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On Mar 9, 2:05*pm, "JT" wrote:

The jury is still out, however I do think you are a miserable, no good for
nothing windbag. ;)

Windbag??? The vast majority of his posts are five letters or fewer.
-)

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On 3/9/2011 10:10 AM, Giles wrote:
On Mar 9, 6:39 am, wrote:
On 3/8/2011 4:48 PM, D. LaCourse wrote:

...You couldn't teach ... *anyone* something about fly fishing.

dave...i'll have to disagree with that bit of hyperbole (i know it's
made in your ongoing war of words and ad hominems with wolfgang).
...but, he taught me something about fly fishing in wisconsin and the
upper peninsula, just as you taught me something in maine. i confess
neither of you had a very good student, but i'm ever grateful.

Well, I recall teaching you something about flies.....so numerous they
did swarm. But any fool bereft of sauna for a few days in the western
UP in June could have done that. And I also remember your first
encounter with a smallish fowl, known locally as the "hex", when it
nearly took your ear off on its errant entry into camp one evening.
But that was none of my doing. Mosquitos, at their most benign, you
have also encountered here in Curdistan. But you've seen those
before. About all I have left to show you along these lines is
blackflies and deerflies at their maleficent peaks. I harbor no doubt
that your thanks will be tepid at best.

As for fly "fishing", I distinctly remember that on the occasion when
we first fished together your efforts to get a fly on the water
succeeded vastly more often than not, and that you frequently brought
it back with a fish attached. Furthermore, you always managed to get
to the water and, more importantly, back to the beer truck, before
anyone else. I had nothing substantive to teach you.

giles

i reckon the student knows better. you've shared literature i'd never
have read otherwise, taught me how to fish a sandy-bottomed, reed-banked
brookie stream in wisconsin (odd place that...including the briars,
flies, and skeeters, but lots of willing fish thankfully), taught me how
to fish successfully in the oxyincontinent...uh... octaginate... octogon
....****, you know, that lovely spot near bruce crossing. not to forget,
the first pass lake i'd ever seen... and, i'm still working on that cast
where the fly makes a 90 degree turn at a rock on snowbird. lots more
too. as i suggested to dave, there's a universe of lessons to be
learned about fly fishing that have nothing to do with the actual
fishing or catching.

jeff

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On Mar 9, 6:28*pm, jeff wrote:
On 3/9/2011 10:10 AM, Giles wrote:





On Mar 9, 6:39 am, *wrote:
On 3/8/2011 4:48 PM, D. LaCourse wrote:

...You couldn't teach ... *anyone* something about fly fishing.

dave...i'll have to disagree with that bit of hyperbole (i know it's
made in your ongoing war of words and ad hominems with wolfgang).
...but, he taught me something about fly fishing in wisconsin and the
upper peninsula, just as you taught me something in maine. i confess
neither of you had a very good student, but i'm ever grateful.

Well, I recall teaching you something about flies.....so numerous they
did swarm. *But any fool bereft of sauna for a few days in the western
UP in June could have done that. *And I also remember your first
encounter with a smallish fowl, known locally as the "hex", when it
nearly took your ear off on its errant entry into camp one evening.
But that was none of my doing. *Mosquitos, at their most benign, you
have also encountered here in Curdistan. *But you've seen those
before. *About all I have left to show you along these lines is
blackflies and deerflies at their maleficent peaks. *I harbor no doubt
that your thanks will be tepid at best.

As for fly "fishing", I distinctly remember that on the occasion when
we first fished together your efforts to get a fly on the water
succeeded vastly more often than not, and that you frequently brought
it back with a fish attached. *Furthermore, you always managed to get
to the water and, more importantly, back to the beer truck, before
anyone else. *I had nothing substantive to teach you.

giles

i reckon the student knows better. you've shared literature i'd never
have read otherwise, taught me how to fish a sandy-bottomed, reed-banked
brookie stream in wisconsin (odd place that...including the briars,
flies, and skeeters, but lots of willing fish thankfully), taught me how
to fish successfully in the oxyincontinent...uh... octaginate... octogon
...****, you know, that lovely spot near bruce crossing. *not to forget,
the first pass lake i'd ever seen... and, i'm still working on that cast
where the fly makes a 90 degree turn at a rock on snowbird. *lots more
too. *as i suggested to dave, there's a universe of lessons to be
learned about fly fishing that have nothing to do with the actual
fishing or catching.

jeff

Hm......

