12-20-2006, 04:53 PM
[blush] LOL. Scruffy, You've had a good time on the water.
I have mastered some of those talents.
I made a victim of my Fly Fishing partner. We must have been a sight, him bent over and me behind him trying to pull my fly out of the seat of his pants[
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I did the 'swimming with the waders full' in the Kalifonski. struggled to keep my head up in that chilly water.
Finally crashed into a Gravel bar.
Sitting there, on those cold rocks, exhausted, suddenly I saw my Fly line going by. I sloshed out and caught it, but when I tried to retrieve my Rod/reel with that line, it all came off, one armful at a time, till all my line and backing was going down river and finally I was able to find my Rod[crazy]
Back when I smoked, I drownded my Cigarettes and lighter every time I got close to the water.
I've ruined at least three movie Camera's and one still Camera. I dont even take Camera's on fishing trips any more.[unsure]
I'll bet I'm the only one here that has struggeled in the bitter cold to tie on a fly, made the knot good after several tries with frozen fingers, then threw the fly overboard and suddenly realized I had tied the fly onto a piece of old leader material....not attatched to anything in the boat.[mad]
My Hiking down river came to an abrupt end one warm afternoon.
I Hiked up a canyon, then down the walls, to the small lake. Down the lake through clouds of Mosquitoes to the Creek and commenced to fish with all the abandon of a young guy who knows it's all gonna end up back at the River Boat at the foot of the stream.
HAH!.
As I fished downstream, the Hills along side of the Creek began to steepen. "What me worry"
Soon they were canyon walls.
Then the Creek abruptly went over a Waterfall at the top of a cliff.
By this time it's getting dark. I expected to be down at the river, back in the River boat for a good nights sleep.
Nope. I had to turn around and head back up to the little pond, then back up those steep canyon walls and over the hump and then back down to the boat.
It was getting so dark I couldn't see. I decided to take a shortcut.
I went up the Hill, clamoring and scrambling. By now it's pitch dark.
I cant see my hands. So many trees I cant even see the sky.
Finally I hit the sharp edge of a ridge top and had to walk up that, one foot on each side of the edge, till I finally came to a downd tree laying across the edge.
I'd had enough by then. I was exhausted.
I had no Axe or saw, so I went down to the bottom of the Tree trunk and set fire to the lower branches.
As the fire worked it's way up the trunk of that tree, I would move upward with the heat.
Laying on the ground along side of a burning tree.
When I slept too long, the fire went off without me and I'd wake up and crawl up the hill a little ways. The hill was almost vertical. It was like sleeping in a standing position.
The fire lasted until almost first light.
I had one bag of Airline Peanuts, an Apple, a Candy bar and some Sugar free cough drops to keep me going so I didn't starve.
What I really missed was Drinking Water.
About first light, it bagan to rain solfley. I finally made it back to the boat about Noon. One tired, scraggely looking fisherman.
I made myself a promise never to do anything like that again.
Now, if I dont know where I'm going, I dont go there
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I have mastered some of those talents.
I made a victim of my Fly Fishing partner. We must have been a sight, him bent over and me behind him trying to pull my fly out of the seat of his pants[
] I did the 'swimming with the waders full' in the Kalifonski. struggled to keep my head up in that chilly water.
Finally crashed into a Gravel bar.
Sitting there, on those cold rocks, exhausted, suddenly I saw my Fly line going by. I sloshed out and caught it, but when I tried to retrieve my Rod/reel with that line, it all came off, one armful at a time, till all my line and backing was going down river and finally I was able to find my Rod[crazy]
Back when I smoked, I drownded my Cigarettes and lighter every time I got close to the water.
I've ruined at least three movie Camera's and one still Camera. I dont even take Camera's on fishing trips any more.[unsure]
I'll bet I'm the only one here that has struggeled in the bitter cold to tie on a fly, made the knot good after several tries with frozen fingers, then threw the fly overboard and suddenly realized I had tied the fly onto a piece of old leader material....not attatched to anything in the boat.[mad]
My Hiking down river came to an abrupt end one warm afternoon.
I Hiked up a canyon, then down the walls, to the small lake. Down the lake through clouds of Mosquitoes to the Creek and commenced to fish with all the abandon of a young guy who knows it's all gonna end up back at the River Boat at the foot of the stream.
HAH!.
As I fished downstream, the Hills along side of the Creek began to steepen. "What me worry"
Soon they were canyon walls.
Then the Creek abruptly went over a Waterfall at the top of a cliff.
By this time it's getting dark. I expected to be down at the river, back in the River boat for a good nights sleep.
Nope. I had to turn around and head back up to the little pond, then back up those steep canyon walls and over the hump and then back down to the boat.
It was getting so dark I couldn't see. I decided to take a shortcut.
I went up the Hill, clamoring and scrambling. By now it's pitch dark.
I cant see my hands. So many trees I cant even see the sky.
Finally I hit the sharp edge of a ridge top and had to walk up that, one foot on each side of the edge, till I finally came to a downd tree laying across the edge.
I'd had enough by then. I was exhausted.
I had no Axe or saw, so I went down to the bottom of the Tree trunk and set fire to the lower branches.
As the fire worked it's way up the trunk of that tree, I would move upward with the heat.
Laying on the ground along side of a burning tree.
When I slept too long, the fire went off without me and I'd wake up and crawl up the hill a little ways. The hill was almost vertical. It was like sleeping in a standing position.
The fire lasted until almost first light.
I had one bag of Airline Peanuts, an Apple, a Candy bar and some Sugar free cough drops to keep me going so I didn't starve.
What I really missed was Drinking Water.
About first light, it bagan to rain solfley. I finally made it back to the boat about Noon. One tired, scraggely looking fisherman.
I made myself a promise never to do anything like that again.
Now, if I dont know where I'm going, I dont go there![
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