fly fishing in AZ
 

I will be heading to AZ for the next 3 months and was wondering if there are
very many good fly fishing opportunities there. I will be mainly in Tucson,
but should have the chance to travel throughout the state. Any suggestions
will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Dustin

dustin.mcbride wrote:
I will be heading to AZ for the next 3 months and was wondering if
there are very many good fly fishing opportunities there. I will be
mainly in Tucson, but should have the chance to travel throughout the
state. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Arizona is a complete freakin' wasteland.
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TL,
Tim
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http://css.sbcma.com/timj

Tim J. wrote:

Arizona is a complete freakin' wasteland.

Indeed. Imagine someone thinking they could find waters to flyfish
in that stinking desert.


Chuck Vance (the mind boggles)

dustin.mcbride wrote:
I will be heading to AZ for the next 3 months and was wondering if there are
very many good fly fishing opportunities there. I will be mainly in Tucson,
but should have the chance to travel throughout the state. Any suggestions
will be greatly appreciated.

The resident wisenheimers are giving you a hard time because just
a few threads up the list is a Trip Report (TR) from Sedona, AZ.
Look for the Subject: Semi-OT: Sedona TR (with pics).

I believe there are also some tailwaters that hold trout and there's
always warmwater fishing. We spent a week in Sedona one fall a few
years ago before riding down into the Grand Canyon on mules. I didn't
have a fly rod along but the best trout water I saw on the whole trip
was running right alongside Phantom Ranch at the bottom of the Grand
Canyon.

--
Ken Fortenberry

Ken Fortenberry wrote:

The resident wisenheimers are giving you a hard time because just
a few threads up the list is a Trip Report (TR) from Sedona, AZ.
Look for the Subject: Semi-OT: Sedona TR (with pics).

I believe there are also some tailwaters that hold trout and there's
always warmwater fishing. We spent a week in Sedona one fall a few
years ago before riding down into the Grand Canyon on mules. I didn't
have a fly rod along but the best trout water I saw on the whole trip
was running right alongside Phantom Ranch at the bottom of the Grand
Canyon.

Gee, did you have to ruin the thread by being heplful? ;-) Well
since you started it, here's a page that should get him pointed in the
right direction: http://www.gf.state.az.us/h_f/edits/..._fishing.shtml


Chuck Vance (btw, that's *Mr.* Wisenheimer to you)

Ken Fortenberry wrote:
dustin.mcbride wrote:
I will be heading to AZ for the next 3 months and was wondering if
there are very many good fly fishing opportunities there. I will be
mainly in Tucson, but should have the chance to travel throughout
the state. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

The resident wisenheimers . . .

SPLORK!
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TL,
Tim
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http://css.sbcma.com/timj

Tim J. wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
The resident wisenheimers . . .

SPLORK!

I could have said one's a dumbass, yuppie beer snob and the
other one's worse, a republican, but I'm in a generous and
gregarious mood this morning. ;-)

Actually, for high desert fishing in the Southwest I recommend
New Mexico. Sedona was just too crystal, vortex, New Age, pink
jeep, cute and crowded for my taste. I don't like to vacation
where traffic jams are commonplace. It was nice enough but we
won't be going back. Taos, New Mexico, on the other hand ...
well, never mind ... there are no trout around Taos. ;-)

--
Ken Fortenberry

In article ,
lid says...
... there are no trout around Taos. ;-)

And no Mexican food either!

Kevin
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reply to: kevin dot vang at minotstateu dot edu

... there are no trout around Taos. ;-)

And no Mexican food either!

Okay, now you're getting downright evil.

--
Frank Reid
Euthenize to respond

Ken Fortenberry wrote:

I could have said one's a dumbass, yuppie beer snob and the
other one's worse, a republican, but I'm in a generous and
gregarious mood this morning. ;-)

Er ... I think you missed his point. He was making fun of *you*
calling us out because we were being smartasses.

The irony-meters were pegging all across ROFF on that one.

Actually, for high desert fishing in the Southwest I recommend
New Mexico. Sedona was just too crystal, vortex, New Age, pink
jeep, cute and crowded for my taste. I don't like to vacation
where traffic jams are commonplace. It was nice enough but we
won't be going back.

I can't really disagree with you on the vortex, etc. I was talking
with some of the locals, and it's gotten so expensive to live there that
the "real" Sedona residents have been driven out by the damyankee
Birky-wearing, sprout-eating, wine-drinking snobs.

But then again, for me Sedona is really just a jumping-off-place for
exploring the area.


Chuck Vance

Conan The Librarian wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:

I could have said one's a dumbass, yuppie beer snob and the
other one's worse, a republican, but I'm in a generous and
gregarious mood this morning. ;-)

Er ... I think you missed his point. He was making fun of *you*
calling us out because we were being smartasses.

Yeah, but he called *you* a dumbass yuppie beer snob, and he
complimented me. :)

The irony-meters were pegging all across ROFF on that one.

Actually, for high desert fishing in the Southwest I recommend
New Mexico. Sedona was just too crystal, vortex, New Age, pink
jeep, cute and crowded for my taste. I don't like to vacation
where traffic jams are commonplace. It was nice enough but we
won't be going back.

I can't really disagree with you on the vortex, etc. I was
talking with some of the locals, and it's gotten so expensive to live
there that the "real" Sedona residents have been driven out by the
damyankee Birky-wearing, sprout-eating, wine-drinking snobs.

But then again, for me Sedona is really just a jumping-off-place
for exploring the area.

Last time I checked, the Flagstaff, Prescott, and Prescott Valley areas
are still affordable, although Prescott is getting up there. Sedona and
the immediate areas are high, but if you have money, whatever you buy,
property wise, becomes a decent investment.
--
TL,
Tim
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http://css.sbcma.com/timj

Tim J. wrote:

Conan The Librarian wrote:

Er ... I think you missed his point. He was making fun of *you*
calling us out because we were being smartasses.

