BilletHead

Here you go @Quillback

Through wind and rainy weather we will fish together, Six pack livin leaches by our side

So Pat decided she wanted to learn to do some tying. Borrowed a second vice from a friend so she and I could tie side by side. I thought this could be a good thing figuring we flyfish together and when we start loosing flys I'm the tyer and have to do double to restock the boxes. Last weekend we started with some olive mohair leeches and some black simi seal leeches. Pat got better with each one. I did a few of the easy crawdads a couple days ago, Pat got back to the vice again this morning and we did our favorite fresh water catch all woolly buggers. Pink/white/chartreuse. Got three each. To make them last longer we counter wrapped in a fine wire through the hackle. A couple of her Marabou tails got a bit long but she's getting better. Then added another element to the buggers. I like some dubbing under my hackle then fluffing it out for a thicker body but still translucent. Bass, bluegill, channel cat and crappie love this almost as much as the red/white/chartreuse. Mine on the left and Pat's on the right. Nice tiny heads on these. Husband and wife tying station.

Pretty awesome Mr. Pitt Thanks for sharing!

No you will be driving in but rolling out after eating a bit of everything on the table. 🤣

😶Lake Havasu - California Fly Fisher

She will make that happen!

Pat will bring baked beans if that will work.

By the time something comes out of your mouth at that speed what you said is yards behind you. 😃

I would personally like to fish for big redear on Havasu. I like everything on your list though. Oddball species like @Ham @Johnsfolly and @FishnDave do out of state if they want to weigh in.

You don't have to know anything. Those fish just jump in the boat! As far as the fishing it rained all last year but a handful went out and fished anyway. They guys caught while the rest of us visited and talked about the ones out fishing. 🤣 So I am Telling you @ness it's just as much the fellowship as it is fishing. Go ahead and stay home and not defend yourself. We can talk smack about you!

I might add company started testing our hearing. A big truck started testing once a year. Different tones through a headset when you heard it you pushed a button. Also, a bunch of questions first. Do you do this, do you do that. One question was do you do powerboating. I wondered what powerboating was exactly. Like in racing or just a boat under power. I always said no. Back in those days the only boat I had was way underpowered🙂.

I concur to loud music and gunfire, and I might add way back when one of my first jobs was on a gas and water crew. Jackhammer and industrial compressor cutting open asphalt and concrete streets. Long before we were given and required to wear earplugs.

Sounds good but that would be like driving back home for Rick . We are up too anything including getting something local up there. I think Pat is making some sourdough bread. We could have toast! 😁I don't want to go to the bar where Milo was trying to pick up the waitress. would be quite embarrassing walking into that place with him. 🤣

Actually, I figured Vienna sausages .

Also the first chuck and duck cast. 😆

If we start on grub a day early do you think anyone will starve? Reckon @nesswill deliver?

Well you all forced Pat to call for another night. See you Thursday.

You need to get out of your comfort zone. It isn't that far 😆.

Because we use earplugs. Jets at noisy and I have been known to use them driving it also.

This being said my cousin and I camped on Indian Island across from the Fairfield ramp. KK isn't big enough to hide on. On Indian there is a cove on the north side. We fished until dark, had a small boat and pulled deep in the cove and set up two small tents. Pulled camp really early and went to Osage bluff Marina for biscuits and gravy. Not legal but we didn't know that then. Pays to be stealthy I guess. Over 30 years ago.

Some light reading material who are wearing the tinfoil hat and guessing instead of investigating. There are answers out there in species collected before Things were changed. Mining museums’ genomic treasures - Ars Technica Genetic Analysis of West Desert Bonneville Cutthroat Trout (U.S. National Park Service)

Yes they are but wouldn't it of be neat to fish this country before it was changed? I'm talking BC (before carp) 😁

NO But there are specimens in places that were taken well before fish were hybridized from non-native species. The DNA is still viable, and this is how many fisheries in various states determine the purity of newly discovered pockets of natives. Yes, they are still out there.