tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32885298695163357082024-03-05T09:10:11.399-08:00Seek the FreedSeek the Freedom of the Water. First stop, New Zealand. Second stop, the Lower 48. Third stop, the 4UR. Next stop, the Pacific Northwest.Jesse Lance Robbinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795038374752034786noreply@blogger.comBlogger131125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288529869516335708.post-75996305043915628352019-06-20T08:23:00.000-07:002019-06-20T08:23:20.126-07:00"I've never even fuckin' seen it!"Olympic Peninsula winter, a few years ago. The plan is to meet four visiting anglers plus one of my buddies in the grocery store parking lot at 6:00 am. My buddy and I are to informally guide the visitors on a river that requires a lengthy drive and our own shuttle. The visitors are from Texas and Colorado and they are not experienced steelheaders or Spey casters, but they are keen anglers, and loose business colleagues, so we'll show them what's what. They'll probably get skunked, and we've told them this information before they booked their flights, but they said that's fine, and are just looking forward to doing the thing.<br />
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6:00 am, grocery store parking lot. Me, and four clients, no sign of the other 'guide'.<br />
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6:11 am, grocery store parking lot. My phone rings; my buddy. I take a few steps away from the excited, waiting anglers.<br />
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"Yo, where you at?"<br />
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"Dude. Last night went a pretty late. I'm running behind."<br />
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"OK..."<br />
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"I'll be there in 20."<br />
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I return to the circle of excited, waiting anglers.<br />
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"Is he close?"<br />
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"Kind of. He'll be here in 20."<br />
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6:43 am, grocery store parking lot. My buddy pulls in, and parks diagonally across four spots with his boat. The door flings open.<br />
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"Holy shit! I think I'm still drunk!"<br />
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Eyebrows raise.<br />
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"I had to pull over once because I thought I was going to boot, and then I almost aced a deer!"<br />
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Nervous chuckles from the four excited, waiting anglers.<br />
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"Holy shit man, I..."<br />
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I cut him off.<br />
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"OK, yea, let's go."<br />
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Two of the four excited, waiting, now nervous anglers climb into my truck, and the other two reluctantly climb into their own, to run the shuttle. I sense thankfulness that they're not getting into my buddy's. We make the drive south. We drop the boats in, throw gear in, double check everything, and then run the shuttle, my buddy and I in our rigs, the two excited, waiting, nervous anglers from Texas in theirs.<br />
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At the take out, we park the trailers and climb in with the Texans, my buddy and I in the back seat. Typical guide-client conversation ensues.<br />
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"How's the season been? Have you caught any? What are the reports? What flies do you like? How long have you been out here?"<br />
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Short, vague answers.<br />
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"When's the last time you fished this river?"<br />
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"Ha!" my buddy chirps. "I've never even fuckin' seen it!"<br />
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The two excited, waiting, nervous, now questioning anglers shoot a glance to each other.<br />
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<br />Jesse Lance Robbinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795038374752034786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288529869516335708.post-36335758432132165812019-05-22T16:36:00.000-07:002019-05-22T16:36:12.332-07:00There's a pondThere's a pond in western Washington that a buddy told me about. It's small, 15 acres, and has one access point. The put-in is the exact minimum diameter to turn a truck and trailer around in, and dump the boat in. It reminds me of ponds in Maine and it doesn't feel like Washington there. <br />
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Once, a good buddy from England was visiting for work and we fished the pond together. We were planning to go steelheading, but it had rained a lot and the river blew out. So we went to this pond; neither of us had been there.<br />
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If I remember correctly, I missed a strike or had a follow on my first cast. In this instance, that was exactly the sign of things to come as we had quite a day of catching. We didn't count, or I don't remember the count, but I do know we were at 20 in short time.<br />
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Eventually we tired of catching them in on streamers, so we rigged up a dry fly stick. We had seen a few rises, but couldn't make out any bugs on the water. We took turns, one guy fishing, one guy rowing the boat slowly down the shore, and we worked structure and drop-offs.<br />
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A fish rose within range, under some overhanging trees. My buddy took his shot and his fly landed in the branch. Gently shaking his rod, the fly fell out of the tree and landed about where the fish had rose. The fish rose again, and took the fly. We laughed, landed the fish, and switched seats.<br />
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Once settled, I started working the same area. I made several casts but nothing happened. We agreed to move on but before we did, my buddy suggested I take a shot at the same spot he had just caught his fish in.<br />
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I made my cast and it too landed directly in the same overhanging limb. I too shook the rod gently and the fly fluttered out of the tree onto the water. Another fish rose and took it. We caught eyes, exchanged a telepathic agreement that we should try this method another time, then switched spots again.<br />
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But we could not repeat it. Specifically, my buddy seemed unable to cast into the tree! Perfect cast after perfect cast onto the water, he pulled them all back and tried to put that fly into that limb again, but after some number of tries, he shrugged and motioned further down the bank. We carried on. Have you ever had that happen to you? You're trying to make a very specific cast, and you try and try again, and you just can't get it quite right, so you give up, for a moment, on actually trying to catch a fish, and only on that one very specific cast you're trying to make and you either finally make the cast, and feel good about it, or you never make the very specific cast, and you just basically surrender, give up and move on, but 'moving on' actually means just returning to fishing, which is totally fine and good anyway, so your failure to make the very specific cast doesn't bother you very much, but only a little. Has that ever happened to you?<br />
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Drove to Californi,</div>
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Found the bumpy dirt road,</div>
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In the bottom of the canyon flowed,</div>
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It was all new to me, the place and the ways,</div>
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I found that to figure it out, would take me some days.</div>
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It had been some time since my last trout,</div>
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but catch them I would, I had little doubt.</div>
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One or two indeed came to my hand,</div>
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but not at the rate of which my mind had planned.</div>
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Excuses I would make,</div>
