Sheesh,
Murf
Member: www.virtualflybox.com
From: "Jerry Goldsmith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [VFB] FW: MurphClave on the Tuck (long)
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 12:34:47 -0500
VFB (this is a summary of my recent 4 day trip to fish the
Tuckasegee River near Cashiers, North Carolina. The Clave was organized
on FF@ and the attendees are all members of that list. The Murph
mentioned in the post is not the VFB Murf. Steve Davenport is
on both VFB and FF@ as am I. Others on both lists
include Allan Fish, Jerry Caruso and myself. BTW- a Kreutzer
is full body fall in the water.
MurphClave on the Tuck-
Attendees-Host Mike Ray, Steve Davenport, Don Yelton,
Ben Benoit, Harold Jackson, Geoff Murphy and Me.
Highlights-
* 40- 50 fish to 20 each day double that for Don Yelton,
Mike Ray and Geoff Murphy.
the food- Ben Benoits incredible Pizza Thursday night,
Geoffs crawdad beignets and corn & seafood chowder
My omelets for breakfast, along with Geoffs biscuit
and gravy
Ben Benoits chicken barbeque
Brunswick stew (made by Diane Ray for the clave)
assorted other goodies and pastries including Geoffs
Ooey-Gooey pie
3-4 exquisite cigars each day
for the imbibers, a selection of beers and some vile tasting
scotch that others on the list have frequently praised
Bullsh*t great conversation and stories of past claves, fishing
trips and other life stories. Who Kreutzered and when, who caught what and
when, Do you remember whenwell you get the drift.
Two stories that were repeated often included when our claves name sake-
Bill Murphy walking through the screen door onto the porch and Steve
Davenports incredible 10 point plus quadruple Kreutzer with 3-4 subsequent
wallers when trying to recover my wading staff that had floated
downstream. To quote Larry the cable guy-if you dont think thats funny
your laugher is broke.
Don Yelton guiding Steve and I to several pockets loaded with trout.
Mike Ray being my Gillie on Saturday and putting me on two or three
amazing holes.
The annual Clave golf tournament.
Watching Florida survive a serious scare from Vanderbilt. (Mike, a
Vanderbilt Alum would list this as a low light)
Watching Miami TRASH Virginia Tech in a room filled with Hokie fans
Low Lights
Ben Benoits room clearing, nose hair singeing triple fudgy fart
My LDR of a truly 20+ inch magnificent Rainbow
My Kreutzer
Harold Jackson leaving early (hope all is well Harold)
Diane Rays absence. (she was in Scotland)
Steve Davenport breaking a rod.
I was going to loan Steve my 5 wt and when I took it out of the
tube,
I discovered that a mid section had been crushed.
* My ridiculous attempts to put a 5x or 6x tippet into size 14 or
smaller hook eyes. How on earth do you guys do it ?
Of course the reason we were there was fellowship and fishing. Both
were there ion abundance. Mike had suggested that because of the timing,
the fishing should have very good. It was better than that. It was
spectacular. I used only a 3 wt and caught more Trout than I have ever
caught. Browns,brookies and rainbows. Biggest were in the 16-18 range.
Buggers, nymphs, wets, dries, they all worked.
A great unexpected pleasure was the temperature. 60-70 degrees in the day.
I had packed layers of fleece and never wore any. Just a shirt under my
waders was sufficient.
An even greater unexpected pleasure. PEAK FOLIAGE. Indescribable beauty.
A tremendous THANK YOU for Mikes hospitality.
It was a fabulous clave.
JG
Jerry Goldsmith
Altamonte Springs, Fl
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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