Loads more detail will be on the upcoming podcast.
I dropped a lot of money on intruder style flies and it was a gamble.
Here is 90% of the tying material I packed to bring with me
A duffle of clothing layers
It took me 2 hours to cross the Potomac. One hour exit my county. I pulled over north of Scranton to sleep in the car a few hours and then got up at 4 for another hour and then pulled over again to sleep
Breakfast at Timbers. Something funny happened in there but as I will no longer speak to the individual after this trip and have removed any links and social media connections to this individual, that story will never be told (may be on the podcast). For any confusion out there, there is no animosity toward our lodging. We had a great time At The Trestle Pool Lodge.Warm lodging, fireplace, plenty of space to tie flies, 2 square meals a day, and comfy beds. Call Mark for lodging (Cash Only- which caught me by surprise)
Address: 2575 New York 13, Altmar, NY 13302
Phone:(908) 938-5791 or (315)298-1115
Now these are out of order thanks to Picassa and Blogger upload:
I got my steelhead on a Bloods Dot
It bent the hook
Snow day
Davenport with a fish
Khalil with a steelie
Davenport's first lake run brown
Stankus' shoulder bag with flash back pheasant tail
Later run salmon
Back at the room for a tying session to replace what was lost, destroyed, or determined to be the hot fly
Early morning casting
Davenport's steelie. She started to hook into fish after following 'the legend's' advice
Daily fly box update of what was working
Chartruse intruder. The fish that ate this was showed the most aggressive strike from a fish I have ever experienced. I lost the massive chrome as it swam under a log
Mixed color intruder
Major bundled up
Return from fishing to a crockpot of hot dogs
Blue and yellow Blood's dot
Stankus in the cold
Stankus on net duty
Giant water bug
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belostomatidae
Frozen intruder
Stankus with a steelie
Another view of the water bug
HUGE crayfish
Khalil taking a break
My turn to take a break. Often fell asleep sitting there
Davenport in the snow
The other creek north of town from Sunday
I only spent 45 min there on Sunday before heading to the LFZ
Tying
Stefano's pizza. Any NY pizza is better than local pie
No plates = use cardboard from the box to eat off
Morning breakfast. I slept in on Sunday
Someone parked a Willie boat outside my room to make me jealous
Rain on the way to the other river. Told you these were out of order
Sleet
Not a fan of people buying up land and then posting the shoreline for private use. The old school in Altmar
Lady Amherst at Malinda's
Pat Cohen flies
Forgot my stove lid so this rock was used. Note the rock wall to guard the stove from the fierce wind.
Off to the Altmar Hotel. New owners = DC Prices = thumbs down
Cheese curlz and PBR
Good burger
Small order of shoestring fries
I liberated some of this fake snow at Tops Grocery for fly tying
A nice steelie
Father and son with steelie. They used ShuFly rods
Middle brother had to hold everyones rods
Respect the chrome
"jumbo jane' pink Jumbo John. It got a solid take on the first swing and then nothing
Family portrait
This kid landed a monster
Underwater release
I started to throw flash back pheasant tails and the fish started to take them with gusto. Time to replace. I'll do a tutorial
Loading up pheasant tails
More tying
These barely missed my little piggies
Morning snow on the car
Miles with headlamp
0500 Trader Joes Chai Latte time
Release
Group shot
'The Legend' with his huge hen
Another trip to Malinda's. Spent most of my food money there. She put up a TPFR.org sticker
Cheese sandwich
I took the crockpot chicken noodle soup and froze it outside overnight so I could heat it up for breakfast
Blue intruders
Frosty morning
Heating up that soup
Another pig steelie
Sucker
More and more and more pheasant tails
This HUGE steelie CRUSHEd a pink and blue intruder
Then a glo bug to the face
And a chode of a lake run brown. Jason and I thought it was a carp it was so wide
Is that Godwin from Duck Dynasty?
A precariusly placed brat with
Producer Jason
Intruders for Jason
Drying flies by the fire
Last morning
Leftover salmon
One of the treats I brought back for the wife and the Irish
Stankus's pics:
Podcast soon