She kicked my a**
 

and made me like it.

I love Santeetlah Creek, it is the most beautiful trout
stream I have ever fished, but Santeetlah, that beautiful
bitch, kicked my ass today. I have never worked so hard
for two small fish in my life.

I did learn to like the new Sage Quiet Double Taper I put
with my old Sage LL 490-4. It took some getting used to,
it *insists* on a slow stroke and just collapses when you
try to speed up your cast but for "creative casting" under,
around, over and sideways it performs very well. You won't
win any casting distance competitions with this line but
after a day fishing it I decided I like it.

--
Ken Fortenberry

"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
. ..
and made me like it.

I love Santeetlah Creek, it is the most beautiful trout
stream I have ever fished, but Santeetlah, that beautiful
bitch, kicked my ass today. I have never worked so hard
for two small fish in my life.

i would agree, with a couple caveats: i think, honest to god, that
there are fewer fish per hundred yards in b.s. than any other "blue
ribbon"stream its size in north carolina; also, when the sun is out on slick
rock, you can't catch a fish unless you are literally doing a low crawl
along the streamside. finally, when hazel is in a high water stage, you can
dynamite the damn thing and not raise a trout.

wayno (your pics have been really good. i have never seen "bunches" or
"straight fork")

"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
. ..
and made me like it.

I love Santeetlah Creek, it is the most beautiful trout
stream I have ever fished, but Santeetlah, that beautiful
bitch, kicked my ass today. I have never worked so hard
for two small fish in my life.

//snip//
Ken Fortenberry

Great pictures - and good TRs - but if you think Santeetlah is the most
beautiful trout stream you've ever fished you should try either Tellico (the
very upper-most part) or two other streams in Macon county that I'd love to
show you some day.
Bob

"Bob Patton" wrote

Great pictures - and good TRs - but if you think Santeetlah is the most
beautiful trout stream you've ever fished you should try either Tellico
(the very upper-most part) or two other streams in Macon county that I'd
love to show you some day.
Bob

well, if you are talking about the tellico when it crosses the tennessee
line, i will agree that it is a lovely little headwater. but i will have to
say that either hazel, eagle, wilson's, or snowbird are prettier streams.

and if you have the gall to show some ****ing illini asshole your secret
streams in the old north state before you would do the same for me, then i
will have to shoot you dead, next time we meet.

:) maybe...

yfitons
wayno

"Wayne Harrison" wrote in message
. com...

//snip//
well, if you are talking about the tellico when it crosses the
tennessee line, i will agree that it is a lovely little headwater. but i
will have to say that either hazel, eagle, wilson's, or snowbird are
prettier streams.

and if you have the gall to show some ****ing illini asshole your
secret streams in the old north state before you would do the same for me,
then i will have to shoot you dead, next time we meet.

:) maybe...

yfitons
wayno


Anybody who drinks Budweiser and likes his dog as much as Fortenberry does
must have at least SOME redeeming social value. He's obviously hitting the
tourist traps and I guess I just felt sympathy for a poor yankee who just
doesn't get to spend much time in TONS.
:-)

Speaking of, one of my kids asked me tonight what a "carpetbagger" is. How
the hell can somebody be twenty years old and not know what the **** is a
carpetbagger? He didn't know about scalawags either! Damned schools ain't
for **** nowadays.

Bob

Bob Patton wrote:
"Wayne Harrison" wrote:
well, if you are talking about the tellico when it crosses the
tennessee line, i will agree that it is a lovely little headwater. but i
will have to say that either hazel, eagle, wilson's, or snowbird are
prettier streams.

and if you have the gall to show some ****ing illini asshole your
secret streams in the old north state before you would do the same for me,
then i will have to shoot you dead, next time we meet.

:) maybe...

Anybody who drinks Budweiser and likes his dog as much as Fortenberry does
must have at least SOME redeeming social value. He's obviously hitting the
tourist traps and I guess I just felt sympathy for a poor yankee who just
doesn't get to spend much time in TONS.
:-)

Today we're gonna hike in to that tourist trap called
Slickrock. As for not spending much time in North
Carolina five days of fishing is both too little and
too much. My legs are sore, my shins have been barked
enough to qualify as mailmen and this 48 year old is
about fished out, but on the other hand there's some
streams I wanted to fish and I just didn't have the
time with only five days.

Harry Middleton discovered these streams while passing
through on his way to West Virginia. A dollop of rotten
potato salad and a viscious case of food poisoning made
him stop and in spirit he never really left. Now I'd
hate to compare roff to a dollop of rotten potato salad
and the boy lawyer from Rowan County to a viscious case
of food poisoning, but there you go, that's how I discovered
this place. I just wish it had been in my early teens
instead of my early forties.

--
Ken Fortenberry

"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
...
//snip//
Harry Middleton discovered these streams while passing
through on his way to West Virginia. A dollop of rotten
potato salad and a viscious case of food poisoning made
him stop and in spirit he never really left. Now I'd
hate to compare roff to a dollop of rotten potato salad
and the boy lawyer from Rowan County to a viscious case
of food poisoning, but there you go, that's how I discovered
this place. I just wish it had been in my early teens
instead of my early forties.


I didn't start fly fishing until I was almost 40 - 17 years ago. Sad, how
youth is wasted on the young. So many lost opportunities and I didn't even
know I was missing them. Maybe that's why there are second childhoods.

Bob
(Trying to remember the name of that gal in Santiago . . .)

"Bob Patton" wrote in message
...
"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
...
//snip//
Harry Middleton discovered these streams while passing
through on his way to West Virginia. A dollop of rotten
potato salad and a viscious case of food poisoning made
him stop and in spirit he never really left. Now I'd
hate to compare roff to a dollop of rotten potato salad
and the boy lawyer from Rowan County to a viscious case
of food poisoning, but there you go, that's how I discovered
this place. I just wish it had been in my early teens
instead of my early forties.


I didn't start fly fishing until I was almost 40 - 17 years ago. Sad, how
youth is wasted on the young. So many lost opportunities and I didn't even
know I was missing them. Maybe that's why there are second childhoods.

Bob
(Trying to remember the name of that gal in Santiago . . .)

Maria.

Wolfgang
how safe can a bet be? :)

Wolfgang wrote:

how safe can a bet be? :)

Since you never pay off, why worry about it?

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

"rw" wrote in message
m...
Wolfgang wrote:

how safe can a bet be? :)

Since you never pay off, why worry about it?

What, me worry?

Wolfgang