TR: My cabin in the hills of Caroline (final installment w/fish picture)

Ken Fortenberry wrote:

Conan The Librarian wrote:

My last day, ...
snip
Returned to the car, drank the best beer I've ever had, ...

Oh well, I guess it takes longer than five days to work
your way up to a Budweiser. ;-)

Heh. What's really funny is even though I'm known as the DYBS of
ROFF, I was drinking Busch beer on the trip. You know, Bud's poor
cousin. :-) It's my favorite hot-weather domestic beer. Seriously.
(Uh, oh ... does this mean my title is in danger?)

It's beautiful country with lovely, strong fish, and I hope to explore
much more of it.

You said that exactly right. Thanks for the TR.

You're welcome. I thought of your exploits in that area a couple of
times while I was hiking/fishing. I may not be foolish enough to do
Forney ;-) but there were a couple of times I was wondering
what-the-hell I was doing out there all by myself. And then I would see
the next lovely pool or run and get over it. :-)


Chuck Vance

Tim J. wrote:

Question: Did you keep a daily journal? With the level of detail in this
report, either you have an amazingly fine memory, or you kept a written
record. I've never done the journaling thing, but have considered it
several times.

What I did was sit down back at the cabin each evening and jot down
notes from the day's adventures. Since I was there by myself, I didn't
have anyone else with which to talk over the day's events. Writing
about it was a great way to unwind, as well as help me see what I was
doing well on the water, help me plan for the next day, etc.


Chuck Vance (and yes, I know ... I went into an excruciating
level of detail, but you should see the stuff I *didn't* include ;-)

William Claspy wrote:

That's the beauty of LC classes. It's already got one :-) Well, most of
one.

SH688.U6
-and we'll make ourselves up a cutter number-
V456
2005

Done!


Bill
(waiting for a cataloger out there to correct me :-)

You rang? :-) Let's see ... SH688 ... angling for trout by region
or country ... OK ... .U6 for United Snakes ... good ... V456 for Vance
.... not so good ... should be more like V363.


Chuck Vance (but overall not a bad job for a public-service type ;-)

Conan The Librarian wrote:
Tim J. wrote:

Question: Did you keep a daily journal? With the level of detail in
this report, either you have an amazingly fine memory, or you kept a
written record. I've never done the journaling thing, but have
considered it several times.

What I did was sit down back at the cabin each evening and jot
down notes from the day's adventures. Since I was there by myself, I
didn't have anyone else with which to talk over the day's events.
Writing about it was a great way to unwind, as well as help me see
what I was doing well on the water, help me plan for the next day,
etc.

Chuck Vance (and yes, I know ... I went into an excruciating
level of detail, but you should see the stuff I *didn't* include ;-)

Excrutiating my ass. That was wonderful.
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TL,
Tim
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Tim J. wrote:
Conan The Librarian wrote:
Tim J. wrote:

...excruciating...

Excrutiating ....

I *hate* it when I misspell a word someone just spelled for me.
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TL,
Tim
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http://css.sbcma.com/timj

Conan The Librarian wrote:

Thanks to all who gave me advice, and tolerated my dumb questions.
It was the fishing trip of a lifetime for this old liberrian, and I hope
to do it again soon. :-) It's beautiful country with lovely, strong
fish, and I hope to explore much more of it.




Thanks for the great series of trip reports. All you missed in Texas
was the heat. I can't wait till I next get to spend another week in
this area. It is well worth driving a couple of days each way to spend
some time in that very special area.

Big Dale

"Conan The Librarian" wrote in message
...
Friday:

My last day, and since I've caught fish everywhere I've been except for
B*g Sn*wb*rd (and since I'm a stubborn *******), I decided to give it
another try. The knee was holding up fine, so the plan was to hike up to
the lower falls and fish that area.
Chuck Vance

Thanks Chuck!

A wonderful read w/pics to boot. Who could ask for anything more?

I hope to post a TR and pics of an evening fish tomorrow. One of the Bass
fishers from work wants me to take him trout fishin' after work tomorrow, so
maybe I can convert him and there will be one less guy in the shop callin'
me a pussy-fisherman.

Take care of the knees.

Mark

Conan The Librarian wrote:

Friday:

My last day, and since I've caught fish everywhere I've been except
for B*g Sn*wb*rd (and since I'm a stubborn *******), I decided to give
it another try. The knee was holding up fine, so the plan was to hike
up to the lower falls and fish that area.

Passed three flyfishers on the way. One was the toothless guy from
Deliverance (and packing a pistol), and the others looked fairly normal.
They must have thought I knew something abou the area, because they
asked me where the best fishing was. (I told them it was below Junction
;-). We exchanged pleasnatries and I continued on, keeping an eye on
my back until I was out of gunshot range. ;-)

Up to S*ss*fr*ss in about 55 minutes, and in another 20 heard what
sounded like a real waterfall. I found a really obvious path down to
the water, and slid my way down, coming out at the top of a nice falls
and just below two pretty pools and another smaller falls.
(http://uweb.txstate.edu/~cv01/snowbirdfalls01.jpg) Without giving too
much more detail (Jeffy already knows where this is, I'm sure ... and
Wayno too), I fished the lower pool and despite screwing up a couple of
casts (immediate drag in the eddies), I was fortunate enough to have a
nice brown (12"+) jump all over my offering. He was a bulldog, but was
kind enough to pose for a photo: http://uweb.txstate.edu/~cv01/brown.jpg

I fished the next pool with no luck and thought about scaling the
falls, but figured I'd wait and do that when there's someone with me to
scrape my remains up off the rocks below. (Do you guys just go up the
face of the rocks on the left there or what?)

Returned to the car, drank the best beer I've ever had, scoped out
the Little Sn*b*rd a bit and was back at the house to pack up for my
flight out on Saturday.

On my way out on Saturday I snapped one last shot:
http://uweb.txstate.edu/~cv01/cove.jpg

Thanks to all who gave me advice, and tolerated my dumb questions. It
was the fishing trip of a lifetime for this old liberrian, and I hope to
do it again soon. :-) It's beautiful country with lovely, strong fish,
and I hope to explore much more of it.


Chuck Vance

thanks for the fine story and photos chuck! you did right good on your
first visit...better than most. it's a fine and wondrous place, and
it'll be near bout the same on your next visit. (btw, you climb up the
left side of the lower falls...and, wait til you see middle falls)

jeff

Ken Fortenberry wrote:



I've never even considered it.

um... actually, you did. at the first roff clave ever, while pj and
peter fished below us, you and i entered snowbird at the big pool at the
bottom of lower falls, fished it a bit, then we climbed above the falls
on the rocks at the left.

Jeff Miller wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
I've never even considered it.

um... actually, you did. at the first roff clave ever,
... we climbed above the falls
on the rocks at the left.

OK, I stand corrected. That should have read:
When sober, I've never even considered it.

--
Ken Fortenberry