SOUL OF STREAMS: Hoppertunity One Day Event

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Hoppertunity One Day Event

Let's make this a one day event. Saturday the 19th of September. Details to come in the next couple of weeks. Limit to eight people would work nice. Wait---Scott, brought up a good point on his blog---I may not have that many readers or friends. Hmmmm. I guess if we only get four folks, it would still work. :)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Sounds like a lot of fun, glad to see after all these years you are still doing what you love to do!!

I Hope all this works out for you, I believe you have a great idea, get out there and run with it!

Remember....There is No Chance, No Fate, No Destiny, that can Circumvent, Hinder or Control, the Firm Resolve of a Human Soul :)

Follow Your Dreams and Believe in Yourself.; August 20, 2009 at 8:39 PM
Robert said...: Wow. All of that for a little fly fishing fun. Completely opposite of what others have said to me:

"Are you still chasing trout around? When are you going to grow up and take some responsibilty in your life. How much time have you wasted hanging around those rivers, streams and creeks?"

Thanks for the positive spin on it. I entend to do it until I drop dead...hopefully, while fly fishing and a nice trout on my line.; August 21, 2009 at 11:11 AM
Christine said...: I just think you should do what you Love to do!!!

You have a Resort town in your front yard, the Ogden Valley is Booming!!

Wolf Creek resort is Booming! Go work for them as a fly fishing guide!!

Advertise in the Ogden Valley News for Fly Fishing Lesson!! Post it at the Valley Market!

Life is to short for "Should of's"

FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS AND BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!

Remember.....
There is No Chance, Not Fate, No Destiny, that can Circumvent, Hinder or Control the Firm Resolve of a "DETERMINED" soul. :); August 21, 2009 at 7:20 PM
Anonymous said...: You have an Amazing love and talent for outdoors and fly fishing, make what you love doing work for you!!

You have a Resort Town in your front yard. Advertise in the Ogden Valley News for Fly Fishing Lessons, Guided Tours of the Ogden Valley Rivers and Hidden Treasures.

You know what your doing, and there are Big City folks out there coming here for Outdoor fun and Adventures. You can show them that...for a price.

Life is too short for "Should Of's"

FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS AND BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!!

Remember....There is No Chance, No Fate, No Destiny, that can Circumvent,Hinder or Control, the Firm Resolve of a "DETERMINED" soul:); August 21, 2009 at 7:31 PM

Fremont Island of Great Salt lake

Our Scout group took a trip out to Fremont Island in the Great Salt lake. Everyone rode a barge style boat with camping gear for an overnighter, except for two brave souls who paddled a canoe playing the parts of Kit Carson and John C. Fremont, the Islands name sake. The canoe ride was suppose to be 3 miles but ended up more like 7. We didn't take into consideration that we had to paddle most of the length of the Island to get to the camping site.

As part of the adventure, we hiked to the very top of the Island were Kit Carson carved a 7 inch cross into the rock on the summit. It was neat to think we were viewing a piece of history. The cross was carved (scatched) into the rock September 9, 1843.

All Day Long

I love to fish the Logan River. The scenery in the canyon is beautiful: clean clear water, pine , maple, willow, river birch and aspen stand as the forground to backdrops of cliffs, majestic mountain peaks and billowing white clouds against a blue sky. To me it doesn't get much better, anywhere!

I prefer to seek out the cutthroat trout found high in the headwaters and meadow sections of the river. Ocassionally, I fish down lower where a few more brown trout can be found. I can spent all day in the area, catching cutthroat like the one pictured.

Air-filled Flies

I've been messing around with a material that allows for the creation of air-filled fly bodies. This stonefly adult is created with the material. I've used this pattern for several years now and have had good success. It's been used in Montana and Idaho on the Madison and Henry's Fork.

The material is nothing more than heat shrink tubing. I have a way to imprint on it, thus creating the neat patttern on the bottom of the fly.

The material is available in several colors and diameters. To date, I have created stoneflies, hoppers, cicada and beetle patterns. Fun stuff!

"Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder upon it, to dwell upon it.

He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it.

He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. He ought to recollect the glare of the moon and the colors of the dawn and dusk."

--N. Scott Momaday

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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Hoppertunity One Day Event

4 comments:

SUMMER FUN!

BROWN TROUT