12-22-2014, 03:10 AM
I joined in 2011 because I wanted to get in on a fly-swap that Synergy had put together on the fly fishing forum. Missed out on the fly swap but found a few hundred new friends (pretty good trade). If I had to guess, I'd say I have fished with maybe thirty different people from this site, some of them multiple times. TubeDude and FlyGodess have been inspirational and contributed more to my Stillwater and Fly fishing skills respectively in the last two years than the thirty previous combined. I will be forever in their debts.
Other notable trips were Yuba with one of the twins ( I don't remember which one... The one with spiky hair!) -- first pike on the fly -- Willard with WiperHunter -- first Wiper on the fly -- Sand Hollow with Dubob (I still haven't posted the pictures... See the comment above), and meeting LOAH, even though we didn't fish. (Sold me some sweet old Perrine auto reels)
However, the greatest trip of all time was with Pikeman down on Powell. I think we did three or four days of hard fishing, relaxing, and laughing. That dude is top of the line, no question. Did I mentioned that we stayed in a two million dollar house boat? Ya. Awesomeness. Man, we caught a lot of fish, and he even indulged me and my silly fly rod addiction; got my first striper on the fly, my first walleye, and more smallies than you could shake a stick at. That was also the trip that I caught my first real largemouth bass, and it scared the piss out of me because it was so big. Such an awesome trip, such an awesome guy. If you get the chance to fish with Pikeman, do eeeet.
I'm really bummed I haven't met FlyFishingLover yet though; he and I will hit it off for sure.
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Other notable trips were Yuba with one of the twins ( I don't remember which one... The one with spiky hair!) -- first pike on the fly -- Willard with WiperHunter -- first Wiper on the fly -- Sand Hollow with Dubob (I still haven't posted the pictures... See the comment above), and meeting LOAH, even though we didn't fish. (Sold me some sweet old Perrine auto reels)
However, the greatest trip of all time was with Pikeman down on Powell. I think we did three or four days of hard fishing, relaxing, and laughing. That dude is top of the line, no question. Did I mentioned that we stayed in a two million dollar house boat? Ya. Awesomeness. Man, we caught a lot of fish, and he even indulged me and my silly fly rod addiction; got my first striper on the fly, my first walleye, and more smallies than you could shake a stick at. That was also the trip that I caught my first real largemouth bass, and it scared the piss out of me because it was so big. Such an awesome trip, such an awesome guy. If you get the chance to fish with Pikeman, do eeeet.
I'm really bummed I haven't met FlyFishingLover yet though; he and I will hit it off for sure.
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