Dreaming of The Perfect Year...

Imagine that you are me, it is June 21st, you are in Flagstaff, Arizona, you
just secured a solid SUV, Pickup truck or Van, you have all your camping
gear, your fishing gear, your boating gear, and enough cash to go where you
want and do what you want, (within reason, of course) for about 14 months if
you are careful. Your only stipulation is that you will be in Sweden for the
Lapland Clave, you want to be in New England for the fall colors, and you
have a potential place to stay in Maine for the winter, if you choose. Other
than that, you can go where you want, you'll sleep in the rig (or in a
tent), and you like to drive so mileage is not a problem.

Where would you go during the year (June 2003-August 2004) to get the best
fishing areas at the best time? What would be the perfect road trip plan to
hit the best streams at the best season, to be available for some claves,
meet some Roffians, and to get a change to really enjoy a year off from
work?

Remember, you are me, so you don't know which rivers in America are good
fishing rivers. You'd be likely to drive right past XXX Stream on the best
day of the year for sea run Salmon, and not even know it. BTW: This doenn't
mean I'm committing to a year off, but I sure am leaning towards it, and
some good info like this would make all the difference... :-)

TIA, TL
--riverman

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 15:16:13 +0100, "riverman"
wrote:

Where would you go during the year (June 2003-August 2004) to get the best
fishing areas at the best time?

You could stop by the Western clave on the Madison in July and then
fish Rock Creek the week after.
--
Charlie...

Charlie Choc wrote:

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 15:16:13 +0100, "riverman"
wrote:


Where would you go during the year (June 2003-August 2004) to get the best
fishing areas at the best time?


You could stop by the Western clave on the Madison in July and then
fish Rock Creek the week after.


Riverman,

I'm envious! you're going to have a blast! You can see lots of country
and get in some GREAT! fishing during that time span. You'll be able to
follow the good fishing around.

Charlie's suggestion is a great one. They'll be people there from all
over and everyone should be able to point you to some good water. (I've
got a few places to pass on) And you'll probably also end up with some
free guiding on some peoples' home waters.

Send me your email addy and I'll give you a start.



Willi

"Charlie Choc" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 15:16:13 +0100, "riverman"
wrote:

Where would you go during the year (June 2003-August 2004) to get the
best
fishing areas at the best time?

You could stop by the Western clave on the Madison in July and then
fish Rock Creek the week after.
--
Charlie...

Remember that while you're on Rock Creek you're an hour's drive or less from
the Clearwater, Blackfoot, Bitterroot, and Clark Fork. There are also many
streams in the whole Clark Fork drainage that are not so famous but still
have great fishing.

um..i don't understand your dates. june 2003?? i'm assuming you mean
june 2004...but lapland is august 2004, isn't it. anyway, if your jaunt
allows, plug north carolina into your travel plans for the period
between april and november. we can fish year round, fresh and salt,
mountains to seashore, so if you see nc in your travel plans, send a
note and we'll give you a tour.

jeff

riverman wrote:
Imagine that you are me, it is June 21st, you are in Flagstaff, Arizona, you
just secured a solid SUV, Pickup truck or Van, you have all your camping
gear, your fishing gear, your boating gear, and enough cash to go where you
want and do what you want, (within reason, of course) for about 14 months if
you are careful. Your only stipulation is that you will be in Sweden for the
Lapland Clave, you want to be in New England for the fall colors, and you
have a potential place to stay in Maine for the winter, if you choose. Other
than that, you can go where you want, you'll sleep in the rig (or in a
tent), and you like to drive so mileage is not a problem.

Where would you go during the year (June 2003-August 2004) to get the best
fishing areas at the best time? What would be the perfect road trip plan to
hit the best streams at the best season, to be available for some claves,
meet some Roffians, and to get a change to really enjoy a year off from
work?

Remember, you are me, so you don't know which rivers in America are good
fishing rivers. You'd be likely to drive right past XXX Stream on the best
day of the year for sea run Salmon, and not even know it. BTW: This doenn't
mean I'm committing to a year off, but I sure am leaning towards it, and
some good info like this would make all the difference... :-)

TIA, TL
--riverman

"Jeff Miller" wrote in message
news:qnlFb.41865$hf1.38598@lakeread06...
um..i don't understand your dates. june 2003?? i'm assuming you mean
june 2004...but lapland is august 2004, isn't it. anyway, if your jaunt
allows, plug north carolina into your travel plans for the period
between april and november. we can fish year round, fresh and salt,
mountains to seashore, so if you see nc in your travel plans, send a
note and we'll give you a tour.

jeff


DITTO

Op

"riverman" wrote Where would you go during the year
(June 2003-August 2004) to get the best
fishing areas at the best time?

i would suggest you come to the smokies (nc) as a first stop. early
june, in the early mornings and late afternoons, is wonderful dry fly time,
with elk hair caddis or stimulators floating a little prince nymph dropper.
wading wet is a great feeling around that time, and the drives through the
high country on the cherahola skyway are unreal.
then maybe up to tlitt's homegrounds for a couple days on penn's, and
straight on north to the pirate on the rapid. that may be the best
all-round fishery i have yet to experience. lakefront camp, your "clave
central" is idyllic, and the big water lake gives you the opportunity for
canoeing during down times with the fish. besides, you won't find a more
gracious couple to spend time with than louie laplac and that goddess he has
drugged.
then, out west for the rest of your time, colorado in july was unreal
for me. big fish on seeable sized flys, and miles of little known jewels
that i can describe to you, around dillon, colo. of course, willi and
barnard and bruiser can point you to resources i could never dream of
matching.\

i would love to do this thing you describe, but only with a good woman,
lots of stoli, a thirty year old nikon, and a few maudlin novels.

go for it, myron. thirty years from now, it will warm your mind if the
winds blow cold.

yfitons
wayno

Where's Rock Creek?

Lou T

Wayno writes:

snip good advice

go for it, myron. thirty years from now, it will warm your mind if the
winds blow cold.

I would correct that to "when the wind blows cold." Good advice, counselor. I
would, however, start in late May/first week in June on the Rapid, hit Penns on
the way to the Smokies, and then onto Montana/Idaho where Willi, Warren,
Bannard can show you some wonderful waters.

You say you will be in Maine later in the year? Again, the Rapid is wonderful
in September. While the regular seasons closes in Maine on the last day of
September, the East Outlet of Moosehead is open until October 31. Great
brookie and landlocked salmon fishing.

Ahhhh, to be young.......

Dave

http://hometown.aol.com/davplac/myhomepage/index.html

Much like picking somebody else's mate ... hard to do successfully

I dislike "a few days here, a day there, a few more someplace else" road
trips and find I far prefer stays in one locations of, bare minimum, a week,
sometimes a month isn't enough. This probably is because I did a lot of
the first style of blitz traveling/ fishing when younger.

So much depends on the kind of fishing you prefer. But, I'd find time,
early in the year, for some small, high country, streams that take a good
long walk to get to. To me, they represent the roots of the sport. Without
a background of time, alone or with very carefully chosen company, chasing
wild trout in wild places the "name waters" will never "make a 'real' fly
fisher outta ya" ... maybe they will do just the opposite ( I don't mean
'real' in a numbers and size of fish sense ).

And, believe me, the years zip by and the ability to take those long walks
dwindles, don't get old without a lot of them to remember.

Oh, where? ... that is a kind of Catch22 ... the exploring is a big part of
what you will find ... start with topos, find the big tracks of public land,
trails to year round water and go have a look see ... regardless of what you
catch it will be worth it.