12/22/2011 07:49:00 PM
Mark
Aside from my now job, there were a few other really notable positives in the fall, the most relevant one to my readers is that I caught my largest trout to this point.
I didn't have a tape at the time, but comparing it to the rod beside it, I estimate it to be a 22-24" tiger trout. This is my third tiger, and it was an intense fight on my 4wt!
As usual, I took a break from the small streams and wild brookies when they decided it was time to spawn...
As I said, I made it to Erie to do some steelhead fishing...
And for the first time in my life, I went duck hunting. A friend of mine invited me to do a few days of hunting with him, and now I'm hooked, and on a mission to get a few ducks around here on my own. My first duck hunting trip was successful...
But subsequent trips have been a bit less so. In any event, it's a new venture for me, and just like fly fishing, I don't expect lots of early success. I'll be out again early tomorrow morning to try to get a few, but even if I don't get any, every trip out is one closer to the trip where it all finally clicks. For now, I'm just enjoying learning something new.
A few weeks after my first duck hunting outing, I started my new job, and focused on adjusting to it for a few weeks after that. Still, it couldn't have come at a better time, as it meant I could afford the gas and hotel room to make the drive up to Somerset, NJ for the 2011 International Fly Tying Symposium. While I was there, I made sure to take plenty of photos...
...which you will all get to see in my next update!
That's all for now. Merry Christmas to all my readers, and when I post again after the holiday, you'll have lots of fly pictures!
I didn't have a tape at the time, but comparing it to the rod beside it, I estimate it to be a 22-24" tiger trout. This is my third tiger, and it was an intense fight on my 4wt!
As usual, I took a break from the small streams and wild brookies when they decided it was time to spawn...
As I said, I made it to Erie to do some steelhead fishing...
And for the first time in my life, I went duck hunting. A friend of mine invited me to do a few days of hunting with him, and now I'm hooked, and on a mission to get a few ducks around here on my own. My first duck hunting trip was successful...
But subsequent trips have been a bit less so. In any event, it's a new venture for me, and just like fly fishing, I don't expect lots of early success. I'll be out again early tomorrow morning to try to get a few, but even if I don't get any, every trip out is one closer to the trip where it all finally clicks. For now, I'm just enjoying learning something new.
A few weeks after my first duck hunting outing, I started my new job, and focused on adjusting to it for a few weeks after that. Still, it couldn't have come at a better time, as it meant I could afford the gas and hotel room to make the drive up to Somerset, NJ for the 2011 International Fly Tying Symposium. While I was there, I made sure to take plenty of photos...
...which you will all get to see in my next update!
That's all for now. Merry Christmas to all my readers, and when I post again after the holiday, you'll have lots of fly pictures!
