Tom, I got to fish ONCE on Blue Lake, up there in the mountains. Beautiful little lake full of 12"-16" stockers- all hungry for hoppers.
Owah (sp?) looked like a nice belly-boat lake, but it was crowded. Up in the mountains to the east also. There's a creek coming in to town on the east side, with a parking area. Walk up that creek with some dries and bead-heads and work the under-cuts and deep holes. Some wormers were bringing out some nice browns up to 16" from that little creek. I didn't get much time to fish- 12hr. days/6, and then we went to 12/7 for the last months. Can't complain- the $$ was great. Got to do lots of arrowhead hunting. Got evacuated one night for a fire just west of our campground. Only reason it didn't get us was that the wind was blowing the right direction. Huge fire in a wilderness section of the valley- no homes lost- no injuries. Suspected arson. Got lots of 'neat' photos. On a side-note- fishing related... I did order a handy-rifle in my S&W 50cal. to back up my bear-buddy pistol for fishing Glacier Park. Hope I'll never have to use either, but fishing is just more relaxing knowing I have a deterrent for becoming a high-colesterol lunch for some hungry bear. I'm working with a bullet loader to develop a flash-blast pistol-round that will be a deterrant without harming the bear. Loud boom, big flash, and tiny surface pain (no penetration). He did get my shot-pellet rounds made, so I can get a rabbit dinner without blowing it up to sub-atomic-sized particles. DonO ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Davenport" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <vfb-mail@googlegroups.com> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 4:06 AM Subject: [VFB] Re: Don Ordes - aka DonO?? I'd like to here about your fishing in Moab. We go down for the scenery, and I always take my pontoon boat out on Ken's Lake, an impoundment south east of town which I think provides water for the city. The fishing there is always fun, with planted rainbows, crappie, bass and and occasional brown that comes down from the river above. Since I am usually in Moab with my wife (who doesn't fish) it gives me a quick fly fishing fix during what would otherwise be a sight seeing trip. Did you go up into the Manti-La Sal national forest? What lakes did you fish? Tom On Sep 29, 2008, at 10:46 AM, DonO wrote: > > Hey, guys! I just got in from Moab for my week 'off'. Thanks for > remembering I existed at one time. > > My truck broke down yesterday on the way home in Craig, Colo- seems > like a > tiny little thing like an fuel injector elec. socket connector is > responsible or side-lining many Duramaxes like mine. $10 part and > $1000 > problems. My son drove my other truck down to Craig to load me up > on a > trailer and haul me home, so instead of getting in at 2:00am > yesterday, I > didn't get in until 11:00 last night. > > Things are too busy at the job site to spend any time on the web, > and the > trailer park where I'm camping does not have cable internet. I'm > the chief > inspector (and on-site designer), so it's just a constant stream of > activities from the moment I get there until I leave, and then they > shut the > generator down at 5:30. It's a $14mm plant and it's looking pretty > good > now, and it looks like we'll be done by Thanksgiving. > > We did take a drive Sunday 2 weeks ago and found some nice trout > lakes up in > the mountains east of Moab. And then we mapped out some trips up to > the > lakes on the mesa SE of Grand Junction. So I'm hoping as the work- > load > tails off towards the end of the job I'll be able to get away and do > some > fishing. I'm already checking the fishing schedules in Baja and > seeing > what's available in Dec. thru Feb.- i.e. what's biting & where. > > There are fishermen on the job site, but no flyfishers or tiers, so > I'm all > alone with only Buggs and Dr. D to keep me company and talk > flyfishing with. > Veronica does not like the desert, so she stayed home in Casper. I > did > exchange a couple of direct emails with Keith Passant over a mouse > donation > to a special event he was a part of. > > Where can I get to see a pic of the fly plate for Mark Delaney? I > have over > 400 emails in my in-box and won't be able to get to them until > later, after > I get my truck taken care of. > > Tight Lines, > DonO > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jimmy D. Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Virtual Fly Box" <vfb-mail@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 8:31 AM > Subject: [VFB] Don Ordes - aka DonO?? > > > > Anybody heard from DonO lately? I know he's been as busy as a > one-legged fly fisherman in the Frying Pan, what with designing gas > well > structures, etc. but it ain't like Dr. Dimento not to post once in a > while. Sure hope you're OK, DonO ! > > JIMMY D > > -- > > > **************** ><((((((((º> ************** > JIMMY D. 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