The fishing thread ( not about fish fertilizer)

Looks like fishing is done for me this year unless I get out to BC for steelhead before the new year but that's not looking likely. Freezing temps and a few inches of snow on the ground.

I'll be all rigged up for next year tho after tying up lots of flies and jigs over the winter. Building rods too as I have 10 rod blanks on order of various sizes and types. Got an email to get 10 blanks of any type other than surf rods for $600US and 6 that I ordered are MSRP of over $400 so I went for it. Will probably take me a few years to build them all unless I get really ambitious. A couple will be for #1 son. A 4-piece, 8', 3wt fly rod and a 3-piece 13' float/drift rod. One of each for me too. Then looking at 100 - $200 each for the hardware to build each one.

North Fork Composites blanks in case anyone was wondering. Made in the U.S.A. too.

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OldMedUser said:
Looks like fishing is done for me this year unless I get out to BC for steelhead before the new year but that's not looking likely. Freezing temps and a few inches of snow on the ground.

I'll be all rigged up for next year tho after tying up lots of flies and jigs over the winter. Building rods too as I have 10 rod blanks on order of various sizes and types. Got an email to get 10 blanks of any type other than surf rods for $600US and 6 that I ordered are MSRP of over $400 so I went for it. Will probably take me a few years to build them all unless I get really ambitious. A couple will be for #1 son. A 4-piece, 8', 3wt fly rod and a 3-piece 13' float/drift rod. One of each for me too. Then looking at 100 - $200 each for the hardware to build each one.

North Fork Composites blanks in case anyone was wondering. Made in the U.S.A. too.

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Freezing temps and snow on the ground...? Perfect fishing weather!
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Jjgrow420 said:
Freezing temps and snow on the ground...? Perfect fishing weather!
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I went out Sunday evening and had the cold wind right in my face and didn't get so much as a strike for my efforts. Wish I was fishing coho back in BC right now instead. Ice fishing has no appeal to me so better to prep for next spring with new gear to test run and have fun with. I might try to get out to BC at Xmas and maybe get some steelhead fishing in but that's a long shot.

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OldMedUser said:
I went out Sunday evening and had the cold wind right in my face and didn't get so much as a strike for my efforts. Wish I was fishing coho back in BC right now instead. Ice fishing has no appeal to me so better to prep for next spring with new gear to test run and have fun with. I might try to get out to BC at Xmas and maybe get some steelhead fishing in but that's a long shot.

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Ahhh I love it all except bass fishing. Lol. You wouldn't catch me out for bass more than once in a blue moon. Nothing against it or the guys who do it, just not my thing. It's more of a fair weather fisherman type thing. Ice time is freezer filling time. Perch, walleye, crappie, yum yum. I've spent days out on Erie -25° 7km walk out (and it's not flat. More like walking on the moon). I love it.
Cold wind in the face and no fish? Lol been there done that! That's why it's called fishing and not catching ;)
Muskie can be grueling.... With short bite windows, freezing temps, wind, waves, etc. The die hards who grind it out usually get rewarded though.
This one was on an ultra tough day. Not many fish seen the concrete, but mine was one of them. Showed up at 2am, fished until 430pm. Wanted to quit so bad but I forced myself to grind it out. Glad I did. The agony was well worth it
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OldMedUser said:
I went out Sunday evening and had the cold wind right in my face and didn't get so much as a strike for my efforts. Wish I was fishing coho back in BC right now instead. Ice fishing has no appeal to me so better to prep for next spring with new gear to test run and have fun with. I might try to get out to BC at Xmas and maybe get some steelhead fishing in but that's a long shot.

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You're missing out! Nothing like telling people you caught an evolutionary marvel - even if it is a salamander - they don't know that. :lol:

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Jjgrow420 said:
Ahhh I love it all except bass fishing. Lol. You wouldn't catch me out for bass more than once in a blue moon. Nothing against it or the guys who do it, just not my thing. It's more of a fair weather fisherman type thing. Ice time is freezer filling time. Perch, walleye, crappie, yum yum. I've spent days out on Erie -25° 7km walk out (and it's not flat. More like walking on the moon). I love it.
Cold wind in the face and no fish? Lol been there done that! That's why it's called fishing and not catching ;)
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I need to work on my physical conditioning over the winter too. Not up to long hikes in the back country tho can walk for miles if need be. I'd be huffing and puffing up any long climbs tho. Time to dust off the recumbent bike and weights and actually use them a bit every day before I have a toke and get glued to my chair. :D

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OldMedUser said:
I need to work on my physical conditioning over the winter too. Not up to long hikes in the back country tho can walk for miles if need be. I'd be huffing and puffing up any long climbs tho. Time to dust off the recumbent bike and weights and actually use them a bit every day before I have a toke and get glued to my chair. :D

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I hear that brother! Sometimes it can be daunting hiking and climbing to spots but I do enjoy every moment of it. In my teens and 20's I was alot more hardcore.... I quit ciggies about 5yrs ago and it's made a world of a diff. I know I'm not the strapping Young lad I once was, but there's still some piss and vinegar left in these veins!
 
Jjgrow420 said:
I hear that brother! Sometimes it can be daunting hiking and climbing to spots but I do enjoy every moment of it. In my teens and 20's I was alot more hardcore.... I quit ciggies about 5yrs ago and it's made a world of a diff. I know I'm not the strapping Young lad I once was, but there's still some piss and vinegar left in these veins!
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I still get around pretty good for 69 and don't have extra weight to worry about but I've been very sedentary for the last decade and have got way out of the condition I was in while still working. When you're climbing up and down your water truck 50 times a day and all the other physical stuff the job demanded everything was tight and all in the right places. Now the stuff up top has kinda shifted to the centre a bit and thrown off my balance. This last summer I could still push my lawnmower thru a full tank of gas without having to take breaks so should be able to get back in reasonable shape if I put a modicum of effort into it. I know tightening up the middle will help with the backaches I've been waking up with tho the new bed we got a couple weeks ago has been a big help already. Wasn't cheap but will easily last me and the wife the rest of our lives. First brand new bed we've had ever and it's our 25th next July. Our big tom cat seems to like it too and has started trying to hog half the bed and piss off the queen of the kitties who curls up at my side every night. Almost 20 years old now and still killing mice. :)

The wife and I keep saying we're quitting the cigs but never seem to drop the hammer on that one. Even thinking of ordering 5lbs of leaf tobacco from the states to save a shit-ton of money plus smoke naturally cured tobacco instead of the chemical laden crap that goes for rolling tobacco here. $1/gram now so over $450/lb where the leaf is only $20US/lb and we've had lots before so can shred it easy enough. It hand rolls really easy too.

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