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On 6/19/05 9:46 PM, in article ,
"Guyz-N-Flyz" wrote: I have posted a TR, sort of, but I can't seem to get them all thru. I try to finish them up later, once Charter gets there **** together. Mark- I use http://www.usenet-replayer.com for binaries, and your lovely photos have shown up there, but the text TR has not. Can you post the TR here? That looks like a mighty fine piece of water... Thanks, Bill |
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![]() "William Claspy" wrote in message ... I use http://www.usenet-replayer.com for binaries, and your lovely photos have shown up there, but the text TR has not. Can you post the TR here? That looks like a mighty fine piece of water... Thanks, Bill Bill, the TR accompanied the first pic. Were you not able to receive the text with the pictures? In addition, I posted a text explanation of each pic I sent. Did you not get those along with the pics? I will go back thru a.b.p.f and retrieve the text and repost it here, if you didn't get it, but I didn't save it myself, after I sent it to a.b.p.f. Mark |
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On 6/20/05 5:19 PM, in article , "beausdad"
wrote: "William Claspy" wrote in message ... I use http://www.usenet-replayer.com for binaries, and your lovely photos have shown up there, but the text TR has not. Can you post the TR here? That looks like a mighty fine piece of water... Thanks, Bill Bill, the TR accompanied the first pic. Were you not able to receive the text with the pictures? Well, it wasn't on that service. I just checked our news server, which frequently has the text posts to binary groups, but yours was, sadly, absent. In addition, I posted a text explanation of each pic I sent. Did you not get those along with the pics? Yes, there were little snippets of text with each of the pictures. I will go back thru a.b.p.f and retrieve the text and repost it here, if you didn't get it, but I didn't save it myself, after I sent it to a.b.p.f. If'n you don't mind. Can't imagine a smallish TR text file posted here will anger the locals too much.... :-) Bill |
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![]() "William Claspy" wrote in message ... If'n you don't mind. Can't imagine a smallish TR text file posted here will anger the locals too much.... :-) Bill Alright Bill, this is the TR, such as it is: This is where I dropped in (1st pic accompanied this text, labeled: Put-in below the cable, on Upper Creek) on Upper Creek, below the cable and began to try to catch a trout. I geared up at the last camping area around 9:00 AM and it took me about 45 min. to hike the trail to this point. Had the stream to myself, as most folks in this area are communing with their gods in concrete, steel, and wooden structures. I made the journey, this morning, primarily to see if the floods last year had changed the stream significantly beyond the cable crossing. Many large boulders--the size of a VW Beetle and a bit larger--had been displace from their previous locations, below the cable crossing. Also the trail in is was washed out on several places, as the ridge side trail is very narrow and the ridge gradient is about a 60 degree slope or better in most sections. The water was running harder than normal, as we have had a great deal of rain lately. I just beat a serious thunder and lightning storm out this eve. As you can see from the pic below, the Sun was shining brightly, when I began my fish. This lasted up until I decided that it was time to make my way back out, and the storm clouds didn't hit till I was three quarters the way back to my car. I began fishin' with a Joe's Hopper, and had several hook-ups early on, but was unable to bring a trout to hand? I switched over to a traditional Adams and had several more hook-ups, but once again I was unable to keep the trout hooked. I checked the hooks and saw no problems. I did notice that my flyline was sinking, and thought that in the strong currents that I was not able to set the hook because of the excessive drag. I saw most of the fish take the fly and could feel them tuggin' as I attempted to set the hook, but each time I lost 'em? Anyway, I decided to change flylines and reels. So I went to my Hardy Featherlight. I don't recall the brand of line on this reel, but it didn't seem to suck up water at the flyline/leader connection. Ok, that problem solved, I figured that I would begin CATCHING fish. Unfortunately, the fish weren't strikin' my flyz like I would have expected them to on such a beautiful day? I have had days on Upper Creek when I couldn't do anything wrong and daze like today, when I couldn't do anything right. Oh well, I was intent on fishing beyond the cable crossing, regardless of catch. It's a good thing that I wasn't out just to fish, 'cause I only caught one trout all day and it was caught beyond the cable crossing! It was a nice healthy rainbow about 13 or so inches. I don't know, but my lack of fish brought to hand may have been as much due to my apprehension about fishin' this stretch of Uppers by myself, as my ****-poor fishin' abilities. The floods had changed the stream enough that usual stream crossing points were no longer available. I had to cross in areas that I wasn't too certain of, and bedrock granite formations that used to be covered in mosses were scoured clean, which made climbing up and over many sections more treacherous than normal. I finally made it to the cable crossing and my apprehension turned to fear, as I made my way around the rock with the cable. In the past, it was a simple matter of climbin' a cliff side and droppin' down to a ledge, that is about 25 feet above a very deep plunge pool, then you would step over to a large rock on the other side of a 20 feet deep crevice, and voila, you are on the other side and ready to fish again. Unfortunately, the large rock is no longer their. So, I had to work my way around the rock formation that the cable winds around to another ledge. Not a simple matter on the best of days. The next ledge is wet and slick, and I have my rod in my mouth, a fanny pack around my waist, and a backpack on. Once I inched my way around the rock formation--with a death grip on the cable--I was able to reach another large rock across the crevice. I'm on the other side of the cable crossin' now and the landscape is totally different than it was the last time I was there. What used to be a sandy beach like area was now a boulder strewn section of the stream, with water coursing over, around, and beneath the boulders. I decided to cast a fly, in celebration of not falling from the cable and drowning in the deep pool below. I tied on a parachute Adams and cast it to a seam of water cutting around a large rock in the middle of the stream. As the fly came around the point in the rock I had a strike. Determined not to miss another trout I set the hook quickly and kept pressure on by strippin' in line with my left-hand. Sure enough, I finally, brought to hand my first and only trout of the day! I'll post some more pics with explanations, but the this will end the trip report, for all intents and purposes. Mark |
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On 6/21/05 6:17 PM, in article ,
"Guyz-N-Flyz" wrote: "William Claspy" wrote in message ... If'n you don't mind. Can't imagine a smallish TR text file posted here will anger the locals too much.... :-) Bill Alright Bill, this is the TR, such as it is: snip Thank you, sir! Sounds like one hair raising trip. I look forward to fishin' the streams of WNC with you one o' these days. Just have to remember correct usage of the decoder ring, I fear.... Bill |
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![]() "William Claspy" wrote in message ... Thank you, sir! Sounds like one hair raising trip. I look forward to fishin' the streams of WNC with you one o' these days. Just have to remember correct usage of the decoder ring, I fear.... Bill No, thank you sir! You get Wolfie and George together and y'all make a road trip on down, anytime, PLEASE! You always have a free place to stay, when ya get here. Mark |
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