To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

It looks like I could bust out tomorrow and drive the 1276 miles to
Navajo Dam.

Problems with that a

1) My son Andy's 26th birthday is the 10th and I'd miss it. He'll
probably want to take me steelheading that day, and we'd quite possibly
catch one.

2) The steelheading is picking up around here.

3) I'd be driving alone. (Anyone interested in a ride from the
Northwest?)

4) I haven't tied up any microscopic flies.

Thanks in advance for your ideas,

Chas
remove fly fish to reply
http://home.comcast.net/~chas.wade/w...ome.html-.html

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

Chas Wade wrote:
It looks like I could bust out tomorrow and drive the 1276 miles to
Navajo Dam.

Problems with that a

1) My son Andy's 26th birthday is the 10th and I'd miss it. He'll
probably want to take me steelheading that day, and we'd quite possibly
catch one.

I don't know Andy all that well, but my guess is that he'd tell you to
go to the Clave.

2) The steelheading is picking up around here.

Excellent! When can I visit? :-)

3) I'd be driving alone. (Anyone interested in a ride from the
Northwest?)

I'd meet you in San Francisco or Sacramento, but I've already bought my
plane ticket. How about flying to Albuquerque and meeting Bruiser and me
on Friday, around noon? It wouldn't cost much more than driving, if at
all. You'd be back in Seattle on Wednesday the 10th, possibly in time
for some steelhead fishing.

4) I haven't tied up any microscopic flies.

I'd don't think you'll have to worry about that. If Bruiser doesn't owe
you for those pike flies, he certainly owes you for that pike he caught
in Montana this summer. :-)

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

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

rw wrote:

I'd meet you in San Francisco or Sacramento, but I've already bought
my
plane ticket. How about flying to Albuquerque and meeting Bruiser and
me
on Friday, around noon? It wouldn't cost much more than driving, if at
all. You'd be back in Seattle on Wednesday the 10th, possibly in time
for some steelhead fishing.


An interesting idea. The best flights I can find are $350, if I'd
tried a couple weks ago it would surely have been better. The drive
should take about 125 gallons, @$2 (premium) that's $250. A couple
motel 6 stays and I'm up to the $350.

That leaves us 270 miles from the Juan. Would you have room in the
rental car?

I'm also contemplating a stop on the way home at the Rio Grande for
pike. That wouldn't fit with the fly/drive combo.

As for coming to fish for steelhead, it's a bit early yet, some fish
are in, but it's not hot yet. I suspect we'd do better to meet at the
Clearwater or Snake. Steelheading is good sometimes here, but it's
never like the salmon fishing, and it nore often slow. When's a good
time for the Clearwater of some other fishery in that neighborhood?

Chas
remove fly fish to reply
http://home.comcast.net/~chas.wade/w...ome.html-.html

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

Chas Wade wrote:

That leaves us 270 miles from the Juan. Would you have room in the
rental car?

Bruiser lives in Albuquerque, and he has a very comfortable Toyota
Tundra (although it lacks low-end torque :-) ) with an extended cab.
I'll sit in the back if you come.

I'm also contemplating a stop on the way home at the Rio Grande for
pike. That wouldn't fit with the fly/drive combo.

No plan is perfect.

As for coming to fish for steelhead, it's a bit early yet, some fish
are in, but it's not hot yet. I suspect we'd do better to meet at the
Clearwater or Snake. Steelheading is good sometimes here, but it's
never like the salmon fishing, and it nore often slow. When's a good
time for the Clearwater of some other fishery in that neighborhood?

I've never fished there, but my understanding is that it goes through
January and into February. If you're up for an adventure I'll meet you
there this winter. I have a hunch that it might be possible to talk
Warren into bringing the Gink Drift Boat for a weekend. :-)

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

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

Chas Wade wrote:

It looks like I could bust out tomorrow and drive the 1276 miles to
Navajo Dam.

Problems with that a

1) My son Andy's 26th birthday is the 10th and I'd miss it. He'll
probably want to take me steelheading that day, and we'd quite possibly
catch one.

2) The steelheading is picking up around here.

3) I'd be driving alone. (Anyone interested in a ride from the
Northwest?)

4) I haven't tied up any microscopic flies.

