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The Blue Ribbon Fisheries Advisories Council together with DWR is putting on a free seminar on the use of tubes, toons and yaks.
Here's a link to the info page on the DWR website:
http://wildlife.utah.gov/wildlife-news/1...-fish.html
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I can't make it downtown but I'll be watching you on DWR-TV.
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[#0000FF]It will be motivating to know you are with us in spirit.
I'll be sure to bend over so the camera can get my best side.
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Thanks for getting the word out, Pat.
I think it is great that the Blue Ribbon Council is sponsoring these seminars.
I'm sorry I couldn't join you at the seminar but it is our week at Lake Powell on the houseboat. I told Lee you knew as much about fly fishing for multiple species as I did. I'm not sure how my picture showed up on the DWR info page.
I look forward to watching the seminar on YouTube when I get back. I'm sure that everyone will gain some valuable information from all the presenters.
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[#0000FF]Your presence will be missed. But I will make sure to include a picture or two of you in my presentation. Your "austere" and unadulterated craft makes a good counterpoint to my "PVC Maru".
Have a great time at Powell...I growl through clenched teeth...trying to hide my jealousy.
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Well, you can expect a bonus check from BFT for the free plug. Well, on second thought, you probably shouldn't wait by the mailbox.[
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[#0000FF]I'll just deposit it in the special account I set up for all the checks I got for being a moderator.
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Can't make it but I hope I am doing it right....[
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I had to self learn......[
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[#0000FF]My opinion? You be doin' it right...and then some.
You were also one of the pioneers of tubing and tooning in Utah. There wasn't anybody else to ask or to watch so we hadda just do the best we could and hope to survive...and catch fish. Somehow or other we managed to muddle through.
Now we have a tubing and tooning forum for the newbies to accelerate their learning curves. Wish there had been something like that for us in the earlier days.
But there are still a lot of prerequisite bonehead mistakes and accidents that all wannabees gotta go through before they can rightfully claim to be true floataholics. And, just like kids and hot stoves, it doesn't always help if you warn them in advance. They still gotta prove it to themselves.
There have been a lot of times in the past when I wish I had been carrying a video camera...to record the "bloopers" of fellow tubers. And also a lot of times I'm glad that others around me didn't have video to record my "epic fails". I've had enough to semi qualify as a real float tuber.
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[quote TubeDude][#0000ff]My opinion? You be doin' it right...and then some.
There have been a lot of times in the past when I wish I had been carrying a video camera...to record the "bloopers" of fellow tubers. And also a lot of times I'm glad that others around me didn't have video to record my "epic fails". I've had enough to semi qualify as a real float tuber.
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Why thank you. And as for the video....ARGH! I have some major nightmares!
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I am planning on coming to the seminar. I have been tubing for several years but I figure there is always something new to learn.
Mark
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[#0000FF]Might be a good place to meet some future fellow float tubers. Then we can form a local chapter of "Tubers Anonymous". That way, when you wanna go tubing but can't get away you just call up another float tuber. They come over and you get drunk together. Errr...something like that.
Something new to learn? Perzackly. I suppose I have been float tubing longer than all but a very few folks still living. Started all by myself in a car tire inner tube in the mid 1950's. Had no idea other people around the country were doing the same thing and that it would eventually get to be a real deal. My point? I still learn new things about tubing or fishing...or both...on just about every trip.
Fishing and tubing seem to attract creative types. A lot of us just can't accept using something the way it is and gotta mess with it. That's why we no longer have to fish in "donut dinghies"...with the development of all the new designs. And that's why I got sonar, rod racks and a motor on my ride.
And that's why it's cool that we can get together with others like us to trade ideas and help us take advantage of the innovations others have come up with to make our sport more fun and more productive.
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[#0000FF]Bumpity Bump Bump.
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Should be a fun show. And it will be on streaming video. Also will be a permanent part of the DWR Utube program collection for later review.
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was i informed wrong or did this end up on youtube or someplace to watch?
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If you click on the link in TD's post right above yours, it will take you to the UDWR page where there is a link to the Youtube video.
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