Cabin Fever

On 8-Jan-2009, DaveS wrote:

I love weather, but 2 weeks of horizontal rain
can find every imaginable way into a structure.


On 8-Jan-2009, DaveS wrote:

I love weather, but 2 weeks of horizontal rain
can find every imaginable way into a structure.

Dave

I don't live tooooo far from you in NW MT and we have similar weather
but Luckily no high winds
We had 3 ft of snow which I loved as we do back country skiing
Then we had 4 days of heavy rain and the skiing is gone - all ice
Its crazy to even leave the house - dangerous driving - You can't drive on
ice

Re leaks - us too - in some places we never had them before

Fortunately our structures and barn are sound - I had to shovel the roof of
my hayloft and chicken pen

So for now just staying home and fiddlin' around
Drinking a bit and a puff or 2

Like you - I am headed out for warm sunny Long Beach CA in 2 weeks for
business

TL
Fred

"Fred" wrote


I don't live tooooo far from you in NW MT


I intend to make it back to that area soon to fish the Blackfoot lakes.
My bride and I did the tourist thing two summers ago at Glacier and up into
Canada but I never uncased a rod that trip. I fish the Missouri near
Craig on a semi-regular basis but never further West.

Have you fished the Blackfoot area?

On 8-Jan-2009, "Larry L" wrote:

I intend to make it back to that area soon to fish the Blackfoot lakes.
My bride and I did the tourist thing two summers ago at Glacier and up
into
Canada but I never uncased a rod that trip. I fish the Missouri near
Craig on a semi-regular basis but never further West.

Have you fished the Blackfoot area?

Larry

When you come to this area again Pls let me know
I will put you into some unwary 5lb rainbows - right in our lake

Re Blackfoot - yes
There is an Indian guide - Joe Kipp
He can take you to some of the most unbelievable places that only tribal
membners can get to

Fred

"Fred" wrote

Larry

When you come to this area again Pls let me know
I will put you into some unwary 5lb rainbows - right in our lake

Re Blackfoot - yes
There is an Indian guide - Joe Kipp
He can take you to some of the most unbelievable places that only tribal
membners can get to



Years back when my fishing was shoe horned into times between work I fished
lakes a lot. California has many quality stillwater fisheries, but only a
very few moving water ones ( that suit my style and preferences ) and they
are always very crowded.

Unlike many anglers I meet, I enjoy FFing lakes and find it challenging and
in important 'cosmic' ways more mysterious and intriguing than most (
freestone) rivers

BUT

when I retired I decided to mainly fish the places that most appeal to me
and try an 'learn' them while I still had a few years left to do so ... thus
I spend many hours each summer on a relative few rivers at this time.
There is NO WAY I can ever 'master' waters like the RxR Ranch in my
remaining time and that is it's biggest appeal, to me.

When, as is certain to happen to us all, I find getting around on streams
and fishing tiny insect imitations to be physically too demanding, I plan to
return to stillwaters where a good watercraft does much of the work, and big
flies are a norm, as is heavier tippet. Each year I think about going to
the Blackfoot lakes but the best time there is also the best time elsewhere.
August is the hardest month to find quality FFing and I often return to
lakes then, Hebgen is at it's prime time in the 8th month. Are the lakes
in your area good August destinations? What bugs/ flies/ tactics are likely
to be used to best advantage?

On 9-Jan-2009, "Larry L" wrote:

Unlike many anglers I meet, I enjoy FFing lakes and find it challenging
and
in important 'cosmic' ways more mysterious and intriguing than most (
freestone) rivers

BUT

when I retired I decided to mainly fish the places that most appeal to me
and try an 'learn' them while I still had a few years left to do so ...
thus
I spend many hours each summer on a relative few rivers at this time.
There is NO WAY I can ever 'master' waters like the RxR Ranch in my
remaining time and that is it's biggest appeal, to me.

When, as is certain to happen to us all, I find getting around on streams
and fishing tiny insect imitations to be physically too demanding, I plan
to
return to stillwaters where a good watercraft does much of the work, and
big
flies are a norm, as is heavier tippet. Each year I think about going
to
the Blackfoot lakes but the best time there is also the best time
elsewhere.
August is the hardest month to find quality FFing and I often return to
lakes then, Hebgen is at it's prime time in the 8th month. Are the
lakes
in your area good August destinations? What bugs/ flies/ tactics are
likely
to be used to best advantage?



Re Blackfoot Rez

Joe Kipp can take you to lakes or streams
I fished w him in August and some of the accesss points and streams wree
isolated and unbelievable
Joe sat in back w a scatter gun and asked us to move whenever he thought
that he heard a gizzly
The fishing was great and the scenery even better.

