Marble, CO.
That is all.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Saturday, August 08, 2009
Fishing Journal: 20090807: Boulder Creek
In the Canyon, about 10.5 mi. from the Canyon/Broadway intersection. Maybe two hours. Elk Hair Caddis on top with various nymphs down below.
Started slow in some likely-looking water. Thought it was gonna be a dead day. Then started pulling out lots of fishing. Mostly tiny-to-small cutthroats, like this fella:
They fight pretty nicely. Deep salmon/red coloring inside the gills and along the bottom.
Anyway, probably ended up with ten fish in 2 hours, and had a pretty nice time. Still having a hard time finding water that rivals my home water. And still (and increasingly) pondering what skill differences drive catching the little ones vs. the big ones.
Started slow in some likely-looking water. Thought it was gonna be a dead day. Then started pulling out lots of fishing. Mostly tiny-to-small cutthroats, like this fella:
They fight pretty nicely. Deep salmon/red coloring inside the gills and along the bottom.
Anyway, probably ended up with ten fish in 2 hours, and had a pretty nice time. Still having a hard time finding water that rivals my home water. And still (and increasingly) pondering what skill differences drive catching the little ones vs. the big ones.
Saturday, August 01, 2009
Fishing Journal: 20090716, Clark Fork Stanislaus River
So last year I did the South Fork of the Stanislaus from the bridge in Strawberry. This year I wanted to hit some more remote terrain and so was asking around about access points to the Middle Fork. There was a campground (can't remember name ... bad blogger!) about 8 mi. down from Pinecrest that was recommended, but I figured that being near a campground it'd get fair pressure. Unhelpful Old Forest Service Guy wasn't very helpful. Younger Forest Service Guy recommended Beardsley Reservoir. Fellow camper said he had gotten advice to try the Clark Fork, so that's where I went.
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Feh. Nice scenerey, water was quite low and pleasant. Caught about 10 "fish" in 2.5 hours, but they were absolutely tiny. Not so much joy in it when they're so little. Not to mention I had the stomach bug that ravaged our tent circle and just wasn't feeling enthused.
Next year I am either trying Beardsley or maybe some of the obscure forest service roads revealed by the map.
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Feh. Nice scenerey, water was quite low and pleasant. Caught about 10 "fish" in 2.5 hours, but they were absolutely tiny. Not so much joy in it when they're so little. Not to mention I had the stomach bug that ravaged our tent circle and just wasn't feeling enthused.
Next year I am either trying Beardsley or maybe some of the obscure forest service roads revealed by the map.
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
JGMS with Jack Casady and Stephen Stills? July 14, 1974 at the Great American Music Hall
Merl Jr. said that the tape to find would be Garcia/Saunders at the Great American Music Hall on a day that Crosby, Stills and Nash had played a Day on the Green. He says that Jack Casady and Stephen Stills came over after the CSN gig and jammed with Jerry and Merl and that it was amazing. 7/14/74 fits the bill - JGMS were at GAMH, and CSN were playing a Day on the Green.
Interestingly, I found an ad from the San Francisco Phoenix which lists two shows for the date, starting at 9 p.m. and 2 a.m. Very unusual. I wonder if it was planned ahead of time that Casady and Stills would come by?
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Fishing Journal: 20090621 Blue River @ Heeney Road
Had a great Father's Day outing here. Flyshop in Silverthorne, Cutthroat Anglers, made it seem like it'd be a tough day. Probably was, but I had some decent action and caught two fish. Was using a 14 or 16 golden stonefly nymph (caught one on that) with a big (probably 10) hot pink San Juan worm about 10" below. Used 5x leader and tippet.
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View 20090621-Blue River in a larger map
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
other fiction read in the last, well, year or so
Nabokov's Lolita.
Voltaire's Candide.
Adam Fawer's Improbable.
Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner.
Stephen King's The Stand.
Shelley's Frankenstein (1818 text).
Stephenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath (can't believe I never read this before -- incredible!)
Several short stories by Joseph Conrad.
Escohotado's A Brief History of Drugs.
A bunch of other stuff that I don't have handy.
Voltaire's Candide.
Adam Fawer's Improbable.
Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner.
Stephen King's The Stand.
Shelley's Frankenstein (1818 text).
Stephenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath (can't believe I never read this before -- incredible!)
Several short stories by Joseph Conrad.
Escohotado's A Brief History of Drugs.
A bunch of other stuff that I don't have handy.
Riverworld
Re-reading Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld series, which I had read when I was 15 or so. I wanted to see if I enjoyed the philosophical bent more now than I did then.
Eh ... it's OK. Neat premise (all 36 billion humans who ever lived resurrected on the banks of a 10-million mile long river, with their material needs cared for and the possibility of permanent death initially gone). Allows him to really look at social/cultural interactions and evolution in a little laboratory, with the material side more or less controlled (though of course people still pursue more and more material stuff, especially at first). But the prose is rather stilted and the whole thing is a little sophomoric. Oh well, I guess that's why it's science fiction, not usually my preferred genre.
