greg "Hashpipe" Miller
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You suck! 15 Years, 6 Months ago
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It's official - last week I fished in 11 degree temps, not 18. Keep your hands and thoughts away from my nads. I'll beat your sorry ass on the T any day, using a fly rod and fly fishing techniques...and my exaggerated bead head flies.  |
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A strong casting arm and a room temperature IQ.
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Re:Trinity Report 15 Years, 6 Months ago
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Well, Bruce, I too enjoy a good "beating" once in a while. I must say I enjoy it much much more in the Summer months. Everything just seems to work better when it's warm out, you know what I mean? Remember to make sure your hands are clean. What kinds of snacks do you have planned for after? I like Becks and Snyders pretzels. Nothing with soy or peanuts due to my allergies.
Look forward to hooking up.
Bernie
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