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  1. Yes, it's a beautiful section of the river. The below are on the main branch a bit upstream from the photo above. Also just upstream from the fork, there is a stand of old-growth trees on the right. There are several (deciduous) in there that are among the 2-4 tallest specimens of their species known. One thing about the main branch in the gorge: it is almost all slate bottom so the fish move through it: you're fishing for pass-throughs. The south branch, the one going to to the right in the above photo, is also slate-bottomed much of the way but there are pools in it in which steelhead do spawn. There is what appears to be a road (Forty Road) that takes you right down to a point about 1/2(?) a mile up the south branch from the above fork but note that it is most definitely not one that you can drive into the gorge if there is the slightest chance of ice/frost/snow: it is an incredibly steep, narrow and twisty descent (I once burned about 5K miles' worth of rubber off my tires just trying to get back up the last 100 feet of it). There was (still is?) a small side-of-the-road spot you could park without hassles at the top of the gorge just before Forty Road plunges down into it, from which you could hike down, but I don't know if that is still true. There is another parking area at the end of Valentine Flats Rd that ends at the lip of the gorge which is not too far downstream from where the South Branch forks off, and there is a trail down to it.
  2. That's a great post, in followup to the very detailed and informative one about lines. I don't have any significant insights here. First, to be perfectly honest, I have done very little shore fishing this year: most of my fishing has been on boat with 9' singlehanded 10 weights. BUT for me, when fishing from shore, the T&T rods serve two purposes: 1) I'm a mediocre caster and the T&Ts give me an extra 20 feet or so compared to my casts with a single-handed 9' rod; 2) I'm 73 years old and the two-handed T&Ts are much easier on my shoulders, etc than the usual 9' rods most people use. The bottom line is that I am using the T&Ts as a direct substitute for 9' 10wt one-handers.
  3. For light to moderate surf, I prefer a floating line with - sometimes - an intermediate or sinking tip. For heavier surf I go with a full sink.
  4. This may be a false rmor, but I've read in more than one place that Bob Clouser's "model" for the clouser was the bucktail jig.
  5. The lower part of the handle is 4", upper is 9.5", about 2" longer than the average single-hander. I cast it single-handed at times but not often, but that's not the rod's fault :-) At this point in my life, 10-10.5 feet is the ideal length. I used CND 11' rods for a long time but I always wished they were a bit shorter.
  6. I've always preferred "short" two-handed rods for overhead casting: long rods are too awkward for me. My current favorites are out-of-production 10' "8 weight" T&T two-handers that I bought as closeouts at Bears Den. For me, they are a straight replacement for single-handed 9' 10wt rods, down to me using my 10wt lines with them.
  7. I agree: I had a set of these lines that I used with my Juro/CND 11-footers. I could swear that the lines were designed for these rods. I only have one left, the others finally bit the dust.
  8. I stopped using lead apx 10 years ago: it isn't healthy for anyone or anything. Avoiding it can be a pita but when I'm fishing I am doing it for fun, so why add more loose lead to the environment? Also, over the last several years I've largely switched over to jiggies and rarely use clousers now other than when I want one for its faster sinking.
  9. I didn't say anything about casting. Various Airflo lines have thicker running line than other manufacturers' lines with which I am familiar. The result is that I had to set up several spools with less backing than usual to accommodate them. I would prefer not to do that because I would rather have generic spool setups. I also shortened the running lines on two of my Airflo lines so clearly I wasn't concerned about "more distance" (I lost that battle years ago...).
  10. The running lines are also quite thick.
  11. That's Warren Buffet's MO (which is one reason he has done so well over the years...)
  12. I guess you're on the Russian calendar, at least for Christmas (no surprise...). Christmas in the United States was 4 weeks ago. Thanksgiving, one of our national holidays (we don't do May 1, at least not officially) was some 7 weeks ago now.
  13. You are right: each year we are seeing them in spots we never saw them before. That may be due in part to the pressure of the sheer number of them now, forcing them to expand out or maybe, in some cases such as close in in shallow water along the outer beaches, to avoid contact with sharks. Who knows... I don't really see much of a solution other than universal forced catch-and-release and even that might not be enough. Striped bass have clearly been around for a very long time in spite of seals, so there must have been some sort of natural balance (tho maybe a constant pattern of increase-decline) which we upset in a number of ways. It is likely untenable to absolutely protect seals without doing the same for striped bass (that's in spite of seals eating a lot of other fish as well). Yep. It can also be very startling in the daytime. I was standing in about 2 feet of dead-calm water on Pleasant Bay very early one gray morning, a few days after someone told me about a shark siting in the Bay, when a harbor seal suddenly popped up no more than 10-15 feet from me. We saw each other; I jumped (my heart much more than the rest of me) and it dove. It popped back up about half a minute later, now at least 40 feet from me, with a small bass in its mouth. It looked at me for a second, maybe to say "this is how you do it," before it went back under and swam off.
  14. I think that if the hook is debarred, it's early in the fight and you let the fish run, there is at least some reasonable chance that the fish will come free from the fly and escape.
  15. If it wasn't for "environmental clowns," there would be very little fishing anywhere.
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