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  1. #1
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    Default Introductions and congratulations

    I must admit I love this site, I have been browsing it for most of this year picking up new stuff. I have been fishing since I was 6 with my father, casting worms and eggs at hatchery fish at Jacksons trout farm, where you pay by the pound.

    We took trips to Island Park, Macky Resivor, Willow Creek and fished our homewaters of the SnakeRiver and Springfield lake between irrigating. The funnest thing we did was fish the artesian springs that fed Springfield lake.

    Fishing was the only thing my father and I did, besides farmwork, he passed on when I was 23, since then I fished mostly to remember, but I was never very good at bait fishing. I was skunked more times than I care to mention.

    I was introduced to fly fishing by a friend and was intrigued by what he called a nymph. I never knew the bugs on top of the water grew up in the water. Then my first real experience flyfishing was on the SouthFork of the Boise River, a vendor from work took me, I caught Trout and Whitefish with nymphs and drys it was liberating.

    Finally I could understand what was going on in the water and why fish were doing what they do, well sort of.
    Now I have been flyfishing for almost a year and tying since christmas, I am hooked.

    I picked UnderdaFilm for two reasons.
    1. I fell into the water my first trip fly fishing and my first trip steelheading.
    2. The flies on top of the water start out under the film. Those funny Nymphs.

    I am now intrigued by English fly fishing, we have a good hatch of crane flies on the Boise South fork

    So if you have seen my jumping into posts without knowing who I am Howdy from Idaho

    Sheldon

    How could I have fished most of my life and still be a Newbi

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    Howdy! Welcome to FAOL.

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    Hi NderdaFilm,

    Welcome to the group! We will be more that happy to hear from you on a regular basis so feel free to jump right in. There's lots of good people and good advice to be found here. 8T

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    NDERDAFILM,
    Welcome. There have been a lot of father/son relations told recently on the board. I'm very glad to read each of these blessings. My father was never into fishing so my ventures have always been with friends. However, I'm already at it with my 4 yr old.
    "I envy not him that eats better meat than I do, nor him that is richer, or that wears better clothes than I do; I envy nobody but him, and him only that catches more fish than I do." Izaak Walton
    God Bless and Tight Lines ----*<(((>< ~ ~ ~

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    Pocatello,id,usa
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    Sheldon,
    Hello from another Idahoan who fishes the area you grew up in. I have taken my daughters to Jacksons farm and I float on Springfeild durin the winter months when everything else is frozen. Also like to float on Henry's Lake and just got back home from Island Park.
    Welcome to the board.
    Jon

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