Eh ... it's OK. Neat premise (all 36 billion humans who ever lived resurrected on the banks of a 10-million mile long river, with their material needs cared for and the possibility of permanent death initially gone). Allows him to really look at social/cultural interactions and evolution in a little laboratory, with the material side more or less controlled (though of course people still pursue more and more material stuff, especially at first). But the prose is rather stilted and the whole thing is a little sophomoric. Oh well, I guess that's why it's science fiction, not usually my preferred genre.
Blindness
Read Jose Saramago's Blindness a month or so ago. It was recommended by a Barnes & Noble guy when I asked for something "dystopic, preferably post-apocalyptic," and he did a pretty good job for me. Right on, B&N guy! The writing style is haunting and beautiful, the story and characters fascinating.
new OAITW
Seemingly new-to-circ OAITW show via Matt Smith and the Pacific Northwest crew running at Lossless Legs. Fun stuff. Richard Greene is there, which puts it to April-May '73, in all likelihood. It's also in a goodish sized hall, not the Keystone or Boarding House or whatever. My own guess is either Santa Barbara 4/12/73 or one of the Oregon shows in May (5/8 or 5/9), but that's just base speculation.
Pat Lee suggests that the fact that the reels were on BASF tape stock is consistent with the Santa Barbara soundman stuff (cf. 4/20/74, 4/24/74 GASB shows that Will Boswell also had on reel from that source). Funny thing is that the 4/12/73 wasn't even listed on TJS until it was added based on info from Richard Greene, and now this tape cames along that might well be it.
Pat Lee suggests that the fact that the reels were on BASF tape stock is consistent with the Santa Barbara soundman stuff (cf. 4/20/74, 4/24/74 GASB shows that Will Boswell also had on reel from that source). Funny thing is that the 4/12/73 wasn't even listed on TJS until it was added based on info from Richard Greene, and now this tape cames along that might well be it.
update: And, what do you know? Looks like this nailed it - 4/12/73 it indeed seems to be. https://jgmf.blogspot.com/2011/05/ln-jg1973-xx-xxoaitw88minssbd.html
Saturday, June 06, 2009
Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival
Gotta whole mess o' discs from this festival, which I am going through pretty methodically. Lots of neat stuff.
There's a four CD version going around, but there's more material that I'll try to get moving around.
There's a post at Keep on Truckin' with the setlist of the circulating material.
edit 8/22/201: now going to be the first of a series, I think.
There's a four CD version going around, but there's more material that I'll try to get moving around.
There's a post at Keep on Truckin' with the setlist of the circulating material.
edit 8/22/201: now going to be the first of a series, I think.
Friday, June 05, 2009
Been Awhile
Was thinking I need to start leaving some notes for myself re: The Book.
Example: I'd really like to track down Sara Fulcher. Anyone help? She sang backup on the GD's Wake of the Flood (sessions would probably have been August '73?) and sat in with Jerry and Merl a fair amount in early '73. I can't tell if she's black or white. Let's assume she was 23 in '73 ... she'd be ca. 59 now. I have a hunch she's from Texas.
Anyone?
Example: I'd really like to track down Sara Fulcher. Anyone help? She sang backup on the GD's Wake of the Flood (sessions would probably have been August '73?) and sat in with Jerry and Merl a fair amount in early '73. I can't tell if she's black or white. Let's assume she was 23 in '73 ... she'd be ca. 59 now. I have a hunch she's from Texas.
Anyone?
Friday, August 08, 2008
Fishing Journal: fishies @ SBC/Eldo
So I am told that I have been catching browns. They do look a lot like the guy above, most distinctively with the row of pink spots that can appear along the midline.
Caught a bunch yesterday. I really need to spend more time between the big rock (my name for it) and the vehicle bridge. Was in a huge rush yesterday on the last stretch of water and was getting all kinds of action there right around 12 noon.
Family came up and we picnicked at the Visitors' Center. On a lark just fooled around in the very shallow water near all of the picnic tables and must have hauled in five teeny-tiny fish in 15 minutes, mostly on a Copper John that they could barely fit in their mouths. Silly fishies.
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Fishing Journal: reference
I am considering South Boulder Creek in El Dorado Canyon State Park to be my local water for the summer.
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Been out there a half-dozen times in the last couple of weeks. and am having a blast with it. Yesterday morning (Monday, 8/4, 6 a.m. to 11 a.m.) I caught ten fish over pretty much the whole main stretch in the park, i.e., the lower pedestrian bridge near the lower parking to the upper vehicle bridge before you get to the visitor center. Morning was cool enough that I put on waders and a light windebreaker. But as soon as the sun came into the canyon, maybe around 6:30 or so, things warmed up nicely. It was a beautiful day, a little overcast, warm but not scorching.
Was catching on nymphs until about 9. After then the fish seemed to start looking up and I started catching on a ca. 18# caddis up top. Overall, 4 were really small (i.e., 6" or so) and 6 were just small (maybe 8-10").
I have been looking at some maps and need to drive back up through the canyon ... some maps seem to suggest that you can drive all the way to Gross Reservoir, which I'd really love to do. But not sure if the Family Truckster is up to the task. We'll see.
