TR: My cabin in the hills of Caroline (final installment w/fish picture)

William Claspy wrote in news:BEE5A9C2.9DA6%
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On 6/27/05 12:20 PM, in article , "Conan The
Librarian" wrote:

Friday:

My last day

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Nicely done set of reports, my bookish brother!

Bill



How do we get it an LOC identifier??

Scott

Conan The Librarian wrote:
Friday:

My last day,
snip

Question: Did you keep a daily journal? With the level of detail in this
report, either you have an amazingly fine memory, or you kept a written
record. I've never done the journaling thing, but have considered it
several times.
--
TL,
Tim
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http://css.sbcma.com/timj

Tim J. wrote:

Question: Did you keep a daily journal? With the level of detail in this
report, either you have an amazingly fine memory, or you kept a written
record. I've never done the journaling thing, but have considered it
several times.

What I did was sit down back at the cabin each evening and jot down
notes from the day's adventures. Since I was there by myself, I didn't
have anyone else with which to talk over the day's events. Writing
about it was a great way to unwind, as well as help me see what I was
doing well on the water, help me plan for the next day, etc.


Chuck Vance (and yes, I know ... I went into an excruciating
level of detail, but you should see the stuff I *didn't* include ;-)

Conan The Librarian wrote:
Tim J. wrote:

Question: Did you keep a daily journal? With the level of detail in
this report, either you have an amazingly fine memory, or you kept a
written record. I've never done the journaling thing, but have
considered it several times.

What I did was sit down back at the cabin each evening and jot
down notes from the day's adventures. Since I was there by myself, I
didn't have anyone else with which to talk over the day's events.
Writing about it was a great way to unwind, as well as help me see
what I was doing well on the water, help me plan for the next day,
etc.

Chuck Vance (and yes, I know ... I went into an excruciating
level of detail, but you should see the stuff I *didn't* include ;-)

Excrutiating my ass. That was wonderful.
--
TL,
Tim
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http://css.sbcma.com/timj

Tim J. wrote:
Conan The Librarian wrote:
Tim J. wrote:

...excruciating...

Excrutiating ....

I *hate* it when I misspell a word someone just spelled for me.
--
TL,
Tim
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http://css.sbcma.com/timj

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 11:20:34 -0500, Conan The Librarian
wrote:

I fished the next pool with no luck and thought about scaling the
falls, but figured I'd wait and do that when there's someone with me to
scrape my remains up off the rocks below. (Do you guys just go up the
face of the rocks on the left there or what?)

If you just keep going on the trail you will end up right next to the water
above Big Falls. I've seen the path you dropped in on but haven't ever fished
down there, I'll have to try it next time.
--
Charlie...
http://www.chocphoto.com

Charlie Choc wrote:

If you just keep going on the trail you will end up right next to the water
above Big Falls. I've seen the path you dropped in on but haven't ever fished
down there, I'll have to try it next time.

It puts you right above one set of falls and below another. The
good news is that it gives you two nice pools to fish. The bad news is
that then you're left to either scale the upper falls or work your way
back down to the pool below the lower one. Neither one looked
particularly easy, but my attitude may have been influenced by the fact
that I was alone and had a sore knee. :-}

One thing I didn't do was check to see if there was an easier way
down on the opposite side of the creek. I'll have to remember to try
that next time. :-)


Chuck Vance

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 06:53:14 -0500, Conan The Librarian
wrote:

One thing I didn't do was check to see if there was an easier way
down on the opposite side of the creek. I'll have to remember to try
that next time. :-)

Above Big Falls the access is a *lot* easier and the brookies were very
cooperative when I was there last.
--
Charlie...
http://www.chocphoto.com

Conan The Librarian wrote:

Thanks to all who gave me advice, and tolerated my dumb questions.
It was the fishing trip of a lifetime for this old liberrian, and I hope
to do it again soon. :-) It's beautiful country with lovely, strong
fish, and I hope to explore much more of it.




Thanks for the great series of trip reports. All you missed in Texas
was the heat. I can't wait till I next get to spend another week in
this area. It is well worth driving a couple of days each way to spend
some time in that very special area.

Big Dale

"Conan The Librarian" wrote in message
...
Friday:

My last day, and since I've caught fish everywhere I've been except for
B*g Sn*wb*rd (and since I'm a stubborn *******), I decided to give it
another try. The knee was holding up fine, so the plan was to hike up to
the lower falls and fish that area.
Chuck Vance

Thanks Chuck!

A wonderful read w/pics to boot. Who could ask for anything more?

I hope to post a TR and pics of an evening fish tomorrow. One of the Bass
fishers from work wants me to take him trout fishin' after work tomorrow, so
maybe I can convert him and there will be one less guy in the shop callin'
me a pussy-fisherman.

Take care of the knees.

Mark