heat

[Mr Dank]

Just do what the big warehouses do: spray with Eagle 20 up until harvest day

 

[putembk]

The dog days of summer are upon us and I for one have had enough!! It was 97 here yesterday. To fricken hot to do anything. I tried to do a 2 hr hike yesterday in the cover of the trees next to the Platte but still died from the temp and the sun. I spend my day hiding from the heat and waiting for some sign of cooler temps. The nights start to cool a bit by mid August here and none to soon for me. To hot for golf, to hot to fish and I am driving my old lady crazy hanging around the house.

 

[chickenman]

The dog days of summer are upon us and I for one have had enough!! It was 97 here yesterday. To fricken hot to do anything. I tried to do a 2 hr hike yesterday in the cover of the trees next to the Platte but still died from the temp and the sun. I spend my day hiding from the heat and waiting for some sign of cooler temps. The nights start to cool a bit by mid August here and none to soon for me. To hot for golf, to hot to fish and I am driving my old lady crazy hanging around the house.

The real heat will be on the green river later this week, FISHON!!! head on over and join us.......Give the old lady a break......there he is... FISHON!!!!
Mushrooms............................................................................

 

[putembk]

The real heat will be on the green river later this week, FISHON!!! head on over and join us.......Give the old lady a break......there he is... FISHON!!!!
Mushrooms............................................................................

Used to love the Green. Haven't been there in a few years now. Great fishery. But supposed to go to Walden and fish the N Platte. Already have reservations at the motel. But you will have a great time. Dry fly fishing should be very good and the water if gin clear so you can site fish with nymphs. I don't like the lower section that much though. It becomes more of a streamer river after muddy creek. If you do go all the way to Brown's Park stay high until the end and you will have a better time. There is a great hole at the confluence at muddy creek....spend some time there. There is a class 3 rapid right below and after that it's streamer time.

 

[sky high]

I hear ya man..it was in the upper 80's here yesterday.... and upper 40's last night. Just fuckin' brutal. :rolleyes: (had to get up and shut the fan off..oh wahhhhhh)

There's always the Gold Medal waters of Gore Creek or the Eagle if you wanna make the drive up this way and cool off dooods. (relatively speaking) You can easily walk to the Eagle from my house... and I hear the fishin in both streams is fairly decent. A buddy of mine in Summit is a guide and he drives over this way all the time to do his own thing/when he isn't guiding on the Blue/etc in Summit. Talk about addicted to it...

Hope ya stay dry. Monsoons are supposedly comin back in. (don't foorget to take yer Sears poncho!) <<shameless Zappa reference

 

[Mr.Sputnik]

The platte in buffalo creek is always chilly if you need to cool off. Last year it was 102 and the river was high 40's maybe low 50's. It still numbed my ass and hands going tubing.

 

[putembk]

Buffalo Creek, hmmm...its't that a tail water of the Platte Below Cheesman? In other words Deckers area? If so would love to go and fish for a while and stop by for a toke. I ain't gonna get in that cold water but that's the place to fish right now.

 

[Dopegeist]

Some nice boulders down there too, used them for paintball in the day, but could be used for climbing or eye-candy.
Google Map (39.321044,-105.249551), other side of the highway has some cool ass cliffs too, but watch yer six, it's Cletus' shooting range.
A bit to the east, and down the hill, by Gunbarrel creek is where the Mexicans had that grow op years back (I think, going off of newsreports on location [2 mi east of 126, within feet of Gunbarrel creek]).

 

[kolah]

Fishing in the CO River of AZ? After talking with the locals it appears the"experts" stocked it with bigass Striper fish? which consumed and wiped out the trout species. wtf?

I miss Colorado.

I wonder how the hunting is here. :rolleyes:

 

[putembk]

Fishing in the CO River of AZ? After talking with the locals it appears the"experts" stocked it with bigass Striper fish? which consumed and wiped out the trout species. wtf?

I miss Colorado.

I wonder how the hunting is here. :rolleyes:

Hey kolah, long time. Are you talking about below Glen Canyon Dam? Wow, that in unbelievable. Why? That is (was) a world class trout fishery. How is the job?

 

[Mr.Sputnik]

putembk, not quite Deckers. Just south of Pine Grove. North fork of the south platte I believe. The area just below Cheeseman just north of Deckers is pretty decent but fished out a lot from what my buddy told me. He lives to fly fish so next time I see him I'll ask. I think he said something about killing it at spinney reservoir though.

 

[putembk]

putembk, not quite Deckers. Just south of Pine Grove. North fork of the south platte I believe. The area just below Cheeseman just north of Deckers is pretty decent but fished out a lot from what my buddy told me. He lives to fly fish so next time I see him I'll ask. I think he said something about killing it at spinney reservoir though.

Thanks sputnick, just looked it up on the map. It is pretty close to Pine. Only have fished the N Fork west of Bailey. Surprised the water is that cool this late in the year. N Fork is fed via Roberts Tunnel which comes from Lake Dillon. Usually a tail water will start to warm in a few miles. Over by my cabin the Colorado is pretty much toast until the nights start to cool thus bringing down the water temp. Usually it's go high or fish a tail water this time of year. If you live close next time I come up to Deckers through Pine I will stop in on the way and share a bowl or two with ya.

