On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:21:20 -0600, (Dave S) wrote:

If you came to Montana to, say, see a grizzly, would you go to a zoo?
Would you go to Egypt and NOT see the pyramids? Do you ever order a
hamburger at a fine steakhouse?


Hmmmm. Let's seeeee, Wicky..... I can call you Wicky can't I? I've
fished the Madison, the Yellowstone, went looking for Fawn Lake but
couldn't find it. I've fished the Middle Fork of the Salmon as well
as the West Fork. Henry's Fork was fished very successfully - sort of
like shooting fish in a barrel. (I know, I know, that's Idaho, but I
try to spread the wealth around dontchaknow?) Went "up the hill" from
the Bighorn to fish an unnamed spring creek in Wyoming for little
Cutts on a 3 weight and a size 16 Adams I've been to Alaska three
times for *wild* trout and salmon, Kamchatka (Zuponava River) for
GIANT rainbows (32 inchers) and char (5 pounders), I've taken
steelhead and chinook (King) salmon out of the Saugeen in Ontario (on
a 7 weight). I've fished several wild rivers in Main for large
brooktrout and landlocks (just got back from a month on the famous
Rapid River), BIG brookies on the Antakonak River in Labrador, as
well as BIG brookies from the English River in Labrador. BIG brookies
are 3 to 8 pounds, normous creatures that looked like gaudy footballs.
Plus I've fished the Great Smokeys, Penns Creek for big browns, and
the Connecticut Lakes region as a boy in the 1940s - 50s, and of
course lesser streams, brooks, ponds, and drainage ditches throughout
the good old USA.

Oh, yeah, almost forgot:

I've fished within 30 feet of several grizzes (for three weeks), I was
in Egypt (briefly) but didn't see the Pyramids, and yes, I have
ordered a very good hamburger in a fine steakhouse (lunch, doncha
know?). In addition, I've seen Japan, The Phillipines, Vietnam (from
the air), Guam, Iwo Jima, Saipan (by air), Kwajalien, Wake, Midway,
South Africa, Rio DeJanero, Rome, Paris, London, Hamburg, Bremen,
Zurich and Davos Switzerland, The Azores (three of the islands),
Lizbon, Madrid, Ice Land (from a periscope - really!), Jan Mayen
Island (look than up in your Funk and Wagnal) Morrocco, Panama (ya
ever seen the canal - wonderful experience. Ever caught a tarpon?),
Mexico, Guatamala, Bogata Colombia (landed in an air craft that only
had another 5000 feet on its max elevation - scarey ride), Cali
Colombia, and of course Canada and Russia. In addition, I've crashed
twice in aircraft. Once at Wright Patterson in Ohio, and another at
Atsugi, Japan.

I've been fly fishing since about 1947 when I got my first "made in
occupied Japan" Sears bamboo flyrod ($5, thankyouverymuch). My mom
tied flies and gave me lessons as a boy about the time I got my first
non-steel fly rod (the Sears) I remember silk lines, and the first
Cortland (333 I believe) fly line.

And, I now have 440 days on my G3s without a leak. Took another nasty
fall last week. No leak from the waders, but there was a nasty leak
from my right shin/knee. I think the G3s are gonna outlast me. Can't
take many more falls.

BTW, I never claimed the Bighorn was the best river I ever fished -
that honor would go to Morraine Creek in Alaska, but I *did* have fun
on the Bighorn and I did catch some very fussy bows on dries. Ain't
that what it's all about?

Now, tell me a little bit about yourself, kid.

d;op