TR: In the land of bitey things.

"Daniel-San" wrote in message
news

"Wolfgang" wrote ...

HUZZAH!

Ahem.... uhhhhh..... pictures? ;-)

No pictures this time. I had two cameras.....and never thought to get
either out of the bag.

Wolfgang

"rw" wrote in message
m...
A couple of days ago I bought my first and last full-bug-net hat
(Columbia), in anticipation of Bristol Bay, Alaska in August. I'm not
looking forward to having to wear that MF, but if I need it then it will be
my best friend.

Joe remembers---net over head is nice but I found it hard to enjoy meals
while wearing it

also never found a net to wear over my rear end while taking necessary trip
to the bushes

Fished in Alaska three times and found August the best time to go--have a
great trip --

"George Cleveland" wrote in message
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Some folks I know just came back from the Porkies. The flies drove
them nuts too (not that I'm saying you're nuts or anything). Down here
in Merrill we do have deer flies and skeets but the black flies for
some reason don't seem to like it here.

Yeah, the deer flies seem to have a much wider and more even distribution.
I encounter them just about everywhere in da nort woods, though they are
certainly much more prevalent in some places than in others. One day, about
fifteen years ago, they drove me off Comet creek before I could wet a line.
In all the time I spent on the central streams I don't recall that I ever
saw anything more than an occasional lone black fly. Even in the U.P. there
are drainages in which I've never bumped into them. Others (the Little Carp
comes readily to mind) are so badly infested that I will no longer go there
in season.

Must be all the clean living here.

Could be......but that rather invites the question of why I would ever have
seen them anywhere.

By the way, Joel and I are coming up your way Friday evening. We'll be
fishing for smallmouth at the ultra-secret spot on Saturday. Hope you can
join us. I'll be posting a notice in a new thread shortly, in case anyone
else might want to come along.

Wolfgang

On 5/30/06 7:12 PM, in article
, "Ken Fortenberry"
wrote:

Wolfgang wrote:
watersmeet...

Not to mention the four Michigan Blue Ribbon Trout Streams
within a 30 minute drive.

Mmmmmmm.

Ken, you got a trip report too? Wondering which of those streams on which
you managed to spend time.

Bill

On 5/30/06 4:50 PM, in article , "Wolfgang"
wrote:

Jay and Patty and I started out on a scouting venture in mid morning. The
object was to find some new trout water......something we'd never seen
before. Neither Jay nor I had ever fished the Silver river so we headed off
in that direction.

I presume that this is the same Silver I'm thinking of. We're usually
destined to remote points east down Skanee Road but I always slow the car as
we cross the Silver. Looks like mighty nice water.

The late afternoon was better. On the way into L'Anse to get a bite to eat

Tell me you ate at the Hilltop. Those cinnamon rolls, man oh man. And
pickled herring on the buffet...

Speaking of data points, here are mine on bothersome bugs up nort'. I've
been up there in late July, August, and September. I've never been bothered
by biting or stinging insects at any of those times, although the late July
trip there were little biting no-see-ums of some sort on the Fox. They
weren't bothersome enough to drive me off the water. The times I've been
there in late September, all of those critters were but a distant memory,
with keeping warm being a more immediate concern.

Thanks for the report Wolfgang.

Countin' time 'til September,
Bill

On 5/31/06 8:55 AM, in article , "William
Claspy" wrote:

Wondering which of those streams on which
you managed to spend time.

Holy crap, did I write that? Brain and fingers not working in sync yet this
morning...

Bill

William Claspy wrote:
"Ken Fortenberry" wrote:
watersmeet...

Not to mention the four Michigan Blue Ribbon Trout Streams
within a 30 minute drive.

Mmmmmmm.

Ken, you got a trip report too? Wondering which of those streams on which
you managed to spend time.

No, I didn't make the trip. I couldn't get our old Volvo
wagon in for service until yesterday. I can call the Subaru
dealer and get the Forester in the next day but the Volvo
dealer always seems to be backed up for weeks.

