Where did the taste go? - Calument Farm

I have never had a burbon that I needed to make sure I ate with it as I drink it. I present to you a small batch that goes great with a burger. Dont drink this with out steak or some type of meat cause you will not get any of the spices that hit your lips and the finish is almost zero flavor.  With meat its a great drink.

Warm Water Fish Hotel

I'm going to be using my Hubba Bubba tent by MSR as seen below.

https://www.msrgear.com/tents/backpacking-tents/hubba-hubba-nx-2-person-backpacking-tent/10316.html

I plan on fishing and exploring areas I have never fished before and as soon as this zombie apocolypse is over I'm going to venture into other states as well.

Headed South of North to the Clearfork River.

Old barn most lilkely from the early 1800's

The wrong message for locking us all up! lol

Seeing my past is not as bad as ignoring it.

Headed south to a place where I cut my teeth on trout. The Clearfork River is a catch and kill fishery, but it does and has some amazing trout opportunities. There are muskies, smallies, and brown trout. What more can an angler wish for? I waded an upper section and sound peace and solitude. The Dam on the upper section was running at 158 cf/s and it was blue green with 2-3 feet of visibility. The rocks have some type of algae growing on them and its awful. If you wade this river at this level know full well your footing will be treacherous. I used an indicator rig with a size 12 nymph on an indicator rig for deep nymphing about 12 feet in total length. I set two split shot small BB size 12”-14” up from the fly. The rock snot was horrible this is the algae I'm talking about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didymosphenia_geminata I picked up one nice 12”-14” buck with the set up that I spoke of before.   

I went below Pleasantville Lake and the water weeds where horrific and the rock snot was worse.  I dont know if the ODNR even knows how bad it really is.  No one can fish it  unless you use a dry fly.  The pools are filled with this weed thats 12"-18" long and swinging flies is darn near impossible.

An Urban Adventure No 2.

Middle - Upper Cuyahoga River Kayak Access

In Ohio you need to make sure you plan really for anything. Northeast Ohio is most likely being over run by gravel rakers and I really prefer not to be a part of it and atop of that there has been a lot of rain in the last 24 hours. It is a catch and kill fishery and I get it, but it does not need to be the norm. I went to fish the Cuyahoga River. I found here in the middle section to have a lot of gradient and to be moving really fast in this section. This is also a great section to access the river but I must warn you there are a lot of strainers and fast current slots.

I went here armed with my custom feathercast switch rod by Bian Althouse. The rod would be initially loaded on a Reddington Rise 7/8 As seen below.

Its lined with Rio Skagit Max Short 375 grain and its attached to the Rio Grip Shooter 25# running line.  The reel has 50 yards of backing on it (its only 50 yards cause no warm water fish other than a toothy critter or carp will take me into my backing). When I spooled up the Skagit and the Grip Shooter I originally cut off the loops or each end. I realized this. I created a butt splice with a braided loop connector like this https://www.orvis.com/p/braided-line-leader-connectors/1051?item_code=10518035&adv=127748&cm_mmc=plas-_-FlyFishing-_-1051-_-127748&gclid=CjwKCAjw4pT1BRBUEiwAm5QuR6pbeOZL0-1YIh9qCS4xO7Y--LAHOYC2dFGQNUvVModvPO4NnSmkoBoCPEUQAvD_BwE See photo below in conjunction with the braided loop. I used two nail knots made with Gudebrod thread and applied it with Pliobond and it casts like a dream (I cut the frays off after the glue dried). See photo below.

I also have two other spools for this reel. The other reel has the Scientific Angler Mastery Anadro Fly Line. I have that in a 6 weight and looks like Scientific Angler got a clue and put on the back of at least of the Anadro line the grain weight window on the back of the box. This Anadro line is a great replacement for the the old Master Series Steelhead Taper. The Anadro line turns over indicators and lead with-out issue. My Third spool is lined with a 250 grain full sinking line for deep bodies of water.

I dont know if the other fly lines have followed suit and I dont take any claim for this but I made remarks to ppl in the industry for years that they are all doing it wrong  and confusing the masses.

Downstream prime area

Smooth Ambler "Contradiction" Bourbon

Well I found some yummy blended bourbon whiskey. Its 92 proof and its smooth I think for being this high in proof. It does not take your breath away when you fitst sip it, but
I do reccomend when you first try it dont eat with it at the same time so you can taste it better.
Here is a link to Smooth Ambler https://www.masterofmalt.com/distilleries/smooth-ambler-spirits-distillery/

An Urban Adventure No. 1

Hello Steelhead Alley is up and pumping and its tribs I'm sure are over flowing with gravel rakers. I decided to do a little urban fishing. I saw on Google Earth a dam outlet and I knew there would be people there. The conditions where optimal and I saw the meat hunters there. One of them had there quarry on a stringer 1 hen white bass maybe ½ pound. I had no grabs because on my new set up I stupidly left my nail-knot to big of a diameter and it would get hung up on the guides. I will fix that, but I want to draw your attention to something.

I recently purchased the Scientific Angler Mastery series fly line Anadro / Nymph line in a 6wt and this has replaced the my ole faithful Steelhead Master Series line. This line is a spitting image of the old line and responds the same. On my custom Feathercast 6 wt switch rod it loads beautiful and roll casts like a dream.