TR- Best Laid Plans

On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:24:21 -0400, jeff
wrote:

On 6/19/2010 12:16 PM, georgecleveland wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:46:57 -0400, "Wayne Harrison"
wrote:


wrote in message
...
I'm on vacation this week.

george, your tr's are always a blessed relief from the standard hog****
currently overwhelming this place.

thanks from
yfitons
wayno


Thanks Wayne. One of these Octobers I plan on making the trek down to
your neck of the woods. I really enjoyed the couple of days of fishing
I grabbed last April (2009) while visiting the mother-in-law in
Crossville. It left me hankering for more. Fishing that is. Not so
much son-in-lawing.

GeoC


tailwater tennessee trout fishing is much different than rock-hopping
and clambering in the nc streams. judging from your winter ski treks,
i'd say you'll have no trouble fitness wise...and wayno can show you
hazel creek's best. i've just begun discovering the tennessee side of
the smokies, and there is a lot of good water in the area. the clinch
river sections i fished in May were fun and yielded some larger than nc
trout. good sulphur hatch and lots of rising fish... not something seen
on the nc side. danl has been exploring the eastern tenn. streams and is
a good source of info when you decide to head down that way again.

jeff
Fished the Little River when I was down there. It was interesting and
fun. Sort of like a combination of Wisconsin small stream fishing and
mild Montana topography. Unfortunately an April snowstorm in the
mountains had put a halt to the Sulfur hatch that had been going on,
but I still managed a few fish on soft hackled wets (which, in size
22, had out performed the flyshop recommended Zebra midges on the
Clinch a couple days earlier).

I'll definitely be back.


GeoC

George,
On my return from Canada passed by Merrill Monday afternoon in a
blinding rainstorm. Did the rivers get blown out?
Thought about you. Are you planning on the Kickapoo with your
Wisconsin group this year?
Thinking about joining you. Keep me informed.
Joel

On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:47:22 -0700 (PDT), "Joel *DFD*"
wrote:

George,
On my return from Canada passed by Merrill Monday afternoon in a
blinding rainstorm. Did the rivers get blown out?
Thought about you. Are you planning on the Kickapoo with your
Wisconsin group this year?
Thinking about joining you. Keep me informed.
Joel

They weren't after the rain on Monday but we've gotten a bunch more
today and some of the rivers west of here are at record high levels
for the date. I'm guessing that stream fishing over the whole state is
going to be iffy for the next week.

OTOH, we were in the middle of a severe drought at the beginning of
the month. Since June 1st though, Wausau has gotten close to 6" of
rain. That's way more than we had received in the whole 5 months
before that. In May the lakes north of town were way, way down. Last
week they had come up a foot and I'm betting that they'll double that
by this weekend. So all these rain clouds definitely have a silver
lining.

The Kickapoo thing will happen on the 24th to 26th of September as it
looks right now. But we'll be doing afly fishing smallmouth thing the
end of next month (23rd to 25th) at a small campground on a river
which I won't name here but will gladly identify and send GPS
co-ordinates on request. (Although even that is up in the air since
that river has been near flood stage for weeks and will probably be
over its banks by Sunday).


GeoC

On Jun 23, 9:10*pm, georgecleveland wrote:
The Kickapoo thing will happen on the 24th to 26th of September as
it
looks right now. But we'll be doing afly fishing smallmouth thing the
end of next month (23rd to 25th) at a small campground on a river
which I won't name here but will gladly identify and send GPS
co-ordinates on request. (Although even that is up in the air since
that river has been near flood stage for weeks and will probably be
over its banks by Sunday).

GeoC

Thanks for the info on the Kickapoo thing.
By "we'll be doing a fly fishing smallmouth thing" do you mean Wolf
and you and others?
Joel

On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:45:37 -0700 (PDT), "Joel *DFD*"
wrote:

On Jun 23, 9:10*pm, georgecleveland wrote:
The Kickapoo thing will happen on the 24th to 26th of September as
it
looks right now. But we'll be doing afly fishing smallmouth thing the
end of next month (23rd to 25th) at a small campground on a river
which I won't name here but will gladly identify and send GPS
co-ordinates on request. (Although even that is up in the air since
that river has been near flood stage for weeks and will probably be
over its banks by Sunday).

GeoC

Thanks for the info on the Kickapoo thing.
By "we'll be doing a fly fishing smallmouth thing" do you mean Wolf
and you and others?
Joel


Well, Mr. Wolf is certainly welcome but its actually the 2010 WFFP
Smallie Clave. The same thing that went down on the Wisconsin north of
Merrill a few years ago. This year we're holding it on a river at
these co-ordinates;

45.378718,-90.534089

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=45.378...,0.041242&z=15

We'll call it the "Yump" River to guard against casual Gogglers. Its
truly an excellent smallie and muskie stream. Usually easily waded or,
if the water is a little higher, a fun canoeing river. Come on up, if
you have a mind to. Or anyone else for that matter. The campground at
that spot is small but there is a USFS campground 7 miles to the
southeast and a county campground 7 miles to the northeast. Not much
for towns close by but Medford and Prentice are a short hop (20
miles) away.

GeoC

On Jun 16, 3:37*pm, georgecleveland wrote:
[great tr and pet report snipped]

* Midges? Tiny floating nymphs? Cheese curds? Who knows...its
invisible to everyone but the fish. And its happening now.

Thanks for that George ... closed season here now and its good to know
the season is open elsewhere.

G'luck with the pooches.

Nearly forgot ... invisible hatch... I've been done in by an aphid
fall a couple times ...


Steve