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Afflicted?? 13 Years, 3 Months ago
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I think I’m afflicted. After the wonderful trip with Ed K and Paul I was excited about the fishing we had, and especially the fishing we had here in California on our way home. Paul and I are planning another outing next week at the same place so I decided that instead of being short of flies again I would tie a few up in preparation.
Thus, in comes the affliction. First I tied some nymphs. Say a dozen bead head PTs yesterday and today I started and finished the same number of Callibaetis, in size 16 on a TMC 2312. Those looked pretty good so I started on some Callibaetis Emergers tied on a Gamakatsu C15-BV hook…weird shaped hook but it does make for a beautiful emerger. Got engrossed with the project and ran out of hooks, the package only has 25 in it. Hmmmm.
Ok, I have the emergers done, at least for now. So I decide I had better have some duns. So, remembering that the flies that were hatching were smaller than my normal 16’s I decided to use a TMC 103BL in #19. I got a package of hooks tied up so now I have 25 of those. Looking back I did catch some nice fish on the #17s so out comes a fresh package of those. Now I have 25 in that size.
It’s 1 pm and I begin worrying. With this cooler weather we’re having, will it make the hatches change. Have I tied all these flies for nothing (at least for this upcoming trip)?? Dang. I check my boxes and I’m really short of midges. Looking around for midge hooks I find packages and packages of them. I think there are some midge nymphs and dries in the next couple of days. When am I going to get my honey-do’s done????
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Re:Afflicted?? 13 Years, 3 Months ago
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Yeah, you are and it's catching.
I am not fishing Los Padres Res today becuase I didn't finish tying the Callibaetis emergers that I stoppped tying Birds Nests for........
Thursday, dammit!
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Tight Lines,
Ed K
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Re:Afflicted?? 13 Years, 3 Months ago
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Free next week to go with us???
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Re:Afflicted?? 13 Years, 3 Months ago
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Charlie,
Thanks. Got that four day Hounds Gig in Ocean Shores Wash, Pretty well knocks out next week, but thank you.
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Tight Lines,
Ed K
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Re:Afflicted?? 13 Years, 3 Months ago
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Well, go catch something up there then!!! Should be a lot of steelhead showing up there now.
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Re:Afflicted?? 13 Years, 3 Months ago
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Charlie S wrote:
Well, go catch something up there then!!! Should be a lot of steelhead showing up there now.
If I catch something, I hope it's a fish. Was gonna fish on the way up, but didn't work out, so I am flying.
72 hours, eight sets. No breaks long enough to fish.
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Tight Lines,
Ed K
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Salman (User)
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Re:Afflicted?? 13 Years, 3 Months ago
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Not a bad affliction to have and something I need to be doing but instead I am doing
the honey do list...a bedroom renovation,new window treatments, gettin' the firewood in
..the list goes on and on but I think I'm playing hooky on Saturday to chase the fish around the backyard 
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Re:Afflicted?? 13 Years, 3 Months ago
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Salman wrote:
...snip....
..the list goes on and on but I think I'm playing hooky on Saturday to chase the fish around the backyard
Mark
DO IT!!!!!
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Tight Lines,
Ed K
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Carpy (Moderator)
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and you are not a 13 Years, 3 Months ago
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bad cook either, I did finish my 6 flies yesterday.
Paul
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If stupidity got us into this mess,
why can't it get us out of it? - Will Rodgers
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Re:Afflicted?? 13 Years, 3 Months ago
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That's not near enough flies.
You know how good I am at losing your flies in the mouths of trout.
I hope to pilfer some of those beauties next week!
I had plans to head up the following week, but there is some big event going on the 27-28th, so I'm trying to get sometime off work next week instead. If I can I'll see you and Carpy on two.
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Re:Afflicted?? 13 Years, 3 Months ago
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GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re:Afflicted?? 13 Years, 3 Months ago
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My request for some time off work next week is being ignored |
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"Rivers course through my dreams, rivers cold and fast, rivers well-known and rivers nameless, rivers that seem like ribbons of blue water twisting through wide valleys, narrow rivers folded in layers of darkening shadow, rivers that have eroded down deep in a mountain's belly, sculpted the land, peeled back the planet's history exposing the texture of time itself."
— Harry Middleton (Rivers of Memory)
"Each night as I haul myself onto the back of county garbage truck no. 2, there is a familiar wind, some thread of moonglow or starlight, a splatter of dark rain on my skin, something that stirs my memory, and again, if even for a brief moment, I am on some mountain river, some stretch of bright water, full of possibilities, including the possibility of trout, perhaps one that, when hooked, will haul me in and out of time, in and out of life's mysterious and frightening, wondrous and incomprehensible continuum, even to the edges of the universe." -- Harry Middleton
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