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(Message started by: georgej on Mar 3^rd, 2007, 9:41pm)

Title: Hankerin' for Spring (Pics)
Post by georgej on Mar 3^rd, 2007, 9:41pm

Can't wait for this winter to end.....

Just a few photos from Spring of 2005, when Ellen and I were scoping out the Pale Morning Dun hatches at Silver Creek near Sun Valley, a month before the season opened. The PMD's typically come off in the early season. Wish I could show a proper photo of a heavy hatch, because these mayfly duns, lit by the sunlight from behind, look like a flotilla of tiny boats with butter-colored sails.

http://usera.imagecave.com/georgboise/P5150001_1.jpg

http://usera.imagecave.com/georgboise/P5150010-copy.jpg

http://usera.imagecave.com/georgboise/P5150018-copy.jpg

Best wishes,

George

Title: Re: Hankerin' for Spring (Pics)
Post by Linda_Howell on Mar 3^rd, 2007, 10:51pm

George....You live in Gods country. [smiley=bow.gif]

Spring is just around the corner hon. Hang in there.

Title: Re: Hankerin' for Spring (Pics)
Post by BB on Mar 4^th, 2007, 2:04am

WOW ! What a beautiful place to live.

Reminds me of my grandmother's farm. I am a real city girl, have always lived in big cities, except for when I was little and was allowed to go to my grandmothers farm during the school holidays. It was heaven !

Unfortunately the farm was sold after she passed away. One of my dream is to own a large paddock with horses.

Ah, dream on ...

Thanks for sharing, George.

Annette

Title: Re: Hankerin' for Spring (Pics)
Post by sandie99 on Mar 4^th, 2007, 2:57am

Thanks for sharing the pics with us, George! :)

Title: Re: Hankerin' for Spring (Pics)
Post by LeLimey on Mar 4^th, 2007, 6:43am

George that looks very similar to places here and in Galway in Ireland where I spent a lot of time while growing up with my grandparents - its beautiful and it brought back some happy memories for me :)

Title: Re: Hankerin' for Spring (Pics)
Post by Brewcrew on Mar 4^th, 2007, 10:04am

George - You're not making it any easier for me to rule out Idaho or western Montana as a place to retire.

Keep the light on for us.

Title: Re: Hankerin' for Spring (Pics)
Post by Cathi04 on Mar 4^th, 2007, 10:08am

And you slid past Oregon BECAUSE????
Brew, you need to know, Oregon is the microbrewery capital of the WOILD! Then entire WOILD!
besides, we got nature and rivers, and, and.......a BEACH, too!

Just thought ya oughta know!!

Cathi ;)

Title: Re: Hankerin' for Spring (Pics)
Post by Kevin_M on Mar 4^th, 2007, 7:13pm

Nice stuff George, and all the little pictures on your posts you change frequently. ;)

Title: Re: Hankerin' for Spring (Pics)
Post by LadyElaine1 on Mar 4^th, 2007, 7:50pm

It will be here before you know it, then we will be wanting cool weather. Beautiful pictures.

Title: Re: Hankerin' for Spring (Pics)
Post by Brewcrew on Mar 4^th, 2007, 7:57pm

on 03/04/07 at 10:08:42, Cathi04 wrote:

Cath - We didn't slide by Oregon. We're coming from the east, so we just never got there. ;;D

Title: Re: Hankerin' for Spring (Pics)
Post by georgej on Mar 4^th, 2007, 8:07pm

Okay, Cathy--a little Oregon for you. Oregon's pretty darn close to us. :)

Southeast Oregon, in the I.O.N. (what we call the area where Oregon, Idaho and Nevada come together). I usually drive over there in the very early spring, when the Lahontan cutthroats are spawning in Mann Lake on the eastern side of Steens Mountain. They run big, and they're as red as brick in their spawning colors.

It's about three hours from here. Nice drive. We usually see herds of wild horses along the way.

Strange place. The Alvord basin to the east of Steens Mountain is a dried-up Pleistocene lake, and it's totally enclosed--no access to the sea. Consequently, there are two isolate subspecies of cutthroat trout that live in different streams that wind into the Alvord and disappear--Whitehorse/Willow Creek cuttthroats, and Alvord cutthroats. They exist nowhere else in the world. In addition, there are isolate populations of desert redbands on the west side of Steens (inland rainbow trout) that are adapted to extreme conditions--they can survive in water that reaches 80 degrees F.

Here's Steens Mountain on the eastern side from the Alvord Basin:

http://usera.imagecave.com/georgboise/img411x.jpg

As you can see, it's a ways from anywhere in particular:

http://usera.imagecave.com/georgboise/Nowhere-copy.jpg

The Bates Motel is in Burns. I kid you not.