Thanks in advance for your ideas,

Chas
remove fly fish to reply
http://home.comcast.net/~chas.wade/w...ome.html-.html



Fly in. We'll find room, we've got flies, and you should be able to
catch some of the pseudo steelhead they planted.

Willi

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

rw wrote:

Bruiser lives in Albuquerque, and he has a very comfortable Toyota
Tundra (although it lacks low-end torque :-) ) with an extended cab.
I'll sit in the back if you come.

Sounds good, when would we be back in ABQ to fly out? I'll see if I
can find a compatible flight. The one I found lands at ABQ at 1:15 or
so Friday.


As for coming to fish for steelhead, it's a bit early yet, some fish
are in, but it's not hot yet. I suspect we'd do better to meet at
the
Clearwater or Snake. Steelheading is good sometimes here, but it's
never like the salmon fishing, and it nore often slow. When's a
good
time for the Clearwater of some other fishery in that neighborhood?

I've never fished there, but my understanding is that it goes through
January and into February. If you're up for an adventure I'll meet you
there this winter. I have a hunch that it might be possible to talk
Warren into bringing the Gink Drift Boat for a weekend. :-)

I hope Warren's working or fishing, and that's why he hasn't responded
to this yet. I am up for an adventure, even if we're shore bound.

Thanks,

Chas
remove fly fish to reply
http://home.comcast.net/~chas.wade/w...ome.html-.html

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

Chas Wade wrote:

Sounds good, when would we be back in ABQ to fly out? I'll see if I
can find a compatible flight. The one I found lands at ABQ at 1:15 or
so Friday.

We'd come back to Albuquerque on Tuesday, stay at Bruiser's Tuesday
night, and fly out first thing Wednesday. My flight leaves at 8:10am.

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

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

not. i'm not over the flu i had t-day yet.

if you get up to abiquiu, drive up to the monastery and tell abbot philip i
said hi.

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

rw wrote:
We'd come back to Albuquerque on Tuesday, stay at Bruiser's Tuesday
night, and fly out first thing Wednesday. My flight leaves at 8:10am.

I just got an Email from Bruce with the same offer. An offer I can't
refuse.

See you Friday,

Chas
remove fly fish to reply
http://home.comcast.net/~chas.wade/w...ome.html-.html

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

rw wrote:

We'd come back to Albuquerque on Tuesday, stay at Bruiser's Tuesday
night, and fly out first thing Wednesday. My flight leaves at 8:10am.

I'm scheduled to arrive on Delta #3897 at 11:52AM on Dec 5 at ABQ.

Departure is Frontier #793 at 10:30AM Dec 10.

Now it's time to switch gears from Salmon to Trout and tie some flies.

!!!!!!!!

Chas
remove fly fish to reply
http://home.comcast.net/~chas.wade/w...ome.html-.html

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

Warren wrote:
wrote...
I have a hunch that it might be possible to talk
Warren into bringing the Gink Drift Boat for a weekend. :-)

Just say when and if I don't have my daughter, I'll take a Friday and
Monday
off and meet you there so we can get in four days of fishing. Hey,
Johnny H.
You up for this? Hightower lives closer than I do to the Clearwater
and has
fished it before. ;-)

December's probably tough now, but after Jan 6 I'm open.

Chas
remove fly fish to reply
http://home.comcast.net/~chas.wade/w...ome.html-.html

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

Chas Wade wrote:
rw wrote:


We'd come back to Albuquerque on Tuesday, stay at Bruiser's Tuesday
night, and fly out first thing Wednesday. My flight leaves at 8:10am.


I'm scheduled to arrive on Delta #3897 at 11:52AM on Dec 5 at ABQ.

Departure is Frontier #793 at 10:30AM Dec 10.

Now it's time to switch gears from Salmon to Trout and tie some flies.

Outstanding!

I arrive at 12:30, United 1493, and intend to meet Bruiser at the curb
around 1:00.

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

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

Chas Wade wrote:

December's probably tough now, but after Jan 6 I'm open.

Just as well. I won't be in Idaho until Jan 1, and then I have visitors
and business to attend to during the first week of the month.

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

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

In article ,
says...

Sure hope Chas likes the San Juan...


Can't imagine he wouldn't. I've fished with Chas on
several occasions now, and he's about as agreeable a
fishing partner as anyone could ask for.

