tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15114998849215707992024-03-05T19:39:51.355-06:00four seasons angling club"Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration."Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1176125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1511499884921570799.post-14572738221739422382015-09-27T02:53:00.002-05:002015-09-27T02:53:58.540-05:00Meanwhile at Rainbow...Rainbow Fly Shop continues to grow into one of the finest shops in Asia. Like most things in life, the one in the driver's seat makes a huge difference. Jonathan - thanks for keeping the fire alive. more at: <a href="http://www.rainbowfly.co.kr/">http://www.rainbowfly.co.kr/</a> <br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1511499884921570799.post-9958519169915494692015-09-27T02:47:00.001-05:002015-09-27T02:47:25.806-05:00Jonathan & Dr. Shin's Mongolia tripJonathan, Dr. Shin and a few other friends took that long awaited trip to Mongolia. I am still waiting to see them to hear all about the trip. I called up Jonathan to ask- what's it like when the taimen takes the fly? and he responded "you forget that it's a fish at the end of the line for a minute - it feels like you have an animal that takes it". Looks like an epic trip. <br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1511499884921570799.post-46837789938138957912015-02-22T15:09:00.001-06:002015-09-27T02:48:07.994-05:00November in the Land of the Giants<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A quick dispatch from New Orleans and Plaquemines Parish. After fishing in Florida, Texas, and South Carolina, it's become quite apparent that this region, hands down, is the best place to sight fish for enormous redfish. <br />
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My fishing buddy Ping and I always stay at the Woodland Plantation, which is the same mansion that was featured on the Southern Comfort label for many years. The Southern cuisine at Woodland is outstanding.<br />
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The fried alligator and grilled oysters at Cochon (New Orleans) weren't too shabby either!<br />
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Our guide, Cody Cash, put us on some enormous reds. Yes, I caught that sea turtle on a fly. Long story.<br />
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On to the main event...<br />
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In a location Cody called "Donk Town", we were surrounded by hundreds of gigantic redfish and black drum quietly finning around the boat... A surreal experience punctuated by screaming fly reels. <br />
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We've already booked our trip next season in the Land of the Giants.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1511499884921570799.post-50541795112587577512015-02-22T14:32:00.004-06:002015-02-22T20:46:34.555-06:00Autumn in the American West<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Long overdue, but this recounts the my last remaining days as a "trout bum", with nearly two weeks spent plying the waters of the Henry's Fork of the Snake, Yellowstone Park, Paradise Valley, and the Madison River. Autumn comes earlier in the American West,<br />
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The famous Railroad Ranch Section of the Henry's Fork. I saw some bruisers in the weedy waters, but they were too wily for me.<br />
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A float trip down the Henry's Fork yielded some easier fishing. Quite a few rainbows were eager to take dries and nymphs. Nothing huge, but scrappy fighters as rainbows should be.<br />
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No fishing trip to the Yellowstone Park is complete without a visit to the Firehole. The brown trout I caught were not notable in terms of size, but the strange geothermal environs were unforgettable.<br />
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The first meadow of Slough Creek in Yellowstone National Park.<br />
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The cutthroat trout of Slough had definitely seen their share of flies- I watched one closely inspect and refuse a real mayfly! After a few attempts, I found either a CDC or comparadun fly smaller than a size 18 would usually be effective. A downstream and across presentation seemed to worked best.<br />
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A whitefish from the Madison River in Yellowstone Park.<br />
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After spending a few days touring Yellowstone with my parents, I met my girlfriend Michelle for some fishing in Montana's Paradise Valley. The Yellowstone River was unfortunately muddied by recent rains, but it was still quite a sight to wake up to.<br />
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With the Yellowstone River blown out, our guide brought us to Story Lake, a private pond on the ranch of the Story Family. For those who succumb to pop-lit, the Story Family's cattle drive in Paradise Valley was the inspiration for Larry McMurtry's novel Lonesome Dove.<br />
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Michelle with a fine rainbow trout, taken on a San Juan worm. When the fishing gets tough, the worm still works!<br />
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The following day we fished one of the most famous spring creeks in the American West- DePuys. Certainly one of the of the prettiest creeks I've fished in the US.<br />
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A small fly shop was located conveniently along the banks of DePuys Spring Creek. I picked up some size 20 Sawyer Pheasant Tail nymphs, which did the trick. This shop would be a great place to work.<br />
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The trout were actively rising to tiny emergers, but were tough to land on 6X tippet.<br />
