5 year plan

"Larry L" wrote in message
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I turned 60 a couple weeks ago, and I've been retired 5 years. Those
two numbers seem to invite a little introspection and suggest it's time for
a new 5 year plan.

Please list the places you like to fly fish for trout. No, I don't want
GPS or real secret spots. But, as I think about how to spend the next 5
summers "trout bumming" I don't want to miss a great place simply because
I havent' heard about it.

Voelker country. More modest and unassuming than any of the other
suggestions you've gotten thus far.....or are likely to get.....but
possessed of a unique charm all its own. It has the advantage of being
"away" and downright unpopular by the standards applicable to most well
known fly fishing venues today......an advantage which, if your overt
statements and projected persona here are to be given any credence, should
be of great interest not only to you, but also to those few brothers of the
angle you are likely to encounter.

Wolfgang

On Dec 12, 8:57 am, "Wolfgang" wrote:

Voelker country.

I disagree with your recommendation. Little tiny fish, tag alder
everywhere you look, very few amenities nearby, downright rotten
weather, black flies that will eat as much of you as they can find
leaving only a few bare spots for their friends the mosquitos to feast
upon. Nope. No sir. Can't recommend Voelker country.

Wm

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On Dec 12, 8:57 am, "Wolfgang" wrote:

Voelker country.

I disagree with your recommendation. Little tiny fish, tag alder
everywhere you look, very few amenities nearby, downright rotten
weather, black flies that will eat as much of you as they can find
leaving only a few bare spots for their friends the mosquitos to feast
upon.

More truth in that last sentence than one customarily finds here in a week.


Nope. No sir. Can't recommend Voelker country.

Oh......yeah......that's what I meant.

Wolfgang

On Dec 12, 10:19 am, "Wolfgang" wrote:
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On Dec 12, 8:57 am, "Wolfgang" wrote:

Voelker country.

I disagree with your recommendation. Little tiny fish, tag alder
everywhere you look, very few amenities nearby, downright rotten
weather, black flies that will eat as much of you as they can find
leaving only a few bare spots for their friends the mosquitos to feast
upon.

More truth in that last sentence than one customarily finds here in a week.


Nope. No sir. Can't recommend Voelker country.

Oh......yeah......that's what I meant.

Um.... you said late May was good for you, right? :-)

Bill

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On Dec 12, 10:19 am, "Wolfgang" wrote:
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On Dec 12, 8:57 am, "Wolfgang" wrote:

Voelker country.

I disagree with your recommendation. Little tiny fish, tag alder
everywhere you look, very few amenities nearby, downright rotten
weather, black flies that will eat as much of you as they can find
leaving only a few bare spots for their friends the mosquitos to feast
upon.

More truth in that last sentence than one customarily finds here in a
week.


Nope. No sir. Can't recommend Voelker country.

Oh......yeah......that's what I meant.

Um.... you said late May was good for you, right? :-)

I don't recall exactly what time frame I said was good. So, I just checked
my calendar. Looks like I'm free from about 3:30 this afternoon till early
October.

Wolfgang
who may shudder! be headed up that way for some hard water fishing within
the next month or so.

"Wolfgang" wrote


Voelker country. More modest and unassuming than any of the other
suggestions you've gotten thus far.....or are likely to get.....but
possessed of a unique charm all its own. It has the advantage of being
"away" and downright unpopular by the standards applicable to most well
known fly fishing venues today......


I sometimes see pictures of tiny spring creeks in what, I think, is the area
you mention ... they always appeal to my imagination

"Larry L" wrote in message
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"Wolfgang" wrote


Voelker country. More modest and unassuming than any of the other
suggestions you've gotten thus far.....or are likely to get.....but
possessed of a unique charm all its own. It has the advantage of being
"away" and downright unpopular by the standards applicable to most well
known fly fishing venues today......


I sometimes see pictures of tiny spring creeks in what, I think, is the
area you mention ... they always appeal to my imagination

Yeah, we've got plenty of those, but we also have a wide variety of other
waters......something to suit just about every taste.

Wolfgang

Larry L typed:
I turned 60 a couple weeks ago, and I've been retired 5 years. Those
two numbers seem to invite a little introspection and suggest
it's time for a new 5 year plan.

Please list the places you like to fly fish for trout. No, I don't
want GPS or real secret spots. But, as I think about how to spend
the next 5 summers "trout bumming" I don't want to miss a great place
simply because I havent' heard about it.

Congrats on being able to retire at 55. I'm hoping to retire sometime in my
sixties.

The recommendations you've received so far carry more credence than I can
offer, but Spring or Fall in New England can offer some very nice fishing.
Throw in upstate New York along the CT, MA, and VT borders, and you could
easily kill several months hitting new and very different waters every week.
Given the proximity of PA to New England, you could stay on blue-ribbon
trout waters from Spring *through* Fall, or even go for some stripers (no,
not strippers, Jeff) on the flats off Cape Cod. The other New Englanders who
frequent this place (you know who you are) can add more to the party than I,
but it's certainly something to put in the mix.
--
TL,
Tim
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http://css.sbcma.com/timj

"Tim J." wrote


Congrats on being able to retire at 55. I'm hoping to retire sometime in
my sixties.


Was only partly an "able to" thing ... partly I was forced to retire by a
variety of things beyond my control.





The recommendations you've received so far carry more credence than I can
offer, but Spring or Fall in New England can offer some very nice fishing.
Throw in upstate New York along the CT, MA, and VT borders, and you could


I lived a couple months in Wolcott (sp) N.Y. right on the lake .. the cabin
was in danger of being undermined as the lake water ate away at the cliff it
was on. The place had a little creek running into the lake to that had
warm water fish. And I shot my first and only Grouse there ... after
shooting many trees first, in the attempt. The cabin had no power or
running water ( hand pump inside though ) and belonged to the family of a
dear friend. He and his wife spent one entire Winter there, snow shoeing
out a mile to the plowed road, then digging out his car, one time to go
shopping.

You are right the upper east is a beautiful place, especially in the Fall.

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As I remembered that time I was drawn to google my old pal, we lost touch
mostly because he was rightfully put off by my alcohol usage "back then"

We were at Wolcott that fall shortly after he finally was released from the
Army hospitals ... maybe a year+ from the time this was written .... I first
read it at the time as a mail he sent to me, from a hospital .... and I
was surprised to find it again

TOTALLY OFF TOPIC ... but worth the read, imho http://tinyurl.com/3cg3bw

Robert put it on the web, so I can't think he'll mind my linking to it here
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Larry L wrote:

I turned 60 a couple weeks ago, and I've been retired 5 years. Those two
numbers seem to invite a little introspection and suggest it's time for a
new 5 year plan.

Please list the places you like to fly fish for trout. No, I don't want
GPS or real secret spots. But, as I think about how to spend the next 5
summers "trout bumming" I don't want to miss a great place simply because I
havent' heard about it.

I hesitated to jump in here, as I am a relative newbie to trout
fishing, but then I remembered that this is ROFF, and ignorance should
never deter someone from posting. :-)

I'd recommend the Crowsnest Pass area in Canada near the Alberta/BC
border. The scenery is spectacular, and you have access to the Crow and
excellent rainbow and brown trout fishing. Plus there are several less
well-known cutthroat streams within about an hour's drive. (The Castle
and the Livingstone and their tribs are all worthy of checking out.
Plus, closer to Calgary is the Highwood.)

I'd also recommend the streams in western North Carolina and east
Tennessee, but Jeff would probably have to kill me if I did.


Chuck Vance (and maybe Wayne Knight and wayno, too)