"Willi" wrote in message
...
Wasting your time, Charley. You could have caught a fish like this:


http://www.crystalglen.net/Fishing/FawnLake.jpg


and Ken would still come up with something. It's enough to frazzle your
ass...........

Willi

Without exception, best post of the last 6 months!

Thanks Willi.

Mark

Ken Fortenberry wrote:

Dave LaCourse wrote:

... Fawn Lake: I believe Forty was at Fawn Lake but didn't want to
advertise it as a great place to fish. Everyone knows there's a Fawn
Lake; he just didn't want it to get very much attention. ...


Well, you're half right. I was there, but it's not a great
place to fish, it's not even a good place to fish.

Fawn Weedbed is a 2 hour hike from the nearest trailhead.
Of all the fishing destinations in Yellowstone Park that
require a 2 hour hike it is so far down the list of good
fishing destinations that no one in their right mind would
ever recommend it. And if they do recommend it, on roff,
*and* they're a top-poster, well ...

But the joke's on them, Choc & Jeffie hiked all the way
up there and the three pix Choc posted to abpf didn't
contain a single solitary fish. I assume if one of them
had actually caught a fish they'd have posted its picture.


see dave...you were wrong about yellowstoneken. at least he's sticking
to his myth. i still can't figure out if he's even been near or seen the
place because of the way he constructs his stories about it.

i've been to fawn lake and it's no weedbed. go look at the pictures i
posted and choc posted on abpf.

it's spring fed. it doesn't dry up. there were no weeds growing
anywhere above the bottom we saw along the lake shoreline or anywhere
above the entire water surface. it was deep, with a severe dropoff in
the bottom about 10-20 feet from shore. it has fish in it.

craig matthews and steve h. of blue ribbon fly shop in west yellowstone,
as well as the gardiner flyshop owner (parks?) who wrote a book
containing info on the lake (and who fortenberry essentially called a
liar) agree there are big brook trout caught in the lake. yellowstone's
regs limit the brook trout catch in the lake ...acknowledging its
fishy-ness.

charlie and joe didn't carry their rods. warren and i did and we fished
the lake briefly from one spot where a fish was rising consistently. we
didn't catch a fish there, but we saw them rising around the lake. i'm
unsure if ken is making the ridiculous claim that our failure to catch a
fish during our brief attempt meant it was a bad fishing venue. if so, i
know several excellent western fishermen who fished quake lake for hours
without any success. i doubt ken's logic would prevail about that lake
any better than it does fawn lake. warren saw several big fish...he
said 16-18+ inches... in front of him in fawn lake. i saw a smaller one
leap from the water after a damselfly, in fawn lake. we all saw the
rises - dimpling and splashing.

i've seen the lake. i've seen the fish. it's a pretty place. its
apparently suitable for a family camping experience as we saw man, wife,
and child coming out with full packs, presumably from a camping trip in
the area, as well as a bunch of horses and 5 tents in the meadow
campground.

it's fortenberry that's the joke. but, then, most folks knew that
before i ever took the first step on the hike to fawn lake. i guess i
just wanted conclusive proof. fawn lake did it for me. what's going on
now just solidifies and corroborates the direct evidence.

jeff
jeff

Jeff Miller wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:

Dave LaCourse wrote:

... Fawn Lake: I believe Forty was at Fawn Lake but didn't want to
advertise it as a great place to fish. Everyone knows there's a Fawn
Lake; he just didn't want it to get very much attention. ...



Well, you're half right. I was there, but it's not a great
place to fish, it's not even a good place to fish.

Fawn Weedbed is a 2 hour hike from the nearest trailhead.
Of all the fishing destinations in Yellowstone Park that
require a 2 hour hike it is so far down the list of good
fishing destinations that no one in their right mind would
ever recommend it. And if they do recommend it, on roff,
*and* they're a top-poster, well ...

But the joke's on them, Choc & Jeffie hiked all the way
up there and the three pix Choc posted to abpf didn't
contain a single solitary fish. I assume if one of them
had actually caught a fish they'd have posted its picture.


see dave...you were wrong about yellowstoneken. at least he's sticking
to his myth. i still can't figure out if he's even been near or seen the
place because of the way he constructs his stories about it.

i've been to fawn lake and it's no weedbed. go look at the pictures i
posted and choc posted on abpf.

it's spring fed. it doesn't dry up. there were no weeds growing
anywhere above the bottom we saw along the lake shoreline or anywhere
above the entire water surface. it was deep, with a severe dropoff in
the bottom about 10-20 feet from shore. it has fish in it.