 

[fishwhistle]

No i bet hes talking below davis dam and south of laughlin.the stripers eat the trout like candybars there.Dont fret though kolah ive had some banner days on rainbows drifting just south of needles(park moabi) and throwing rattling spots up under the cutbanks on the az side,they are there just hiding from the stripers,lol.If your not fishing for meat but purely for sport try fishing the bigass carp on light line in that area with doughballs,my record is a 35lber on 4lb test,see if you can beat me!It was in the lake(mojave) near katherines though,i doubt if you could stop them in the river with 4lb.Those stripers are also super good eating,id much rather eat those than trout,catch and release for them at least for me anyways.
Hunting is good too in AZ,lots of quail and dove all around the river and the best trophy mule deer hunting there is on the kaibab plateau,elk is good also.

 

[kolah]

Yup, below Davis Dam is the area effected. Those fuckin "experts" didn't know Stripers wipe out Trout populations. From what I gather the Stripers average about 2-3 pounds. As a half breeded Injun insatiable fish eater, I'll be luring up for the Trout. G-dam Carp are ugly and do nothing but bust up my poles, lol. Bullhead and catfish I'll eat but not those sonzabeeches.

No time to play now as I got thrown right into working a 40 hour week with a boss and 6 females workers who piss and moan on a regular basis. Welcome back to the Rat Race...only problem is I ain't no fucking rat and I ain't racing. :) Anywhooo....moving in my new home is odd with all these luxuries (running water, plumbing etc) but the AC is a must. 115-120 day temps and 95-100 at night, low humidity....but it'll cool down by end of next month. It ain't all that bad.

Lots of South Cali transplants here running from the meth problems. It's touristy-snowbird turf with lots of new locals as well. And of course the Indian Rez.

The weed is shit here and two shops are "trying" to open up as dispensaries. That would make it illegal to grow my own despite my AZ med card.

G-dam cop checkpoints all along the CO river checking for DUI and DUI-D. They get ya coming and going on the river.

I miss CO terribly. It will always be my real home.

I signed a 2 year contract and will bite my tongue, do my time, save my dough and get back to where I belong...in the fukin' Colorado mountains.....where I can live and die there. As the old saying goes, "You don't know what ya got until ya lose it."

 

[ttystikk]

unfortunately, this is not the case for other molds. Botrytis is alot more depressing than PM and alot worse for you to smoke as well.

edit to add- botrytis can handle outdoor CO, I haven't heard of anyone getting PM outdoors here unless they're in a greenhouse that's got bugs and increased humidity.

NOT true- I regularly get powdery mildew on my cucumbers every summer. Outdoors, no cover, humidity in the teens.

 

[ttystikk]

I hear ya man..it was in the upper 80's here yesterday.... and upper 40's last night. Just fuckin' brutal. :rolleyes: (had to get up and shut the fan off..oh wahhhhhh)

There's always the Gold Medal waters of Gore Creek or the Eagle if you wanna make the drive up this way and cool off dooods. (relatively speaking) You can easily walk to the Eagle from my house... and I hear the fishin in both streams is fairly decent. A buddy of mine in Summit is a guide and he drives over this way all the time to do his own thing/when he isn't guiding on the Blue/etc in Summit. Talk about addicted to it...

Hope ya stay dry. Monsoons are supposedly comin back in. (don't foorget to take yer Sears poncho!) <<shameless Zappa reference

Lows in the 40s? I hate you right now...

 

[fishwhistle]

Its hell there 2-3 months a year kolah but its pretty great the rest of the year,ive always had a place in bullhead city or havasu but i sold my havasu place awhile back,i do still own a chunk of property in havasu though that ill build on some day,its really a great place in the winter but i wouldnt live their year round,Ive been in the parking lot of the riverside casino when it was like 127 degrees and would melt your tennis shoes,lol.My dad and don laughlin were friends since he owned a gas station with a couple slots and there was nothing else on the nevada side,don stayed with us when he was in socal and was always at my mom and dads place in katherines landing for dinners,he loved my moms cooking and playing pinnochle with my dad.

 

[putembk]

So fish, used to love to go to vegas when it was a cheap date. You could eat, drink and party for nothing as long as the casino thought you were spending money. Could see top notch shows for nothing as well, and could sit anywhere you wanted as long as you tipped and knew when to get in line. Now everything is out of this world expensive.
Any way am looking for a good alternative and was wondering if Laughlin or Mesquite had something comparable that hadn't gone price crazy.

 

[kolah]

I like the city of Kingman, 35 minutes from here, horse property, higher elevation, pine trees and 10-15 degrees cooler and they get some snow in winter. Flagstaff weather and scenery is identical to CO mountains. Flagstaff and it's outskirts are kickass, IMO.

 

[Seamaiden]

I remember Kingman! And Flagstaff. I used to prefer to drive through those towns when going to New Mexico. Haven't been through that way in *decades* though. I also remember the armpit called Needles. Still armpitty? My sister and brother-in-law are out at Lake Havasu right now, she keeps trying to convince me that the desert there is somehow better, greater or more fun than the desert anywhere else. I am just *not* one who loves the desert, I needs me some green, some life, and most importantly, some WATER.