FOR MARK May your GOD be your fishing partner.
From: [email protected] To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [VFB] I'm Back Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 11:19:12 -0600 for the list Allan, welcome home.......and i've got some special Stoneflies, i'm going to give you one of. It came from a box of them i won in a silent auction at the FFF International Conclave one year. i'll have it for you at the FFF Southern Council Conclave in Oct. You ARE comming to tye i pressume? i saw a special on the internet all about the Elk and Bears in Estes Park. We're gonna vist there in Aug. mark > Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 11:38:16 -0400 > To: > From: [email protected] > Subject: [VFB] I'm Back > > > My apologies to those of you on multiple lists - you'll get this > multiple times. > a. > > We just got back after a week in bee-yoo-tiful Colorado. We spent > most of the time sight-seeing in the gorgeous Rockies. Saw lots of > wildlife. Not all of it was in the wilderness. There were some > pretty wild looking things roaming the streets of Estes Park over the > weekend. > > On the other hand, there were some truly wild animials right in town. > We were greeted into Estes Park by a herd of about 30 cow elk with > about 20 calves. They were grazing nearly downtown (on the grounds > of the fire station). Although we didn't see any, the local paper > was talking about the many problems they were having with about 10 > black bears roaming the town. > > We got in one fantastic day of fishing on the Big Thompson below the > canyon. Great fishing. Great catching, too. Unfortunately (for my > ego), my wife caught the biggest one (19" rainbow). We mostly caught > rainbows but we each caught a couple of 14-16" browns. She also > hooked into one that was guess-timated to be 5-8 lb., but it decided > to go a different direction and snapped the 7-lb test flourocarbon > leader. > > A stonefly imitation was the killer fly, even though the stonefly > hatch had pretty well ended the week before. ALL fish were on a > heavily weighted stonefly with sili-legs. Now if I can just learn to > tie them before my next trip out there. > > a. > -- > Allan Fish > Greenwood, IN > [email protected] > > > Windows Live™ SkyDrive™: Get 25 GB of free online storage. Get it on your BlackBerry or iPhone. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