Yeah, but he called *you* a dumbass yuppie beer snob, and he
complimented me. :)

If you say so. ;-) As for me being called a DYBS -- heck, that's
what he calls anyone who has any taste in beer. I'd be worried if he
and I agreed on anything regarding beer, other than it's wet and goes
down well after a day of hiking and fishing. :-)

I can't really disagree with you on the vortex, etc. I was
talking with some of the locals, and it's gotten so expensive to live
there that the "real" Sedona residents have been driven out by the
damyankee Birky-wearing, sprout-eating, wine-drinking snobs.

But then again, for me Sedona is really just a jumping-off-place
for exploring the area.

Last time I checked, the Flagstaff, Prescott, and Prescott Valley areas
are still affordable, although Prescott is getting up there. Sedona and
the immediate areas are high, but if you have money, whatever you buy,
property wise, becomes a decent investment.

Yeah, it's an investment, but if you want to live there, you'd
better be getting pretty good money from elsehwere, as according to the
guy who owned the place where we were staying, the cost-of-living has
been going up ~25% each of the last few years.

From the looks of Flagstaff, I'd say you could still buy cheaply there.


Chuck Vance

Conan The Librarian wrote:
... As for me being called a DYBS -- heck, that's
what he calls anyone who has any taste in beer. ...

No, that's not true.

A yuppie beer snob sips effette, expensive, fancy beers
and talks pretentiously about beer the way an oenophile
prattles on about wine.

A dumbass, yuppie beer snob, DYBS, does all of the above
while at the same time denigrating the most popular beer
in America as "swill" and demeaning the millions of folks
who drink it as "riffraff."

Yuppie beer snobs are kind of cute in their own precious
way, DYBS on the other hand are pricks.

... I was
talking with some of the locals, and it's gotten so expensive to live
there that the "real" Sedona residents have been driven out by the
damyankee Birky-wearing, sprout-eating, wine-drinking snobs.

The Birkenstock-wearing, sprout-eating, Volvo-driving, bead-wearing,
ex-hippies *are* the "real" Sedona residents, and they are being
driven out by the "tourist entrepreneurs" who for the most part are
Republican beer snobs.

--
Ken Fortenberry

dustin.mcbride wrote:
I will be heading to AZ for the next 3 months and was wondering if there are
very many good fly fishing opportunities there. I will be mainly in Tucson,
but should have the chance to travel throughout the state. Any suggestions
will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Dustin

Dustin,

Give Eric a call at Dry Creek Outfitters in Tucson. He should be able to
point you in the right direction.

http://www.orvistucson.com/

brians

Ken Fortenberry wrote:

Conan The Librarian wrote:
... As for me being called a DYBS -- heck, that's
what he calls anyone who has any taste in beer. ...

No, that's not true.

A yuppie beer snob sips effette, expensive, fancy beers
and talks pretentiously about beer the way an oenophile
prattles on about wine.

So you can point out where I've done that then?

I thought not.

A dumbass, yuppie beer snob, DYBS, does all of the above
while at the same time denigrating the most popular beer
in America as "swill" and demeaning the millions of folks
who drink it as "riffraff."

Oh, I was just yanking your chain, Ken. (And it's *so* easy to do.)

BTW, since when did popularity have anything to do with quality?

Yuppie beer snobs are kind of cute in their own precious
way, DYBS on the other hand are pricks.

Like self-admitted pretentious, elitist, dry-fly snobs who dismiss
Nawth Cackalacky restaurants as having "pedestrian" wine-lists?

... I was
talking with some of the locals, and it's gotten so expensive to
live
there that the "real" Sedona residents have been driven out by
the
damyankee Birky-wearing, sprout-eating, wine-drinking snobs.

The Birkenstock-wearing, sprout-eating, Volvo-driving, bead-wearing,
ex-hippies *are* the "real" Sedona residents, and they are being
driven out by the "tourist entrepreneurs" who for the most part are
Republican beer snobs.

You misspelled "Republican Bud drinkers".

HTH.


Chuck Vance (*yank*)

Conan The Librarian wrote:
snip
You misspelled "Republican Bud drinkers".

They have those?
--
TL,
Tim
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http://css.sbcma.com/timj/

dustin.mcbride wrote:
I will be heading to AZ for the next 3 months and was wondering if
there are
very many good fly fishing opportunities there. I will be mainly in
Tucson,
but should have the chance to travel throughout the state. Any
suggestions
will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Dustin

Try the White Mountains in northeast, either around (east) or on the
Apache Reservation. There is (or was when I was there) small mouth
bass in the streams and rivers above Roosevelt Reservoir (Salt River),
such as the Black and White Rivers. Check with the Tribe for fishing
permits. By the way don't think the stream/river water is pristine,
it's not, filter and/or purify it. It is beautiful country, but the
white faced elk like standing in the streams and rivers, and especially
love standing on roads (driver carefully). Good luck.

--Scott--

Tim J. wrote:

They have those?


Boy, you ain't been to a NASCAR event lately now have you?

Wayne Knight wrote:
Tim J. wrote:

They have those?


Boy, you ain't been to a NASCAR event lately now have you?

They have those?
--
TL,
Tim
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http://css.sbcma.com/timj

NOT TRUE!

It is mostly a complete freakin' wasteland.


"Tim J." wrote in message
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dustin.mcbride wrote:
I will be heading to AZ for the next 3 months and was wondering if
there are very many good fly fishing opportunities there. I will be
mainly in Tucson, but should have the chance to travel throughout the
state. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Arizona is a complete freakin' wasteland.
--
TL,
Tim
------------------------
http://css.sbcma.com/timj