Re: TR: Utterly Exhausting Andy Drift (and it hurts so good ;-)

[Flyfish]

daytripper > wrote in
:

> After spending Friday night at the Poland, Maine camp of a coworker
> along with one of his friends (and now one of mine), we drifted the
> Androscoggin "Dixfield" stretch on Saturday, me in my wee 12'
> Katahdin, and they in their 16' canoe.

fekker

Fly

[Frank Church]

daytripper > wrote in
:

damn fine TR tripper, I'm planning on coming up sometime in Sept and doing
one more float with Flyfish (if he's up to it) :-) I'm chomping at the bit
already.

Frank the elder

[daytripper]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 14:55:39 -0600, Willi > wrote:

>
>
>daytripper wrote:
>
>> After spending Friday night at the Poland, Maine camp of a coworker along with
>> one of his friends (and now one of mine), we drifted the Androscoggin
>> "Dixfield" stretch on Saturday, me in my wee 12' Katahdin, and they in their
>> 16' canoe. As the river had been running at high-tide the previous week we'd
>> been eyeing the on-line USGS river flow out of the Rumford dam and it was
>> finally approaching historic norms for the week. So far so good.
>
>
>You've had some FINE fishing on that stretch of water this Summer! Love
>to try it sometime.

Yes indeed, it has given us some outstanding days of fishing both in numbers
and size. And given the warnings about fish consumption the only threat would
be folks looking for wall hangers (and I doubt there's enough of those folks
to make much of a dent in the smallie population).

If you ever make it out this way in the latter half of summer (my only
experience at this point) I'm sure Dave B. or I would be happy to spend the
day getting hammered by big smallies with you!


/daytripper (call me "Lefty" for a few more days ;-)

[daytripper]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 01:45:01 GMT, Frank Church
> wrote:

>daytripper > wrote in
:
>
>damn fine TR tripper, I'm planning on coming up sometime in Sept and doing
>one more float with Flyfish (if he's up to it) :-) I'm chomping at the bit
>already.
>
>Frank the elder

Well, that's a fine idea, and I bet Dave will jump at the chance, especially,
'cuz I think Dave's ****ed (1) that he had previous engagements last weekend,
and (2) he fished the high tide the weekend before that with the river up into
the grass.

But you better do some weight training or isometrics or something with your
fishing arm, 'cuz these smallies are still growing. If this keeps up we're
gonna need bigger boats :-)

(Ed. note: I had a ripe opportunity to elbow Dave in the ribs by calling him
with my cell phone as we drove right by his house on the way from Poland to
Dixfield - I mean we were within a hundred yards or so. But I decided to give
him a break, figuring what he didn't know then wouldn't hurt him the rest of
the weekend)...

/daytripper (who is similarly kind to all sorts of small furry animals ;-)