craig matthews and steve h. of blue ribbon fly shop in west yellowstone,
as well as the gardiner flyshop owner (parks?) who wrote a book
containing info on the lake (and who fortenberry essentially called a
liar) agree there are big brook trout caught in the lake. yellowstone's
regs limit the brook trout catch in the lake ...acknowledging its
fishy-ness.

charlie and joe didn't carry their rods. warren and i did and we fished
the lake briefly from one spot where a fish was rising consistently. we
didn't catch a fish there, but we saw them rising around the lake. i'm
unsure if ken is making the ridiculous claim that our failure to catch a
fish during our brief attempt meant it was a bad fishing venue. if so, i
know several excellent western fishermen who fished quake lake for hours
without any success. i doubt ken's logic would prevail about that lake
any better than it does fawn lake. warren saw several big fish...he
said 16-18+ inches... in front of him in fawn lake. i saw a smaller one
leap from the water after a damselfly, in fawn lake. we all saw the
rises - dimpling and splashing.

i've seen the lake. i've seen the fish. it's a pretty place. its
apparently suitable for a family camping experience as we saw man, wife,
and child coming out with full packs, presumably from a camping trip in
the area, as well as a bunch of horses and 5 tents in the meadow
campground.

it's fortenberry that's the joke. but, then, most folks knew that
before i ever took the first step on the hike to fawn lake. i guess i
just wanted conclusive proof. fawn lake did it for me. what's going on
now just solidifies and corroborates the direct evidence.

jeff
jeff

If y'don't mind, could you tell me what abpf stands for? I found an
"alt.binaries.pictures.fly" out there, but that newsgroup was empty so
far as I could tell.

Karl S.

Jeff Miller wrote:

it's fortenberry that's the joke. but, then, most folks knew that
before i ever took the first step on the hike to fawn lake. i guess i
just wanted conclusive proof. fawn lake did it for me. what's going on
now just solidifies and corroborates the direct evidence.

I suppose Yellowstone Kenny doesn't enjoy being a laughingstock, but he
richly deserves it. Good one, Jeff.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

Willi wrote:
Wasting your time, Charley. You could have caught a fish like this:

http://www.crystalglen.net/Fishing/FawnLake.jpg

and Ken would still come up with something. It's enough to frazzle your
ass...........

Yeah, that's hilarious. I hiked down to look at Fawn Weedbed
because I'd read about it. It was 5 acres of "lake" covered
in 4.995 acres of weeds. And of all the fishing destinations
two hours away from the trailhead that one could recommend
to someone, Fawn Weedbed would rank amongst the stupidest of
recommendations.

--
Ken Fortenberry

In article , says...
Wasting your time, Charley. You could have caught a fish like this:


http://www.crystalglen.net/Fishing/FawnLake.jpg


I'd hike a couple hours to catch fish like that.

Kevin

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reply to:
kevin dot vang at minotstateu dot edu

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 04:06:38 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

Willi wrote:
Wasting your time, Charley. You could have caught a fish like this:

http://www.crystalglen.net/Fishing/FawnLake.jpg

and Ken would still come up with something. It's enough to frazzle your
ass...........

Yeah, that's hilarious. I hiked down to look at Fawn Weedbed
because I'd read about it. It was 5 acres of "lake" covered
in 4.995 acres of weeds.

It's been mildly interesting to see your story morph, but only barely. I don't
for a minute believe you were ever there, and your descriptions of what you
'saw' just prove it.
--
Charlie...
http://www.chocphoto.com

none wrote:

If y'don't mind, could you tell me what abpf stands for? I found an
"alt.binaries.pictures.fly" out there, but that newsgroup was empty so
far as I could tell.

alt.binaries.pictures.fishing

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

@(none)" ""karls\"@(none) wrote:
Jeff Miller wrote:
i've been to fawn lake and it's no weedbed. go look at the pictures i
posted and choc posted on abpf.

If y'don't mind, could you tell me what abpf stands for?

http://css.sbcma.com/timj/acronyms/
--
TL,
Tim
---------------------------
http://css.sbcma.com/timj/

Kevin Vang wrote:
says...
Wasting your time, Charley. You could have caught a fish like this:


http://www.crystalglen.net/Fishing/FawnLake.jpg


I'd hike a couple hours to catch fish like that.

Sure, but then you'd still have to hike the two hours
back, so the question really becomes would you hike
four hours for a fish like that. ;-)

That fish didn't come from Fawn Weedbed, btw.

--
Ken Fortenberry