of Dry Flies & Fat Tires...

Friday, March 18, 2011

Thursday, March 17, 2011

slickrock trail, moab ut

Words fail me.

They call it a slickrock playground.

That sounds about right.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

carboloading

64 fl oz of Derailleur Ale goodness

Cross training Mrs Wulff for her big half marathon on Saturday. Tough work, but someone's got to do it!

road trip: moab

Team Roughrider hitting the road in T-45minutes.

That is if I can put down the coffee. Or get off the computer.

Or get the boy out of the dryer.

Mrs Wulff: 'You get yourSELF out of the dryer right now young man!'

Better make that T-75 minutes.

See you all on the Slickrock Trail~

mjh

Monday, March 14, 2011

arizona wanders the juan

AZ prospecting

The Dry Flies faction of DFFT hosted AZ Wanderings on the San Juan Sunday.

AZ heat

AZ money

We met at Texas Hole parking lot, I planned out a whirlwind tour of the middle flats for the day. It was great fun fishing with such a genuine guy, excellent angler to boot.

I've fished the Juan for many years, witnessing Ben's evident excitement fishing this fabled fishery had me seeing it with renewed eyes. It is truly a fantastic resource.

For me, I found myself taking pride in the fact I could put a Juan newcomer onto good fish, increase his catch rate showing him a tip or two, leave him with enuf groundwork in technique and hot spots to continue to pump up his trip thru the week.

Particulars:

Our first fish for the day proved to be a double- both hollering out at same moment. 'Double!' Can't beat that with a stick, now can ya?
Big fish were aplenty- none over 19", but we each landed 2-3 in the 18-19" class, noice!
We spent most all our time picking pockets in the braids above Kiddie Pool, stalking and sight fishing all our victims. Red hots, zebras, brown KF emergers ruled the day.
Lake turnover proved mostly negligible- visibility around 2'. Bluebird day, moderate wind, temp's into the low-mid 60's. Moderate big midge hatches (black, #24), medium crowds, tho Ben reported Barnum-and-Bailey atmosphere around Kiddie Hole on Saturday.
My Awesome Moment of the day, fish wise: nice 17" rainbow hen in the net, beautifully colored. I pull the KF out of her jaw, find a perfectly tied UFO embedded in her opposing jaw, said UFO now resting comfortably in my midge box. Never been paid to land a fish before!

Thx Ben, twas a great day!

mjh

Ben's post lives here and here

Sunday, March 13, 2011

I shall fish this day

From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that ~~sheds his blood~~ chases fins with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in ~~England~~ angling now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
~~That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.~~

That fished with us upon this day.

with apologies to Bill~

Meeting Ben from AZ Wanderings up on the Juan today. Hope this finds you out chasing fins of your own this fine Spring Break!

mjh

Friday, March 11, 2011

celebration

Celebrating substantial completion with dinner party tonight.

Awesome.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

day 52 in captivity

Checking the blog archives, I see we began our kitchen remodel project precisely 52 days ago.

Getting damn tired of working on it. Just sayin.

pardon our pancake mess ;-)

Lucky for me (and mine!), our electricians arrive tomorrow to send this project into Substantial Completion.

Which leaves that last 2% remaining on my punch list.

2%.

Seems little enuf, huh?

But it's that last 2% that just may land me in divorce court if I'm not careful. Note to self: keep yer head down and stop dreaming of fishing the Juan and biking Moab next week for Spring Break.

Day 52 in captivity, one more notch on the wall, but soon to be paroled.

See you all on the other side.