From: markflie...@hotmail.com
May your GOD be your fishing partner. To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com; desert-tr...@hotmail.com Subject: RE: [VFB] Re: A couple of fishing related questions... Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:45:54 -0600 WOW! Hebgen gulpers......serious bow fishin'. i've done it from a Pontoon on a couple other lakes in Montana but never Hebgen. i only got to look at Hebgen, lol. Just hearin' you tell the story is great though......i LOVE Montana. Tony, sure hope you get well quick. Patrick Brennen came over tonight for our Wed. nights tyin' eve. What a nice guy......we're doin' it every Wed. night, as long as we're home, from now on. Spread the word. > Subject: [VFB] Re: A couple of fishing related questions... > From: t...@comcast.net > Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:51:22 -0600 > To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > > > I'm fine. I have another minor operation scheduled in October to > tweek my plumbing, and if that goes well, I will be pretty much the > same as I was before the surgery (just a little extra gear added)! > > I haven't posted much out of laziness more than anything else. Plus I > didn't have a lot to say. I spent a good deal of my summer trying to > get my new boat to actually run, in fact we had the first fully > successful run last night! We nick-named her the "Hell-bitch" after > Captain Call's famous horse (from the movie Lonesome Dove), like the > horse, the motor is touchy, but fast when it gets going, it will > cruise at about 45 mph which probably isn't particularly fast for a > bass boat, but fast enough for me. It is an older boat, a 1990 > Ranger with a 150 HP 1996 Evinrude engine (2 stroke). It needed > about $650.00 in carb work and a little trial and error to finally get > it to run properly. I have to ride the choke or have someone pump > the fuel ball when bringing it up to speed on a cold start or it will > stall during the initial acceleration. It probably will need a new > fuel pump eventually, but I'm going to live with the work around for > now. Once it gets up to speed and warmed up, it works great. > > I did do some fishing at Hebgen Lake (my first time) I stayed at a > nice little private campground on the Madison arm. Get ready by 8:00 > am, carry the pontoon boat 30 feet, and your in the water. For two or > three hours each morning I had pretty steady action stripping tandem > BHPT nymphs, (the "Gulpers" never got going for dry fly fishing), but > the fish were there, feeding in the weed beds. The biggest problem I > had was break-offs, I think I landed only 1 fish for every five I > hooked! They are big fish and easy to break off with the 5x tippet I > was using, since they were smart enough to dive for the weed beds. > > Tom > > > On Sep 7, 2009, at 12:03 PM, Neville Gosling wrote: > > > > > > > HI Tom: > > > > I haven't seen a post from you in a long time. How are you doing > > since your > > ordeal that started last December? It is good to see that you are > > still > > posting. > > > > Neville (Nev) Gosling > > Greater Vancouver > > BC Canada > > > > > > > > > > > Hotmail® is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. Try it now. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