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of why the trout I could not take.</div>
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Alas, Jesse, do not forget,</div>
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just to fish is why you came, not just to fill your net.</div>
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Jesse Lance Robbinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795038374752034786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288529869516335708.post-86435737321952308482019-04-04T21:50:00.002-07:002019-04-04T21:50:33.980-07:00"And eat that fucking sandwhich quickly, would ya?"Florida Keys. May. Sun. Light wind. Tarpon season. And they’re there.<br />
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We’re getting shots all day. We’re on the ocean side and you can see ‘em coming from two football fields away. Find their course, make sure your line isn’t snagged on anything, start your cast, and let it fly. Cross the string by five or six feet, wait until they’re almost there and then slide it into the zone. If the string is long enough, wait until two or three go by, then bring it into the middle of the string. You can see them look at it, and when they peel out of the string, you stop breathing, the boat goes quiet, you can’t hear anything anyway, and you wait for bucket mouth to open and the fly to disappear. Hit her, steer the bus, clear line and hold the hell on.<br />
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It’s after noon and everyone – me, my fishing partner, and the guide – are hungry, but no one dares stop fishing, for fear the fish stop showing. I’ve just whiffed on three shots; three strikes and I’m out. I’m starving, so I go for the Cuban Mix sandwich from Sandy’s and a beer from the cooler.<br />
I’m sitting on top of the cooler, middle of the boat, behind the casting deck, in front of the console. I’ve got the sandwich wrapper spread across my thighs, beer can held between my knees, chowing down, when we see a string coming.<br />
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My partner starts his cast. Mid-bite, I stop chewing, frozen in position, waiting for the mayhem. They’re coming in quick, 70 feet and closing. Two false casts and he’s at 50 feet, ready.<br />
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“Now,” our guide says from the poling platform.<br />
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The delivery cast. He lays it down. At the exact same moment, I crane from my seat just slightly to see it go down, and just enough for my legs’ grip of the beer can to loosen. Fly and fly line lands on the water, five feet in front of the lead fish as the beer can hits the deck. The string scatters.<br />
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My partner turns from the casting platform and glares right through me.<br />
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The guide chuckles.<br />
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“Why don’t you stay up there for an extra shot, Paul,” he says. “And eat that fucking sandwich quickly, would ya?”Jesse Lance Robbinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795038374752034786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288529869516335708.post-44909679821009435202019-03-18T09:29:00.001-07:002019-03-18T09:29:55.685-07:00Can you believe that?Fall. Senior year of college. Fall break. A week dismissed from academia. Read: go do something awesome with your best buddies.<br />
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Five of you lash two canoes to two station wagon roofs and head for a deep lake, at the northwestern end of which sits a campsite that one has been to before. The supplies are, to use the word that you adopted then for its cliché, absurdity and appropriateness, “fratty”: twice as much bacon and eggs and potatoes as is necessary, a large bag of Cajun trail mix, other various bars and backpacking foods and two glass gallon jugs of Carlo Rossi wine, which has come to be one of several signature drinks of the college fishing club, of which you are all very, very important members of.<br />
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The second night around the campfire. The remaining jug is passed around, and around, and around, until its location and existence is forgotten. And then, disaster. Where is the Carlo?!<br />
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How can you lose, misplace a glass gallon jug of wine in a 20’ wide circle? Did it walk off, to take a piss in the bushes and forget its way back? Did it evaporate, the same way the last two days did? Did someone hide it, as a joke, and then have their memory of its location disappear like all the answers to the midterms you all just took? Was it burned? Five stumbling, mumbling, jumbling college kids, on top of the world, cannot find the wine, and it is a serious problem.<br />
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One guy looks in the tent. One guy looks in the canoes. One guy looks so far away from the campfire that it’s a joke. One guy doesn’t get up, just looks behind his stump seat.<br />
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The last, the one sitting only a few feet from the lake’s edge, yells. Everyone looks. Reaching into the lake, as if grabbing a fresh born baby, as if landing a giant trout, as if pulling a piece of bacon that fell into the fire and that shouldn’t have, as if finding a single piece of agate on a gravel bar a quarter-mile long, he has the jug of wine in both hands and raises it above his head, yelling, “I got it!!” By some absurd chance, the jug has rolled and fallen into the lake in just the perfect way that the opening landed perfectly downward so that the air inside the jug has held the wine inside, lake water creating a seal preventing any from draining. No one can remember how much was in it when it was lost, but there is enough left that it’s enough for the rest of the night and also just the most recent of countless, tiny but unbelievable events that happened that make this trip story-worthy.<br />
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Your hangover the next day makes you wish, slightly, that you never found the jug again. But, what a story. Can you believe that?<br />
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<br />Jesse Lance Robbinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795038374752034786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288529869516335708.post-66916018098194880932019-03-15T09:34:00.002-07:002019-03-15T09:34:49.110-07:00We had the bugs on the wall dying.<div class="MsoNormal">
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Jesse Lance Robbinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795038374752034786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288529869516335708.post-66899312895437811222019-03-12T07:58:00.002-07:002019-03-12T07:58:45.350-07:00It's 4:00 am and you're a hundred miles offshore.<br />
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It’s 4:00 am and you’re a hundred miles offshore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You left the dock 14 hours ago, you and three
of your best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a four hour run, you
reached The Edge and your captain pulled back on the throttle for the first
time since leaving the inlet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone
stands up and stretches, relieving their bodies from the tensed, flexed positions
you held for the run.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Four young men relieve
themselves and then four beers are produced from the cooler, which looks like
it’s about to be brought to a party that you all had attended in college only a
few years prior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beer cans are touched,
nods and smiles are passed, and cold, light beer is chugged. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then the work begins.<o:p></o:p></div>
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bright gold Penn Internationals reflect the setting sun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The engines are again put into gear, this
time at a slow, calculated pace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You assume
the positions – captain at the helm, first mate behind him, leaning against the
bait prep table, and you and the remaining mate taking places alongside the
cockpit - and you are fishing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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retrieve sounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The handles are as big
