-10 today. Thought I'd put this great shot of Mark on the St. Mary's on my desk top to remind me how much I'm not fishing for the next 6 months!

River Oaks Camp weekend

Me, Barrie, Mike, Joe, Fenwick and Dave Dunne went down to the camp to do some hunting and do a little work on the camp. Installed a new heater in the kitchen for Carol and a new storm door for Barrie. Cooked up a big moose roast that Lochey shot last week and had a few beer's too. Had our first taste of snow friday night on the drive down.

JBFC Post results for 2010 location.

After review of the poll taken on our site it is clear that most of us would like to have the 2010 JBFC @ River Oaks Camp. It's time to get the ball rolling on getting Max to attend this trip. If he can't make it,. I think we should plan a seperate trip to N.Y. to visit him for a weekend. AND, if he's coming home for x-mas we should at least plan for one night @ the camp.
I suggest we have a trip meeting at the camp on Nov. 7th & 8th if the camp is available to talk about trip plans and do any camp work that needs to be done. Hopefully this date gives everyone enough time to plan that weekend free.

Mark

PS- A new poll has been posted on the site to vote for which month to have the JBFC.

My 1st time @ Cabelas

Here's a few pics of my trip to Cabelas in Maine. It was a really nice store but there is more selection on-line. They had a laser shooting range that was fun and a really nice aquarium. The fly shop part of the store was fairly small compared to the gun and hunting acc. department. All in all it was fun and I would say well worth stopping in if you've never been.

Once In a Bluemoon

A friend sent me a link to this video. We should be doing our own.

Fall photos of the Gully

Smith and I took a quick trip down to load some wood.
Not much work was done this weekend but we did get out for a nice morning and evening fish at the gully.

Annual Salmon trip to East River Oct. 17th-18th weekend!

Time to get the ball rolling on the salmon trip up to Barrie's boys! I propose Oct 17th-18th. Maybe stay @ the camp this year and drive back to the river or stay @ Barrie's chalet on the hill right next to the river. Let us know what you think Barrie. Hope this is a good weekend because it's probably the only one I can make. For a change lets get into some fish.

tight lines,

Mark

PS- I haven't got to use my new salmon rod yet and I'm chomping @ the bit to try her out!

Clearwater

Lazy Poster

First off, I have still yet to get my new pontoon boat in to water this year. What the hell? It has been a busy year of working and kids and very little fishing. I managed to get out on the North Prairie a few weeks back and recently Stauffer and the Clearwater. Usually on my way home from a plant. I had a great 2 hours on North Prairie. Landed 20 or so fish from 13 - 22 inches. Mostly browns but a couple brookies. The picture below is the large brown. All on the surface with stimulators. Missed two ther very large fish that took a run out from under the banks but missed the fly.......or hit the fly and I missed the flish! I'll let you decide. The brown on its side with the wooly bugger is off the Clearwater. Got rained out. I didn't take any pictures on Staufer but caught around 10 fish. A couple over 20 inches. Missed a monster who was deep up a beaver run. And......broke another rod trying to pull al large brown out of the weeds!

PS - You are all lazy with posting as well!

Camp Maintence/ Wood Cutting Sept 5th-6th?

Who can do the 5th and 6th of Sept. @ the camp? Tasks; Re-shingle river side of camp, cut some wood, and have a fish. Leave your answer in comments.