The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

The summer heat is gone, there's a chill in the Arizona air, and I've got NorCal steelhead on the brain. It's a rare disease here in southern Arizona and there's only one cure.

I leave Sunday for 10 days on the T. I'm pacing the floors, waiting to work on my body count, as Willie would say.

Iffn you see a short guy with glasses, longish hair (on the sides of my head anyhow), a beard and mustache, sporting an NCFFB baseball cap, and wading with a stringer of 6 or 7 wild steelhead, come on over and say "howdy". I really enjoy meeting folks from the board.

We can barbecue the fish together!

Your're not going to be fishing OUR rivers are you?

I hear the Trinity is closed to all Arizonaites. Did you get that email?

Can you let us know specific coordinates where you'll be so we can alert Sergeant Diaz.

No Whizzing by the side of the road this time, OK?

Welcome to CA AZ BRUCE!

(That's fishing and SH tag) Nonresident. So I guess if you pay enough, you're welcome to bring your rod to California!

Speaking of which, I also purchased one of those yellow tags for the back of my license. Says I can now whizz beside any non-interstate. The interstate permit cost a little more than I wanted to spend!

Thanks for the welcome.

The trinity has been posted no fishing if you are from arizona. I also alerted the local sheriffs and chp officers to your presence.I told them to look out for a red toyota celica with arizona plates because he passes people on the right litters banana peels everywhere, pisses wherever he feels like and to add insult to injury he bobicates, and he snags fish.

I'm flying up and renting a car. I'd have lost the frequent flyer ticket if I didn't use it now.

As for you, Fishsparrow, there's no pleasing some people. Here I am bringing up waking and swinging flies and all you can zero in on is my incredible skill with an indicator.

There's another guy on this board who gives me a lot of crap about my fishing. You and Troutnutless could be brothers!

This is my last post before leaving, so don't try to email me. I'll try to call you and describe to you what a steelhead looks like.