as car door handles, and they fit your hand well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few more rounds of beer are consumed and
without discussion, two guys take to massive bean bags for a few hours of
restless sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The air is warm and
humid, but cooling fast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sleep is
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softly discussing the morning’s fishing to come, catching up on some of your
recent fishing trips, and what you have been doing since the last time you saw
each other, which was a week ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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vessel’s stereo system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Robert Earl Keen’s
album “Gringo Honeymoon” is played in its entirety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the title track comes on, the boat goes
quiet, and the two of you just listen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Jesse Lance Robbinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795038374752034786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288529869516335708.post-18754207826398999522017-06-26T12:29:00.002-07:002017-06-26T12:29:54.739-07:00The PloverLast fall I was in the bookstore on Bainbridge Island when I saw a poster advertising upcoming author events. I was beyond excited when I read that David James Duncan, author of <em>The River Why </em>and <em>The Brothers K</em>, among others, would be visiting the store. Joining him was author Brian Doyle, who I hadn't heard of. <br />
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The event was held days after the Presidential election; the room was charged. Brian addressed the elephant in the room as soon as the event started. I immediately liked him - he was loud, energetic, sincere, hilarious, and didn't mind cursing. The readings that Doyle and Duncan gave that evening were as good as any I can remember, and afterward I got a chance to meet the authors and chat. Per encouragement from friends, I even wore sandals to show Duncan my <em>River Why</em> tattoo. Duncan laughed and considered drawing a foot around the hook on the inside of the book. I bought a hard-to-find Duncan book and one of Doyle's, <em>Mink River</em>. He signed it, "Blessings and laughter."<br />
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A few weeks later, on my way back to the island from Thanksgiving in Maine, I started <em>Mink River</em>. And ate it up. When I landed in SeaTac, I checked my email and was shocked to see an email entitled "Brian Doyle" from a coworker who had also attended the readings. The note shared the news that Brian had been diagnosed with a brain tumor shortly after the event at the bookstore. The email was eerily coincidental.<br />
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Brian Doyle passed on 5/27/2017, a few days after I started reading his novel <em>The Plover</em>. In his words, "Of course you do your absolute best to find and hone and wield your divine gifts against the dark. You do your best to reach out tenderly to touch and elevate as many people as you can reach. You bring your naked love and defiant courage and salty grace to bear as much as you can, with all the attentiveness and humor you can muster; this is, after all, a miracle in which we live, and we ought to pay ferocious attention every moment, if possible."<br />
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<em>The Plover</em> is a sea story that follows the vessel of the same name and her crew. It's a wonderful read, and I recommend it to everyone. <br />
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Last weekend I traveled South to Idaho to fish and to pick up my own vessel. <span style="font-family: inherit;">This ship needed a captain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will be it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will call her the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Plover</i>, in honor of Brian Doyle. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Now accepting crew applications.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Why did I name the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Plover</i> the<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Plover</i>, you ask? says Declan to the gull, who had not asked. I’ll tell you. Listen close now, because I have not explained this before and will not again. Far too much repetition in life altogether. We should say things once and let them just shimmer there in the air and fade away or not, as the case may be. The golden plover of the Pacific, the Pacific Golden Plover, is a serious traveler. It wanders, it wends where it will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a slight thing, easily overlooked, but it is a heroic migrant, sailing annually from the top of Pacifica to the bottom. It forages, it eats what it can find. It talks while it travels and those who have heard it say it has a mournful yet eager sound. This seems exactly right to me, mournful yet eager. We regret, yet we push on. We chew the past but we hunger for the future. So I developed an affection and respect for the plover. It’s a little thing the size of your fist, other than those long pencilly legs for sprinting after grasshoppers and crabs and such, but it can fly ten thousand miles across an ocean itching to eat plovers and reaching for plovers with storms and winds and jaegers and such. You have to admire the pluck of the plover. It doesn’t show off and it isn’t pretty and you hardly even notice it, but it’s a tough little bird doing amazing things. Also it really likes berries, which appeals to me. Most of them fly from Siberia or Alaska to Australia and New Guinea and Borneo and such but some of them camp out awhile in Hawaii and just cruise around in the long grass in the sun eating and dozing. This appeals to me. So when it came time to name a little drab boat that wasn’t dashing and didn’t weigh much and no one notices much, but that gets a lot of work done quietly and could if it wanted to sail off and go as far as it wanted way farther than anyone could ever imagine such a little drab thing could do, that might pause here and there at an island so as to allow a guy to eat and doze in the grass, well, that’s why we are the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Plover</i>. So now you know. Don’t keep badgering me with questions."</span></span><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Jesse Lance Robbinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795038374752034786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288529869516335708.post-55959893339291992912017-05-10T11:39:00.001-07:002017-05-10T11:39:32.589-07:00The Spring Wind blew my list of things to do away.<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/216889265" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/216889265">Spring Wind</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user1603397">Jesse Lance Robbins</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>Jesse Lance Robbinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795038374752034786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288529869516335708.post-52918595686250378062016-08-12T11:20:00.000-07:002016-08-12T11:20:19.120-07:00How often?One of the many 4UR veterans who are now still working in the industry or on the water is my good friend Drew. Drew is a Wisconsin native who now guides for the <a href="http://www.tightlinesflyfishing.com/">Tight Lines</a> outfit, a group of great Midwest boys who are fishy as hell and super keen on their smallmouths.<br />
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I had the good fortune to join Drew and a colleague for a spell in Pembine, Wisconsin, where the Tight Lines crew lives for the summer season. The owner of the shop, Tim, falls into the description above and was especially excited for me to experience the great fishery they have at their doorstep. I arrived late on a Wednesday to find the beer and whiskey flowing. With an early wake-up approaching fast, several times we all contemplated the beds that awaited us. Tim has a particularly good line of peer pressure that whisks away most reservations about another round, another story, another anything: How often? How often do I find myself in northeast Wisconsin with two of my best buds? How often do I get to smallmouth fish on the Menominee with two of my best buds? How often can I have one more beer in Wisconsin with two of my best buds? <br />
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Not very often, is the answer to those questions. I encourage you to employ such a quiz when confronted with decisions over one more beer or staying up a little later. If the answer is 'pretty often', maybe you can find a way to phrase the question to get the answer you desire.<br />
