Fishing Season!!! (Page 1 of 2)

We have a 12 month season here in Vegas but I'm excited about the tuna moving up. By May or so I'll be on a boat 25 miles off of SD for some tuna shuffle. If you've never done the tuna shuffle, I highly recommend it.

I am.  In fact, I have a great story about how awesome my wife is.

So...   Orvis is a pretty big outfitter, and also a big sponsor of Wintergrass (which makes them awesome in my book).   I have a bundle of old bamboo fly rods that used to belong to my grandfather.  I know enough about them to fill a teacup.  So the Orvis booth at Wintergrass this year had a guy in it with a fly casting training rod, and was tossing a bit of yarn back and forth.  I stopped and told him about my grand-dad's rods, and asked him what I should do with them.  He got an odd look on his face, leaned in and said the most amazing thing.... "You should learn to fly fish."

That hit me like a thunderbolt!  In all honesty, I hadn't even considered that.  They have a free course they give, and he handed me a flyer all about it.  My only problem:  One more thing that takes me away from the wife.  How am I gonna get this one in the mix.

We were driving in my car later that week and she found the fishing class flyer.  I asked her "So... you want to learn to fly fis?"  Kind of already knowing the answer.  But she surprised me with "I would *love* to learn to fly fish!  I've always wanted to."

So I signed us both up.  Class is on the 3rd of May.  And as we just bought a little 17' travel trailer, I can't wait to go.   

Jerome, that's AWESOME!  Good for you and the wife finding something new to learn and do together. 

Fishing opens April 1st here in NY too.  I haven't fished since I was a teenager though.  I grew up just fishing in the lake, and I can still sit there and have a few drinks and drift off to sleep without a rod in my hand. 

Don't forget... the Salmon River isn't too far from me, and there's a nice little fisherman's rental trailer across the road from my Dad who loves to play guitar, shoot the breeze, and cook venison!  They run in September though.

I think it's about that time too. A small local mountain lake near me opens in mid April. Gotta get my license and head up there.

When I'm visiting my parents in Henderson, we frequent the Veteran's Memorial Park in Boulder city. Nice little place.

I know your excitement TF.

I was able to get out a couple weeks ago and thumb a couple smallmouth from my yak, but got skunked my last two trips. Water temps are beginning to hit the low to mid 40's so it looks like this weekend may be good to go for a couple local streams if a big rain doesn't blow them out.  My wife would probably say I care more about fishing than I do about her.  Most years I spend around 60-70 days getting a line wet in 4-6 different states and Canada.  I rarely fish lakes any more - the chance to get away from crowds and float moving water on small streams is what I live for these days. Beside a few 3-day trips I do each year, I've got a couple bigger trips planned  - a week in June fishing some small Missouri streams with Al Agnew - the artist that does the Pass Pro Shop catalog covers and my "bucket list" trip in September - smallmouth fishing with my son Wes out of my raft for 5 days in Idaho through Green, Snow Hole and Blue canyons on the Salmon River into Hell's Canyon on the Snake River.  The float trip will be part of a a 16-day road trip with stops in Badlands, Yellowstone and Glacier national parks.  The old drybag I used to use for taking a guitar along on raft trips has finally worn out and it seems no one makes any giant-sized bags any more.  My last float putting a guitar in doubled-up heavy-duty 50 gallon garbage bags worked OK.  I guess I'll give it another shot - I can't imagine camping along a river without doing a little pickin' around the campfire.

I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas 

DE

z next time you're in town let me know. We can head out on my boat and do some picking and fishing.

Nela  has she got a sister,I been looking for a lady like that! I do like too hunt though.

Amen.

Wow! Didn't know there were so many anglers amongst us!

I feel very blessed that in our little province of Nova Scotia, we have so many different freshwater & saltwater species to fish for. There's rarely a time of year when something isn't "in season" outside of the winter months, and then there's ice fishing opportunities in stocked lakes throughout the province. Although my absolute preference is fly fishing for just about every species, a light spinning rod comes out on windy days, 'cause I just can't be bothered try to manage a fly line in a stiff breeze. And going after smallies from the kayak is also a blast.

Three days to go !!!

TF, you can have all the ice fishing you want. I tried it once and didn't like it. Being from Louisiana we don't get any ice  but while working up north me and a budd decided to try it. By the time we got a hole broke into the ice big enough to launch the boat we were just too tired to phish.

nela

Dino, sorry but she don't have a sister. When we were first married she did hunt & phish with me quite a bit. She still likes to go phishing but ever since I tried to convience her that the weather was just too hot to be sitting in our deer blind sweating in our camo clothes and we would need to take them off, she quit.

Nela