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Michelle managed to land this nice rainbow. I'm just standing in the background to pretend it's my fish.<br />
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On my final morning, I fished the Valley Garden section of the Madison River, near Ennis, MT. This section is delightful to fish, as it braids out into much smaller channels that an East Coast angler (such as myself) can find easier to fish. My final fish was this nice brown, which took a swung soft hackle wet. It was a great way to end the trip.<br />
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After waiting 14 weeks, we’ve finally received our much
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The name of the river
is somewhat deceiving as the river’s width ranges from 100 feet to 200 feet
wide. It is also known for it’s prolific
hatches all year around but I couldn’t find any hatch information for fall
season so prior to our trip, I’ve
contacted the Slate Run tackle shop and spoke to Tom who is the shop owner to
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We got a camping site at the Pettecote Junction Campground
which is located right by the Pine creek. Driving through very scenic country road made our 4 hours driving somewhat bearable. Foliage wasn't at it's fullest but you can see and feel the season change through the Appalachian landscape. After a few jack-knifing of the trailer,
we were able to settle in to our spot and as soon as I was done setting up the camper, Jack the campground keeper introduced himself to us and gave us the
whole run down of the place including fishing tips as Jack had been fishing
close to 50 years in the area. He is
retired computer programmer who is born and raised in the area. This place is very popular amongst fishermen
for obvious reason and I was surprised to find out that we were the only
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As soon as I finished unpacking all our stuff, I made a
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Immediately, I’venoticed trout not rising but jumping out of the
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Our introduction to the river started at the delayed harvest regulation section slightly downstream from where slate run enters the river. The water level was very low and the sun was bright as it can be. We also saw three bald eagles either perched on tree branches or hovering around us cascading a huge shadow over us. Even with these less than optimal conditions, trout were rising everywhere.<br />
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Summer days in South can be hot and long... The past ten days down in the Lowcountry were certainly no exception. I decided to bring my new little skiff, a Towee Calusa, down to the marshes of South Carolina to hunt some reds. The fishing was fairly challenging— high tides were high enough to flood the spartina grass, but no redfish were seen, and strong winds hampered us for the first few days. We eventually found a backcountry creek that was absolutely packed with reds— the fish were so plentiful that you could feel them bumping the hull and pushpole as they moved past the boat. Fishing the low tide was key and the most productive flies were black, flashy patterns that could be seen in the muddy water. We also found ladyfish chasing shrimp around the dock lights at night. These fish were tremendous fighters and were eager to take down a small Gurgler stripped through the light.<br />
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My trusty little skiff.<br />
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"Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." -Kenneth Grahame<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Grahame" title="Kenneth Grahame"> </a><br />
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The thrill of the hunt.<br />
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Low tide creek fishing. My buddy Ping hooked this redfish on a Keitech swimbait. Killer lure.<br />
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The fruits of our labor.<br />
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The redfish we found were all in the 6-8 lb range. They put a nice bend in an 8 weight. Or a 5 weight if you're like my friend Ping. <br />
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Using the green night-light wasn't particularly effective, but we set it up a bit too close to slack tide.<br />
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Night fishing along the docks, however, was easy pickings for the "poor man's tarpon". I honestly don't know if a baby tarpon can fight better than these... Amazing jumps, runs, and stamina.<br />
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Sunset in the Lowcountry.<br />
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A while back, GF posted a story about Steve who visited
Korea to fish with him. Steve was
working at Hong Kong at the time and now he is back in his home town which is
not too far from my house. Steve
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It turns out that Steve is a small creek junky. He started to fly fish at tender age of 14
years and his casting reflects his experience very well. Steve never fished gorge and I thought it
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We met at the parking lot early in the morning and hiked
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to catch some browns although most of them got away before I was able to take
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As a routine to the gorge fishing, we veer off from the main
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expected, the water level was very low which limited us to fish only handful of
the pools. Watching Steve cast in a
tight environment was a pleasure to watch.
