09-26-2004, 11:04 PM
That's right , our unscheduled plans went haywire !
I got my story and i'm sticking to it !
I recived a P.M. that stormy26 was going to the big M, later after a birage of invites from me I was pretty sure Davetclown was gonna show up at my door , uh , camper door that is . Iwas sure looking forward to meeting you guys .
Well I went in search of stormey on saturday , the fishing where I was at had subsided for the day and it would be the perfect time to drop in to his secluded spot .
talk about a needle in a haystack ! like i was going to take my eyes off any of those huge fish in the river , i dang near walked right off the edge of the bank for a fourteen foot drop to the hospital , LOL !!!!
Stormy , DARNED SAD I DIDN'T GET TO MEET UP WITH YA ' !
I couldn't remember if it was a blue or green back pack or a pick-up or van with a busted grill . I asked a few guys on the river and at the campgrounds , they said a van left just before i arrived , and that a po-up camper pulled out a bit earlier .
awsome fishing spot thou . it was full , some guys pumping lead above the pine tree spot , a few legal guys in the spot and me down below it with one on and a whole lot of logs to loose it in . Did you see the guy with the old green fiberglass boat (river area parking , right next to the path going down )? met him on line last week , one good guy .
i tried this morning to walk it back from the Tippy dam road way and found some really nice holes that were left untouched , silly me thought the fish would run out into the river and not into the brush piles lining the banks ( just before the tunk hole ).
the FLY GUY was camped a couple trailers down from me , he sells all his flys for .75 c a peice , and there all for salmon , steelhead and trouts .
Who is the FLY GUY ? Well he ties flys day and night all year long and sells them to the pro shops , bait stores and to the guy on the river , all over the mit and canada . i bought a coupe dosen from him this weekend , 30 flys for $20.00 !
yea , i tie some of my own , but not as good as he does . it's nothing for him to sit down and pump out a hundred flys in a hour or so . here's his name and address if you want to order some , just tell him what you want or send him a picture and he'll get them done . he dosen't have a phone but chances are you can catch him at the tippy dam road campgrounds once in a while . i'll post there address too .
Jim Bennett , 10621 wyman rd. lake, mi,48632
Tippy dam campgrounds, 17974 old house rd. , wellston , mi.49689
ph.231-848-4448 , [url "mailto:tdcc@kaltelnet.net"]tdcc@kaltelnet.net[/url] , fax 231-848-4965 .
Well when i returned home today i learned our fearless leader was looking for me at the dam , i'm guessing thou on the other side of the river . dave it woulda been nice to have you there ! plenty of food and a cosy spot in the camper for you ! the jeep was parked on the steps side of the dam , welston , or at the campground off of tippy dam road . i think you were on the brethren side of the river .
i didn't fish friday night , i tied up a coffee can of spawn for an early morning river run and to hopefully last me the weekend , it lasted just barely . i think i have about 30 2-egg sacks , ten or so three egg sacks , 3 or 4 four and five egg sacks and half a dosen 7 egg sacks , various colors of netting . good for about another four hours of fishing . i gotta get busy tieing more before next weekend !!!!
why the different sacks ? those fish are pickey !!!!!!
one hole they hit the 2's and let everything else go by , next hole only a seven will do , so on and so on .
i used a #12 single egg hook for the two's , a #10 for the 3's and #6's and #8's for everything else . when all else failed i started on the flys , dosens of them !!!!!!!!!!
i brought a few fish in but went home fishless , the laws the law , even thou they wern't around . heck the D.N.R. coulda netted a couple million dollers in fines and confiscation of equipment if they just got up off there easy chairs for a couple of days .
i'll cover that in another post .
anyway , we were there , but we missed each other .
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I got my story and i'm sticking to it !
I recived a P.M. that stormy26 was going to the big M, later after a birage of invites from me I was pretty sure Davetclown was gonna show up at my door , uh , camper door that is . Iwas sure looking forward to meeting you guys .
Well I went in search of stormey on saturday , the fishing where I was at had subsided for the day and it would be the perfect time to drop in to his secluded spot .
talk about a needle in a haystack ! like i was going to take my eyes off any of those huge fish in the river , i dang near walked right off the edge of the bank for a fourteen foot drop to the hospital , LOL !!!!
Stormy , DARNED SAD I DIDN'T GET TO MEET UP WITH YA ' !
I couldn't remember if it was a blue or green back pack or a pick-up or van with a busted grill . I asked a few guys on the river and at the campgrounds , they said a van left just before i arrived , and that a po-up camper pulled out a bit earlier .
awsome fishing spot thou . it was full , some guys pumping lead above the pine tree spot , a few legal guys in the spot and me down below it with one on and a whole lot of logs to loose it in . Did you see the guy with the old green fiberglass boat (river area parking , right next to the path going down )? met him on line last week , one good guy .
i tried this morning to walk it back from the Tippy dam road way and found some really nice holes that were left untouched , silly me thought the fish would run out into the river and not into the brush piles lining the banks ( just before the tunk hole ).
the FLY GUY was camped a couple trailers down from me , he sells all his flys for .75 c a peice , and there all for salmon , steelhead and trouts .
Who is the FLY GUY ? Well he ties flys day and night all year long and sells them to the pro shops , bait stores and to the guy on the river , all over the mit and canada . i bought a coupe dosen from him this weekend , 30 flys for $20.00 !
yea , i tie some of my own , but not as good as he does . it's nothing for him to sit down and pump out a hundred flys in a hour or so . here's his name and address if you want to order some , just tell him what you want or send him a picture and he'll get them done . he dosen't have a phone but chances are you can catch him at the tippy dam road campgrounds once in a while . i'll post there address too .
Jim Bennett , 10621 wyman rd. lake, mi,48632
Tippy dam campgrounds, 17974 old house rd. , wellston , mi.49689
ph.231-848-4448 , [url "mailto:tdcc@kaltelnet.net"]tdcc@kaltelnet.net[/url] , fax 231-848-4965 .
Well when i returned home today i learned our fearless leader was looking for me at the dam , i'm guessing thou on the other side of the river . dave it woulda been nice to have you there ! plenty of food and a cosy spot in the camper for you ! the jeep was parked on the steps side of the dam , welston , or at the campground off of tippy dam road . i think you were on the brethren side of the river .
i didn't fish friday night , i tied up a coffee can of spawn for an early morning river run and to hopefully last me the weekend , it lasted just barely . i think i have about 30 2-egg sacks , ten or so three egg sacks , 3 or 4 four and five egg sacks and half a dosen 7 egg sacks , various colors of netting . good for about another four hours of fishing . i gotta get busy tieing more before next weekend !!!!
why the different sacks ? those fish are pickey !!!!!!
one hole they hit the 2's and let everything else go by , next hole only a seven will do , so on and so on .
i used a #12 single egg hook for the two's , a #10 for the 3's and #6's and #8's for everything else . when all else failed i started on the flys , dosens of them !!!!!!!!!!
i brought a few fish in but went home fishless , the laws the law , even thou they wern't around . heck the D.N.R. coulda netted a couple million dollers in fines and confiscation of equipment if they just got up off there easy chairs for a couple of days .
i'll cover that in another post .
anyway , we were there , but we missed each other .
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