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My prior experience with the smallmouth bass was largely in a couple ponds in the Camden-Rockport area, where Lefty Steele and I kept a canoe stashed in the woods when we were working at Maine Sport. We found the fish agreeable to popper presentations there. July in Wisconsin is topwater season for the smallies, and our bugs consisted of mostly the same, plus a local pattern known as <a href="http://www.smallmouthflyshop.com/product/ol-mr-wiggly">Ol' Mr. Wiggly</a>. It's a quick tie that I plan to experiment for other species. Perhaps you'll do the same.<br />
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So we were to float various sections of the Menominee in Drew's Clacka. On the first day, ten minutes in, Drew pointed out a particular spot below a dam where a back-eddy turned into a downstream flow. I made my cast with a yellow popper and this fish ate it immediately:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Different fish than above, but just a bit downstream. Twenty minutes into the trip.</td></tr>
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I forgot how much fun smallies are. They pull like hell, corking out 8-weights, eat topwater bugs like the dickens and love that warm water. For a summertime fish, they're pretty rad. I'm looking into my smallmouth locals out here.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More. Top. Water.</td></tr>
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One last story. We had pretty damn good fishing, but like any place you go, it'll slow down from time to time. From what I've gathered, the gear and bait guys can really clean up on this river. Case in point, on our final morning, while waiting on Drew to finish running the shuttle, I watched as a party barge (the river is pretty wide and slow) made its way up the middle of the river and then cut its engine directly in front of the boat launch. Now I've heard of 'take-out fish', but rarely do I hear of boat launches being a fishing spot that one might target, or seek out. Nevertheless, the captain of this vessel thought it to be a fine spot.</div>
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As the boat coasted to a stop mid-river, the captain grabbed the anchor and tossed it into the river: KABOOM! The anchor splashed down, causing quite a ruckus, I thought. I watched as the man then proceeded to remove his shirt, pull a beer out of his cooler, grab his fishing pole and head to the stern where he took a seat on a waiting chair. He let fly his bait/lure and began a retrieve. A moment later and he had one on! Damn! I guess that does work! It would take us an hour and a half to get our first that day.</div>
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Jesse Lance Robbinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795038374752034786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288529869516335708.post-15270905849278890442016-04-14T10:42:00.003-07:002016-04-14T10:42:48.999-07:00Brick
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Twelve months. <br />
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That's how long I've waited to be here again. To stand on the platform, look into these waters and see them: tarpon.<br />
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You will find them in a handful of different types of water and types of ways. No matter how the shots come, they're all awesome, but the laid-up tarpon is especially exciting. You'll sometimes stare for hours at a time at brown-green water; you'll stare so long it seems like you've forgotten what to look for, or what they look like. Then, all of a sudden, there's one. From afar, they're light-brown-tannish against the murky, backcountry Everglades water. You inch closer and closer and slowly the shape appears. Then it's glowing at you. You can barely make out its head and its tail, but you know which is which. It's just sitting there. <br />
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It can be a battle just to find one, but when you do, another battle begins; this time with yourself. Present the fly properly. Drop it two feet in front of the fish's nose. Maybe a hair across it too. Not too hard. <br />
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In a basketball game, when you shoot a foul shot, you have ten seconds. You do your routine, and shoot. Mine goes like this: line up my right foot with the nail, hold the ball in my left hand, look at the front of the rim, and breath. Two dribbles, then look again at the rim. Breath twice. Shoot.<br />
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The time from spotting a laid-up fish to making your shot can be a minute or less than ten seconds, but the procedure is somewhat similar in that there's a definite success or failure. The fish eats (you make the shot), or it doesn't (you miss the shot). <br />
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Two times today I was blessed with the quintessential laid-up tarpon shot. Two times today I was polled closer and closer while I stared at the glowing fish, just sitting there. I know where I want the fly to go (the ball to go through the rim), I can see it landing there (the ball hits nothing but net). I know what I want the fish to do, I've watched them do it before. Two times today I watched as my cast landed feet away from where I wanted it to. Two times today I watched as the glowing tarpon disappeared before my eyes, never to be seen again. Blown shot. Brick. Fail.<br />
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When you land the fly where you want it, this is what it looks like:<br />
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Jesse Lance Robbinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795038374752034786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288529869516335708.post-10433729987383385642015-06-09T17:11:00.001-07:002015-06-10T18:03:49.571-07:00Gotcha!Last year a good buddy and I spent our first days on a tributary of some bigger water that we had frequented. We were pleasantly surprised by the stream, its setting and the fish it held. There were good number of 4 - 8" fish to keep us busy between the bigger pools, where we had encounters with fish up to 15". Coming from a ~75 CFS stream, we thought that was pretty cool. To add to that, the fish are all wild and from what we've gathered, the cutthroat are native. As the first Saturday in June is the season opener for this, and a number of other small waters in Washington, the same friend and I made plans a while back to return to this little gem. <br />
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I'm still amazed of the geographic diversity in Washington: a few months ago we were swinging flies for winters in the rainforest; now we're in a high desert, fishing what feels like a southwest Colorado trout stream. Being that I spent a couple years in the latter, it's a great change of pace. After a winter and spring of long rods and Skagits, it's also nice to break out the small sticks and get the rust off the trout-game again.<br />
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Like many other places, we're a little short on water at the moment here in the Pacific Northwest. The story was the same for this little stream. Looking at flows before we arrived, we knew it would be lower than it was the last time we were there, but what that would look like or what that would do to the fishing, we didn't quite know. <br />
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The fishing started great and only got better, but the catching started slow and declined from there. The smaller fish we expected to find in the pocket water weren't around. We fished our way upstream to the first deeper pool, where we had found our first bigger fish last year. The pool itself looked pretty rough and we couldn't find any fish in it. This was disappointing, but we kept going. Soon after we reached a stretch of water that borders some farmland. Massive sprinklers sprinkled as we fished by. Upstream of the sprinklers we came to the first of two sets of pipes pulling water out of the stream. It was a sobering moment and we passed by in silence. <br />
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Eventually we came to the pool where we had stopped last year. Unseen water lay ahead and we were excited, but to this point we hadn't seen any bigger fish, afternoon was coming on and it was very hot. Hope for the bigger fish was failing, but on we went. Finally it happened and out from the depths of a nice pool came a rise of no mistake: the distinctive, slow take of a nice cutthroat. I was half surprised I had waited long enough, but I guess I'll say instinct took over and the hook-set was solid. It would be the fish of the day.<br />