Surprisingly, we caught more browns than brookies (actually we only
caught one brook trout). I’ve never caught browns on this creek and it is
somewhat disturbing if the native residents are being forced out of their
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It was a pleasure to fish with Steve and looking forward to
our next trip. But more than anything,
we now have a new member to our club.</div>
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Since there seems to be a problem getting our members in Korea to post their trips. I basically dug out some pictures from Princefly.co.kr and Rainbowfly.co.kr websites. I missed seeing these scenes...</div>
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With a nasty hangover from the night before, I wasn't sure if the fishing will be an agenda for the day but with some strong self persuasion, I was able to get my butt out of the bed and able to make a quick trip to nearest wild trout creek. I haven't fished here since last year but I felt right at home as soon as I got to the creek and took a first step into the creek.</div>
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The creek contained many eager trout. All three species competing for my flies. I didn't have to be selective with my flies. As always for this time of the year, the ausable bomber did the trick. </div>
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It was interesting to note that the most of rainbows took my fly with very quick but almost sipping at my fly where as browns and brookies did exact opposite creating huge rutgers.</div>
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Due to my condition, I had to call it a quit early but I was glad to be out.</div>
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A good friend of mine always wanted to learn how to fly fish but his busy schedule and a baby never allowed him to do so. His wife is traveling with the baby which gave him a rare window of opportunity to explore my favorite creek with me this Saturday. It was a bright sunny day but finding shaded pools wasn't a problem for us.</div>
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My friend used to compete in freestyle frisbee championships. As a result, his heightened hand and eye coordination helped him tremendously to understand and learn the principal of casting . After a quick lesson, he was swinging the rod with tight loops. </div>
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My friend did the most of fishing but watching him improve and actually CATCHING was exciting enough for me to suppress my urge to swing the rod.</div>
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With the willing trout, we had a blast but more than anything, sharing good thing with your friend always is a moment to cherish.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1511499884921570799.post-59517880375743171552014-06-15T09:45:00.003-05:002014-06-15T09:45:53.250-05:00new fishing tool<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Today, Patty and I took a drive out to Pennsylvania to see a teardrop trailer I've been contemplating to get. Having this trailer will help me cover greater fishing area and a tad more civilized camping experience for Patty. </div>
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I will most likely place an order next week. :D</div>
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As Patty becoming more of a outdoor person, she's been asking me to go on a camping trip. Car camping is not my ideal camping but who am I to say no to a little bit of camping and whole lot of fishing. </div>
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Fortunately for us, our campground was relatively empty for the weekend. This particular camp does not allow any loud noise which why I chose to camp out here. This campground is enjoyed by many anglers for its ideal location<br />
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We chose our campsite right at the creek bank. The sound of running water was sure to be soothing to our ears but I was glad to bring my ear plugs...</div>
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This is my first time fishing the upper willowemoc and the scenery precedes its reputation. From the campsite, you can hike miles upstream without running into posted lands.<br />
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I've caught this brown right by our campsite.</div>
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Nothing beats good ole steak dinner when camping.</div>
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The temperature dropped to 45 degree at night and Patty made herself a cozy setup.</div>
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Next morning, we started our weekend fishing excursion with one of small creeks in the catskills. This is a brook trout water. It's a small creek full of eager brookies and biting insects.</div>
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From our first cast to the last, the creek provided us with enough brookies for us to be fished out for the day. </div>
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The Beaverkill was our next stop. This is Patty's first time fishing the Beaverkill and upon arriving, she said "This is my kind of water". As for me, this is where I learned how to fly fish. There were a lot of anglers fishing the river, almost shoulder to shoulder in certain pools. We primarily fished between pools whenever we found empty pull overs and able to avoid the crowd.</div>
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Off the bat, Patty hooked this wild brown and many more after that.</div>
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I wanted to throw in a little spey casting session so found a pool relatively wide enough and able to improve a bit more than the last time. Tied black nose dace fly at the end of the line with no intention of catching fish but to my surprise able to catch a small brown at the end of the swing. It goes to show you that you can have an ugly casting yet still catch fish.</div>
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The most of these large browns were caught with caddis fly. Surprised to found them in somewhat fast running water. </div>