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Been out there a half-dozen times in the last couple of weeks. and am having a blast with it. Yesterday morning (Monday, 8/4, 6 a.m. to 11 a.m.) I caught ten fish over pretty much the whole main stretch in the park, i.e., the lower pedestrian bridge near the lower parking to the upper vehicle bridge before you get to the visitor center. Morning was cool enough that I put on waders and a light windebreaker. But as soon as the sun came into the canyon, maybe around 6:30 or so, things warmed up nicely. It was a beautiful day, a little overcast, warm but not scorching.
Was catching on nymphs until about 9. After then the fish seemed to start looking up and I started catching on a ca. 18# caddis up top. Overall, 4 were really small (i.e., 6" or so) and 6 were just small (maybe 8-10").
I have been looking at some maps and need to drive back up through the canyon ... some maps seem to suggest that you can drive all the way to Gross Reservoir, which I'd really love to do. But not sure if the Family Truckster is up to the task. We'll see.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Fishing Journal: 20080728, Colorado River (up from Lake Granby)
Colleague invites me up to his place, from which we can fish. Beautiful drive to his place, beautiful water to fish, but not as much time on the water as I would have liked. First day fishing on the new line (Gold something or other, 5 weight) and the casting is good. I identify a likely pool on the broad and shallow Colorado and get going. First pool, maybe 2nd or 3rd cast, get a nice strike on the nymph and have a real fighter online for about 45-60 seconds. I am feeling really confident. Then my knot comes undone and fishy (fat-looking underwater from a few feet) earns his freedom and a nice $2 lip piercing. D'oh! When tying the knot I knew it probably wasn't good enough, but I got impatient. Never. Get. Impatient. When. Flyfishing. I guess this was something other than what I am used to (not a brookie, I guess) because the fish was really fighting. Oh well.
Had another good size fish almost in-hand, when it flopped off the hook at the last minute. Keep the tip up, man!
Caught a smallish one (8-10"). Succesfully spliced two pieces of line after a good, patient 20 minutes or so. Around 3:45 the fish start rising, around 3:50 it starts to rain, and just as I am tying on a dry fly to see how hungrily they're rising Colleague and wife and young adult son catch up with me and signal that they're done. Sigh. So not enough time on the water, and I really wanted to try up top for a bit.
Apparently a moose was spotted in the area, and Colleague says they saw an eagle up-close. All-in-all, a nice day and a spot worth revisiting.
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Had another good size fish almost in-hand, when it flopped off the hook at the last minute. Keep the tip up, man!
Caught a smallish one (8-10"). Succesfully spliced two pieces of line after a good, patient 20 minutes or so. Around 3:45 the fish start rising, around 3:50 it starts to rain, and just as I am tying on a dry fly to see how hungrily they're rising Colleague and wife and young adult son catch up with me and signal that they're done. Sigh. So not enough time on the water, and I really wanted to try up top for a bit.
Apparently a moose was spotted in the area, and Colleague says they saw an eagle up-close. All-in-all, a nice day and a spot worth revisiting.
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Fishing Journal: 200806xx
So, Old Colleague asks if I want to fish. Is the Pope Catholic?
Ends up being 2.5 hour drive to small, blown out creek on private water (paying $60 for the privilege). I catch the same fish twice, I think, in the very first pool, though I made two passes on the mile or so heading upstream (south on the map).
Generalization: fly-fisherman tend to overcomplicate things. Just fish!
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Ends up being 2.5 hour drive to small, blown out creek on private water (paying $60 for the privilege). I catch the same fish twice, I think, in the very first pool, though I made two passes on the mile or so heading upstream (south on the map).
Generalization: fly-fisherman tend to overcomplicate things. Just fish!
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Fishing Journal: Introduction
I am going to try to post some recollections of my too-infrequent fly-fishing excursions. I am rapidly becoming obsessed with this incredible pastime and want to remember where I fish and how it goes.
I am a novice fly-fisherman and frankly don't have 5% of the knowledge I'd really need to do things right. Hell, I can't even identify what kind of trout I catch, less still what kind of fly I use to do so. But the bottom line is that I have been out and at it, loving it, and want to remember as I can.
I do know that I am using an ancient 5-weight Orvis rod and an Orvis reel on-loan from a colleague. I am mostly grabbing flies and such catch-as-catch-can, though trying as often as possible to shop at Rocky Mountain Anglers in Boulder.
I want to remind myself to check flow reports from DWR.
More to add.
I am a novice fly-fisherman and frankly don't have 5% of the knowledge I'd really need to do things right. Hell, I can't even identify what kind of trout I catch, less still what kind of fly I use to do so. But the bottom line is that I have been out and at it, loving it, and want to remember as I can.
I do know that I am using an ancient 5-weight Orvis rod and an Orvis reel on-loan from a colleague. I am mostly grabbing flies and such catch-as-catch-can, though trying as often as possible to shop at Rocky Mountain Anglers in Boulder.
I want to remind myself to check flow reports from DWR.
More to add.
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
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