I am sore everywhere. Hiked over 12 miles of river, must have done over 1000 casts. I did land 30 trout in 2 days. The fishing was really technical, the water was crystal clear and the fish were hold really close to the overhanging brush so your cast and the drift of the fly had to be spot on. Had a deer cross the river right nest to me. he had 2 points on his antlers
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"The only thing that we learn from torture is the depths of our own moral depravity"
Man made Beaver Dam approximations
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Very nice
Do you know what the purpose of those "dams" is?
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Wowzers.. beautiful..looks like fun
Originally Posted by Dave Grubb
Very nice
Do you know what the purpose of those "dams" is?
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BDA - learned something new today.
As I recall, I saw a report on California's efforts to bring back beavers in areas they'd been eradicated. Further, they're also bringing back Salmon populations, it's good news for animal habitats.
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Thank you
We do similar things here---but a little differently. It is done mostly to prevent a stream from washing out the bank in a turn. They place used utility poles at an angle partially across the stream to push the flow away from the outside of the bend.
As for beaver dams---they would be appalled at anything that looks that "messy" being accredited to them. Beavers can cause considerable problems when they flood an area---often including a road.
Just a few miles from me the township had been trying to trap and relocate beavers for a couple of years---without success. They have now given up----on the relocation partThe job has been turned over to a local trapper
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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We have beavers in Texas. They are destructive little bastiges.
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One of the strangest things I have seen was a dead beaver---underneath a tree he had just fallen
I have heard that as they get close to where they expect the tree to fall they stop after each "cut" and listen for noise coming from the tree. Apparently this guy was hard of hearing
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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