Wishing I could be there too,

Kevin

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

We'll see about that low end torque thing. A recurring theme from the Ford
owner :-)

Sure hope Chas likes the San Juan...

bruce h

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

Warren wrote:

Maybe RW has Tundra envy.

Nope. I'm a Ford man, through and through. Now, Chuck's F350 diesel ..

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

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

rw wrote:

I arrive at 12:30, United 1493, and intend to meet Bruiser at the curb
around 1:00.

I'll be there looking for you.

Chas
remove fly fish to reply
http://home.comcast.net/~chas.wade/w...ome.html-.html

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

"bruiser" wrote:
Sure hope Chas likes the San Juan...

I suspect I will. As time goes by I'm getting easier to please.

Chas
remove fly fish to reply
http://home.comcast.net/~chas.wade/w...ome.html-.html

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

Kevin Vang wrote:

Wishing I could be there too,

That makes two of us.

Chas
remove fly fish to reply
http://home.comcast.net/~chas.wade/w...ome.html-.html

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

Warren,

We will surely miss you too. It's not really a "clave" in the West (or East
really) unless you're there.

We'll make up for lost time on the Madison next summer.

RW can ride in the back of Chuck's F350 (aka Penis Extension Mobile) on
Saturday and Sunday and then he'll be ready to get back to the quiet,
smooth, reliable comfort of my Tundra. And of course XM track 14, Bluegrass
Junction...

See you all in 30 hrs or so.

bruce h

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

"Kevin Vang"

I've fished with Chas on
several occasions now, and he's about as agreeable a
fishing partner as anyone could ask for.

I couldn't agree more, and even after just a brief meeting I know you're in
the same category Kevin. We'll take pictures and hopefully a few will have
fish in them.

bruce h

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

"Lennie Richardson" wrote in message

if you get up to abiquiu, drive up to the monastery and tell abbot philip
i
said hi.


I'll try to remember that the next time I'm heading for the Chama...

bruce h

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

"Warren" wrote in message
...
wrote...
I have a hunch that it might be possible to talk
Warren into bringing the Gink Drift Boat for a weekend. :-)

Just say when and if I don't have my daughter, I'll take a Friday and
Monday
off and meet you there so we can get in four days of fishing. Hey, Johnny
H.
You up for this? Hightower lives closer than I do to the Clearwater and
has
fished it before. ;-)
--
Warren
(use troutbum_mt (at) yahoo to reply via email)

I've been watching the fish counts & counting the days. Last I read 160,000
steelhead over lower granite to date (they predicted 147,000).

jh

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

"rw" wrote in message
link.net...
Warren wrote:

Maybe RW has Tundra envy.

Nope. I'm a Ford man, through and through. Now, Chuck's F350 diesel ..

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

Just learned a hard lesson on Fords- their superduty trucks have some sort
of automatic self destruct on their front ends- has to do with the hubs-
apparantly they are both automatic and manual and they sometimes stick.
somwhere between 70k and 100k miles you get an automatic $2,500 to $4,500
bill :-(

jh

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

Warren wrote:

RW can ride in the back of Chuck's F350 (aka Penis Extension Mobile) on
Saturday and Sunday and then he'll be ready to get back to the quiet,
smooth, reliable comfort of my Tundra. And of course XM track 14, Bluegrass
Junction...


Just make sure you turn up the volume so you don't hear him complaining about
the lack of low end torque.

All right, I didn't want to have to do this, but you guys have forced my
hand.

Bruiser, Chas freaking HATES bluegrass music. :-)

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

To Clave or Not to Clave?
 

well, there's always xm track #150...

satellite radio is simply mahhhvelous...

looking forward to reports and photos from the juan...

jeff

rw wrote:

Warren wrote:


RW can ride in the back of Chuck's F350 (aka Penis Extension Mobile) on
Saturday and Sunday and then he'll be ready to get back to the quiet,
smooth, reliable comfort of my Tundra. And of course XM track 14,
Bluegrass
Junction...



Just make sure you turn up the volume so you don't hear him
complaining about the lack of low end torque.


All right, I didn't want to have to do this, but you guys have forced my
hand.

Bruiser, Chas freaking HATES bluegrass music. :-)