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Streamer
Big Fish in a Small Pond
USA
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 Posted - 06/07/2006 : 1:05:56 PM
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http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/grow.html
It's raining. Again.
There's a flood watch for the Merrimac Valley and Southern Maine. Again.
There's water in the cellar. Again.
And it's going to rain for the next three days. Again.
If this keeps up, Maine is going to be one gigantic flat-water pond from Katahdin Island to the Gulf of Bangor.
Gotta getta boat. |
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titleguy
Big Fish in a Small Pond
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Posted - 06/07/2006 : 1:20:09 PM
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Nice touch on the title of the thread my Captain. Perhaps I will wake to find out that I have waterfront property on the Gulf of Bangor. According to reliable sources, there are striped ones in the Penobby. EO is at 3100 today, which is marginally fishable.
In the words of Oddball, "Have a little faith Baby, have a little faith..." |
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titleguy
Big Fish in a Small Pond
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Posted - 06/07/2006 : 1:32:10 PM
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Just checked that link- funny see what your tuition dollars get you at UC Santa Cruz (or Santa Clara) The literary, biblical and mythological allegories in Grateful Dead songs. Would've big the phi beta kappa for me, oh well.
What we really need is the beginning of "The Music Never Stopped" instead of this "Big River" crap, or perhaps a trip to the "Promised Land"? |
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titleguy
Big Fish in a Small Pond
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Posted - 06/07/2006 : 1:38:09 PM
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PS to last- even funnier there Boss- what's the name of the ablum again, "Wake of the Flood". How about Crazy Fingers? something about cold rain falling like crazy fingers and some swift undertow. We would've gotten A's. |
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Streamer
Big Fish in a Small Pond
USA
1980 Posts |
Posted - 06/07/2006 : 1:53:31 PM
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Actually, that selection was a cart/horse thing. I was thinking about where to go Friday; gave some thought to the Dead; looked up the weather report; gave up on the Dead; looked up the Dead; and gave up on the weather report.
So, here's the plan (not that it applies to you, since you don't get to fish until the 17th...):
There's nowhere it's NOT raining, so staying ahead of the storm clouds and out of the way of major, knock-you-on-your-a$$ flows is the stuff dreams are made of. The winds will blow (or more accurately, not blow) in our favor: the highest gusts will be a passive 14 m.p.h. tonight and tomorrow, with nothing worth reporting on Friday and through the weekend.
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/ifps/MapClick.php?site=gyx&CiTemplate=1&FcstType=text&Map=0&MapType=3&site=gyx&CiTemplate=1&map.x=172&map.y=88
"Think ponds," someone said. Ponds with a light rain, low light, and no wind. Sounds like a plan to me. I'm loading up the kayak; giving up on wading.
BTW, titleguy, there was some mention about Kim & I controlling the weather. It seems oddly beyond coincidence that we get all this rain when YOU can't go fishing. It'd be real funny-like if we start getting Bluebird weather on (say,) the 17th of June... |
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titleguy
Big Fish in a Small Pond
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Posted - 06/07/2006 : 2:09:06 PM
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"Goin' where the winds don't blow so strange, maybe on some cold, high mountain chain."
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Streamer
Big Fish in a Small Pond
USA
1980 Posts |
Posted - 06/07/2006 : 2:10:31 PM
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| You got it. That's the plan. |
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Steve M.
Frequent Contributor
USA
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Posted - 06/08/2006 : 10:04:42 AM
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| It may be damp now, but before long we'll be out in the cold rain and snow! In the meantime, it's just a box of... oh never mind. |
"So much water, so little time"
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titleguy
Big Fish in a Small Pond
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Posted - 06/08/2006 : 10:16:46 AM
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Where have you been? I needed your wise input on this thread. |
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Flyfishi
Frequent Contributor
USA
238 Posts |
Posted - 06/08/2006 : 10:36:06 AM
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| I live in Northern Aroostook. hey maybe my property will be oceanfront and go up in value.... |
Catch and release, catch and release, catch and release.....get it? |
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Streamer
Big Fish in a Small Pond
USA
1980 Posts |
Posted - 06/08/2006 : 11:27:13 AM
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"If the thunder don't get you,
Then the lightning will."--The Wheel.
I note, with the metallic, bitter taste of irony in my mouth, that the weather report has been updated.
It got worse. 
Now, there will be thunderstorms  on Saturday, and Sunday has changed from "fair" to "foul", with better-than-average odds (60%) that it will rain. 