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I can definitely see myself doing this kind of trip with Patty more often as she doesn't seem to be bothered by biting insects and other critters she used to be scared of and more than anything she now enjoys every aspect of being an angler. I am a lucky bastard!!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1511499884921570799.post-48988554049065924592014-06-02T07:16:00.002-05:002014-06-02T07:16:43.906-05:00The River of Sand<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Due to our busy schedule, Patty and I haven't been in our cabin for awhile and decided to check out the house for the weekend. As always, took some time to clean up the house and finally able to enjoy what the Adirondack had to offer for the rest of the day. Tranquility.... </div>
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We've been exploring a lot of small creeks in Adirondacks but rarely ventured out to other famous large rivers in the Adirondack so we decided to explore the Ausable river. </div>
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Next morning, we got up early and drove up to Wilmington where the Ausable Two Fly Shop is located and able to get quick crash course about the river from the owner of the shop Tom. A super friendly and knowledgeable person who was very eager to help us to find what we want. Trout!</div>
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The street of Wilmington was filled with fly fishermen. Never seen so many anglers in one setting. I guess the word "famous" has it's reason.</div>
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After a quick Q & A, Tom realized our fishing preference and suggested a section of the river which requires a bit of hiking but should provide relatively solitude fishing experience for obvious reason.</div>
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After a short hike, we were able to find this beautiful grass lined river bank with the river full of slippery boulders. There weren't much insect activity when we arrived so we started out with a black nosed dace and immediately had results.<br />
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As we waded down the river, the water level was getting deeper, so we switched to heavier wooly bugger and this brown took the bugger hard on the swing. It was a mixed bag of wild brown and brookies and occasional stocked browns.<br />
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You couldn't ask for better day to fish. We ran into only one other angler on the way out so despite the popularity of this river, I guess it is possible to find a great spot if you get in good graces with the local fly shop owner. <b>: )</b> </div>
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Negotiating through slippery boulders were bit too much for both of us so we only fished for a few hours and spent the rest of the day relaxing by the river bank just listening to the river and it's surroundings.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1511499884921570799.post-33902445983360701572014-06-01T12:38:00.001-05:002014-06-01T12:38:15.092-05:00been a long timeIts been a long time since I got out fishing. So long that it took me while to figure out what i need to pack for the trip. Wobbly legs, poor casts, and a lot of missed hookups. Still it was great to get out. I used to think strange about people who fish a lot and stop for long times... I guess life does that to you sometimes. It took me a while to even write this, finally settling at the Zurich airport as I wait for the transfer flight. I miss my friends on the water, I miss the time out away from the city. Soon, more, see you friends.<br />
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To better my new found casting skill, I've visited the nearest Catskills river so I can practice. Wasn't quite sure how the water level will be due to recent thunderstorms we've had so catching wasn't priority. However, packed my trusted 1wt rod for the hike as this river contains a few small but very productive brookies tributaries.</div>
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As expected, the water level was a lot higher than usual but didn't have trouble finding a spot to practice the casting with my new 12' 4" 8wt spey rod.<br />
Tried to bring out my new muscle memories I've imprinted in my body a few weeks ago but wasn't easy. Took awhile to get used to deeper and fast running water than what I was accustomed to but after a few hours of practice, I was able to develop somewhat satisfying result and decided to visit my little friends.</div>
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The water level on this small creek also was high but due to so many pools created by it's steep terrain and boulders within, didn't seem like fishing will be effected by it. </div>
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Started to fish with the Ausable bomber pattern as I would always do for this type of water but wasn't able to bring any of them to the surface. I've noticed a few sulfur looking flies hovering around so I tied something similar to it and the game was on!</div>
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Almost every pool produced a trout or two. Recently added green canopy must have been a confident booster for the trout to make such big splashes while taking my flies.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I don't think I've ever caught a brown in this creek but today<br />
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A couple of weeks ago, I was taking spey casting class and I was lucky enough to see the hatch in none other than Beaverkill.</div>
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Lately, it was difficult for me to have an entire day to myself as many events I couldn't come up with excuses were scheduled on my precious weekends. But today, I had the whole day to myself and before I know it, I was standing in a creek, smiling ear to ear with my fly rod in hand.</div>
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Although the temperature reached to mid 70s today, the water felt cold. Perfect day to be angling.</div>
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I can't believe this place was lined with thick snow not so long ago. Patches of wild flowers were screaming with their bright colors to be noticed.</div>
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To top it all off, my first catch was a tiger trout. It didn't hesitate to take my awkwardly drifting fly. Must been hungry... </div>
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This is why I visit this particular creek as it contains many healthy and colorful brookies like this one. </div>
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Healthy browns were added to the mix. All trout were caught with the Ausable bomber pattern. I guess they still prefer deep pool over shallow runs as the most of trout were caught in deeper water.<br />
