I’m not going to pretend to know anything about this river. I do enjoy watching this sort of destruction. Awesome.

Best of all. I’m glad to see that the smoke monster from LOST found a new gig. One that really makes a difference. Pause the video at about the 25 second mark and see Smokey in action!

Streamer Punk

by: Will Rice

October 18, 2011

He is guilty.

He did it.

He confesses.

He comes clean.

He is a streamer punk.

Simple ideas turn to thoughts: Streamers in the fall—there are few things he enjoys more. 5X? No. 4X? Nope. 3X? Maybe… if the water is clear. 2X? These fish aren’t leader shy and matching the hatch is not exactly scientific.

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A near and dear friend spent some time in southern CO recently. He’s the kind of guy that would travel from Dallas to wherever you needed help building a guest house, as long as you promised him some fishing. In this case he was in southern CO visiting a friend that, well, needed help building a guest house. Being that he is a friend of the Hatchless bunch, a very good friend, more like a brother of mine, I promised I’d share his reports from while he was there.

First couple of days… Built a guest house… BlAhBlaHblAH.

Here’s his reports, daily as requested, since we’re too lazy to get off the Au Sable and go elsewhere regardless of when and where else we’re invited.

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 I saw this article and could only think this can’t be good in the long run. Sure, there won’t be as many trucks (see, Megaloads) hauling stuff from way up north and that’s kinda cool. What scares me is that these things will make mining and access a whole lot easier. Read the article. Probably not good.

This post from the guys at Old Au Sable pretty much sums it up.

Here’s the soundtrack for those days when you are ready to settle in and commit to sticking with it.

Clean up weekend is here! Well, next weekend anyway. September 10th is THE day. Saturday after Labor Day. Its that weekend that no one but everyone looks forward to. Its the perfect kind of a weekend to introduce new folks to the resource that we love. Come one come all! This year we are taking a group of 8 down the river in search of trash. Some new folks, some trash collectin’ vets. The good thing is that all are excited to purge the river of the filth that has accumulated over the long, hot summer. If you are interested you can sign up here. Just send an email and get your “beat”. Great raffle and door prizes await those that participate! The ASBWPA runs a killer event! Come on out and get some!

Afterwards… we will all fish.

Via The Chum. Looks like fun to me. Where do I sign up? …and who’s paying for it?

Didn’t get to fish today. All the “locals” are still pretty much blown. Bummer. Wifey is away so I got control of the “pooter” and listened to some punk rock tonight instead of our usual stuff. I’m enjoying it so much I figured I’d share.

Might fish in the morning if the river has potential. We’ll see.

I will apologize in advance for the lack of video footage. Just enjoy the music (if you’re punk enough), if not, go here instead.

Prize Country

I just discovered this band last weekend. Its all my favorite late 80′s and early 90′s hardcore bands rolled in to one. Good stuff.They just broke up but check more out HERE. These guys re-kindled a lot of old music flames in me.

Drive Like Jehu

Underfuckinrated! These guys killed it in the early to mid 90′s. It would probably go well with that bluefish slaughter video you’ve been hiding from the purists.

Kerosene 454

All time favorite. Well worth a few songs.

7″s of goodness.

Metroschifter

Ummmmmm… J. Cash!

Texas is the Reason

This past Saturday I was at Mike’s for dinner and he reminded me of a funny time we had on the Huron this winter searching for random steelhead. We were in the boat and I was in the back of the boat which is a rare occurrence since I am a whiny drift boat owner that doesn’t like to fish from the back of my own boat. Whatever…

Anyway, being the whiny bitch that I am, I also don’t like to have the anchor “kerplunked” in the water when approaching a pool that may hold fish. I suspect that from the fishes perspective you may as well just do a cannonball off the boat. It would probably end in the same result. So here’s the basics:

Anchor: Kersploosh!

Me (to Mike): Hey plunky. Splash that anchor again and I’m gonna hop over this brace and punch you in the face!

Mike (to me): I was trying to get you wet.

Me (to Mike, head shaking): Yeah? Well next time try rubbing the inside of my thigh.

We got skunked that day as we have every other day we have fished that river for steel.

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