Know those ponds well - my sister-in-law lives close by there a street or two away. Hope the knee operation goes well.
Mike On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Tom Davenport <t...@comcast.net> wrote: > Glad to hear you all had a good time at Sowbug. For my part, I'm glad I > didn't go, because me knee continues to grow worse. I'm not good for more > than 50 yards, and river fishing is out of the question. > > The knee replacement surgery is scheduled for April 25th, and that will be, > I hope, the beginning of a new era. I haven't had a good knee for 15 years, > which has limited hiking or any distant walking, but the Doc says I should > be good to go for any kind of walking once every thing has healed up. > > There is a bright side, though. It turns out that fishing from a kick boat > is perfect exercise for my bad knee! I have been out about four times on a > little community fishery (Kaysville Ponds, for those who live in Utah), > having a ball catching trout on pheasant tail nymphs. It is kind of sight > fishing, the fish rise, and I cast the nymphs to them and strip slowly. Dry > flies don't get much action, but I usually catch the fish with the PT > > The pond is just a hundred feet or so from the parking lot, so getting my > kick boat there and back isn't bad. > > I would have been out fishing more, but Utah is having crappy fishing > weather this spring. Because of El Nino the usual high pressure that keeps > us relatively dry and mild has never set up, and the storms keep rolling in. > The rivers are all ready blasted out as the reservoirs are being emptied to > make room for the snow pact, which is between 150% to over 200% of normal. > Still, when you live in a dessert, you can't complain about water no matter > how it comes. > > The week before my surgery I will be fishing with my brother and a couple > of nephews in the Bend, Oregon area. We will begin by fishing a "Pay to > Play" area called "Lake of the Dunes" where my nephew caught some enormous > "hogs" last year. After that we will fish some other reservoirs in the area > from either a boat or kick boat. Not a bad way to usher in my surgery! The > doctor was all for it, he says the more I use my bad leg now, the better, > since keeping muscle mass is a key part of recovery. > > Tom Davenport > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -- Mike Bliss Aloha from Hawaii -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com
