OT Stolen from Rec.Backcountry

as you know, i much prefer the "less traveled" spots far from the
madding crowds. i'm sure the au sable is magnificent, but if it's like
all the other "famous" waters i've seen, i'll pass. i really liked
those u.p. venues and streams, and it seemed like the critter ratio was
just right up there. that's my vote anyway... but, i'm open-minded and
tolerant. oh yeah, september would be the month for me. may is penns,
july out west, september is open, october is graham county. can't change
the rhythm of the woild... so much for the advice, but i look forward to
meeting jay one of these days.

jeff (up here, in the less posted spot)

Wolfgang wrote:


Wayne and Bill have been talking about a Troll clave (you know.....the lower
peninsula.....BELOW the bridge.....the big mac) on the holy waters sometime
this coming season. If I was in the business of giving advice, and you of
taking it, I'd suggest we get together on the notion of exploring this
possibility. The Au Sable, so I'm told, is big enough to float a Baker AND
it holds trout!

Wolfgang

On 12/7/04 7:13 AM, in article rdhtd.1431$MC.4@lakeread04, "Jeff Miller"
wrote:

as you know, i much prefer the "less traveled" spots far from the
madding crowds. i'm sure the au sable is magnificent, but if it's like
all the other "famous" waters i've seen, i'll pass. i really liked
those u.p. venues and streams, and it seemed like the critter ratio was
just right up there. that's my vote anyway... but, i'm open-minded and
tolerant. oh yeah, september would be the month for me. may is penns,
july out west, september is open, october is graham county. can't change
the rhythm of the woild... so much for the advice, but i look forward to
meeting jay one of these days.

jeff (up here, in the less posted spot)

Wolfgang and I have spoken in the past about a late summer/early fall Yooper
experience. Is three a consensus? I'd join you, despite your slander of my
fair city. :-)

And for what it is worth, I've had the Au Sable to myself both times I've
fished it. Neither were during the "best" season (one was late July, the
other late August). The Mason Tract especially reminded me quite a bit of a
U.P. stream. Very nice brookie fishing. On the river, I saw no other
anglers and only one or two kayak/canoe groups float by.

That said, you wouldn't have to twist my arm very hard to get me to join a
congregation in Iron/Schoolcraft/Baraga/Ontonagan/Gogebic counties for some
streamside laying on of hands.

Bill


Wolfgang wrote:


Wayne and Bill have been talking about a Troll clave (you know.....the lower
peninsula.....BELOW the bridge.....the big mac) on the holy waters sometime
this coming season. If I was in the business of giving advice, and you of
taking it, I'd suggest we get together on the notion of exploring this
possibility. The Au Sable, so I'm told, is big enough to float a Baker AND
it holds trout!

Wolfgang

William Claspy wrote:



Wolfgang and I have spoken in the past about a late summer/early fall Yooper
experience. Is three a consensus? I'd join you, despite your slander of my
fair city. :-)

hey, what is a "browns" anyway? g i live in "greenville", in "pitt"
county, nc...our university is now paying 3 head football coaches (two
were fired, but had great contracts), and we've hired a chief asst coach
from u of illinois. i'd never presume to slander another's city. truth
is, i've never been to cleveland...i just don't feel comfy in big towns.
this place has about 150,000+ in the county, and i'm feelin crowded.

And for what it is worth, I've had the Au Sable to myself both times I've
fished it. Neither were during the "best" season (one was late July, the
other late August). The Mason Tract especially reminded me quite a bit of a
U.P. stream. Very nice brookie fishing. On the river, I saw no other
anglers and only one or two kayak/canoe groups float by.

i generally consider it a bad sign if kayaks and canoes float by while
i'm fishing... you need to come down to nc sometime. the fish aren't
big, but you won't be troubled with a kayak interrupting your happiness.

That said, you wouldn't have to twist my arm very hard to get me to join a
congregation in Iron/Schoolcraft/Baraga/Ontonagan/Gogebic counties for some
streamside laying on of hands.

praisedalawd!! brothers cleveland (of the george variety, not the
municipality), wolfgang, axelrad... can we get an amen?

jeff



Bill


Wolfgang wrote:



Wayne and Bill have been talking about a Troll clave (you know.....the lower
peninsula.....BELOW the bridge.....the big mac) on the holy waters sometime
this coming season. If I was in the business of giving advice, and you of
taking it, I'd suggest we get together on the notion of exploring this
possibility. The Au Sable, so I'm told, is big enough to float a Baker AND
it holds trout!