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This winter was long and brutal. I can't remember the last time we've had this much of snow. For this reason, I 've wondered how this weather will effect the trout that reside in mountain surroundings. Since our last trip to the Patagonia, I've been waiting for a window of opportunity to look into my watery friends and finally I had a chance to do so this weekend.</div>
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Temperature rose to 50 degree and very sunny. Surprisingly thick snow is still covering the area. Packed snow made it easy to climb in and out of the creek beds.</div>
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Small black bodied caddis fly did great job bring them up. The strikes were subtle. It was more of sip then take. First few "sips" went unnoticed as I was expecting something more exciting.</div>
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Although harsh winter restricted my fishing opportunities but ones I could get out of it was priceless. One can't never get tired of this view and solitude you can get from the setting.</div>
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We were lucky enough to witness this footage while trekking the Perito Moreno Glacier.<br />
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After a quick breakfast, we were to continue on with the trip. It seems warmer than yesterday and there were thousands of grass hoppers were lining up the river banks. It turns out when the temperature reaches certain point, the hoppers tend to hop not crawl and today they were hopping so making a fly selection was no brainer.<br />
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The water levels for this area definitely went down significantly from the last 3 days we've been fishing and with the anticipation of catching bigger fish, we left the island with Capt. Gabriel's command, "Vamos!"<br />
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Within 50 yards from our camping spot, Patty yells out "fish on" and starting to struggle with the line. After a few minutes, she lands this fat bow with bulging stomach. Gabriel tells us they are gorging themselves with freshwater crabs called Aegla.<br />
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Maybe because of lower water level or hopping hoppers, the big fish were out and eating! The most of the trout we've caught were a lot bigger than our previous day's catch.<br />
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It was a nonstop fishing extravaganza. Patty was too tired to fish after a few hours of fishing so she enjoyed the whole experience from the back seat. Although it was a short trip, we were glad to be out on this beautiful country and able to meet new people and reconnect with the old friends.<br />
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Here is an instructional video I put together. Some of you might not approve but very effective...<br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">The day was warm and sunny and most of all, less wind. Finally! The temperature is predicted to reach 80 degree. When Travis and Gabriel came to our motel to pick us up, I've realized that they brought two boats. One for us to fish with and the other to carry our camping gear. Our plan is to drift down the Chimehuin river for next two day.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 15.75pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="line-height: 15.75pt;">I guess it is safe to say
that the chimehuin is the most famous and celebrated Patagonian river where
stories of the monster trout are derived from.</span><span style="line-height: 15.75pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 15.75pt;">We
were to drift down approximately 40km of it’s 53 km trhough miles of
valleys of Junin and ultimately dumps it’s
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and I were excited just the fact that the weather was nice and warm. The
river looked a lot like the Collon Cura but smaller in scale. Abundance of willow trees provided plenty of protection to whoever
inhabits this river.</span></div>
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the bet, Gabriel said “ Today is going to be a great day. It is hopper kind of day!” Immediately we’ve noticed a lot of hoppers
are flying all around us and some were trying to cross the river. Ones who couldn’t across the river, gave us
quite a show as trout were waiting with big splash.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3d3f39;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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immediately hook a decent size rainbow even before I was able to begin my first
cast. After many "woos" and "ahhhs", she landed a beautiful rainbow.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">After that, what I would like to call stupid fishing, began. In the state, we don't get to fish with a large hopper pattern as much due to type of water we fish so you can imagine how exciting we were to see large trout without any hesitation take the hopper fly. Quite a spectacle.</span></div>
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We've passed through and fished many cut banks, pocket waters, riffles, shallow waters, deep waters and eddy created by willow trees and realized "holy crap! this water is infested with trout!" It is amazing how these wild trout can sustain so well in this water in such impressive numbers. Mecca of fly fishing indeed...</div>
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When we arrived to our camping spot, everything was already setup for us by Travis. It is a large island with plenty of protection from the elements. We had a amazing Argentinean bbq along with many drinks. We spent hours talking about fishing and also made fun of each other as we paired up against each other. Travis and I, representing Americans and Patty and Gabriel, obviously Argentinian representation. </div>
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This is our first camping/fishing trip together. I was a little worried that this kind of experience might be too rough for Patty but she enjoyed the experience as much as I have. Although Patty complained that her entire upper body is sore from fighting fish all day, she truly enjoyed what the Chimehuin had to offer for us . We felt alseep while listening to sounds of river, birds and some unknown grunts. <br />
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When we arrived to the Malleo river, I was immediately connected to this river. It had a lot of resemblance to the waters I fish back home but much bigger in size. Known as one of the best dry fly river in the world. The source of the water is fed from melted snow from the central Patagonia's impressive peak, Lanin Volcano. </div>