Of the four designated Blue Ribbon streams around Watersmeet,
Middle and East Branches of the Ontonagon, Cooks Run and Paint
River the only one I've fished before is the Middle Branch of
the Ontonagon.

--
Ken Fortenberry

Wolfgang wrote:

Sunday - The flies (oh Lord, the flies!) bite.


There's alot of things I miss about the Northwoods, but the bugs sure
aren't one of them.

Willi

"William Claspy" wrote in message
...
On 5/30/06 4:50 PM, in article , "Wolfgang"
wrote:

Jay and Patty and I started out on a scouting venture in mid morning.
The
object was to find some new trout water......something we'd never seen
before. Neither Jay nor I had ever fished the Silver river so we headed
off
in that direction.

I presume that this is the same Silver I'm thinking of.

Yeah, it's the one in the area we're both familiar with.

We're usually
destined to remote points east down Skanee Road but I always slow the car
as
we cross the Silver. Looks like mighty nice water.

Oddly, it looks better downstream than up. Well, not so odd for this
region......a number of others share this trait. We need to talk more about
what's down Skanee Road.

The late afternoon was better. On the way into L'Anse to get a bite to
eat

Tell me you ate at the Hilltop. Those cinnamon rolls, man oh man. And
pickled herring on the buffet...

We did indeed eat at the Hilltop......and I did have the pickled herring.
However, none of us sampled the cinnamon rolls.....we were all too full from
lunch. And, anyway, those things are scary. You could beat large
carnivorous bitey things to death with one of those.

Speaking of data points, here are mine on bothersome bugs up nort'. I've
been up there in late July, August, and September. I've never been
bothered
by biting or stinging insects at any of those times, although the late
July
trip there were little biting no-see-ums of some sort on the Fox. They
weren't bothersome enough to drive me off the water. The times I've been
there in late September, all of those critters were but a distant memory,
with keeping warm being a more immediate concern.

Four or five years ago, on July fourth weekend, Jay's Jeep broke down on a
long dusty dirt road somewhere between Newberry and the Fox. It was a
miserably hot and humid day. The deer flies and horse flies were about as
bad as I've ever seen them anywhere.....and this was in a pine plantation,
no open water visible and none to be found nearby on the map. We spent
several hours in hell till the tow truck showed up. Go figure.

Thanks for the report Wolfgang.

Countin' time 'til September,

Come on up this weekend.......we'll count together while teasing smallmouth.


Wolfgang

On 5/31/06 12:36 PM, in article , "Wolfgang"
wrote:


"William Claspy" wrote in message
...
On 5/30/06 4:50 PM, in article , "Wolfgang"
wrote:
I presume that this is the same Silver I'm thinking of.

Yeah, it's the one in the area we're both familiar with.

We're usually
destined to remote points east down Skanee Road but I always slow the car
as
we cross the Silver. Looks like mighty nice water.

Oddly, it looks better downstream than up. Well, not so odd for this
region......a number of others share this trait.

As I recall, where the Skanee Road crosses the Silver, it's pretty close to
Huron Bay, no?

Is the "looks better" due to the ubiquitous falls, do you think?

We need to talk more about
what's down Skanee Road.

Well, among other things that haunt me, there are brook trout down the
Skanee Road, I'd wager on that. And something that looks like this,
probably hasn't changed in the last sixty years:

http://hrothgar.cwru.edu/huronriv2.jpg

The late afternoon was better. On the way into L'Anse to get a bite to
eat

Tell me you ate at the Hilltop. Those cinnamon rolls, man oh man. And
pickled herring on the buffet...

We did indeed eat at the Hilltop......and I did have the pickled herring.

Lucky bastid! My grandmother used to have a Swedish saying about "sill och
potatis", but I can't remember it. Maybe Roger can help out?

However, none of us sampled the cinnamon rolls.....we were all too full from
lunch. And, anyway, those things are scary. You could beat large
carnivorous bitey things to death with one of those.

I only bought one once and we split it four ways. Seriously.

Bill