Wolfgang

"Jeff Miller" wrote in message
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William Claspy wrote:



Wolfgang and I have spoken in the past about a late summer/early fall
Yooper
experience. Is three a consensus? I'd join you, despite your slander of
my
fair city. :-)

hey, what is a "browns" anyway? g i live in "greenville", in "pitt"
county, nc...our university is now paying 3 head football coaches (two
were fired, but had great contracts), and we've hired a chief asst coach
from u of illinois. i'd never presume to slander another's city. truth
is, i've never been to cleveland...i just don't feel comfy in big towns.
this place has about 150,000+ in the county, and i'm feelin crowded.

And for what it is worth, I've had the Au Sable to myself both times I've
fished it. Neither were during the "best" season (one was late July, the
other late August). The Mason Tract especially reminded me quite a bit
of a
U.P. stream. Very nice brookie fishing. On the river, I saw no other
anglers and only one or two kayak/canoe groups float by.

i generally consider it a bad sign if kayaks and canoes float by while i'm
fishing... you need to come down to nc sometime. the fish aren't big, but
you won't be troubled with a kayak interrupting your happiness.

That said, you wouldn't have to twist my arm very hard to get me to join
a
congregation in Iron/Schoolcraft/Baraga/Ontonagan/Gogebic counties for
some
streamside laying on of hands.

praisedalawd!! brothers cleveland (of the george variety, not the
municipality), wolfgang, axelrad... can we get an amen?

Amen!

Ya'll thrash out the details. I'm in.

Wolfgang

right now my plan would be to fly in/out of marquette. as i recall, it's
a pleasant and relatively short drive from there to bruce crossing and
it's centrally located? we can do another traveling trout carnivale with
itineraries, we can do the gypsy thing and make it up as we go, or we
can just find an agreeable area to hunker down. in any event, let's
locate suitable backcountry lodgings. september isn't "kill a tar
heel" season or anything like that up there, is it? skeeters and flies
will be corpse-like? 7-10 days? august/september - you guys decide on
the dates.

jeff

Wolfgang wrote:

"Jeff Miller" wrote in message
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William Claspy wrote:



Wolfgang and I have spoken in the past about a late summer/early fall
Yooper
experience. Is three a consensus? I'd join you, despite your slander of
my
fair city. :-)

hey, what is a "browns" anyway? g i live in "greenville", in "pitt"
county, nc...our university is now paying 3 head football coaches (two
were fired, but had great contracts), and we've hired a chief asst coach
from u of illinois. i'd never presume to slander another's city. truth
is, i've never been to cleveland...i just don't feel comfy in big towns.
this place has about 150,000+ in the county, and i'm feelin crowded.

And for what it is worth, I've had the Au Sable to myself both times I've
fished it. Neither were during the "best" season (one was late July, the
other late August). The Mason Tract especially reminded me quite a bit
of a
U.P. stream. Very nice brookie fishing. On the river, I saw no other
anglers and only one or two kayak/canoe groups float by.


i generally consider it a bad sign if kayaks and canoes float by while i'm
fishing... you need to come down to nc sometime. the fish aren't big, but
you won't be troubled with a kayak interrupting your happiness.


That said, you wouldn't have to twist my arm very hard to get me to join
a
congregation in Iron/Schoolcraft/Baraga/Ontonagan/Gogebic counties for
some
streamside laying on of hands.

praisedalawd!! brothers cleveland (of the george variety, not the
municipality), wolfgang, axelrad... can we get an amen?


Amen!

Ya'll thrash out the details. I'm in.

Wolfgang

On 12/7/04 10:07 PM, in article , "Wolfgang"
wrote:

That said, you wouldn't have to twist my arm very hard to get me to join
a
congregation in Iron/Schoolcraft/Baraga/Ontonagan/Gogebic counties for
some
streamside laying on of hands.

praisedalawd!! brothers cleveland (of the george variety, not the
municipality), wolfgang, axelrad... can we get an amen?

Amen!

Ya'll thrash out the details. I'm in.

Sounds like we're talking about a separate trip from the June
both-sides-of-the-bridge clave.

If so, I vote for mid-September. As if I can plan for next week, let alone
for nine months from now. Perhaps I can even line up the R Lake cabin...

