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| 12/20/09 Well folks, If your a fly fisherman in the midwest I'm sure you have already heard the news. We lost a great one last night. Rusty Gates, owner of Gates Lodge, and the best friend the Ausable river ever had, lost his battle with lung cancer. He was a tireless champion of that river and we are all better for it. The guy probably only weighed 150 lbs soaking wet but he had a pair of balls on him... He did not back down from a fight when it came to that river corridor...many a big business got their ass kicked when they fucked with the AuSable...or tried to. We should all tip our cap to the memory of Rusty when we wade those waters. I will miss my friend. God speed Gator... |
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| 3/9/10 Just a quick note because I'm slammed at work and I don't see alot of time in the near future to get the things done that I wanted to. The Wisconsin opener went well. I would say the fishing, at least for us, was decent to very good. We found a couple creeks that between about 12:30 and 3:30 had very good midges and olives. It's tough to beat kneeling in a snow bank in March and throwing dry flies to rising fish!!! Nymphing was far more productive but those couple hours a day were hard to beat. I did snap a few pics but I'm not sure when I'm going to get around to posting them. I also shot some video with the new camera. I've looked at most of the footage and it looks good. The purpose wasn't to come away with a fishing video persay...really just to kick the tires on the camera. I was hoping to put together something this week and have it up by the weekend but I highly doubt that is going to happen. I'll get to it, just not sure when. I leave for Idaho next Wed so things are going to be tight as to whether I'll even have it done by then. I did fish with the LL Bean rod on Saturday. I LOVE it!! It is a fun little rod to fish with, and had more than enough backbone to throw an indicator and a couple nymphs. I also fished with the cane rod on Sunday, It was a hoot! Boy, a ten inch trout puts a very nice bend in that rod. They just have so much feel to them...if that makes any sense. Hopefully I'll get some pics and the video up sooner than later...gotta scoot. |
| 3/11/10 It's funny, every time I come on here saying I don't have time to do crap...shortly there after things change, as is the case now. I had a big project that I was about to start that needed to be completed by Monday but that now has been put on hold. So, today I found some time to dig into the latest video. I turned it around pretty quick, actually about as quick as I ever have, but I think it turned out pretty good. Especially since the purpose was more to get familiar with the camera as opposed to actually shooting a video...but it all seemed to come together nicely. Anyway, I'm converting it as I type and hopefully it will be up on the video page with in a few hours. Hopefully, I'll also get to the pics I want to throw up on that page. Unfortunately It doesn't look like I'm going to be able to make the Michigan Fly Show...kinda of a bummer. Well, at least I got Idaho in less than a week!!! |