Best,

George

Title: Re: Hankerin' for Spring (Pics)
Post by BB on Mar 4^th, 2007, 8:12pm

Cutthroat trout ? Cutthroat ???? :o

Annette

Title: Re: Hankerin' for Spring (Pics)
Post by Brewcrew on Mar 4^th, 2007, 8:13pm

on 03/04/07 at 20:12:05, BB wrote:

Cutthroat trout ? Cutthroat ???? :o

Annette

I think it got its name from the deep red color inside the gills.

I could be wrong.

Title: Re: Hankerin' for Spring (Pics)
Post by georgej on Mar 4^th, 2007, 8:16pm

on 03/04/07 at 20:12:05, BB wrote:

Cutthroat trout ? Cutthroat ???? :o

Annette

Oncorynchus clarki (ssp.)

So-called because of the red slash-marks near their gill covers.

Title: Re: Hankerin' for Spring (Pics)
Post by Charlie on Mar 4^th, 2007, 10:40pm

On my way.

Bootiful area.

Charles

Title: Re: Hankerin' for Spring (Pics)
Post by BB on Mar 5^th, 2007, 9:59am

on 03/04/07 at 20:16:36, georgej wrote:

Oncorynchus clarki (ssp.)

So-called because of the red slash-marks near their gill covers.

Thanks Eric and George.

Gee, I thought red gill trout would have sounded more attractive. Fishermen must have a pahtological imagination! ;) ;;D

Annette

Title: Re: Hankerin' for Spring (Pics)
Post by georgej on Mar 5^th, 2007, 11:17am

on 03/05/07 at 09:59:02, BB wrote:

Thanks Eric and George.

Gee, I thought red gill trout would have sounded more attractive. Fishermen must have a pahtological imagination! ;) ;;D

Annette

The red slashes (that extend along the jawline near the gill covers) are used in cutthroat threat displays. When cutthroats face one another, they spread their gill covers, and the slashes become prominent. Sometimes the threat displays escalate into full-blown attacks.

I've found the following fly pattern to be an effective wet fly when fishing for cutthroats--the Stayner Ducktail features an orange/red "beard" and tail of hackle tips. It's my belief that this fly triggers an aggressive response by hitting a cutthroat's hot buttons. Others believe I'm full of hooey, however. YMMV.

http://www.bvff.com/images/staynerducktail.JPG

(Geez--I'm getting way off the beam here. I can talk about this stuff for hours and hours.)

;)

Better STFU now....sorry.

Best,

George

Title: Re: Hankerin' for Spring (Pics)
Post by BB on Mar 5^th, 2007, 3:39pm

Awww, you dont have to shut up, this is interesting :)

Are you telling me fish has colour vision ? [smiley=huh.gif]

Annette

Title: Re: Hankerin' for Spring (Pics)
Post by Brewcrew on Mar 5^th, 2007, 3:47pm

on 03/05/07 at 11:17:23, georgej wrote:

Nah, you're right on track, George. I had a friend a number of years ago who had estimated he had spent around 7,000 hours fly fishing. He tied flies during the off season for a tackle shop in central Wisconsin in order to make enough money to keep him in coffee and cigarettes. He listed his occupation on his federal tax form as "Trout Bum."

I find it fascinating anytime someone is that dedicated to anything.

Title: Re: Hankerin' for Spring (Pics)
Post by Jonny on Mar 5^th, 2007, 3:55pm

http://shim1.shutterfly.com/procgserv/47b7dc38b3127cce9854894f339200000017108Eas2LNu3bi

Title: Re: Hankerin' for Spring (Pics)
Post by georgej on Mar 5^th, 2007, 5:05pm

on 03/05/07 at 15:55:53, Jonny wrote:

http://shim1.shutterfly.com/procgserv/47b7dc38b3127cce9854894f339200000017108Eas2LNu3bi

Great shot, isn't it, Jonny?

Vietvet sent me that link in PM as well. For the benefit of those folks who live outside the PNW, that's a steelhead (a sea-run rainbow trout) caught this spring on the Clearwater River in north Idaho. 44 inches in length, I believe....

One h&ll of a fish.

Best,

George

Title: Re: Hankerin' for Spring (Pics)
Post by georgej on Mar 5^th, 2007, 5:36pm

on 03/05/07 at 15:39:46, BB wrote:

Are you telling me fish has colour vision ? [smiley=huh.gif]

Somewhat better than ours, in some respects. They see farther into the ultraviolet.

http://www.fedflyfishers.org/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.cgi?board=Education;action=display;num=1129226142

Best,

George

Title: Re: Hankerin' for Spring (Pics)
Post by georgej on Mar 5^th, 2007, 6:15pm

Off-topic once again, but it might be better if Chewy stays away from the I.O.N....

EJ ran across this reference today about Owyhee County, Idaho when she was researching something else:

"According to Shoshone and Bannock legends, the Owyhee Mountains are said to be haunted by naked cannibalistic dwarves who have been known to kidnap people and eat them."

;;D