Grinning and Bearing it '21

[fishskibum]

SUP?
well ifin ya dont like carp aka poopfish pics
probably best to not click on this thread
I hope to catch sum  bearcats again

im gonna try and spey one up this season

threw in for the 1st back in the 1st week of march when it hit 70

fish were skitterish and skills were rusty fer the skunk

nice to git out n git the float on though
fished fer troots the rest of the month
threw back in a couple weeks ago fri
water was up dirty n not real conducive to sight fishing
but stuck a couple




got my second vac shot and a colonoscopy's Thursday
1st shot kicked my butt but this one didnt
got back out yesterday
waters up
was over the bank in low lying areas
1st canal/channels not open yet and low
seconds pumping full under the road
40 degree air temp when i launched at 9
waters cold
fish are gittin more active
put a few flies where they needed to be to git eaten
and bent the whip stick



carpy cheers

[Cowboypirate]

I am starting to see some rolls and breakouts on the surface. You must have woke them up. That is good news for us wannabe Catters

Oh, and as a newly minted moderator, txs for the whiteout art work on the Tom Petty hat. "I won't back down" a most excellent song on my Playlist.

Cheers

[Tom-a-hawk]

Gotta love them dumpster dolphins on the fly. Your set up, and pictures are cool. It's nice to see someone doing something different. 
Cheers.

[fishskibum]

i was gonna go to willard had the damn turn signal to pull in on and a brand new rio phantom 6 line spooled up but there was a line
and i dont like like waiting in line to toss line
so i got the brnwr on
went up launched at the duckworth ramp

rivers down a bit
likewise for visibility
threw in at 8 bout 2 hours early
lots of lil yellow puff balls learnin from their vocal parental units

had a few shots, a few foul hooks, more tailing fish than cruisers and theyre not really bank oriented yet.
Podded up pretty good and begining pre spawn daisy chain behaviors in the shallow bays of the water release penstocks
if ya can git in w/out spookin em all i like to anchor up and wait for shots way easier on the sup than the drifty

bout 30" they become domer dumpster dolphins and will take some drag


rowed up a few miles to the O line canal

and stuck a few more on the way back
sts

heck of a nice day to git out git the float and be happy on

 Attempt to put the flies where they need to be
bend the whippy stick and exercise a few brown domed poopers

a few bank dunkers mostly fishing the canals

[TubeDude]

I like your style.  Great pics and narrative.

While I don't pursue poopfish...to the exclusion of other species...I have been knowed to deliberately try to catch them on occasion.  I have had some memorable days when these scaly buggers have been cruising shallow and visible.  A small jig hopped in front of them usually gets slurped and the battle is on. 

Some folks compare their shallow water runs to bonefish.  I have caught bonefish.  And I think a carp tied to a bonefish...tail to tail...would pull that silvery fish inside out.

I have used carp many times to help train youngsters or older newbies in the arts of fighting larger fish.  And until some elitist poisons their good memories, most who have graduated from carp still harbor fond memories of those sessions.

Seems to really be some tanks in BRBR.  Have you worked Flaming Gorge for those bigguns?

[Cowboypirate]

I watch for your reports to hear how active them carp are getting. When you say game on, I know my favorite panfish spots are about to get fun too.

[TubeDude]

I watch for your reports to hear how active them carp are getting. When you say game on, I know my favorite panfish spots are about to get fun too.

That's not a bad association to make.  Both carp and sunfish seem to "get frisky" in the magic 65 degree zone.  Catfish and bass too.  That almost always happens in May through June and that is when almost anybody can catch a fish or two.  And, although the walleye spawn earlier, that period is their postspawn feedup time.  So, on any given day you have a shot at multi-species.  Just for the record...4 species makes a "grand slam"...5 or more species a "grand slime".

[fishskibum]

I like your style.  Great pics and narrative.

While I don't pursue poopfish...to the exclusion of other species...I have been knowed to deliberately try to catch them on occasion.  I have had some memorable days when these scaly buggers have been cruising shallow and visible.  A small jig hopped in front of them usually gets slurped and the battle is on. 

Some folks compare their shallow water runs to bonefish.  I have caught bonefish.  And I think a carp tied to a bonefish...tail to tail...would pull that silvery fish inside out.

I have used carp many times to help train youngsters or older newbies in the arts of fighting larger fish.  And until some elitist poisons their good memories, most who have graduated from carp still harbor fond memories of those sessions.