Well all of that would take much too long to dispute on a point by
point basis, especially considering that a boy is pretty much swamped
just now, what with listening to a debate on Muslim radicalism in the
U.S., eating everything in sight, reading something or other about
native plant communities here in coulee country, watching the snow
fall, nursing indignant muscles recently subjected to unaccustomed
labor out in the woods, and puzzling over the everlastingly
inscrutable efforts of so many of our brethren directed at exposing
themselves for what they are.....like they really NEED to do that at
this late date.....ainna?

O.k. You may hitherto refer to me as Sensei

giles
who concedes that, yes, the cast around the rock thingy is a useful
little trick.. :)

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On 2011-03-09 19:08:01 -0500, jeff said:


are you near jacks river in the cohutta wilderness area?

jeff

It's a little over an hour away if *I* drive. d;o)

We are just east of the Smithgall Woods/Dukes Creek Conservation area,
which is east of Cohutta.

Dave

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"Giles" wrote in message
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On Mar 9, 3:05 pm, "JT" wrote:
"Giles" wrote in message

...

g.
o.k., anyone who thinks this one is NOT stupider than stevie and the
doughboy and the pig combined......this is your opportunity to stand
up and be counted.

c'mon.....don't be shy.

The jury is still out, however I do think you are a miserable, no good
for
nothing windbag. ;)

Presumably, you mean "no good for anything." English, she is a
tricksy bitch.

Killfiles are for pussies, however I have found that ignoring 98% or what
you type here makes you almost 2% tolerable.

Go the extra 2. Let us know how it affects the 98.

g.
who, if a response appears, will (naturally) be none the wiser.

"no good for nothing"

windbag.

JT

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On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:13:43 -0800, "JT"
wrote:


Killfiles are for pussies


Meow!!!! Mrowwwwrrr !

Sylvester

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flebow wrote:
"JT" wrote:
Killfiles are for pussies

Meow!!!! Mrowwwwrrr !

I gotta agree with Fred. I'm a pussy and I feel no shame in it.
My killfile allows me to read a roff free of posts from those
I have identified as not worth reading. My killfile saves me
time, annoyance and nuisance. Win, win, win.

--
Ken Fortenberry

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On Mar 10, 2:18*pm, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:
flebow wrote:
"JT" wrote:
Killfiles are for pussies

* *Meow!!!! *Mrowwwwrrr !

I gotta agree with Fred. I'm a pussy and I feel no shame in it.
My killfile allows me to read a roff free of posts from those
I have identified as not worth reading. My killfile saves me
time, annoyance and nuisance. Win, win, win.

--
Ken Fortenberry

Hm.....

On the other hand......

Pussy.

Girl.

Moron.

giles
who, to be sure, is loathe to resort to simple observation and common
sense......but there it is.
so, in the meantime, anybody here remember when the doughgirl insisted
that killfiles were for pussies? :)

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On Mar 9, 6:15*pm, " wrote:
On Mar 9, 2:05*pm, "JT" wrote:



The jury is still out, however I do think you are a miserable, no good for
nothing windbag. ;)

Windbag??? The vast majority of his posts are five letters or fewer.
-)

Fascinating.

Please point out a single post from the offending party that was five
letters or fewer.....um......you can count to five......right?

giles
whose monicker accounts for somewhere around 3 to 7characters.......if
he is not mistaken,.

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On Mar 10, 5:17*pm, Giles wrote:
On Mar 9, 6:15*pm, " wrote:

On Mar 9, 2:05*pm, "JT" wrote:

The jury is still out, however I do think you are a miserable, no good for
nothing windbag. ;)

Windbag??? The vast majority of his posts are five letters or fewer.
-)

Fascinating.

Please point out a single post from the offending party that was five
letters or fewer.....um......you can count to five......right?

moron