Where he lives - right on his own land he has great access to Cut Bank
Creek
But he will take you to remote lakes and rivers that are only accessible to
the tribe

Definitely worth it
He is in Browning MT

Contact me if you want his info

Fred

On Jan 8, 12:07*pm, "Fred" wrote:
On *8-Jan-2009, DaveS wrote:

*I love weather, but 2 weeks of horizontal rain
can find every imaginable way into a structure.

On *8-Jan-2009, DaveS wrote:

*I love weather, but 2 weeks of horizontal rain
can find every imaginable way into a structure.

Dave

I don't live tooooo far from you in NW MT and we have similar weather
but Luckily no high winds
We had 3 ft of snow which I loved as we do back country skiing
Then we had 4 days of heavy rain and the skiing is gone - all ice
Its crazy to even leave the house - dangerous driving - You can't drive on
ice

Re leaks - us too - in some places we never had them before

Fortunately our structures and barn are sound - I had to shovel the roof of
my hayloft and chicken pen

So for now just staying home and fiddlin' around
Drinking a bit and a puff or 2

Like you - I am headed out for warm sunny Long Beach CA in 2 weeks for
business

TL
Fred

Wow, 3 ft! No we don't get anything like that in the Puget lowlands. I
think the max above sea level for this Island is about 350 ft. I love
the deep stuff to play in (carefully). Every couple of years we go up
to Scottish lakes High Camp, in the East slope of the Cascades. Nice
dry powder, real deep. They snowmobile you into primitive cabins/
outhouses. Miles of back-country and Xcountry trails (kinda trails:-))
The Special forces guys do some training in the area. Mostly for
hardcore, but non-whiner kids love it and fact is even reasonably fit
old-farts can enjoy a week of this stuff. At weeks end its real fun
to ski all the way down for miles to the valley. But with all the
screwy weather this year, avalanches etc this is probably not the year
for it.

Do you fish up into Canada? Like up the Frasier past 150 mile house or
wherever?

Dave

On 8-Jan-2009, DaveS wrote:

Every couple of years we go up
to Scottish lakes High Camp, in the East slope of the Cascades. Nice
dry powder, real deep.

Please give me the info on these cabins
It sounds great
i would lobve to go - but w the avalanche warnings - not this yr
Perhaps next


Do you fish up into Canada? Like up the Frasier past 150 mile house or
wherever?

IWe fshed our way to Calgary last Oct on the Crowsnest and Bow Rivers
and I have fished arounf Rocky Mt house
but Not the Fraser
i am ready to go now
Anything
I am going a bit nuts!

Fred

On Jan 8, 2:26*pm, "Fred" wrote:

This is their website.
http://www.scottishlakes.com/Home.shtml
It looks like they did a bunch of upgrades on several of the cabins.
You bring all your own food. They also have this deal where you go up
in the autumn and work for a few days, for which you get a a very
significant credit on costs. My son and his wife have done this.

Its a very old school place, family run, pretty unique, not money
grubbing, not for complainers expecting groveling service, and goes
out of its way to recognize mountaineering folk who live and sometimes
lose their lives in the back-country. It is also not a place for
people overly sensitive about logging, as there is responsible active
logging in the area. I think Montanans will feel right at home. :-)

Dave

On 8-Jan-2009, DaveS wrote:

This is their website.
http://www.scottishlakes.com/Home.shtml
It looks like they did a bunch of upgrades on several of the cabins.
You bring all your own food. ...

Thanks

Sounds great

Fred

"Fred" wrote in message
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On 8-Jan-2009, DaveS wrote:

I love weather, but 2 weeks of horizontal rain
can find every imaginable way into a structure.


On 8-Jan-2009, DaveS wrote:

I love weather, but 2 weeks of horizontal rain
can find every imaginable way into a structure.

Dave

I don't live tooooo far from you in NW MT and we have similar weather
but Luckily no high winds
We had 3 ft of snow which I loved as we do back country skiing
Then we had 4 days of heavy rain and the skiing is gone - all ice
Its crazy to even leave the house - dangerous driving - You can't drive on
ice

Re leaks - us too - in some places we never had them before

Fortunately our structures and barn are sound - I had to shovel the roof
of
my hayloft and chicken pen

So for now just staying home and fiddlin' around
Drinking a bit and a puff or 2

Like you - I am headed out for warm sunny Long Beach CA in 2 weeks for
business

TL
Fred

Last total 40 miles north of Spokane (Spokane has gotten around 80 inches)
we are just over 100 inches. (just over 8 ft.) It's been crazy. I've
shoveled the house once and thankfully it unloaded on it's own within the
last day or two. I've shoveled my storage/shop 30x40 twice... My back will
never be the same. The scary part is that we are only a week or so into
January.

Cabin fever has come way to early this year,
JT