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- Dan ... that trout was caught on a rare wet fly no longer available anywhere, so far as my BIL and myself have been able to determine.
My BIL obtained some many years ago from an "old fishing gentleman" and we've been using from that dwindling stock ever since. He's trying to locate the closet he can find. We may have to resort to hiring a custom fly tier to reconstruct some by looking at a photo.
That was just about the only fly that connected on this recent trip, as well as on many other trips. It brought in several nice trout a few weeks ago for a great fish fry at our dry camping site in the trees along the shore of the lake.
Viva California. ;) - Phil, that trout is amazing -- and just imagine what you could've caught with a bigger hook baited with a hundred dollar bill!!
JAC1982 wrote:
It's the only thing I miss about California
We haven't given up on CA yet - because we live here.
Here's one of our two most spectacular drycamping spots, it's in CA, and we camped there for a week earlier this month:
Here's one of the 24 inch things from the water at that spot:
Way off topic, but for what it's worth our other spectacular drycamping spot is on Antelope Island in Utah:
- Thanks for sharing these pictures. I grew up in Visalia and these are the areas I grew up camping in. It's the only thing I miss about California :)
- Yes, but not in the Sierras. There is some good big-rig boondocking on the north rim of the Grand Canyon, way out in the Kaibab National Forest. Take it slow -- the potholes are deep -- but we did see a few big RVs out in the Rainbow Rim area.
The Rainbow Rim has a great mountain bike and hiking trail -- not too difficult, and some decent views. Nice and cool -- over 7000 feet. This was the view from our campsite at 5 am one morning -- this is why they call it the Rainbow Rim:
Click For Full-Size Image.
And there are areas in Utah that offer big-rig boondocking -- northwest of Bryce, for example. But the mountain roads in California tend to be narrow and rough, without decent places to turn around. We often have to do a three point turn with our little trailer, which is just 15 feet from the back to the coupler. (It's usually seventeen points by the time we're done, but you get the idea.) - That looks like a great spot. I'm on the search for places that can accomodate a 35' 5'er. Do they exist?
profdant139 wrote:
Len, this was definitely a king snake, not coral, and it had a black nose. I propose an alternate rule -- "if the snake has a nose, stay away from it." ;)
I should have enlarged the pic. Hmmm. Maybe my parents were trying to get rid of me. Could explain 3rd grade when they moved while I was at school.profdant139 wrote:
And Phil, there is some awesome geology in Kings and Sequoia -- on the Big Baldy hike, for example, at around 8000 feet the trail crosses the contact zone between the underlying granitic batholith and the metamorphic "country rock" that was pushed up out of the way by the rising Sierras. At the precise point of contact, the heat vitrified some of the metamorphic stuff. Very exciting for those of us who like rocks!
I have been told, however, that this is not so exciting for the spouse of the rock enthusiast who is a little tired of hearing about orogeny. She no longer finds it uplifting, so to speak.
Dan,
My DW is the rockhound - she studied it in college.
I fully support her in this, especially on RV trips. Some of the places where we have to go to do it make fantastic RV boondocking areas, with most times no other campers anywhere nearby. i.e. Remote, sometimes barren, and sometimes hot:
- Len, this was definitely a king snake, not coral, and it had a black nose. I propose an alternate rule -- "if the snake has a nose, stay away from it." ;)
- I grew up with an easier coral snake identifier: Nose black, stay back!
LS
