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I can tell you Sprite Lk at the top of Paddy Go Easy Pass is still 90% ice as of Monday. It’ll be a week of warm weather for it to open all the way.
Kent – there is already just what you’re talking about. The contest is for both distance and accuracy for both spinning and fly casting. Longest cast and closest to the peg. See you there!
Rex told me last night that it would be the 22nd which is a bummer for me as I have another trip scheduled for that time. Given what has happened in the past, however, it may still change.
Jeff –
There is a way trail down from Skaro and Neori to Found and it’s an easy route from Snowking to there.
– PeteCliff – If you and Michael are both going to be at the HL summer picnic meeting maybe you could bring it for “show and tell”.
– PeteRich O’Connell has a clever one that is two pieces of wood in a scissor configuration. Folds into a net length skinny package and when you grab both parts of the handle it opens up into a triangle shaped net. Pretty cool actually. I think he must be on a trip now as he hasn’t posted for a bit. In BC I think. He can tell you where it can be seen. In the meantime – your hand is about as light as it gets! 🙂
– PeteKeith – the Tanks have been planted in the past, but have not held fish sucessfully. Just beautiful lakes to go see.
– PeteAndy – I think it depends on if you’re talking late spring cold water or early winter cold water. The later case is more chancy as, like Dave said, food is getting scarse. If the water is still very cold as in just iced out or still actually ice covered the fish are much better off as they will soon have lots of food and the water will warm up fairly quickly. Making sure you spill lake water into the jug slowly over 20 minutes or so will be important to get the O2 levels evened up.
You can get a good stream thermometer at any fly shop for $10 and it will be good and sturdy.
– PeteIsn’t that why we have kids? To make our lives easier as we gracefully weather?
We are very proud of Kim. She will be going to the U of W next fall and majoring in chemical engineering with an emphasis on space travel. The three teams will be leaving tomorrow night to Virginia for the national competition. Cheryl gets to go as a chaperone. I should know the results for the next meeting. 5-4-3-2-1-lift off!
– PeteI personally have little or no interest in a trip report contest. I think there will be ample trip reports posted as the season goes on and they will all be entertaining. I’m not sure having a contest is needed. If the club wants to do that someone else can head that up.
Jim, the drying up of the big bucks was John’s choice. We don’t have that available any longer and I don’t think we would have done the big money contest any longer any way. As several have said – it felt strange to have such large prizes for doing what the club should be doing any way. It’s not that large a jump going from getting money to do surveys to getting money for writing a tell all book. This was not really a survey contest to improve the level of the surveys, but rather a way for John Baskin to dole out some of his money to the club and go on some hikes through the club members. Having a “fun” contest with the prizes on the order of the prizes given at the summer picnic for the casting contests.
The max of 50 came about from a comment Rex made about not wanting to have an unfair edge just because he turns in 200 surveys a year.
The formula of “the mean of the total as a max allowed” makes my head hurt. I’d really like to follow George Bucher’s KISS principle (keep it simple stupid).
We did have a suggestion of allowing a person to winn only once every 5 years or something like that. I think it would be interesting to see if the winner was distributed acceptably without doing that.
– PeteMike – I bought the Chryalis UL last year when they were half price. The trip I was intending to use it on as a first try got cancelled so it’s never been used by me. Rich picked up one also. I got it because it was tall enough for me to sit up in. I got tired of my old Walrus Micro Swift which is super light, but a low tunnel to manuver in. This new one should be long enough for you to stretch out in also. Maybe Rich can chime in if he’s used his.
– PeteJim – I agree that staying warm in a tube in 40 degree water is somewhat problematic. I find that my problem is not my upper body, but my feet as they are below the surface and therefor are subject to the water pressure and that shuts down circulation. I can make it about 2.5 hours at a time before it gets uncomfortable. But hey, the ole bladder only makes it about that long anyway so it works out just fine!
– PeteI’m waiting for the end of the month so I can get Dry Falls in also. It opens on April 1. The lakes will be better with a few more degrees of warmth in them also. Lenice, Nunnally… will be right in at about 40 degrees this weekend. Will be 50 by the end of the month. Fish will be much more active and will have fed for a month also.
– Pete