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The walk back to the truck, for lack of a better phrase, fucking sucked. It was very hot, pushing 90 degrees and because we got started early in the morning when it was much cooler, we were in waders. I was also donning my fishing vest which, simply put, holds too much stuff. I had fished four flies with two different tippet sizes that day yet carried six boxes' and eight spools worth. Habit, possibly; stubbornness, perhaps. My father gave me this vest for Christmas when I was nine years old; I'm 30 now. I've worn it in countless states and five countries across four continents. Needless to say, I'm pretty partial to it. But as I sweated it out on the way back to the truck, I conceded that my approach to walk-and-wade trout fishing needs changing. The next day I ditched the waders, put two fly boxes, two spools of tippet and one extra leader in a waist pack and went for it. I fished a whopping three flies that day and the two not in use were stuck in my hat. It felt like I had lost 50 pounds of gear. I was a brand new man. <br />
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The day's fishing activity was as refreshed as I was. Instead of fishing first, hiking later, we hiked first and fished our way back to the truck. Walking by pool after pool was a little difficult but when we did get started, two of the first three pools produced the bigger fish we were after. The fishing turned out to be really good. <br />
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The first good one I got was a ~14" rainbow that was super hot. It jumped a half dozen times and ripped line off my reel. It was a great fight on a 2-weight and a click reel. A while later I came to a pool and started false casting while my buddy took a seat and watched. I was fishing a parachute hopper at the time and the first cast in the pool brought up a gorgeous, healthy cutthroat around 8"; not quite the size we were looking for, but still a good one. The very next cast, a very big fish porpoised on the fly. We could tell it was a very nice cutthroat. I was trigger happy though and pulled the fly away too soon. Luckily, so soon that I hadn't stung the fish. I made one more cast with the same fly to no avail then let the fish be. For 10 minutes we chatted about my next move. I finally tied on a parachute Adams, the only other dry fly I had needed that weekend, and made my way back into the pool. The first cast nothing happened, and the second cast, the same. Then on the third cast, the fish appeared and refused the fly. I put the parachute hopper back on. Again a refusal. I then took my buddy's rod and cast his orange Stimulator several times with no sign of the fish. I was beginning to admit defeat as I tied on a single tungsten stonefly nymph and started working the pool. The first casts to where the fish rose came up empty. I moved up into the eye of the pool and there, in the deepest, heaviest water the indicator went down. I set the hook in disbelief, but the the head shakes that came next gave me no doubt what I'd found. It was a good one, and oh so satisfying. Ain't them cutties purdy?<br />
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This morning I received a text from a buddy in the Keys with a picture of him holding a permit pushing 30 pounds. After exchanging expletives, I passed along the above picture, a brief recap of the encounter and added, "It's no 30 lb permit but hey." His response: "If you worked for it, then it's a great fish. That's the best part." True dat, Nat!<br />
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I wasn't prepared with the rock shampoo for that fellar, so back he went. but now we're fishing for meat. it's like they know it's coming. I've hooked three since landing that one, and they've all spit the hook. a couple of those I thought I really stuck, too. so it goes. they're around, and we're after 'em. more to come on that.</div>
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Here I sit, again at the kitchen table in my apartment on Bainbridge Island. My head has been in the clouds since I left and it's still up there now. It'd be impossible to tell the story from start to finish, so I've just written some thoughts on a few subjects. Give me a shout if you want to hear more about it or about anything specific.</div>
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I reached the river with a box of a couple hundred flies. While this tally eased my mind in preparing for the trip, it would turn out to be a bit of a hindrance when I was riverside, about to make my pass through a greasy run. I was determined to catch my first fish on a fly I tied and succeeded in this on the second day. The pattern that took off my skunk was a 3" unweighted red, orange and pink Popsicle pattern. For me, the general rule of bright flies for bright skies and dark flies for dark skies held. After stinging one on my tie, I switched over to a fly tied by my roommate, James. This fly hooked two fish on back to back casts! One would be a fresh hen of about 8 pounds that I would get to tail a few hundred yards downstream and the other was a smolt of about 8 inches! In the end, James' patterns would account for half of my fish. At some point on day 3 or 4, it felt I was in a bit of a slump. I was reaching the end of my second fishless day and was becoming a little frustrated with my casting, was hooking bottom and bushes and just generally not feeling fishy when swinging. I ended the day by losing my fourth fly in the same run. When I'm steelheading (or fishing in general, I suppose), I like to think that things happen for a reason, so I told myself that the fish didn't want to eat that fly and I took to the bank to take in the scene and collect myself while my friend finished the run. It was then that I made these realizations: the four flies I had just lost were store-bought, and all the flies that had taken fish were either tied by me or someone I know. I concluded then that flies without soul would not work on this river. I spent the rest of the trip fishing flies that I had a connection to, and enjoyed greater catching success on the second half of the trip. More veteran steelheaders have probably enjoyed this realization years or decades ago, but for me, it happened when it happened. With this new knowledge in my pocket, my fly box was promptly halved. Choosing which fly to tie on was still difficult though. I consider myself to be a fairly decisive individual and I understand that indecision can be a handicap in certain situations. That said, nearly every time I was to change flies, I found myself hunched over my box, three or four patterns in my hands, contemplating the merits of each. In hindsight, I think nearly all the patterns in my box would've worked, but for whatever reasons, only a few felt right at times. Confidence is key in this fishing game, so I guess it doesn't matter if it took me two or ten minutes to decide my fly so long as the one I did choose felt good to me.</div>
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Third day, second fish hooked. One of those grabs where your fly is swinging quietly through a run one moment, then in an instant your reel is screaming like the fish was on its way back to the ocean and you tail-snagged it. The next thing I recall, my shooting head left my view, shooting line followed and backing was passing through guides. The fish broke the surface of the water, cleared my buddy's swinging line and then was again peeling off line, heading downstream further still. At this point, I realized that on its path downstream, the fish had gone under a log. Fuck. The fish had by now slowed its run, so I gained some backing while walking downstream towards the log to inspect the situation. "I don't think you'll be seeing this one, Jess." I said to myself. The log's roots were twenty feet off shore, in waist deep, swift water. I was able to get to the roots, and get good footing there. The fish must've tired at this point, because I started gaining line. The backing knot passed through the guides. Soon the head was in sight. My three compatriots watched as I brought the fish closer and closer, my line still under this log, which extended way beyond what I wanted to wade into, angled slightly downstream. As I got the head into the guides, the fish began to run again. We quickly discussed tactics. Visions of Lee Wulff passing a rod through/under/around roots and trees flashed in my head. I had actually performed such a feat myself years ago, but the log in question was in a couple feet of slow water, not a waist deep current that didn't look like it should be messed with. We grabbed a Water Master and contemplated getting into it and floating alongside the log to get downstream of it, but eventually decided against this as it didn't look like we could row off the log in time to clear it. Sooner or later the fish was at the log and I could see her under the surface. I tried hard to get her out of that log, but it wasn't happening. One last pull from me, one from her and off she went. I stood there looking at the log and my fly-less tippet. My friends offered some words that I don't recall. Then one said, "Well, you'll never forget that one!" I glared at him and then started laughing. "No shit!" We all laughed.</div>