Seems to really be some tanks in BRBR.  Have you worked Flaming Gorge for those bigguns?

yeah i ussually try to throw in on the gorge when im in that hood
theres some legit 3'ers in there

im half tempted to go score a summer job in a dutch john fly shop and  open and close every day and carp fish 10-2 every day
funny thing is the majority of my crew poo poo's the poopfish
and i cant expect someone who came from swinging up metalheads in the pnw to embrace the sloberknocky ugly
i did head to that hood to kick off our camping season
headed out last weekend
dork dog dont like the road anymore and cant relax in the backseat so he took out the switch stick in the first hour and it
turns out ya dont wanna heat the jetboil canisters to the point of expolsion
and ya we dodged a coulda been way worse bullet
the cup hit him
never found the burner/stove unit
maybe in orbit

i did redo my wilderness 1st responder cert the weekend before that and i can honestly say having that knowledge and instinctually going into the ems system they all use helped and its time and money well spent
he did manage to row a bit and score 1 on the streamer and one on both the dry and dropper that day



there were sunsets and rises

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ate well

i had a colonoscapy and some stuffs cut outta my svelte rump
sposed to eat mur fruits
im in charge of the bfast fruit gummie bar
they do it a lil different in the legal green ie state

chef boi r bobmc nmanned the ooni

a few bwos and heads up

mooses

birds


otter love is louder than yad think and nowhere near as romantic as muscrat

winds were mostly downstream


flows = lows
and word were gittin from people who may be in the know is no spring bump
800-900 minimal cfs al spring summer and fall
theres gonna be some white rocks from all them i just bought a drifty newbs
and taking out at crook was challenging
took toaster to sprey school for the winds went nukeualure

and headed
back home

[fishskibum]

wents to the keys for a few days of vacinacation got the garden in and celebrated 24 years of honey dooing sponsorship
musta missed high water on the bear if there was any
low and muddy lower than anytime last season
bout 1/2 in procreation mode
plenty of dumpster dolphin targets on the beach

although the skinner the water gits the spookier they seem to become
plenty of tails but throwing to vertical targets with snoots down in the muck
and slow strips  results in as many foul hooks as hook ups
good thing is most carp foul hooks end quick with a souvenir scale
and are over quickly
managed 3 all round 30"
then again i dont ussually throw to pups

gots a new tuque for the dome
and to support the cause
aints a crime ya know




gonna be a tough water year
i hope we can slow the flow fore there h2no
not that addressing climate change and water issues at the state gubermental level by asking for divine intervention can hurt
it just might not be enough
(giant eye rolling emojithingama bobber inserted here)

[fishskibum]

supgraded my whip and took the juneteenth holiday day friday for a down n dirty madie voyage

been to hot and too windy and the berry and upper elevation slimer actions been good and cooler
Stoked to see not much less water and better vis
took longer to rig than find em and gits the hooked up from a carp sucked fly

targets o plenty

while neither cheap nor light its, a bote 12'4 double chambered inflatable sup, a bomber fishing platform
ive always placed my paddle horizontally at my feet but being able to place it up front out of the way, for the most part, is nice

not sure of the water temp oa temp was 70 at 8
carp eat more as it gits hot
headed upstream a few miles not that theres much current
a good mix of tailers beach ballers and crusiers
probably averaged a couple an hour out of the dozen or so good shots
managed to convince a nice mirror to eat

theyre minorities in that river system

diversity is cool
wind picked up carp dont like boat chop and im happy how well it tracked and moved in the wind as i dont run a center skeg much
hammered down and got it moving
heard some gear shift and by the time i turned to look the horizontal net became vertical and by the time i got spun and made it back i could only see bubbles
i could feel it with the sup paddle 6 or 7 feet down but couldnt git any leverage
thought about swimmin but it was a cheap thrift shop score
and i replaced it with something that fits in the "rac" system on the bote
had to hand line the rest on the way back donated a fly or 2 rushin it

went downstream to the second channel and  back up and off by 2 if it wasnt 100 it was within
not much traffic, plenty of bank trash at the usual pull outs sorry if you were heat marinating the rest of the chicken livers for another day i tossed em to the bear cats i never see

[Panchodog]

You like a poopfish whisperer or something.....

[fishskibum]

funny things bout them poopers
and fishins in general
once ya thinks ya got em figured out
well ya find out ya dont
i fish the jordan a bit on long lunches
full bore spawn frenzy and happy fish tailing and eating in the weeds fri for last




went back dads day and they were gone or at least outta sight
threw in on the bear last friday i knew the rains werent gonna do much for vis and no one hopes for clouds to sight fish

figured there'd be targets

figured if i put em in the right place & they see em
theyd might eat em

well if ya dont line em, which i managed to do way more than i wanted
which results in an exit stage deeper water stat
went with the black leech for contrast and interstingly enough resulted in as many refusals as eats

clouds burnt off wind came up
beached on an island and got a few from shore
looked up and the sup was ghost riding to the far bank
lucked out that i was in wade across with the jewels dry, thigh high to retrieve it
probably foul hooked more than i landed
once ya figure out the happy fish part and well yeah it aint a big strike zone of where that fly/bait needs to be
the key to consistently hookin up is detecting the sublimities' of the eat
which is much harder in limited visual situations
that and ya dont need to throw to every target
thread needs sums Kenny and Wycleff colab

[fishskibum]

got out for a hot smokey monday float
Was gonna float up higher in the refugee
but the cows  were on the far bank
and no one was at the first pullout
70 sumthin at 730 and enough chop to make it challenging
waters not much lower than last trip and better vis

didnt take long

faces only mom could love

headed downstream instead of my usual up
plenty of targets aquired and plenty of shots taken
its a  silly game of inches
a few away from the mouth

and tug o wars

beached on an island to do some mud flat  stalking's

the shallow water eat to hookset to exit stage is my favorite part of the pooper game

made it down to the  u pullout
they redid the bank below that
winds cranked a bit thought about walking back but paddled  it out n back and stuck a few on the way back

[Jig-fisher]

Love the pictures. Not much if any flow in the river the last few times I have been out.  It has made catfish fishing very tough.  I'm still scrounging out a few.  Maybe I need to target those buglemouths instead.

