Vagina.
with the kids, only a few times, but fun.
however, 11 days out from taking the daughters to alaska to go adventuring with my long-time buddies and their daughters. hopefully i'll have some fish tales of a more current and notable variety then.
maybe even some of these:
with many of extra's policy opinions. He's also a valuable member of this board and a person I'd genuinely like to fish or bird hunt with . Who would devote his post??
Has made some unconventional choices in his life that have allowed road trips to the AK...not horribly expensive if driving and staying with friends or camping. There's a lot of humblebrag around hete , I think Extra's posts are strait.
did not mean to humblebrag. my buddies live in AK. we just need to get there and the rest is splitting the cost of food and fuel, buying our bear tags and fishing licenses, thats about it. i'm guessing we'll spend considerably less than what other folks spend to go to FL in winter, or up north this time of year.
is true we grow/raise/harvest lots of our own food (beef and lettuce tonight) and drive salvage vehicles without debt, make bio-diesel when fuel is expensive, etc. those are some of the choices but they do help out in the aggregate with expenses. a lot.
and jmd, you are 'on' for fishing or bird hunting. just let me know when you are headed north.
your family will love you for it. there are jobs in the northern lower and the UP. maybe something different, maybe not as lucrative, but there are trade-offs to be made and at least for our family, it has been worth it x 1000. cold call places, look around, make friends, think of other careers that can pay the bills. housing is cheaper. insurance probably is too.
you only get one shot, so don't just go along b/c it kind of happens.
Yes, you can't vote twice but you can change your vote.
but a very dear friend sent a pic of a lovely 20" brown. I've caught fish in the same spot, I enjoyed it vicariously.
bluegills. Those and sunfish will eat a dry hook. Out for dinner Saturday night at a restaurant on a lake, I watched a kid catch bluegills every time he put his line in the water off the dock, like 22 consecutive times before I had to stop counting.
I had my best night bass fishing ever on Friday night. I caught good size large-mouth on consecutive casts. I must not have fished for almost 15 years but over the last 2-3 I've been out more and more. It is almost the perfect activity when you have a child. I got back into by taking my daughter out to catch a few blue gill and now I have a stuffed tackle box. I caught a big Northern pike last year and my goal this year was to get a nice smallmouth and catch some decent walleye.
no fishing, but camped on the escanaba river up here in the upper peninsula this weekend, where robert traver used to fish
John D. Voelker, UMich Law '28
.....sorry. A bit of color... A neighbor of mine was a fishing buddy of Voelker's and his son owns at least 1 of his grass sticks
i would suggest hemingway. he explains the allure of fishing better than i ever could. see: big two-hearted river.
year in August. My kids pretty much learned to fly fish on that stream. The nearby Driggs is also very good.
I'm fishing the Fox in about a week for the first time, I've seen mixed reviews on how wadeable it is. Do you have any insight?
The Campground was on my list of spots to try, thanks! I was figuring on attractor patterns mostly unless I luck into a hatch. I'm really looking forward to it, my wife has never caught a brookie. I'm hoping the campground we are staying at will have some more info about safe wading spots. My wife's river legs aren't up to a challenging wade yet
Good to know, thanks for the intel! We're hoping for some 3 weight fun for a few days!
Noted... all of my other intel was telling me the same thing so I have purchased a variety of repellents and some gimmicky looking things as well, hopefully something works!