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I have little first hand experience with bears. I've seen a handful from afar and even had one come into the gear room of a cabin I was sleeping in, but I've never ran into one in close range while on foot in the woods. I have done a decent amount of reading on bear safety and how to handle yourself when you have an encounter, but was still nervous about seeing one, especially when every single person I talked to about the trip cautioned me extensively. My parents lectured me. I carried bear spray and a bear bell that still rings in my ears. We started seeing tracks as soon as the helicopter left us. We heard a sow and two cubs were around. In the end, we didn't see a single bear. This is fine by me I suppose, but I wouldn't have minded seeing one across the river. Some other tracks were of concern as well though. On one upstream exploration, two of my crew took off from the raft for a couple hours. On their return, cougar tracks covered theirs. Back at camp though, we had our most bothersome run-ins with other mammals: mice!</div>
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I have been on a handful of fishing benders over the years and time is an interesting element in each. For rendez-vous purposes, I wore a watch on this trip, though some days it seemed its only purpose was to provide entertainment as we tried to guess the hour. The days are very long in British Columbia right now. As such, we were up between 4:00 and 4:30 every day. We anticipated the fishing to slow down during the high sun hours, which would give us a break for food and maybe a couple hours of sleep. This plan quickly went out the window, as we started hooking fish at seemingly every hour of the day. So nap time was discarded and we ended up fishing from roughly 5:00 am to 10:00 pm every day, with some breaks for food, coffee and bullshitting. To say we left the river sleep deprived is an understatement, but I can't think of any other way to leave it. Without question, these were the eight shortest, longest days of my life. The days screamed by. Moments lasted longer, but still not long enough. The moments shared with each other half-awake waiting for coffeeto be ready, after a fish was landed, staring at a run to be fished or brief campfires where half of us nodded off are ones I will not soon forget. But there were a million other moments I had with myself, in my head that I wish I could return to. What was I thinking about for those 12 hours a day when I stood there by myself, my fly swimming through the currents? The exact thoughts seem to be lost now, but they were mine at the time, so they must be with me still. It's still perplexing to me how time can move so quickly and slowly while fishing.</div>
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Fifth day. Another guy and I went upstream to explore some new water. What we found was the best water we'd seen all trip. A long, classic run with a bucket that seemed to go on forever awaited us as we fist bumped and giggled atop a log jam. I won the roshambo and was first through. As I reached the bucket, every swing seemed to get better than the last. My eyes widened, my pulse increased with each step and each swing I made. If it doesn't happen here, then where?? I looked upstream, hoping to see my buddy hooked up, thinking maybe I just missed the fish. My swings were now in the tailout and I was trying to judge just how many I had before I should call it. Then a swing slowly came into tension. It was an odd feeling, kind of like I had swung my fly into a big branch. I raised my rod slowly and the tension remained, but it gave slightly. I kept raising my rod and the same happened. I started reeling in, thinking that this branch I had snagged was now coming upstream. "Is that a fish?" my buddy yelled from upstream. I shook my head 'no.' I kept reeling but something was very un-snag like about this. Then I felt a head shake, and another. I looked upstream, flashed a smile and said something silly like, "Uhh, yea, yea! It's a fish!" I thought it was a king. It was a dog fight at the start with no runs to speak of. I held strong side pressure and the fish came close. There it rolled. "Hoooolly shittttttt..." we said to each other. It was a big buck. We had the fish in the shallows at that point and my buddy was able to get a hand on his tail. That kicked the battle into high gear. A half dozen times after that, we'd get the fish into the shallows, only to barely touch its tail and it would be off again, on a strong, steady run right to the middle of the run. Finally the fish tired and we had him. It was the biggest steelhead I have ever held. The moment my buddy and I shared after that fish was one I will remember forever. He could've jumped right back in the run in hopes of hooking his own, but we sat there on a log for what seemed like an hour, talking about how it all went down. 'What do you do after you land a fish like that?' we asked each other. I've landed big and meaningful fish in other places that felt similarly and this is what I think the answer is: you watch your buddy fish and hope like hell that he gets one even bigger.</div>
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I camped and fished with three other guys. We were mostly split into pairs while on the river. I had met and fished with only one of these guys before this trip began but had talked to the others on the phone. All from northern California, these guys have been steelheading as long as I had been fishing for brookies in New England, which is to say, most of their lives. Their knowledge on Pacific Northwest steelhead and steelhead rivers was humbling. As is often the case, I found myself learning a lot just by watching them cast and fish. Hearing their thoughts on conditions and specific runs was an education in itself. The two guys I hadn't met before became great friends in a couple days. I've had this happen to me a handful of times in past several years, but when you're placed in an angling situation with another angler, one who can appreciate a day's single fish, or a sunset over a steelhead river, it's not hard to get along well. Tentative plans have been made. See you guys soon. And what a small community this fly fishing one is. I met four people on the river who I have mutual friends with. I've already seen one of them and have plans to talk with another when he gets off the river. There's a bond within the fly fishing community already, but put yourself on that river and the bond is even greater.</div>
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Here I sit, at the kitchen table in my apartment on Bainbridge Island. The adventure is about to begin. Three packed bags sit by the door, awaiting transfer to my truck. Once inside, I will transport them a half mile and then onto a Washington State Ferry, which will cross Puget Sound and land in downtown Seattle. From there, the truck, the bags and I will turn north, cross the border into British Columbia and make our way to a hotel whose name I can't remember and isn't too important. I'm anticipating an unproductive night's sleep. Tomorrow morning, I'll make my way to the South Terminal of Vancouver International Airport and board a small plane destined for Bella Coola. Once in Bella Coola, I will meet the three other members of my party.<br />
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I have met and fished with one of the others, Loren. The two others, Jack and Jack, I have only spoke to on the phone. From what I have gathered, they are stand-up guys and good steelhead fishermen. I'm not sure if I have ever spoken to another for so many hours on the phone before actually shaking their hand or seeing them in person. It will be a good to see them.<br />