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However, unlike it’s neighboring bigger rivers, it’s a lot smaller and, at least for me, a perfect trout stream as it is filled with pocket waters, riffles, pools, flats, and cut banks. An angler can experience all kinds of fishing style and eager trout will reward you. </div>
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After a short hike along the river, we were able to find our first fishing spot. Patty was paired up with Travis and I with Gabriel. We would skip a beat or two so that each other can fish all the way through without interference. From my understanding all streams and stream banks are public domain in Argentina.</div>
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Hopper dropper with a little spinner were used to fish as the beautiful pools and undercut banks accompanied by strong wind were ideal for such setup. </div>
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This river, just as any rivers around here, supports healthy population of wild rainbows and browns and they weren't shy and going after the both flies with aggression. I guess they were deprived from eating from the recent water level rise.<br />
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Although strong wind continued throughout the trip, willow trees provided enough protection for us to catch plenty of trout. It was a mixed bag of rainbows and browns.</div>
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We didn't get to explore the river as much as we would like to due to high water level and the wind but I can easily see that this river can be a haven to an angler and offers all arrays of fishing experience as different sections of rivers from what I told is very distinct from one another. </div>
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After a relaxing day at the San Martin de los Andes, we took about 40km cab ride to the Junin de los Andes which is a small city of 14, 000 people. It is located to the south of Neuquen Province with slow pace living and trout-filled water. The slow pace lifestyle in Argentina in general took some time for us to get used to as typical lunch starts at 2pm and 9pm for dinner. <br />
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There are only a handful of restaurants in the town and luckily for us we only had to rely on them for dinners as the lunch will be provided by the Flotadas Chimehuin Outfit which has a long history of guiding experience at the Juinin as two generations of the family are working together to provide excellent fishing experience one angler can gain. We were able to find them through Travis from the Yellowstone who guided us during our trip to the park.<br />
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Travis who is an amazing person not only as a guide but as one of the most pleasant individual I've had a pleasure to fish with, married a beautiful lady who's family owns the Flotadas Chimehuin which naturally makes her very capable guide as well. Travis and his wife Giselle works in the west yellowstone in the summer and works in the Juinin in the winter season. The life style we can only dream about... The weather wasn't what we have expected. The wind was a little shy of small hurricane and the temperature was high 40 degrees with occasional rains, which we found out later on that it is very unusual to have such condition at this time of the season. I guess we brought with us the cold front we've been having at the east coast... After purchasing fishing license, we were off to the Collon Cura which is a large and wide river. The course of the river runs through a series of valleys which is home to many browns, rainbows and percas which is a native species that are similar to smallmouth bass. The river banks were lined with willows, rosehip bushes and volcanic rocks.<br />
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Since Travis couldn't get the guide license for this season, we were introduced to Giselle's brother Gabriel who's been guiding the Junin waters since he was 14 years of age. <br />
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Gabriel was a humorous and pleasant person and a determined guide who will go extra length to get you with the fish. But off the bet, the we realize that the fishing will be very difficult as there was no way we can make any decent casts against constant gust of wind. <br />
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The willow trees that covers the river bank were dancing violently as we drift down the river. Gabriel worked the boat in ways so that the wind is behind us so that our casts will be easier. Obviously the skills and strength required to manipulate this boat on this kind of weather is something you can only obtain through years of experience<br />
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Gabriel informed us that the previous rains made the water level higher and flows faster than usual and how the fishing will be somewhat effected. It wasn't easy but with Gabriel's coaching, we are able to figure out how to cast in strong wind condition. I was amazed at how Patty picked up the skill and start catching trout. <br />
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In the beginning of the trip, we were catching mostly small rainbows. Although small, they were the most feistiest rainbows I've ever seen. I was also surprised how many fish there were in these water. <br />
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For lunch, we were able to find an island that were well protected from the wind and unwind.</div>
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For the second half of the trip, we were greeted by bigger trout. Because of the strong wind, grass hoppers were lining up the river edge and the bigger trout were taking advantage of the situation.</div>
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We switch our strategies to streamers from the dry flies as the wind intensified. The added weight made the casting a lot easier and the result was a lot more satisfying as some of the browns responded well to the streamers we were flinging. </div>
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It was an intense day of fishing but what a proper reintroduction to the Patagonia!. Strong wind, unpredictable weather and a tons of fish. We retired for the day around 8pm and the sun was still over our head as we were wondering what the rest of the trip will bring...</div>
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