Fourth of July Question

RAM · Post by **RAM** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 12:45 pm

Question for Ex Pats living just over (west of) the International Date Line-Does the Fourth of July come on the 3rd or the 5th there? Confused (as usual) in Music City-Bad Bob

Note: There is no hidden meaning in this question.

Ron Mc · Post by **Ron Mc** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 1:48 pm

I think I'll go fishing

SWIM JIG · Post by **SWIM JIG** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:16 pm

yay-banana jump jump usa, OK ron now you got the bait fish, what are you going after? I know big catfish like a bait that size,and so do Muskys! or are you going to let it go back to grow up? Your Ohio Conection on Lake ERIE COL. Milton Lorens aka SWIM JIG

Ron Mc · Post by **Ron Mc** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:27 am

for micropterus treculii, that fish is a lunker (Guadalupe spotted bass - "Texas brook trout" - the record fish is 2 lbs. 13 oz. They also live in fast water, which makes them a hoot on a fly rod.)

RAM · Post by **RAM** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 10:28 am

OK-Not one of you knows any more about time zones than me. So here goes another series of mad limericks!

Ron prefers fishing for Guadalupe bass
While Miltie prefers more mass.
As for me I prefer
(providing she's not too demure)
Angling for the smallmouth lass!

Bad Bob Go for it Teal and Steve!

Teal · Post by **Teal** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 11:39 am

While fishing our national parks,
I bumped into a girl in the dark;
I asked "do you like trout?"
She replied with a pout,
"I only like Hammerhead Sharks."

--Dr. Todd

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 11:45 am

Bob, your posting has left me aghast
So I'd better respond to it fast.
The species's extinct!
The truth is, I think,
That the day of the smallmouth lass passed.

RAM · Post by **RAM** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 12:49 pm

Enough puny five-lined rhymes!
They're small change like nickles and dimes!
Try a Shakespearean sonnet,
Find your pen and get on it-
An iambic challenge on all fourteen lines!

Bad (The Bard of the South Harpeth) Bob

Ron Mc · Post by **Ron Mc** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:36 pm

fishing reel haiku
pick reel for quarry
lions, and tigers and bears

el Lawrence · Post by **el Lawrence** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 5:06 pm

"Oh my..."

Stu Lawson · Post by **Stu Lawson** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 6:39 pm

You guys have too much time on your hands. Come on out to the California coast where the 4th of July is always on the 4th of July and help me catch some KING SALMON. yay-banana [

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:12 am

July the Fourth, if on the Fifth or Third,
Wouldst make our dating system just a joke.
Canst thou not see? If such a thing occurred,
Our fireworks displays'd go up in smoke.

Yo! Greenwich time's the sole determinant
Of when John Hancock signed our revered tract.
That dateline stuff, in postings that thou sent,
Means nothing in the context here, in fact.

If, crossing it, thou leave the Fourth behind,
Thine Independence Day, alas, is gone.
Though this may play foul tricks upon thy mind,
The understanding of it needst be done:

Though some live on a diff'rent date from us,
Their Fourth is on their Fourth, so cut the fuss.

Bob, it's all yours.

RAM · Post by **RAM** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:12 pm

That time of year when summer's heat is vast
And hardy spirits wane but still persist
Tho springtime's verdant veil is recent past,
Ariseth self in early morning mist
To seek then ply the favored smallmouth stream.
It flows 'neath limp and sullen July boughs
Beside the fields where sheep and cattle dream.
I shall, with stealth and cunning skill, arouse
That wily prey, the bass, that surely waits
In deep and fecund pools, I shall entice
(Two or more perhaps), with feathered bait
Designed, disguised to seem like frogs or mice!
But he, the bass, says "Not to fear dear mate!
The dumbass doesn't even know the date!"

Bad Bob the Bard

Ron Mc · Post by **Ron Mc** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 3:33 pm

you guys can write some more poems.
I'm going fishing.

a nice endemic spotted bass

Is this any better for an old Heddon bamboo fly rod, Milt?

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 6:24 pm

Behold! Young Ron, bass-glorifying, wends
His way to tame the spotted bass, his prey.
His catch, by tackle from some bygone day,
Looms large without his magnifying lens.

wjdiii · Post by **wjdiii** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 7:53 pm

What is the reel above? L & C Varden? W. Dunn

Ron Mc · Post by **Ron Mc** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 9:52 pm

3-1/8" Milward Flycraft, c. 1937-40. Made by JW Young & Sons, a "st. george clone"
(check my Show and Tell on "prewar JW Young")
It is the same reel as the Lyon & Coulson (also made by Young,) and William Mills & Son imported the same reel marked as a "Georgian".
(Allcocks called it a Marvel, and it was sold by virtually every UK catalog merchant with their handle.)
Just about the best fly reel ever made, IMO, and it made some sweet music today against those bass.
The rod is an 8-1/2' 3/2 Folsom 1510 made by Heddon, and about the same vintage as the reel.

This was private-access water on the Pedernales. Belongs to my friend Karen. The fish do not get hit here. I put that spotted bass into a hole as I came up the granite ruts. He probably thought I was a really big heron (in a funny hat). Caught him 3 casts later dredging the hole. There were pods of spotted bass in the moving water (fast channels in the rutted granite) and they impaled themselves on any swing in the current. Her place is right at the head of an impoundment. Upriver for spotted bass, down for largemouth. Had a banner day.

RAM · Post by **RAM** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 1:17 pm

Texas bass and a landowner lass,
And the fishing seemed quite brisk!
We of less good fortune tresspass
To slip up on our bass
But the smallies are worth the risk!
Bad bob

SWIM JIG · Post by **SWIM JIG** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 1:22 pm

jump jump cool-thumb jump usa Yes Ron, and a Headon Bamboo rod that size is just getting some exercise for THE BIG ONE! next to titanium bamboo is the strongest rod materail known! as those fisher people on BORA BORA islands! anyway that bass is a keeper! Your ohio Conection on Lake ERIE Col. Milton lorens aka SWIM JIG

Reel Geezer · Post by **Reel Geezer** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:40 pm

Very interesting photos Ron. It looks like a great spot.

Ron Mc · Post by **Ron Mc** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:08 pm

I make a point to fish it only once/year - wouldn't want to make Karen's fish numb to our tactics.
She heads up a Casting for Recovery group (women) and takes them out several times/year as well.

The guys that went down the impoundment found nice smallmouth at the next drop

realized I didn't have a view upriver from yesterday, but here's one my buddy Ewell took last year.
It's all granite. The depth is really surprising. Very easy to step into plunges over waist deep.

this is a fly fishing small group that I head up in my church. We go to Saturday nite church and fish every other Sunday morning. Like I said, it was sweet of Karen to invite us out.

here's some photos from our last trip to the upper Guadalupe. The limestone and cypress trees make that water a nicer respite from the sun.
http://orcaonline.org/images/pixel.gif ... php?t=1392
(oh and I do have more than a couple of other fishing shirts - seems that's the one I'm wearing in all these photos, though - must be my lucky shirt - ha.)

Fourth of July Question

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nice bait fish!!!

Bad Bob's Dateline Dilemma

NM

Dateline limericks

Time Change

Date line doldrums and drivel

Ongoing dueling rhymes (will it never end?)

yes RON MUCH NICER!!!