How do you spend your summer leisure time?
Where can you be found?
Say it with a photo or two.
Have a Great Summer Everyone,
Dave
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How do you spend your summer leisure time?
Where can you be found?
Say it with a photo or two.
Have a Great Summer Everyone,
Dave
gardening and milking chickens...mostly fish and garden
When I am not fishing I like to take pictures.
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Mouth of the Skagit River at sunset.
Birding, camping in the Sierra's (see pics below), hanging with the family.
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Hey Dave,
When not fishing, you can find me afield exercising my two German Short-haired pointers, or walking fields with my brothers - hunting Indian artifacts (arrowheads etc.)
Best regards, Dave S.
It's called "vegging", and I have it down to a science.
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Mark
I have five other major activities that I enjoy when I am not fly fishing during the summer.
1. fly tying
2. reading about fly fishing
3. reading about fly tying
4. thinking about fly fishing
5. thinking about fly tying
Seriously, 8T :)
I have a 14 year old daughter.
Any questions?
We have a "camp"
There's plenty of work to be done and a small pond for fishing, but most effort goes into cooking and eating
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Originally Posted by Marco
No wonder you don't tie your own flies !!! You can't even tie your own shoes.
My Mom can help. ;)
On second thought ....carry on. Your doing good ! Forget tyin' your own flies.....and tyin' your shoes. ;)
'fraid I don't run a camp. It's a private camping area that I own along with siblings
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Dudley
Both running camps? Strong contributions, guys.
O.K. then is it camping, as in tents, open air camping or have you built structures or are you R.V'ing it.
Must be nice, Dave
Kayaking (no whitewater please, I'm old), target archery, .22 plinking, and camping if I'm lucky.
I still spend a lot of time in the mountains. Yosemite, Kings Canyon & Sequoia parks. When we are not there, we are probably shooting trap or skeet.
Tying flies and jigs is what I do most in my "chill time". I'm also getting gear fixed and ready for waterfowl hunting.
This summer, my grandpa and his brother are working on building a toy shed. We're building rafters and putting siding on this week... It will be used for hunting/fishing gear storage, and a place to clean and process whatever we're shooting or catching.
Spending time at our property east of Burns, Oregon
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see signature. Go Nats!!
I paint, watercolors and oils. I am also a woodworker and I am building a 14 ft. fishing boat.
Well if I'm not fishing, or building rods, my other passion comes into play
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Leisure time without fishing during Summer? !!!!!!
Such a thing does not exist!!!!
Like Len, I also have a 14-year old daughter...and she has a boyfriend. My wife and I are driving her CRAZY...which means we must be doing something RIGHT! :)
Any leisure time SHOULD be spent fishing and/or tying, but sometimes there's just "chillin' " to be done. Sit back, relax and enjoy. Maybe have a cigar or pipe and a beverage on the back deck. Walk around and check out the backyard flora & fauna:
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Very nice photo Dave.Quote:
Originally Posted by FishnDave
My daughter has a friend that is a boy...
NOT a boyfriend because she needs to be 16 to have such a thing.
with some of thise pictures how can you NOT be fishing?
What I do when not fishing is almost everything...I don't get out much fishing.
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What do I do when I'm not flyfishing?...........wait a minute, I know the answer...........no wait I'll get it, just give me a minute.........
I like gardening, dutch oven cooking & camping. But in reverse order.
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Well I like to explore unusual rock formations
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I also like to check out the petroglyphs in the desert. Those who came before us.
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I have to know. Is that first rock formation called "Camel Rock" and is the second one called "Eye of the Needle?"Quote:
Originally Posted by jimsnarocks
Joe, you forgot, you work when you're not FF'ing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lotech
If I am not fishing, I may be flint-knapping, building bows, arrows and atlatls, or weaving slings, shooting my slingshots, river-running in my kayaks, snorkeling, searching the mountain for Bigfoot, Ancient Indian sites, fossils, or just neat-looking rocks.
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Or, maybe just playing music somewhere.....
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With owning a one-man handyman business, and living in the city, there is not much time to do any sort of fishing. Most of my spare time is not really spare time, but I do enjoy doing this when I have the time...
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Gigmaster,
Is that one of the bows you build? If so, well done. Do you ever use sinew to back your bows?
REE
What do I do when not fishing?
Sleep
Work
Household chores
Church on Sundays
And...spend time with my wonderful 13 yr old daughter who drags me to kiddie/teen movies, talks my ear off, compells me to listen to new music (most of which grates my nerves!), steals my cool T-Shirts (and hats), stole my Jackson Coosa, and generaly makes my life worth living. I absolutely love her to death!
Other than that, I got no time left over for anything but fishing. Wish i did because like I've seen in the earlier posts, there is a whole lot of really cool stuff to do!
Thanks for sharing your passions. I've enjoyed them.
Derek
I made that bow from a hickory stave, with a hickory handle block, and backed it with rattlesnake skin. Hickory doesn't really need any backing. That particular bow is aprox. 75 pounds draw weight.
I want to try to make an Assyrian Horse Bow from horn and sinew, but I haven't gotten around to it, yet.
I make rabbit sticks, atlatls and slings as well.
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Originally Posted by Ron Eagle Elk