MIKE*A

Welcome aboard.

welcome aboard..........My brother just moved out near the cape this paast summer, i am planning two weeks there this June.........I am looking forward to any posts you may have on flies/fishing that area.

All I can say is................WOW!!!!!

It'll catch fish Will...............I've been playing with it myself this past week.

yeah, I love his show.......I had planned to drive up to Columbus last July when he was in town, but the little league team I was coaching made it to the playoffs and i couldn't get away.........he is supposedly coming back to ohio this coming summer to film another episode on carp fishing..........hopefully i can find the time to go see him.

It looks like it will catch fish to me...........

The "Walkers Cay Chronicles" episode airing the weekend of 2/21-22, on ESPN2 was filmed at a place called the "Wilds" which is about 45 minutes East of columbus, Ohio. I mentioned this a while back in another thread, but the show schedule wasn't posted yet. The "Wilds" is a reclaimed strip mine area that is now set up as some sort of co.op for several large zoos in Ohio. They started out just raisng hay and other plants to feed the zoo animals and then began releasing thier surplus herd animals to run loose there.........the place is loaded with hundreds of small ponds and lakes(with more being created each year by the large beaver population). It's been closed for fishing until recently. Now a fly shop out of Columbus has some sort of agreement with the place and they run a couple trips a year there........hence the walkers cay episode. I've never fished the "Wilds", but right next door is another 10's of thousands of acres known as "Ohio Powerlands"(I think the name just changed, but I forget what they call it now). I try to go there atleast once each year and it makes for some tremendous bass/bluegill fishing. they have free campgrounds and the fishing permits are free. As long as you don't go on one of the big "redneck" holidays, you pretty much have the place to yourself. I usually camp on one of the bigger lakes and then take my bellyboat and hike back to some of the more secluded ponds/lakes for some great fishing.

Welcome

Welcome aboard Mitch.................we're still waiting on those bikini pic.s........... Mike

Happy B-Day!!!!!

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thanx guys.

Too bad you didn't have a dig. camera w/you.........you would "own" him for the rest of his life over that one.........

I figure I'm pretty safe.............i think the odds of my winning are like 1 in 3.2 trillion or somewhere thereabouts...........

Welcome aboard John..........looking forward to your future contributions....... Mike

I thought I would go ahead and extend the invitation now.........After I win the HGTV Dream Home Sweepstakes (what!!!!!! your not entered????)next month, your all invited down for some fishing & drinking. They're not including a boat this year though, so one of you will have to bring yours down........

Happy B-day LB..........Have a good day Brother........

Welcome aboard Buster.........You get a chance, I'd like to hear about some of the flies you use for the spanish runs in the Fall.........i get down that way about every other year just in time for the run. Mike

welcome aboard.............our lakes are just now starting to skim over (SW Ohio). We need another deep freeze week so I can get out on the ice.

Sounds like a plan.........Hopefully i will bump into you guys on 2/14.

I saw it this morning.........good show........my type of fishing, low pressure, nice and relaxing and no one else around......except for his camera crew of course. Flip came up to ohio last summer and filmed an episode near Zaneville with the Mad River Outfitters fly shop out of Columbus which i am anxious to see, he doesn't have the air date on his website yet. flip is supposed to return to Ohio this summer to film an episode on carp fishing.

Yeah, i saw that to..........he 's a POS........acted like an @$$ the whole show........he broke off atleast 3 fish that I saw using a 7x tippet and his partner kept trying to get him to change, but he wouldn't listen......not the kind of guide i would want........

GHow, There was a time when i would have gone to a game under those conditions.........nowadays..........the place for me to watch games played under those conditions is in front of my tv........except last night, i watched it from in front of a buddies tv........

Looks good...........

I think I found the design i am going to stick with........for now........bear with me, I don't have a working digital camera(probably just as well....I'm all thumbs). I tied it in the fashion of a "madam X". I first tied in a black deer hair tail, then an orange deer hair wing/head(bullet style)not pulled back yet though, black chenille body wrapped forward from the tail to the base of where my head will be tied off, then 6-8 strands of crystal flash as an underwing. I then pulled back my orange deerhair wing/head and tied it off. tied in orange elastic legs at the base of the head (like the madam X) and then went back w/a black marker and colored the orange deerhair head black leaving orange "eyes" on the side of the head. I believe the original madam x called for fur dubbing as an underbody, but i had a surplus of balck chenille so i have been using that during my experimentation. Mike