Its not a Fish-In... but...

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hey folks!
First off, Happy Holidays to you and yours!

I wanted to run something by the folks on this board.
Myself and a few others from WV visit this board frequently… and some of you met my buddies at the Smoky Mountain Fish-In this past year (NA and Buna).

We are planning on doing a camping trip in WV the week/weekend of June 1 - June 4. Here in WV, they have a “fish for free weekend” and this camping trip will be held the weekend of the “fish for free weekend”. During this weekend any person in the world could come to WV and fish for free.

We are still uncertain about the location of this camping trip, but we are looking at Summersville, WV… Bartow/Durbin, WV, or Elkins, WV. We plan on making our decision about location by the 3rd of January, and I will be sure to repost the location… but the dates are concrete.

I do not think this interferes with anything going on from FAOL (on the East Coast anyways)… and wanted to extend a warm WV invitation to this camping trip to all the folks in FAOL land! If you are wondering about the trout fishing in WV, I’ve attached a link for you all to check out. These are all WV trout, and all but 3 or 4 pics are from WV (the others are from Canada).

Regardless of the location we choose, there are hundreds of miles of trout streams within a stones throw of our potential locations. Anyways… I wanted to throw this out to you all, so you could pencil it in on your calendars…

If you have any questions, shoot me an e-mail at jlb_1975@hotmail.com.
In the mean time, check out the website below, and enjoy (please note, there are 4 pages to this web-account).
[url=http://photobucket.com/albums/v600/browntrout/:c40e1]http://photobucket.com/albums/v600/browntrout/[/url:c40e1]

browntrout

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WVbrowntrout,

Great idea and one I would consider IF NOT FOR the Roscoe Fish-In which takes place Monday, May 29th through Sunday, June 4th(inclusive).

Please check thread about it that was posted on this bb Dec. 6th as well as on the ‘Fish-Ins*’ page link to the left.

Also, I meant to write that more information about the Roscoe Fish-In has been sent to LadyFisher and she will probably post it sometime soon.

Happy Holidays.

Allan

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most interesting…
I knew I would miss something.
hmmm…

browntrout

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It would be a mighty long drive from Washington to WV, but I do appreciate the warm invite. For anyone that hasn’t been to WV, when they say a warm invite, they mean it. I met some wonderful folks there and fished some gorgeous water.

Ron Eagle ELk

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NoahsBoyz,
thanks for the promo!
yes, we do have some beautful water…
lol… also some nasty sewage water that is
just loaded with BIG wild trout. the
person who has the signature on the board
that states, “Trout don’t live in ugly places” needs to come and visit 2 streams in particular. While we do have our fair share of gorgeous clean waters… I’ve found that a little sewage is like steriods for browns and rainbows.

Interesting things happening in WV, and our trout waters get better with every passing year. the best thing is, our wild trout waters (and fingerling only waters)are really starting to flourish.

Just today the WVDNR posted a fish consumption advisory on all brown trout… even the hatcery reared fish… which I can’t say that I’m entirely upset about! we’ll make 'em C&R one way or another! lol

browntrout

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