When this is finally over, I'll see you guys in the Port of Presque Isle.  |
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titleguy
Big Fish in a Small Pond
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Posted - 06/08/2006 : 11:37:31 AM
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| I'm gettin' out the hardware and going trolling on the Penobby for stripers. |
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Streamer
Big Fish in a Small Pond
USA
1980 Posts |
Posted - 06/08/2006 : 11:52:00 AM
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...And this makes me feel a lot better. It's an actual e-mail I got from an actual friend:
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Gosh! The weather in Alaska (where I was) last weekend was fabulous and
the fishing was great.
Sorry it rained on you....
Mitch
 Thanks, Mitch. Glad you had a good time. Can you swim? Wanna go fishing? |
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titleguy
Big Fish in a Small Pond
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Posted - 06/08/2006 : 1:37:09 PM
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| Weren't we quoting Credence about this time last year? |
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Matt
Frequent Contributor
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Posted - 06/08/2006 : 7:20:36 PM
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TG--
Are you going to the conclave? I've got some bonefish flies with your name on them.
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Marshall D
Frequent Contributor
USA
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Posted - 06/08/2006 : 8:34:37 PM
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weather's been soggy...but. Fish have been eating bugs at Shawmut.
Unfortunately they are NOT eating in great numbers in 'wading areas', if there is any wading areas at all now.
see my log at http://www.flyfishingmainerivers.com/writerpages/marshall/Log%202006.htm
Maybe it's time to go Striper-Shad fishing. No pond fishing now can excite me enough to travel. I want hot coffee nearby and easy drifts. Just a few casts are enough.
Maybe I'll just drive up to Orono and visit with my Mom. Some days I don't NEED a fish...Maybe that's what's meant to be.
For my buddies here... I'll tell you that I'll be with a bunch of good guys (some forum posters) at EO on Sunday the 11th. Rain or shine. I'd love to see the streamer and his associated fanaticals there. Might be one of few chances to meet up due to heavy guiding shedule, but you know, even if there are high flows at EO, flyfolks often get scared away too easily. Be not deterred. There will be food and friends. Damn the gas. Do it.
I've been on the high water and thinking of what high water...(and thinking about EO at high flow, (it's clearer water from the lake)...thinking about what high water does to move fish....like where will they likely hold and feed....how to reach them with a cast...hmm..that's a good topic.
I wonder about this because the fish've got to eat. It's awful that they have that heavy current to buck, but have you ever out-stripped a Salmon? They can hold in unbelievable current. Eat on top in HARD water! Matter of fact, they love hard current
So is high flow in itself any reason for for trout and salmon to simply stop eating? I don't think so. I've seen too many fish feed on top during high water. Muddy water, yes. That's the worst.
We flailers only have to think of finding where they will feed. We need to concentrate on finding feeding fish....not on our feeble cast, not on our fly selection, nor leader/tippet construction. WE WILL FIND them FIRST. All the other stuff will follow.
I surmise that feeing fish at EO in high flow will be in the slower currents....the tails and edges of all pools and maybe some will be not feeding but holding and waiting in the very deepest water, but ready to eat if food comes their way; perhaps these holders will be unreachable to us, but maybe not unreachable in all smaller pools at EO. There's a lt of small pools at EO. I want to look forward to contemplating all this stuff while sitting on a log and eating some good stuff.
When I'm there, I'll watch for a hatch.
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Streamer
Big Fish in a Small Pond
USA
1980 Posts |
Posted - 06/08/2006 : 11:09:53 PM
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Marshall & t.g., you're both right.
Last year, we were quoting CCR: "Long as I remember, the rain's been fallin' down," etc.. This year, heavier rain; heavier lyrics, but we shouldn't let that get in the way. Damn the rain.
You know, Marshall, I think I'll take you up on your offer. I've got some deer meat in the freezer. If we can figure out a way to cook it, we can chew on that while we figure out where to find the fish. It seems that the dam keeper @ the EO has been kind to us so far; maybe they won't have to look for me in Indian Pond, after all. Sure...any fishing is better than no fishing, even under adverse conditions. What was it that Jim said to you? "Fish got to eat...and we got to go, even if it's not right"? |
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titleguy
Big Fish in a Small Pond
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Posted - 06/09/2006 : 09:00:46 AM
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Marsh- can't make it Sunday, kid commitments. Too bad, but of course, the flow is going up to close to 5000 this afternoon.
Matt- not sure at this point, I actually was planning to go to the EO and Moose next weekend, or maybe Rangely, since everybdy will be at COP next weekend for the clave. I would like to try that Buffalo Trace though. My new current favorite is the Bulliet, even smoother than the Evan Single Barrel.
Told my boys that we are fishing stripers in the Penobby rain or shine tomorrow. Probably have to break out the hardware, but if they catch fish, it works. River is high and dirty, but people are catching fish. |
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