Yooper '06 - Fly

jeff wrote:
Wayne Knight wrote:
"Frank Reid" wrote in message
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Will do. Oh, Sep 15th is the first day of ruffled grouse season (the
call the "parkers"). I think I'll take the other bits of yellow, or
international orange, and wear it. Maybe I'll get my daughter's
Syracuse fleece.


Just stay where I can see you g



uh oh... cheneyphobia

Big woods up there.....lots of room. Chances of getting Cheneyd are
vanishingly small. Odds are we won't even hear any gunfire.

added to grabber/biter/eaters

Mostly gone by this time of year.

and fear of flying...

Flying is nothing to worry about. It's the parts where you're close to
the ground that.......well, you know.

but, i'm starting to get stoked about the yoop redux and seeing it in
sept. my only other time up there was in may, several years ago...one
of the best trout adventures i've had, thanks to wolfgang's hospitality
and knowledge.

See, this is precisely the sort of thoughtless crap that is ruining
this place. It could take my hard-won reputation weeks to recover from
this little fit of unprovoked praise!

Anyway, if my research these past few weeks is any indication, we're
going to see some streams this time around that will make us forever
rue the time we wasted on that last jaunt.

guess i need to begin thinking about packing...anyone
located the closest fly shop to the marquette airport?

Well, if it's just flies you're interested in, you're going to be
sitting next to the best fly shop you're likely to encounter for an
hour or more twixt Detroit and Marquette. When you guys touch down,
I'll create a diversion and you and John can dry gulch him at baggage
claim.

If there's anything else you need, I've found indications of fly shops
of some sort in Marquette but none of them has their own web presence,
so I can't tell you much about them.

Wolfgang

guess i need to begin thinking about packing...anyone
located the closest fly shop to the marquette airport?

Well, if it's just flies you're interested in, you're going to be
sitting next to the best fly shop you're likely to encounter for an
hour or more twixt Detroit and Marquette. When you guys touch down,
I'll create a diversion and you and John can dry gulch him at baggage
claim.

Hey, listen, I'm packing light, so I'll only have about a thousand
flies with me. I will bring a small tying kit with me in case we find
something that works real well.
Hey, Wolfy, what are the colors (wing and body) and size on the caddis
up there?
Frank Reid

Hey, Wolfy, what are the colors (wing and body) and size on the caddis
up there?

Scratch that, just saw your other post.
Frank

Frank Reid wrote:
Hey, Wolfy, what are the colors (wing and body) and size on the caddis
up there?

Scratch that, just saw your other post.

Well, I guess I should say a word or two about size. In the early
days, I used to tie caddis on everything from 22s to 4s. Over the
years, and quite without any conscious plan, I slowly wittled the
selection down. These days I rarely use anything but 14s. Bodies are
sparsely dubbed, and a I use very fine copper wire, counter-wound to
protect the hackle. This has made them much more durable without
significantly affecting their bouyancy.

Wolfgang

Well, I guess I should say a word or two about size. In the early
days, I used to tie caddis on everything from 22s to 4s. Over the
years, and quite without any conscious plan, I slowly wittled the
selection down. These days I rarely use anything but 14s. Bodies are
sparsely dubbed, and a I use very fine copper wire, counter-wound to
protect the hackle. This has made them much more durable without
significantly affecting their bouyancy.

Will tie some. 14? Damn, most of mine are 16-18. Except for the
October Orange Caddis thats a 6X long #2. Hmm, looking in my box, I've
only got two dozen of those left. I've been slacking off on my tying.
Frank Reid

Flying is nothing to worry about. It's the parts where you're close to
the ground that.......well, you know.

One fundamental rule known by all pilots is: Fly in the middle of the
air. Stay away from the edges. They cause trouble.

vince

vincent p. norris wrote:
Flying is nothing to worry about. It's the parts where you're close to
the ground that.......well, you know.

One fundamental rule known by all pilots is: Fly in the middle of the
air. Stay away from the edges. They cause trouble.

Something that most of us intuit at one level or another, I
guess......but sound advice that needs to be stated explicilty from
time to time.

How ironic though, that so many of us take to the air so readily these
days to rush off to what's left of the edges.

Wolfgang
who will be traveling at a somewhat more lesiurely pace come thursday
night, but will be knee deep in some nice cool edge by 7:00 on the
following morning.

who will be traveling at a somewhat more lesiurely pace come thursday
night, but will be knee deep in some nice cool edge by 7:00 on the
following morning.

Well, at least gas prices have dropped. We're spending 2.46 here (10%
ethanol). A 50 cent drop in prices in less than 6 weeks is really nice
(but don't get used to it).
Frank Reid

Frank Reid wrote:
who will be traveling at a somewhat more lesiurely pace come thursday
night, but will be knee deep in some nice cool edge by 7:00 on the
following morning.


Well, at least gas prices have dropped. We're spending 2.46 here (10%
ethanol). A 50 cent drop in prices in less than 6 weeks is really nice
(but don't get used to it).
Frank Reid


so, it'll be, what, only 3.30 or so in the yoop? it's 2.69
hereabouts...paid 3.02 just 10 days ago. market economies are very,
very strange when it comes to gas prices around here.

jeff

jeff wrote:
Frank Reid wrote:
who will be traveling at a somewhat more lesiurely pace come thursday
night, but will be knee deep in some nice cool edge by 7:00 on the
following morning.


Well, at least gas prices have dropped. We're spending 2.46 here (10%
ethanol). A 50 cent drop in prices in less than 6 weeks is really nice
(but don't get used to it).
Frank Reid


so, it'll be, what, only 3.30 or so in the yoop? it's 2.69
hereabouts...paid 3.02 just 10 days ago. market economies are very,
very strange when it comes to gas prices around here.

jeff

I saw $2.72 here in southeast Curdistan yesterday......lowest in
several weeks. This is a bit lower than it was when John and I left
here last year for the inaugural UPYERS. In fact, it's just about what
the price was in Baraga, on the res, and 10-20 cents lower than
everywhere else we went in the western U.P. If we pool our financial
resources (which, if you think about it, are bound to be considerably
more substantial than our collective wits) we should be o.k.

Meanwhile, it begins to look as if we may not have to mug Frank after
all. I've been tying like a madman for the past three weeks......THIS
TIME, I've been telling myself, I WILL NOT arrive (after ten months
prior notice) bereft of useable bugs and be reduced to rifling my
friends' fly boxes while they are off in the outhouse.....um.....though
I guess I WILL kinda miss the adrenaline rush. Anyway, I've been
enveloped in a dense cloud of fur, feathers, yarns, floss, chenille,
wire, pointy steel and whatnot for about 21 days. Sensibly, I think, I
paused briefly today to swamp out the car and begin looking for the
spoor of various bits of camping and fishing gear. What should present
itself to my startled and decidely bemused gaze? About fifteen fly
boxes that I haven't laid eyes on for the last twelve or thirteen
years! Hoo boy! Even BEFORE Wayne, Bill and George arrive, we're
going to be in possession of more fishooks than existed in all of
Michigan (well, what would become Michigan, anyway) prior to the 16th
century C.E.!

Wolfgang
oh, by the way, in roughly 109 hours i'll be catching my first brookie
of the day (and the trip for that matter) just about the time john is
trying to convince the border patrol that he IS SO an american, and you
and frank are enjoying your first anal probes of the day.