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Once the greetings are over with, we'll then turn our attention to the West Coast Helicopters hangar, where we have an 11:00 pack time, followed by a 12:30 departure. 1400 lbs is the maximum, but I think we'll be fine in that regard. How we determine who gets shotgun will be comical, I'm sure. As the eldest, I'm going to claim that age gets preference. I've heard from others who have taken this same flight. I'm going to wait until I've done the flight until I decide which adjective I'll use to describe it. <br />
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We'll go up and over some mountains and then into a valley where a river runs. An island near a run called Totem will inhabit us for nine nights. For the eight days in between, we will take to the waters of the Dean River, in search of mighty summer-run steelhead. From what I hear, an angler can hook a lot of these fish over a week's time while on the Dean. <br />
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I'm a mix of anxious, nervous, giddy, frantic, confident, overwhelmed, scared and STOKED. Here we go.<br />
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Deuces, USA. See ya in a few.<br />
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riffles.<br />
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city girls.<br />
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look at that, sher!<br />
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post-rain mixology.<br />
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springs, trees, lake, mountains, sky, yea!<br />
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a nother planet.<br />
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in my top 5 things to do.<br />
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scenery modest.<br />
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colorado cool-aid.<br />
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vegas.<br />
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just a couple rods and reels.<br />
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henry's lake.<br />
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denizen of henry's lake.<br />
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hatch.<br />
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huh.<br />
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on the road in idaho. tough to beat this windshield view. "i love a clear day, an open highway..."<br />
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craters of the moon. wild place. <br />
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summit forever!!!<br />
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Tacoma. In its element.</div>
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Bassmasters. Alongside Lake Crescent.</div>
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Yeeeeebub! <a href="http://www.bronzeradioreturn.com/">Bronze Radio Return</a>.</div>
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Cairns. Sandy River, Oregon.</div>
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View. Way up there.</div>
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Beers. Very big beers.</div>
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Chi. One and only.</div>
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Booze. Read the labels.</div>
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Frannie. Perfect snoozing spot.</div>
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Mark. Ellie meet pike.</div>
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Jess. Northerns on fly.</div>
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Rainbow. Goose Creek rainbow.</div>
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Cutbow. Goose Creek cutbow.</div>
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Scene. Man, dog, fishing.</div>
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Scene. Saturday on Ranch.</div>
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Scene. Preparing to float.</div>
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Drew. Happy birthday Drew!</div>
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Fishing. 15 bridge hole.</div>
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Crappie. My first crappie!</div>
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got down into the southwest again over Memorial Day. saw some great friends in every stop along the way and covered some new ground. friends make it.</div>
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a few from a few weeks back. </div>
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this fly is for striped bass. is the fly that good, or is this fish that hungry?</div>
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suquamish. good pizza. and views.<br />
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Tacoma. in its element. still accepting name suggestions for my rig.<br />
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OG S. takes his vitamin R on the Yak.<br />
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Beautiful Bainbridge Island.<br />
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l to r: Seattle, moon, Rainier.<br />
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STP monster.<br />
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my main man Money Morley on it. cheers bro!<br />
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one stop shopping.<br />
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you can't get there from here.<br />
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meow.<br />
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I love you, Marnie.<br />
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Jesse Lance Robbinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795038374752034786noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288529869516335708.post-2528943207157231102013-04-10T10:21:00.003-07:002013-04-10T10:21:41.054-07:00Four Corners (part deux) plus the Middlethis time, the story goes in reverse.<br />
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Easter weekend on Puget Sound was incredible. the weather was about perfect for me; i don't need it to be too hot to be happy. what do you get when you combine a couple days off, sun, good friends, a beach, a bonfire, some fishing, good food, good drinks, a jump in the ocean, some bocce and lots of laughs? a big shot of Washington life. can't wait for the next round.<br />
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in the opposite corner, where "you have to go north to get to the South," i found lots of love. Mum and Dad picked me up at the airport and we headed to Choko to meet up with the lovely Lee's. in my search for "home," it's funny (but perhaps not surprising) that the people you're with can make any place feel like home. more on that later, maybe. did some tarpon fishing too. you're due, Dad. thanks Boss. <br />
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weekend before that, i went to the homeland, aka Vacationland, aka The Way Life Should Be. any weekend is a good weekend to visit Portland, but one really good one is St. Patty's Day weekend. jump in the ocean just because. have a Guinness at 6 am just because. drink four car bombs before dinner just because. see the people you know and love.<br />
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California sun before that. a long overdue reunion with Biddy. Hear Ye, Hear She! that cali sun sure feels good. good food, good friends, good bocce. good views. some new, different, good fishing. thanks <a href="http://www.socalflyfishing.com/Fly+Fishing">Peter</a>! all. real. good.</div>
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An airport change in Buenos Aires and a two hour domestic flight would put us in Bariloche in early afternoon after departing Seattle the midday prior. A sigh of relief as all our luggage and gear came around the baggage claim carousel. Jetlagged, odiferous and giddy, we finally found the familiar face we looked for, as <a href="http://ngrahamkelley.tumblr.com/">Nick</a> and the Turbo Diesel Hilux awaited (I like to think that this rig was a long, lost cousin to <a href="http://seekthefreed.blogspot.com/2009/10/1986-toyota-townace-turbo-deisel-with.html">an older Turbo Diesel model</a> that I once owned). All of the very nice, professional photos below were taken by Nick - those slightly out of focus or lacking that certain je ne sais quois were taken by yours truly. With heads on a swivel, we made our way from the airport through Junin de los Andes and onto the long dirt road that lead to the amazing Estancia Chimehuin, on the banks of the mighty Chimehuin River.</div>
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There are roughly two miles of water within the fences of Estancia Chimehuin (EC), but with countless braids and side-channels, these turn into more like eight. We fished the EC stretch of the river for four days, covering nearly all the water. In addition, we camped out on two separate nights, fishing two different rivers on one trip and fishing the very upper reaches of the Chimehuin on the second overnight.</div>