[fishskibum]

i dont even bother checkin the gauge at corrine i just show up
if anything the water seemed up a bit from monday
i do use the windtracker  and hourly forcasts at weather.com and theyre pretty similar and accurate
bout 8mph and the seafoam pooper scooper maxes out upwind momentum potentials
at least with the current engine room configuration
used the 3 piece paddle it came with
i members why i blow monies on carbon fibered skis and paddles and sticks
thought about tossing from shore
threw in cause its hard to know your limits without testing them

in the game of inches a dozen high and long and in the milkweed
aint gonna git it done

and milk weed spew aint easy to git off the fly
and my antidotal experience is the next fish didnt care nor do i ever bother with hand scent transfer precautions much poopfishin although i have heard theyre sense of smell is keen

winds cranked up and it was evident we'd be traveling upstream and humping shuttles on foot

probably shouda ran the skeg
got blown sideways into a shallow underwater skag and dumped off the sup
thankfully in only a couple feet of water and no gear got lost or soaked
beached er where i could and stuck a few

ended up with a kitty gittin fly

made a few casts but no such luck
pulled into the whistler canal and hoffed back
lot of tails around the outlet
winds died a bit so i headed up
stuck a few more

and a fun skinny water ender

[TubeDude]

i dont even bother checkin the gauge at corrine i just show up
if anything the water seemed up a bit from monday
i do use the windtracker  and hourly forcasts at weather.com and theyre pretty similar and accurate
bout 8mph and the seafoam pooper scooper maxes out upwind momentum potentials
at least with the current engine room configuration
used the 3 piece paddle it came with
i members why i blow monies on carbon fibered skis and paddles and sticks
thought about tossing from shore
threw in cause its hard to know your limits without testing them

in the game of inches a dozen high and long and in the milkweed
aint gonna git it done

and milk weed spew aint easy to git off the fly
and my antidotal experience is the next fish didnt care nor do i ever bother with hand scent transfer precautions much poopfishin although i have heard theyre sense of smell is keen

winds cranked up and it was evident we'd be traveling upstream and humping shuttles on foot

probably shouda ran the skeg
got blown sideways into a shallow underwater skag and dumped off the sup
thankfully in only a couple feet of water and no gear got lost or soaked
beached er where i could and stuck a few

ended up with a kitty gittin fly

made a few casts but no such luck
pulled into the whistler canal and hoffed back
lot of tails around the outlet
winds died a bit so i headed up
stuck a few more

and a fun skinny water ender

You do some fine work with the SUP.  Looks like it's plenty stable for your brand of fishing...except when you run aground in the breeze.  Don't expect to see a 300 hp motor on it anytime soon.

[fishskibum]

thought about going the mirco skiff route
not much difference tween the  sup layout
cept the open back for a motor
https://www.boteboard.com/collections/in...cro-skiffs
but i'd have to give the state registration monies
and i dont even tell the mrs. im going fishing anymore
i either go rowing or paddling
water was up a bit and turning a tannic brown
Bout 75 air and water temp at 8am
smokey and hazey



tough vis till the sun gits high enough but found some playa's

"A man who habitually fishes for carp has a strange look in his eyes"
"A man who fishes habitually for carp
Has a strange look in his eyes"
- Arthur Ransome- "Carp" - Rod and Line (1929)

-Arthur Ransom" d and Line (1929

"At main who habitually fishes for carp has a strange look in his eyes"
IArthuansomene1929)

[fishskibum]

Had a rough week with some inner ear vertigo funk and a couple days spinning tween prayin to the porcelain god
gittin it sussed out and treated
felt good enough to git out and check on the bear
Waters up at least a foot bit of current and back to a greenish brown tint

fish were a bit more spread out and spooky
got the shots but lined em, foul hooked, ldr and a couple blown eats and i thought i was gonna take home pepe le pew
but i managed to put one where it needed to be

and again to a 30''er

hazy cheers

[Panchodog]

How big a whippy stick you using on those poopers? 8wt???

[fishskibum]

i throw a 3 piece scott sts and rarely less than 1x tippet and reef hard on em

and if i keep throwin it im gonna need new cork soon
been thinkin bout a nice new 7
ive thrown a six but like any good nailpounder will tell ya
its easier to pound a 6p finish nail with a 24 ounce hart framer than trying to pound spikes with a cobblers hammer
when its time to turn big fish and not git schooled the stout backbone matters