If we do it, I'm going to take a day to head north to the ancestral fishing
grounds in northern Baraga county, see if I can find what was my great
uncle's fishing camp on the Huron River. Ya'll are welcome to come along.
Can you say "coasters"? Thought you could :-) Oh, and the Hilltop
Restaurant in L'Anse serves a good Swedish smorgasbord. Think it is
all-you-can-eat. And, Jeff, I believe it is pasty-free.

Bill

"William Claspy" wrote in message
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On 12/7/04 10:07 PM, in article , "Wolfgang"
wrote:

That said, you wouldn't have to twist my arm very hard to get me to
join
a
congregation in Iron/Schoolcraft/Baraga/Ontonagan/Gogebic counties for
some
streamside laying on of hands.

praisedalawd!! brothers cleveland (of the george variety, not the
municipality), wolfgang, axelrad... can we get an amen?

Amen!

Ya'll thrash out the details. I'm in.

Sounds like we're talking about a separate trip from the June
both-sides-of-the-bridge clave.

If so, I vote for mid-September. As if I can plan for next week, let
alone
for nine months from now. Perhaps I can even line up the R Lake cabin...

Mid-September works for me. Nice time of year up there. The brookies will
be in their glory.

If you can't get the cabin, I can almost certainly arrange to use Fisher's
shack.

If we do it, I'm going to take a day to head north to the ancestral
fishing
grounds in northern Baraga county, see if I can find what was my great
uncle's fishing camp on the Huron River. Ya'll are welcome to come along.
Can you say "coasters"? Thought you could :-)

Well, L'Anse is only about an hour's drive from Bruces, and the Huron has
been on my list for a long time. Jay tells me that the Sturgeon is good
too. And then, there's the Otter, the Silver, the Slate, the Salmon Trout,
the Yellow Dog.........

As a matter of fact, from that neighborhood, it's just a short stroll on up
into the Keweenaw.......hm......

Oh, and the Hilltop
Restaurant in L'Anse serves a good Swedish smorgasbord. Think it is
all-you-can-eat. And, Jeff, I believe it is pasty-free.

Yah, dey took da pasties off ta make room for da olive bar, eh?

Wolfgang

Wolfgang wrote:


Mid-September works for me. Nice time of year up there. The brookies will
be in their glory.

3 votes then...so, it's done. now, uh, what exactly is mid-september?


Well, L'Anse is only about an hour's drive from Bruces, and the Huron has
been on my list for a long time. Jay tells me that the Sturgeon is good
too. And then, there's the Otter, the Silver, the Slate, the Salmon Trout,
the Yellow Dog.........

didn't we fish the sturgeon one day? bold, beautiful water...we needed
to go farther upstream, i think. those others sound fun. jim harrison
wrote of the yellow dog in "true north" i believe.


As a matter of fact, from that neighborhood, it's just a short stroll on up
into the Keweenaw.......hm......

machinations?

Yah, dey took da pasties off ta make room for da olive bar, eh?


as i expected, machinations...

jeff

William Claspy wrote:

If we do it, I'm going to take a day to head north to the ancestral fishing
grounds in northern Baraga county, see if I can find what was my great
uncle's fishing camp on the Huron River. Ya'll are welcome to come along.
Can you say "coasters"? Thought you could :-) Oh, and the Hilltop
Restaurant in L'Anse serves a good Swedish smorgasbord. Think it is
all-you-can-eat. And, Jeff, I believe it is pasty-free.


i'd enjoy tagging along on that venture, bill - the ancestral and the
restaurantal.

jeff

On 12/7/04 8:04 PM, in article wwstd.77$Ko.10@lakeread04, "Jeff Miller"
wrote:



William Claspy wrote:

Wolfgang and I have spoken in the past about a late summer/early fall Yooper
experience. Is three a consensus? I'd join you, despite your slander of my
fair city. :-)

hey, what is a "browns" anyway? g

Salmo trutta?

i generally consider it a bad sign if kayaks and canoes float by while
i'm fishing...

I see you've met Wolfgang and Asadi :-)

you need to come down to nc sometime. the fish aren't
big, but you won't be troubled with a kayak interrupting your happiness.

Yes I do. I've only fished tons once, and was unsuccessful. I put it down
to not being in the company of ROFFians.

That said, you wouldn't have to twist my arm very hard to get me to join a
congregation in Iron/Schoolcraft/Baraga/Ontonagan/Gogebic counties for some
streamside laying on of hands.

praisedalawd!! brothers cleveland (of the george variety, not the
municipality), wolfgang, axelrad... can we get an amen?

....warming up the choir...

Bill