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She'llbe wrote:Nice photos Godot. What else do you use the hemostats for? I use them to fit the wire to the rear brake switch. Have 2 pair in my toolkit at all times.

Yes, there is always a pair in my toolroll.

My mother was a nurse, so there were always half a dozen hemostats laying around the house of various shapes and sizes. Handy aren't they?

ME 109 wrote:Excellent Godot! Some interesting colour/pattern variations, not unlike our trout.
Trout season opens here in about four weeks, and this season my eldest son and I will be onto 'em.
Trout fishing is much more than just catching fish eh?

Yes, there is an interesting mix of trout in the high mountain lakes where I caught these. Each lake is unique. Cutthroat and Rainbows in one, Goldens or Brookies in another. Sometimes they mix when spawning and you end up with CutBows or GoldenBows. Back in the 1930s, this old codger-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finis_Mitchell

stocked many of the lakes here-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_River_Range

with a different species and they now thrive unaided and largely unfished in the deep backcountry. You have to hike or horsepack in to most of the lakes, but the effort is worth it when you have a place like this all to yourself-



And you're right, trout fishing is much more than just catching fish. Good luck to you and your son, and please post some pics. Nice to know I'm not the only one here with trout on the brain.

sigh... that's what I miss about the mainland; the freshwater lakes and streams, and other states you can ride to...

There sure are some lakes in that region Godot, I had a look at your links and also google earth.
Very remote as you say, that makes for some good fishing. At the same time, some of my best trout have been right under peoples noses!
Spring time is rapala time, as well as in summer, but in summer I love using 'mudeye' which are dragonfly in their aquatic stage.
4lb line, small hook, toss it in at the top of the rapids above a hole.........BINGO!

"4lb line, small hook, toss it in at the top of the rapids above a hole.........BINGO!"
... or as Isaac Walton said in The Compleat Angler, "Fine and far off" is the way to fish for ye trout.

You stir old memories, and long buried passions Jeff. Must go hunting in god's garden again.
Nothing like the thrill of a tug on the line.
Or, snaring a salmon by it's tail in the dark with a torch in yer gob, for that matter.
But then, how would I know ...?

Sunbeem.

ME 109 wrote:This pic was taken about 15 years ago. It's a female brown trout.
My 6ft telescopic rod has traveled with me on the bike heaps over the years.
Nuttin like a fresh trout in the pan.

Anyone else go motorcycle fishing?
Can't get this picture happening properly. I've tried to make the fish photo bigger without success.
I guess it's just another of my tales of roe.

T'would make a good movie...."A 'RS' Runs Through It"....




I've fly fished a few times with the bikes here in the Texas hill country. A good deal on a budget four piece rod is the Eagle Claw with the reversible handle.

http://www.amazon.com/Eagle-Claw-Pack-S ... B0000AUY91