The "How was your weekend?" thread...

[Creatch’r]

It was an epic long weekend in MT roping cutts on dries for me. One for the books for sure! This was the prettiest fish in the most beautiful spot on the river!

 

[Chic Worthing]

Three weeks of this after major cancer surgery.
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I may finally get out of the hospital today.

I was about to wine about rebuilding the deck on my house in 100 degree weather. Am glad you are out and at home and on the mend. Best wishes on the way.

 

[Long_Rod_Silvers]

Starting off good.

 

[troutpocket]

Did something I haven’t tried since pre pandemic days…loaded up some music gear and joined a friend to play three hours of tunes at the farmers market.

I grabbed a pic just before we got started.

It was an ideal morning for August. Not hot, not windy, and we were set up in the shade.

The local press got this shot and posted to the community FB page.

Hint: I’m not a guitar player and I don’t have long hair.

The tips were generous today. It’s nice to get out and share some of the music I’ve learned over the past few years.

 

[Hem]

Best single track ride of the summer on Saturday. 50 degrees and raining. CDT section all to myself.
Today paid a visit to a local reservoir with my wife for an early morning paddle. Cooler weather around the corner, hyper mode to handle our annual bucket list.

 

[Coach Potter]

I spent Saturday afternoon and evening watching a bear on this hillside. He fed In a 20 yard circle for 4 hours and never gave me a clean Shot. It was a great Saturday!!

 

[Bob N]

Must have been on a very good berry patch.

 

[Coach Potter]

It‘s a good berry year!

 

[Hillbilly Redneck]

I hooked bull trout on the east and west side of the cascades one day. Also some cutties on the east side. The bigger cutties seemed to be in the deeper pools, but smaller ones could be taken on hoppers in suprisingly skinny water. A little shade helped.

 

[_WW_]

I got out to one of my favorite summer steelhead haunts for one last shot before the heat really kicked in. I fished two days- one day I biked around and fished, the second day I just drove to the trailhead. The weather was perfect, the water perfect, and I didn't see anyone on either day. I fished with a 10 ft 5-weight switch rod.
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This is one of my favorite stretches of river anywhere- unfortunately the steelhead fishing has been following the overall northwest trends. Lots of wonderful cutts but running into a steelhead here has been a rare event the last couple of years. I did get one on my second day- a smaller wild fish that was perfect for the 5 weight. This is where I caught the fish- a classic hole at the bottom of an island.
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I fish this stretch every single time I go and have never run into a steelhead. I don't know why.
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I was exhausted toward the end of the bike-in day and I fell in, full-body, in about 3 feet of slow water. I just could not get my feet back under me- probably 20 seconds before I got vertical again. Feeling that water fill the waders from the toes on up- what a bummer. I had to fully disrobe and dump/wring everything out.
On the second day, right at the (steep) trailhead, my walking stick slipped and I went into a butt slide. I might have gone a long ways, but a lucky grab of a branch as I went down probably saved the trip. I think I may be getting too old for this stuff.

Overall, a wonderful couple of days.
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I'm pretty sure I had to drink that stuff before my last colonoscopy!

 

[HOG]

Found the den. 34 for the season. And before some peta fuckhead wants to say something stupid, I will always put the health of my workers, fellow human beings, above a poisonous snake. GFY.

 

[Zak]

GFY.

Right back at ya.

 

[HOG]

Right back at ya.

Enjoy your bubble.

 

[Yard Sale]

Adequately sums up a weekend of lake fishing, camping, swimming, crawdad hunting, kayaking fun.

 

[Davy]

No fishing, but cooked these

 

[cody-]

Going on hour 3 of a power outage in the Kennewick side of Richland. I can see lights in Richland proper, Pasco, and Kennewick south of 240 but here we are.

Edit: power came back on around midnight. It was annoying not being able to shower and watch some tv after work, but drinking beers on the porch in the dark was pretty nice too.

 

[longputt]

I have fished almost every weekend for at least one day and caught a lot of these...I like the white tips:

 

[longputt]

This is tough to take:

 

[longputt]

It looks like rough handling in this pic...sorry...I bought a T&T Contact II...maybe I should post post a review under gear fishing dirt bags! You know Euro is not fly fishing.

 

[longputt]

I spent Saturday afternoon and evening watching a bear on this hillside. He fed In a 20 yard circle for 4 hours and never gave me a clean Shot. It was a great Saturday!!View attachment 26559

Great discipline. Big kudos for not launching a bullet.