Saturday, February 20, 2010

Fishing?

Today I was hoping to go on a hike with Bodhi to find a section of Gold medal water that I've been close to a few times but have never officially found. GPS coordinates indicate that I was probably within 30 minutes last time. It's currently snowing right now and supposed to do so for the next few days.

Instead, I'm watching a show on flyfishing. These guys are down in Chile and they're staying on a boat that qualifies as a yacht and a half. Each day a chopper takes them to water that may or may not have ever been fished. They just fished a river with only chopper access and in order to get the inflatable rafts to that area, the chopper flies them and the guides in early to air up the boats and prep for the day while these dudes eat a continental friggin' breakfast and then get brought in after a third cup of coffee. Whether they fished rivers or still water, there was no shortage of big browns in that 23-25 range.

Wonderful. The next show just started and they'll be using float planes to access remote water in the Yukon Territory and targeting lake trout, arctic grayling, and northern pike in the "oh shit" size range.

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