"Who ever said "A bad day of fishing is always better than a good day at
work." Never had their boat sink."

Anonymous

Jimmy D. Moore, "BIGTROUTMAN"  I FISH BECAUSE I MUST!
More importantly, I fish because my Dad taught me!
Author,Outdoor Writer,TOWA, GRTU
Owner/Webmaster - Worldwide Flyfishing Info.
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The traveller fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of
it at least; but the angler only sees the inside. The angler only is
brought close, face to face with the flower and bird and insect life of
the rich river banks, the only part of the landscape where the hand of
man has never interfered.

  Charles Kingsley, 1890

HAVE  A  GREAT  DAY  !

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Jimmy D. Moore, "BIGTROUTMAN"  I FISH BECAUSE I MUST!
More importantly, I fish because my Dad taught me!
Author,Outdoor Writer,TOWA, GRTU
Owner/Webmaster - Worldwide Flyfishing Info.
http://www.BIGTROUTMAN.homestead.com/MainPage.html

A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.

Arnold Gingrich


CHEERS !

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Jimmy D. Moore, "BIGTROUTMAN"  I FISH BECAUSE I MUST!
More importantly, I fish because my Dad taught me!
Author,Outdoor Writer,TOWA, GRTU
Owner/Webmaster - Worldwide Flyfishing Info.
http://www.BIGTROUTMAN.homestead.com/MainPage.html

To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats
and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and
two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and
children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other
where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

Have A Great Day !

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Jimmy D. Moore, "BIGTROUTMAN"  I FISH BECAUSE I MUST!
More importantly, I fish because my Dad taught me!
Author,Outdoor Writer,TOWA, GRTU
Owner/Webmaster - Worldwide Flyfishing Info.
http://www.BIGTROUTMAN.homestead.com/MainPage.html

If we carry purism to it's logical conclusion, to do it right you'd have
to live naked in a cave, hit your trout on the head with rocks, and eat
them raw. But, so as not to violate another essential element of the
fly-fishing tradition, the rocks would have to be quarried in England
and cost $300 each.

  John Gierach

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Jimmy D. Moore, "BIGTROUTMAN"  I FISH BECAUSE I MUST!
More importantly, I fish because my Dad taught me!
Author,Outdoor Writer,TOWA, GRTU
Owner/Webmaster - Worldwide Flyfishing Info.
http://www.BIGTROUTMAN.homestead.com/MainPage.html

-- Jimmy D. Moore, "BIGTROUTMAN" I FISH BECAUSE I MUST! More importantly, I fish because my Dad taught me!
Author,Outdoor Writer,TOWA, GRTU Owner/Webmaster - Worldwide Flyfishing Info.
http://www.BIGTROUTMAN.homestead.com/MainPage.html 

Robin, if you get TXN  "Texas Cable News" , they're the sister station to KENS-TV in San Antone.  They've been broadcasting KENS-TV live for two days now.  This is the best place to get up to date info.

JIMMY
**************

Robin Rhyne wrote:

Jimmy

That is awful, prayers out the families that lost loved ones. I hope that word is out and folks are staying away and safe.

I appreciate the updates and info on South Texas rivers and hope to get down there some day in the future.

best

Robin
RRhyne56

At 07:40 PM 7/4/02, you wrote:

Just heard that a guy kayaking on one of the swollen rivers drowned
while waiting on his rescuers to get to him.  He was talking to them on
his cellphone and said he knew the danger, but was compelled to try the
waters anyway.  Before they could reach him he was swept away.

The death toll is now 7.  Please say a prayer for those in the flooded
areas around Canyon Lake and the Guadalupe.    The trout will survive,
but it's the people who live around Canyon Dam that I'm worried about. I
have good fly fishing friends who live on the banks of the Guad.

Jimmy


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More importantly, I fish because my Dad taught me!
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Owner/Webmaster - Worldwide Flyfishing Info.
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Jimmy

That is awful, prayers out the families that lost loved ones. I hope that word is out and folks are staying away and safe.

I appreciate the updates and info on South Texas rivers and hope to get down there some day in the future.

best

Robin
RRhyne56

At 07:40 PM 7/4/02, you wrote:

Just heard that a guy kayaking on one of the swollen rivers drowned
while waiting on his rescuers to get to him.  He was talking to them on
his cellphone and said he knew the danger, but was compelled to try the
waters anyway.  Before they could reach him he was swept away.

The death toll is now 7.  Please say a prayer for those in the flooded
areas around Canyon Lake and the Guadalupe.    The trout will survive,
but it's the people who live around Canyon Dam that I'm worried about. I
have good fly fishing friends who live on the banks of the Guad.