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Not only were these brown fish beasts tough to see, but they were even harder to handle when they felt the sting of a hook. After hooking a respectful specimen on my first cast of the day to then watch the fish do a 180 around a boulder and disappear forever, spirits were high to start. Later in the day we would call that our best chance, as we left the river skunked, having lost five in total and spooking a number of others, some of which neared massive lengths. It's good to have a day like that every now and then.</div>
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While discussing the fishing with another EC visitor, we were asked to provide a term for the time of day when the fishing gets very good. We gringos couldn't agree on one so "The Golden Hour," Nick replied. After spending a week fishing in Patagonia, it seems The Golden Hour would qualify for most hours of the day. </div>
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Above, native perca (perch). Below, a fish rises during The Golden Hour.</div>
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Hilux in its element at The Golden Hour.</div>
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Long days (The Golden Hour), and everlasting nights.</div>
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Of the many amazing and gracious people we met on our journey, one in particular sticks out that I'd like to speak of. Husband of EC's ranch manager, below is Russo at work on our lamb lunch. At the age of one month, Russo's grandmother crossed the Andes on horseback to her new home in the Chimehuin valley. On his father's side, Russo's family bought extensive Patagonia acreage blind and then relocated from England over the course of 9 years to settle the region. Patagonia and the Chimehuin valley are his home.</div>
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After splitting 15 years between Argentina and England playing professional polo, Russo returned to his homeland, meeting his gorgeous wife. He is hilarious, witty, a jack-of-all-trades and does wonders with a blade, fresh meat and a campfire. Below, venison tenderloin, peppers and onions. Russo's opinion on dealing with the perils of the English polo social scene or the exhausting nature of fly fishing field testing: "Somebody has to deal with this shit. And that somebody is me."</div>
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Drink of choice. The coffee brandy and milk of the south: Fernet y Cola. Apparently it offers peace and approval. Koozie shout-out to the Clem Corps. </div>
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A million thanks to Nick, Jim, Amie, Russo and Clarita and the rest of the EC crew. I'll never forget it and hope to find my way there again some day.</div>
Jesse Lance Robbinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795038374752034786noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288529869516335708.post-32379055312811496512013-01-03T20:30:00.001-08:002013-01-03T20:43:36.312-08:00in the middle of ithello! a little hiatus from thee olde blog.<br />
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had the mighty pleasure of joining some lovely faces in the mountains of northern New Mexico to ring in the year of two thousand thirteen. been a while since i seen these ones. missed 'em!<br />
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Miss Sarah. Frances Dog. Mac. Meaty. Outlaw Breen. </div>
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"Frannie! C'mon Frannie!"</div>
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nice moustache willy.</div>
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yurt me.</div>
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mr. and mrs. shirt patterns with frannie the dawg!</div>
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just finished Lani Waller's <u>A Steelheader's Way.</u> great stuff in there. of note:</div>
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"If I jump around a bit when I write, it's because none of this really happens in a straight line. Time changes places in the mind as you contemplate, describe, or go fishing, because our hopes emerge, in part, from a desire to relive past events. The present thus becomes both the past and the future simultaneously, and as long-time angling companion John Ferguson said, "We are always in the middle of it, aren't we?""</div>
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i can't think of an analogy for tarpon fishing. you usually get three shots and then it's your buddy's turn. an hour can go by before you get one shot sometimes. and more often than not, the shot's over in five seconds. sometimes you get two casts at a fish or a pod, but it's definitely the first one that is your best chance at hooking a fish. if you're unsuccesful, you are then faced with one to sixty minutes before your next shot to think about what you did wrong, or why the fish simply didn't eat the fly. you feel like you've failed an exam that counted for three quarters of your grade or if you got rejected on a date from your crush. but as soon as you get your eyes on the next fish approaching, all that just happened is forgotten. i am not good at tarpon fishing. i wonder if i should be more pissed off at all the shots i missed. i mean, it's not everyday i get to go tarpon fishing. it takes time and money to get there and more time and money to get a guide to get on the water. if you really wanted to, you could put a dollar amount to each shot, each cast. i don't know what good that would do, but i guess you could do it. so maybe i should be more upset i didn't hook more tarpon this season. but what would good would that do? </div>
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also known as 'home'. while washington's feeling more and more like home, i think maine will always be home. i get excited when the plane touches down in any place, but it's tough to beat touching down at portland international. it's literally 10 minutes away from friends and fun. tough to beat that. portland's still awesome. everyone that lives there still is too. camp is north of there though. and what a camp it is. a six year work in progress, this place is amazing. parts of it are 100% done, while others are 10%. i want to show all my friends this place. oh, and there's a trout pond 100 yards away. and man, did it go off that night. it had been quite a while since i found myself on a pond with native brookies gulping hatching bugs. there were five of us across three boats that evening and wouldn't you know it, the only two fellars who had rods bent all night were the old man and me! ha! </div>
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what a place colorado is. mountains, trees, cold streams, a ton of hungry trout and sun. tough to beat i reckon. the fishing in colorado was really good. how this will effect late-, and even mid-season fishing is to be determined, but it was pretty damn good a couple weeks ago. ranch life is pretty much the same. which means, awesome. really good to see the guys at the 4UR. and the girls too. i'm really glad that i got to get back to the ranch. it's been a really big part of my life the last few years and i'm thankful to have the opportunity to visit. i tied on one nymph rig in a full day's fishing. it promptly hooked what was most likely the largest fish in the entire creek. i landed the largest rainbow in my life in my last evening. thanks goose creek. see ya in a bit.</div>
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also, also known as 'home'. it's been 10 months now. the more i see, the more i like. had a ball last winter on the peninsula, and now it's time to get dialed in on the cuttys in the sound. here's what i've figured out so far: if you find them, you catch them. if you don't find them, you maybe get one, usually none. so that's fine - i just gotta find 'em. found a couple yesterday though, which was nice. got lucky to be a guest on a friend's beach on the west side of hood canal. sea run cutthroat trout are fantastic fish. they crush flies, fight like the dickens and shoot back like bullets into the water when you let them go. and they sure are pretty too. i caught three fish on three different flies yesterday. not sure if i just happened to get my flies in front of three fish, coincidentally after i changed flies, or what was happening exactly.Jesse Lance Robbinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795038374752034786noreply@blogger.com0