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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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Sep 15, 2015 - 06:47pm PT
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So how many animal vs vehicle incidents have you been involved in?
Did you know that driving slowly will help prevent accidents?
seriously. were you traveling at the speed limit or under? deer f*#ked-up your day of fly fishing or climbing? Doing 82 in a 65 zone?
Both you and the deer would have reacted better had you been observing the speed limit or close to it.
But there's a dead deer and a wrecked Toyota instead.
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Gary
Social climber
Hell is empty and all the devils are here
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Sep 15, 2015 - 06:54pm PT
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water temps and air temps play a bigger part in fishing...time of day dependent on these to a large extent...so you're both right
Spot on.
Once got so bored fishing browns at Fish Creek Lake in Utah, I started waiting for clouds to come over, then would cast into the leading edge of the shadow. Immediate strike every time. In the middle of the day.
Of course in the morning and evening we really killed them. Very delicious fish. Only better tasting fish was a cutbow I took out of Telephone Cove on Lake Mohave.
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The Chief
climber
Down the hill & across the Valley from Shetville
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 15, 2015 - 07:13pm PT
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What type Flies (Top Drys, Emerger semi-weighted or Bottom weighted Coneheads, Mice etc) and Wt Stick do you use, Gary?
And yes it's BS. I fish year round in all temps of water for Browns, Brookies, Cutbows, Bows and Goldens.
Some of the biggest Browns I have ever hooked were in the dead of Winter in water that was ranging around 45 Degs F in the middle of day with no hatch to be had. 2-3' of snow. Air temp in the 20's. Water was running any where from 85-135 CFS and 12-20 foot deep. Just happens to be my favorite time of the year to throw flies in the water and hunt for Browns.
Prime example of one of them locations...
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Captain...or Skully
climber
Boise, ID or the fricken Bakken, variously
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Sep 15, 2015 - 08:10pm PT
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Kill ALL browns. Non native vermin, they.
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Gary
Social climber
Hell is empty and all the devils are here
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Sep 15, 2015 - 09:48pm PT
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Rick, I use a little fiberglass brush rod with black gnats on East Fork San Gabriel River native rainbows. Small, but wonderfully beautiful fighters.
Watching a herd of Nelson bighorns crossing the stream just above the pool you're casting into, just 25 miles from downtown LA, is a pretty cool experience.
We'd use 1 or 2 pound tippets. Higher up on the Iron Fork, we'd be dipping. Tough fish there, they spook easy and the terrain is rough.
Started out spin fishing with a Fenwick UL rod and an Alcedo Micron reel with 2 pound test up the South Fork of Big Rock Creek, crawling hands and knees to the bank. We'd cut two hooks off the smallest Mepps and Panther Martin spinners that we could find.
It's appalling to admit, but I did very well with a tiny day-glo orange Panther Martin on the South Fork, but those were hold-over stockers, not wild natives.
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The Chief
climber
Down the hill & across the Valley from......
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 15, 2015 - 09:55pm PT
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Here's a true native and one of the rarest "trout' on this planet. Bet no one knows what it is.
Hooked up with the red tie of mine below..
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Big Daddy
climber
mammoth
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Sep 15, 2015 - 10:29pm PT
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Is that a Paiute Cut? Thought they were only up north.
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The Chief
climber
Down the hill & across the Valley from......
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 15, 2015 - 10:38pm PT
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Yup... Nope. Three bodies of water in the Whites hold em. The ONLY three bodies of water that are still legal to C&R em.
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ECF
Big Wall climber
Colona, CO
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Sep 16, 2015 - 05:34am PT
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I get the feeling you really enjoy messing with animals, and have a callous disregard for law, order, and the safety of others.
C&R is wildlife molestation. It serves no purpose.
You'd be surprised to know how many of them die anyway after release.
I went to CSU for natural resources management, my roommate and best friends were both fisheries majors.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Shetville , North of Los Angeles
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Sep 16, 2015 - 06:30am PT
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It's easy to collide with deer on 395...The deer are usually lurking on the shoulder blending in with the sage..They tend to use the same migratory paths...The spot where John Fisher was taken out usually has deer standing in the middle of the highway...this a blind corner taken at 60 and there isn't much time to react..it's a crap shoot....
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The Chief
climber
Down the hill & across the Valley from......
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 16, 2015 - 07:06am PT
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I get the feeling...
You must be on your menstrual period. Stop feeling... 99.999999% of the time "feelings" are deceptive and totally false. Fact.
The spot where John Fisher was taken out usually has deer standing in the middle of the highway..
Make that "deerS" RJ. I almost got taken out two weeks ago on the way to my monthly VA deal in Reno at the exact same spot. 5 Does standing right there.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Shetville , North of Los Angeles
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Sep 16, 2015 - 05:58pm PT
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The Chief...Deers..? Sorry about the typo but some as#@&%e is lobbing shells up here in Goldenville and i can't concentrate....rj
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skywalker1
Trad climber
co
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Feb 22, 2019 - 05:05pm PT
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West Virginia passed that law a loooong time ago. Not sure it's a law that really needs to be in place.
Yes don't swerve! Object fixation is also real. A friend of mine swerved right into the deer. Had he just kept it straight we wouldn't have been in the mess we were in and have to kill the deer.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Feb 22, 2019 - 08:03pm PT
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'Sounds like race car driving. If the car in front of loses it and spins aim straight for it, that's the one place it won't be.
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Feb 22, 2019 - 10:38pm PT
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I salvaged some elk years ago in CO. Saved me that winter, was pretty broke. The look on those yuppie climbers faces headed to the ice park, driving by in LL Bean edition subarus when they saw the blood on the snow, me with a hindquarter in my hand, my friend with a knife in the elk... Pure gold.
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skywalker1
Trad climber
co
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Feb 23, 2019 - 01:32am PT
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^^^ I like that. Simple fact of life.
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perswig
climber
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Feb 23, 2019 - 03:43am PT
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The Chief could really turn a phrase, alright.
Shooting the breeze with a local guide while Acadia climbing, he described following a car out of Southwest Harbor when it struck a deer, which staggered clearly damaged into the woods. The driver didn't stop, but in the time it took for the guide to pull over and find his knife, the guy behind HIM was also out, knife in hand, to go stock the freezer.
Waste not...
Dale
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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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Feb 23, 2019 - 07:43am PT
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Classic, Dale! Knife fight over the roadkill. Why it is illegal is beyond me. But Cali is a loony state in many, many ways.
BAd
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rurprider
Trad climber
Mt. Rubidoux
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Feb 23, 2019 - 08:03am PT
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Geez...how insensitive can you be? You just snuffed out the life of another living thing and you whine about an impaled radiator and a lost day of fishing. Slow down and be more alert.
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