Jimmy


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More importantly, I fish because my Dad taught me!
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Owner/Webmaster - Worldwide Flyfishing Info.
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Just heard that a guy kayaking on one of the swollen rivers drowned
while waiting on his rescuers to get to him.  He was talking to them on
his cellphone and said he knew the danger, but was compelled to try the
waters anyway.  Before they could reach him he was swept away.

The death toll is now 7.  Please say a prayer for those in the flooded
areas around Canyon Lake and the Guadalupe.    The trout will survive,
but it's the people who live around Canyon Dam that I'm worried about. I
have good fly fishing friends who live on the banks of the Guad.

Jimmy


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More importantly, I fish because my Dad taught me!
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Owner/Webmaster - Worldwide Flyfishing Info.
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-- Jimmy D. Moore, "BIGTROUTMAN" I FISH BECAUSE I MUST! More importantly, I fish because my Dad taught me!
Author,Outdoor Writer,TOWA, GRTU Owner/Webmaster - Worldwide Flyfishing Info.
http://www.BIGTROUTMAN.homestead.com/MainPage.html 

Just heard that a guy kayaking on one of the swollen rivers drowned
while waiting on his rescuers to get to him.  He was talking to them on
his cellphone and said he knew the danger, but was compelled to try the
waters anyway.  Before they could reach him he was swept away.

The death toll is now 7.  Please say a prayer for those in the flooded
areas around Canyon Lake and the Guadalupe.    The trout will survive,
but it's the people who live around Canyon Dam that I'm worried about. I
have good fly fishing friends who live on the banks of the Guad.

Jimmy


--
Jimmy D. Moore, "BIGTROUTMAN"  I FISH BECAUSE I MUST!
More importantly, I fish because my Dad taught me!
Author,Outdoor Writer,TOWA, GRTU
Owner/Webmaster - Worldwide Flyfishing Info.
http://www.BIGTROUTMAN.homestead.com/MainPage.html

-- Jimmy D. Moore, "BIGTROUTMAN" I FISH BECAUSE I MUST! More importantly, I fish because my Dad taught me!
Author,Outdoor Writer,TOWA, GRTU Owner/Webmaster - Worldwide Flyfishing Info.
http://www.BIGTROUTMAN.homestead.com/MainPage.html 

April 1st, 1878 - Opening day. Fished Halfway brook from Morgan brook to, and through the woods; then fished Ogden brook from Van Husen's road to Gleason's. Banks more than full of roily snow water; weather decidedly cold; strong wind from the Northwest; cloudy sky. Caught one small trout that I returned to his native element to grow; discovered from my single specimen of the Salvelinus fontinalis that they have the same bright spots that they have always had; look the same, smell the same, feel the same; other peculiarities lacking. Warm sun and rain required to develop the characteristics we so much admire in our leaping friend. Managed to fall into the Ogden brook - in fact went in without the slightest difficulty, amid applause from the bank; discovered from my involuntary plunge that the water is just as wet as last year, and if memory serves, a trifle colder. Reached home in the evening, cold, wet, tired and hungry. Nevertheless, had a mostglorious time.
- A. Nelson Cheney, 1878

Happy 4th!

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More importantly, I fish because my Dad taught me!
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I have an Old Town Canoe for sale.
>
>Model: Pack 12' 33 lbs green solo used once.
>
>Width 32", Width at 4" waterline 31 3/4", Bow Height 16 2/3,
>Depth 11 1/2", Capacity 400lbs.
>
>Paid $649.00  will sale for $550.00.
>
>Includes single paddle $50.00 value.
>
>Please reply off list if interested.
>
>Thanks,
>Bill Higdon
>830 964 5565

I will answer this question as it pertains to the large bass I've taken
over the years.  No bragging here, but I quit counting when I hit 30
bass over 8 pounds.   I've never caught a large bass in open or really
deep water.  All have been caught in heavy cover, i.e. weedbeds,
laydowns, treetops, pockets, ect.   Most of them were caught right on
the edge of the above, in water from two to six feet deep, even in
winter, adjacent to deep water - an easy escape route. I've taken them
on all kinds of  lures:  buzzbaits, jigs, stickbaits, small and large
plastic worms, tube lures, poppers, clousers.

Stealth is very important because large bass are very wary.  They don't
grow to that size by accident. Believe me, they're just as discerning as
a trout and just as easily spooked.

Patience, presentation and lure color is also very important with large
bass. Patience to thouroughly, carefully and stealthily work a likely
spot before moving on.  Presentation: putting the lure/fly in the right
proximity.  Color:  What is the predominant food source, i.e. on Lake
Fork, red is the preferred color because of the reddish crawfish.

