Official Asylum Fly-fishing Thread

[kayak_rat]

I got out and did some river cleanup yesterday. The Elk River is known as a party river, but the MDC is trying to change that. The smallie fishing is awesome and the scenery is great. We had two canoes, two kayaks, and a flat bottom......filled them all. We were on the water for about 6hrs and only covered about 2 miles of water. I feel like we did alot of good, but there is alot of other water to be cleaned. Here are some pics from the take out. Of all the trash we got, some of the bigger were a washing machine, a window AC unit, a plastic 50gal drum, and tons of beer cans and sunglasses.

[Steve]

It's amazing some of the stuff you can find in the most remote places.

Originally Posted by kayak_rat

Of all the trash we got, some of the bigger were a washing machine, a window AC unit, a plastic 50gal drum, and tons of beer cans and sunglasses.

[Steve]

Anyone doing any fishing lately?

[lightning9191]

Originally Posted by steve

Anyone doing any fishing lately?

I finally got out today for the first time in months, but I didn't grab my fly rod....I went musky fishing in the New River.

[SteveA]

Originally Posted by steve

Anyone doing any fishing lately?

Trout fishing is back, here in the Seattle area! Went out 2 weeks ago to one of my favorite lowland lakes, got all set up and realized I'd forgotten my waders. Cursed a blue streak and headed home where I grabbed my waders and hit a very urban lake 5 minutes from my house. Caught 21 recently planted rainbows and went home satisfied.

Yesterday after work I decided to try that old favorite lake again. Loaded up and, vest (check), rod (check), reels (check), fins (check). Jumped in the car, started her up, took one last look around, and SH1T! Almost forgot my boots. Let's see, first the body and then the mind? Anyway, got to the lake, with all my gear, and had a great 3 hours where I picked up 9 healthy trout, 8-10".

Got home feeling all refreshed after a tough week at work and pulled a Juan Lopez Seleccion #1 out of the humidor and poured a healthy snifter of Bulleit Bourbon. Nice finish to a tough week at work. Hope your weekends are starting out as well as mine did. Here's to a long productive fishing season in '09!

[Steve]

Man, you're killing me

I'm doing a Low Country/Crawfish Boil this afternoon, and celebrating my wifes birthday tomorrow, but next weekend, lookout!

Originally Posted by SteveA

Trout fishing is back, here in the Seattle area! Went out 2 weeks ago to one of my favorite lowland lakes, got all set up and realized I'd forgotten my waders. Cursed a blue streak and headed home where I grabbed my waders and hit a very urban lake 5 minutes from my house. Caught 21 recently planted rainbows and went home satisfied.

Yesterday after work I decided to try that old favorite lake again. Loaded up and, vest (check), rod (check), reels (check), fins (check). Jumped in the car, started her up, took one last look around, and SH1T! Almost forgot my boots. Let's see, first the body and then the mind? Anyway, got to the lake, with all my gear, and had a great 3 hours where I picked up 9 healthy trout, 8-10".

Got home feeling all refreshed after a tough week at work and pulled a Juan Lopez Seleccion #1 out of the humidor and poured a healthy snifter of Bulleit Bourbon. Nice finish to a tough week at work. Hope your weekends are starting out as well as mine did. Here's to a long productive fishing season in '09!