TR: A Swede at Penns, part one

Let me start off by thanking all of you guys for a good time.

Mike Makela, Gene Cyprich, Lou Teletski, Walt Winter, Tim Carter, Bill
Claspy, Jeff Miller, "Indian" Joe MacIntosh, Handyman Mike Shaw, Bruce
Fisher, Frank Reid, Wolfgang Siebeneich, Joel Axelrad, Tom Gibson, Vince
Norris, Dave PA, John "asadi" Baker, Dave LaCourse and Allen Epps.

Tom Littleton did a great job as Clavemeister.
Dave LaCourse was just the friendliest and generous guy, putting me up for
the night before and after the clave and also seeing to that I got there.
Handyman Mike went out of his way to see to that I got back to Boston and
also lent me a place to sleep that last night, thanks.
Gene Cyprich lent me a place to crash for one night so that I could spend
that one night at Hemlock Acres to be able to socialize with all of you over
a beer or two, thanks.
Jeff Miller was very generous letting me stay at the Carolina cabin, thank
you very much Jeff.
Mike M, Lou T, Frank R, Gene C, Tim C (I might have forgotten someone)
thanks for guiding me around.
Indian Joe, you cook excellent breakfast (a bit too much fat for my taste,
but excellent none the less) thank you.
Joel and Frank, the raffle night was great fun, thanks.

Rabbit food is good for you, sugar and fat ain't (Wise words from a Swede).

Where do I start? So much happened during this week that I have a hard time
too take everything in.
The first three days I only caught 14 fish and was outfished by everyone, to
say the least fishing at Penns was way different than anything I ever done
before. The surroundings where beautiful with all that lush vegetation, and
the rivers seemed equally high on nutrients.

What did I learn during those days? Well, fish at Penns are educated, not as
sensitive to presentation as they are at home but very sensitive to what fly
is at the end of your tippet. Penns have some spectacular hatches and I did
at one given time see the spinner fall of three different mayflies with one
other mayfly and three different caddis present and hatching, just amazing.
The flies are generally bigger at Penns, for example the March brown over
there is twice the size of the same fly in Sweden. The stonefly is enormous
compared to the ones we have but the caddis flies are slightly smaller.

Mike Makela invited me to the art of nymphing the big stonefly nymph with
the help of split shots and I caught a nice 18,5 inch brown and several more
on that. Too bad that fish had to run into the shallows, not much of a
fight. Nymphing the big stonefly nymph with a long line isn't recommended
since it will get snagged very due to its weight and size. What we did was
very close to Czech nymphing.

Several fish were caught on a black wooly bugger, but most fish on sulphur
emerger and spinner, march brown spinner and tanned caddis. Too bad the
hatches were so short.

Well actually, one night it almost went on for two hours, but I really don't
want to talk about that event. NINE I tell you......nine.......

More to come...............

/Roger

Roger Ohlund wrote:


Jeff Miller was very generous letting me stay at the Carolina cabin, thank
you very much Jeff.

as we are want to say in carolina, tweren't nuthin...and, btw, the june
bugs were part of the all-inclusive swedish plan. anyway, based on your
descriptions of remote fishing for char, i spent a moment or two at the
local bar this evening convincing pamlico jim we MUST visit you in
sweden next year. payback is hell roger. g he wants to know if
there's a good time to combine fishing and hunting. perhaps we can even
convince wayno to leave the lovely renda for a week or more?

it was a grand time made even better by your participation. hope you
can make it to montana...

jeff

"Jeff Miller" wrote

.. perhaps we can even
convince wayno to leave the lovely renda for a week or more?

ain't all that crazy to talk about.


"the lovely renda" is headed out to amsterdam and scotland for 10 days
or so, with her infamous sister, anne powell speight. so payback just might
be hell, or sweden...

yfitp
wayno

Roger it was my pleasure to offer you a bunk and a ride.......You do know your
way around a flyrod it was fun watching you cast a lines length acrossed
Penns...... I don't know about that casting from the elbow though i will try
maybe it will keep my fly out of the water on my backcast...... It was a
pleasure sharing the water with you hope you can make it back next year maybe
they will move the western clave to early June and the Penns clave to late May
so you can attend both....


Handyman Mike
Standing in a river waving a stick

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local bar this evening convincing pamlico jim we MUST visit you in
sweden next year. payback is hell roger. g he wants to know if
there's a good time to combine fishing and hunting. perhaps we can even
convince wayno to leave the lovely renda for a week or more?

Jeff,

That combined hunting flyfishing trip is in my dreams also. I was talking
about it
last summer in Laisan Clave with Roger. But you know, the grouse hunting
season begins in
september and the Swedish clave is at the beginning of August.

I have reserved week #39 for grouse hunting vacation. I can change it if
necessary.
But I suppose that this is a good time for such a combined trip.

Any ideas, Roger?

OsmoJ

osmo - since we are talking about 2005 at the earliest, perhaps there is
time to plan. however, i am not a hunter, though i like eating
freshly-killed game. my friend jim is the true sportsman - hunts fish
and game - and he's the one most interested. i would enjoy tagging
along on a hike watching dog's work the birds though. still, going to a
remote, pristine location near the arctic circle and fishing for char,
trout, and grayling remains my main purpose for wanting to visit the
sweden roger described to us at penns. if that can't be done in
conjunction with a hunting venture...well, i prefer to maximize the
fishing. however, if we can fish and others can hunt...well, that means
more to eat, eh! g...

jeff

Osmo Jauhiainen wrote:

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local bar this evening convincing pamlico jim we MUST visit you in
sweden next year. payback is hell roger. g he wants to know if
there's a good time to combine fishing and hunting. perhaps we can even
convince wayno to leave the lovely renda for a week or more?


Jeff,

That combined hunting flyfishing trip is in my dreams also. I was talking
about it
last summer in Laisan Clave with Roger. But you know, the grouse hunting
season begins in
september and the Swedish clave is at the beginning of August.

I have reserved week #39 for grouse hunting vacation. I can change it if
necessary.
But I suppose that this is a good time for such a combined trip.

Any ideas, Roger?

OsmoJ

"Jeff Miller" kirjoitti viestissä
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osmo - since we are talking about 2005 at the earliest, perhaps there is
time to plan. however, i am not a hunter, though i like eating
freshly-killed game. my friend jim is the true sportsman - hunts fish
and game - and he's the one most interested. i would enjoy tagging
along on a hike watching dog's work the birds though. still, going to a
remote, pristine location near the arctic circle and fishing for char,
trout, and grayling remains my main purpose for wanting to visit the
sweden roger described to us at penns. if that can't be done in
conjunction with a hunting venture...well, i prefer to maximize the
fishing. however, if we can fish and others can hunt...well, that means
more to eat, eh! g...

Jeff,

Ok! It is up to you, if you want just see the hunting and feel the
delicious
of the fresh game. But now you know the time of the year that this is
possible.

I am hunting grouse in september and october here. In Sweden the grouse
hunting is possible up to the end of January.

BTW, have you seen the gourmet trip pages by Roger? This is the same
area that the clave is going to be this year.

OsmoJ