Well, I just typed quite possibly the longest, most detailed report ever on CF. Then IE froze on me and I lost it all.
I’ll have to do it again tomorrow if I find the motivation.
That’s all for now.
Pillage and plunder with a 9wt and a fist full of clousers.
Did you ever get to try the mouse-fly in NZ? Hopefully that was what your report was about!
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Jerms. A little trick I use when posting to various forums.
Type your post in a text editor first. Then cut and paste when you’re ready. You’ll never lose another post.
Happy New Year to all here. 2010 is the year I catch my first fish otf.
Pics… too tired to type up the story so these will have to do for now.
These pics were all taken within about 5 or 6 hours.
Limestone gorges, 17 rainbows from 3-6 pounds, a lost net, a gentleman I ran across who found and returned my net, a lost 8 or 9 pound rainbow due to not having that net, pics of less than half the fish, a cave that I explored on my hike out with a Kiwi couple I ran into at the mouth of the cave, and a 1/2 mile trek underground. I love that place…
****ing sick!!!
Mad Mike
"to hell with insane… I’m OUTsane!!! "
holy hell Jerms, those pics are amazing dude! the birds eye of the bow in the clear net is epic, like the movie ET,
Thanks guys!
Optiker, I did get to fish mouse flies… I picked up three of them from a shop and hit a small spring creek for the last couple of hours before dark. On my third cast I had a big brown follow and refuse the fly at the very last second. Ten minutes later I get another big boy to stick his head out of the water and slurp the fly down. As soon as I set he exploded out of the water and through some willow bracnches that were just a foot or so above the surface, wrapping my flyline up pretty bad. Obviously the leader busted and I nearly didn’t get my flylin back it was so bad.
On to mouse fly #2… Moved down to another good pool and had a fish explode on the thing. I never saw him coming in the failing light and it took me completely by surprise. No chance here, he popped the leader when he hit.
Fly #3… One more mousie, so of course I place it solidly in the higher branches of a willow on my backcast. Unrecoverable.
I guess I should have bought ten of them?
Pillage and plunder with a 9wt and a fist full of clousers.
Excellent. One of these days!
18.5 Baycraft Flats Edition
Johnson 150 Oceanrunner
Wood Driftboat
You are really going to hate NC now!
“The good fisherman is surprised when he doesn’t catch fish: I am just the other way around.”
Gene Hill, Passing a Good Time.
WOW!!!
maybe one day:roll_eyes:
Jerms,
Awesome pics. I think you should enter a few of them in the Coastal Carolina Fair next fall. I bet you win a prize!
Too bad about your mouse flies, but It looks like it didnt matter 
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Those are amazing pictures Jerms. Truly inspiring.
Chris.
I can’t even begin to tell you how jealous and excited I am for you at the same time. And to think that a lot of those pics aren’t from the “Nice” camera. I really hope I can make a trip with you sometime soon!
Fantastic pictures. Thanks for sharing with all of us.
I’m no superhero, but I do wear a cape sometimes…