Cheers,

JIMMY
***********************************************************************

Bill Higdon wrote:

>I agree, It usually takes a combination of factors to catch different
>species of fish.  The one factor that I see common in all species, to catch
>large fish is location.  Example: the larger trout tend to be at the best
>feeding station in an area (head of the pecking order), large bass and pan
>fish seem to move to an outer edge area close to deep water.  Smaller bass
>and pan fish live longer by taking shelter and hiding from predators, but
>big bass tend to move out and dominate.  With age, trial and error
>experiences while growing up in their environment teaches larger and older
>fish which areas are best suited to their needs, and they instinctively set
>up in locations with idea conditions.  The exception, is spawning season.
>
>Comments........
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: rhyne75069 [mailto:rrhyne56@...]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 8:35 AM
>To: hillcountryflyfishers@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [hillcountryflyfishers] latest poll
>
>Here is some food for discussion. The poll options boil down a bit in
>my humble opinion.
>
>Location covering the water depth and other environmental factors.
>
>Stealth is vital but maybe not so much for bass as for other species.
>
>Presentation really fits in as do the pattern at times.
>
>IMHO there really is no one answer but a combo of them all to
>consistently catch beeg feeshes.
>
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More importantly, I fish because my Dad taught me!
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Owner/Webmaster - Worldwide Flyfishing Info.
http://www.BIGTROUTMAN.homestead.com/MainPage.html

I agree, It usually takes a combination of factors to catch different
species of fish.  The one factor that I see common in all species, to catch
large fish is location.  Example: the larger trout tend to be at the best
feeding station in an area (head of the pecking order), large bass and pan
fish seem to move to an outer edge area close to deep water.  Smaller bass
and pan fish live longer by taking shelter and hiding from predators, but
big bass tend to move out and dominate.  With age, trial and error
experiences while growing up in their environment teaches larger and older
fish which areas are best suited to their needs, and they instinctively set
up in locations with idea conditions.  The exception, is spawning season.

Comments........

-----Original Message-----
From: rhyne75069 [mailto:rrhyne56@...]
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 8:35 AM
To: hillcountryflyfishers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [hillcountryflyfishers] latest poll

Here is some food for discussion. The poll options boil down a bit in
my humble opinion.

Location covering the water depth and other environmental factors.

Stealth is vital but maybe not so much for bass as for other species.

Presentation really fits in as do the pattern at times.

IMHO there really is no one answer but a combo of them all to
consistently catch beeg feeshes.


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That would be great……..please add to your quote list.

 

 

TNX, Bill.  BTW would you like for me to include the Hillcountry Flyfishers Listserve with my daily fishing quotes?  I saw your response to today's quote on the vfb/ffw ;~))

Cheers,

JIMMY

Jimmy D. Moore, "BIGTROUTMAN" I FISH BECAUSE I MUST! More importantly, I fish because my Dad taught me!
Author,Outdoor Writer,TOWA, GRTU Owner/Webmaster - Worldwide Flyfishing Info.
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Jimmy,

 

According to the group settings, you should be able to vote as a member of the group.   I sent a message to Yahoo Groups to let them know you have an issue.   I will let you know when they respond.

 

You might try, going to the Hill Country Fly Fishers home page, click on the polls link, and see if you can vote from there.  

 

Let me know if it works……or not.

 

Bill

 

Here is some food for discussion. The poll options boil down a bit in
my humble opinion.

Location covering the water depth and other environmental factors.

Stealth is vital but maybe not so much for bass as for other species.

Presentation really fits in as do the pattern at times.

IMHO there really is no one answer but a combo of them all to
consistently catch beeg feeshes.

Enter your vote today!  A new poll has been created for the 
hillcountryflyfishers group:

If you could choose only one, what is 
the most important factor in catching a 
big fish {4 lbs +)? 

  o Location 
  o Cover 
  o Type Pattern 
  o Presentation 
  o Type Water (deep, shalow, etc.) 
  o Stealth Approach
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Owner/Webmaster - Worldwide Flyfishing Info.
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Enter your vote today!  A new poll has been created for the
hillcountryflyfishers group:

If you could choose only one, what is
the most important factor in catching a
big fish {4 lbs +)?

   o Location
   o Cover
   o Type Pattern
   o Presentation
   o Type Water (deep, shalow, etc.)
   o Stealth Approach


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Thanks!

I live on the Guadalupe River about 7.5 miles below Canyon Dam.  As
of this morning the river was back in the banks but running high (all
the runoff)and very muddy.

There is a flash flood watch for all of today.

Does anyone else have info on other rivers or streams.

Bill

This is a very new discussion group for fly fishers of the Texas Hill
Country Rivers and Streams.

Please jump right in and tell us what your latest fly fishing
experience in the Texas Hill Country was like.