Nobody welcomed the noobs?????????????????????????

[laatsch55]

Jeez guys, I leave for 8 days, Sheesh!! Looks like we can officially start the Bryston 4B lottery. What ya got cooked up for that Jer?

 

[orange]

I'm up all night and sleep into the late afternoon. Glad to see you didn't freeze like a popsicle, think it's already snowed in Montana...?

 

[laatsch55]

Oh, I'm sure Steve.

 

[jbeckva]

Jeez guys, I leave for 8 days, Sheesh!! Looks like we can officially start the Bryston 4B lottery. What ya got cooked up for that Jer?

LOL.. wellll... that was with the old forum stuff. Gotta figure out how to "bridge" from this vb software.

Put 'em in a hat and draw.. that'll work.

 

[orange]

i'm not in this and I can see the member list to see who qualifies...why don't I set up the drawing?

 

[orange]

We only have FOUR confirmed contestants.

Pure Brew

ksrigg

Fairchild

and Elite-ist (Nando)

Here is what I'll do

I will print 5 slips of each name and place them in a bag, shaking thoroughly and reach in to pull one slip.

The winner will be announced in twenty minutes.

If Funk or Wagnalls tell you anything, they lie.

 

[orange]

The official bag

 

[orange]

Creation of the slips and into the bag

 

[orange]

The Draw!

 

[orange]

The WINNER!

 

[orange]

Congratulations to Nando!

 

[orange]

Floppy disc saved for verification if you wish.

 

[orange]

OOPS!

I jumped the gun!

I went of the people that said they were in and now Lee says it was for anybody with 10 posts...

I was going to go through the member list originally...

Lee says wait a week.

At least Somebody got to it!

 

[laatsch55]

Appreciate the effort Steve. I have started a new announcement.

 

[NavLinear]

Jeez guys, I leave for 8 days, Sheesh!! Looks like we can officially start the Bryston 4B lottery. What ya got cooked up for that Jer?

Welcome back Lee. Being out in the great outdoors doing something "primitave" like hunting or fishing or.... can be a major stress release and it's way fun. Purge all brain cells and do what comes natural.

I'm fairly new to forem speak so how does one know to respond to a newbee? This assumes you'll be going on another fishing trip or whatever in the future.

 

[speakerman1]

Carly and I were on the deck. I was remembering the fall. I told her the boys growing up got frisky this time of year. Wood fires starting. Start tracking the deer's movements. It was rutting season also. If you ever thought that I would put a piece of tail before my friends you were right. This was the season to go find something. LOL Good ole farm girls got that twitch in their tail also. Watch a Whitetail doe twitch that tail around. LOL I like to fish. I respect a man that can pop a fly. Rainbow trout can test a line. That is a fight. They will break water. Takes a lot of practice to lay that fly in the same spot. We don't fly fish much here. Different streams. Hard to float the line. We use different things for different fish. Get a big Large Mouth bass on a 6,7,8 lb test. Your cranking drag, just enough to fight him and not loose him. I have never gotten one. It starts getting tired you rest him. How you do any fish. You fish for food. The fight is the fun. Mono ah Mono. Shouldn't do that though. "Animal Rights" nice Oxymoron. Hunters know what they are doing. It is very hard to over cull a heard. Less deer harder to hunt. It becomes a challenge to hunt there. You like to get deer. The hunt is a big part of it. You go in before dawn and you sit. You don't move. It is cold out. Your an old farm kid. You have long johns on, 3 coats. As many gloves that you could still pull the trigger. 3 pairs of socks. Uninsulated boots because you couldn't afford the insulated ones. Your uncle took you and told you where to sit. Lunch time that your Aunts had cooked you came in. LOL Cold as all get out. I would like to learn to fly fish though. It would be a challenge. How many test do you use Lee?

 

[speakerman1]

Where are the new guys listed? Doesn't mean anything I'm just asking.

 

[orange]

Under COMMUNITY in the links at the top.

 

[laatsch55]

5X-4 lb tippets. Mostly nymphing on that stretch of river. No topwater stuff. There are hatches almost every day of the year. 4 species of mayflies, 2 species of caddisfly and golden stoneflies. Most bugs are taken in the larval and nymph stages and as they emerge from their shucks and head for the surface they get hit again. 95% of a trouts diet is subsurface buggin. Nymphing doesn't take the finesse of dry flies but you do have to make drag free drifts, and in cross currents and swirls, it's kinda tough. Been fly fishin since I was 15, been going to that part of the river since Grandpa Pitts started taking me there when I was 8. Haven't seriously fly fished except for the last 5 years, before I had my spinnin rod and all kinds of hardware and when it was real tough, nightcrawlers. The kids and I have tied into some down there that have walked through 30 lb Spiderwire. This last trip I hooked one and had him on for as long as it took him to rip off 75 feet of flyline and 200 feet of backing. He cleared the water a hundred yards downriver and STILL LOOKED BIG!! Couldn't get on the bank soon enough to run him down. He was in the 15-18 lb range.

 

[laatsch55]

Welcome back Lee. Being out in the great outdoors doing something "primitave" like hunting or fishing or.... can be a major stress release and it's way fun. Purge all brain cells and do what comes natural.

I'm fairly new to forem speak so how does one know to respond to a newbee? This assumes you'll be going on another fishing trip or whatever in the future.

I just watch the newest member listing at the bottopm of the index page, and put a welcome thread in "Introductions".
Yep Nav, fishin the river heals me up, has been for 50 years.