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Post by billhammond on Sept 28, 2020 19:31:58 GMT -5
Tomorrow!  |
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Post by Cornflake on Sept 28, 2020 19:51:37 GMT -5
I envy you your autumns, Bill. Enjoy.
Diane and I will be in Flagstaff for three days starting about 10/19. Ordinarily that would be a bit late for the aspens to be changing but this year it may not be.
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Post by Marty on Sept 28, 2020 20:19:59 GMT -5
I envy you your autumns, Bill. Enjoy. Diane and I will be in Flagstaff for three days starting about 10/19. Ordinarily that would be a bit late for the aspens to be changing but this year it may not be. Been through Flagstaff twice, winter and summer. Really liked the place. |
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Post by Cornflake on Sept 28, 2020 20:28:59 GMT -5
It's a great place, Marty.
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Post by Village Idiot on Sept 28, 2020 20:30:24 GMT -5
We were on that road last weekend, Bill. Great time to be there. Kim and I weren't ready to come home.
By the way, next Ijam, do I have the return route planned for you.
Have fun, enjoy your family, enjoy the beauty.
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Post by billhammond on Sept 28, 2020 20:40:34 GMT -5
Elderdottir and SIL spent most of today on Driftless Area trout streams -- this was part of their catch (and release):  |
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Post by billhammond on Sept 28, 2020 21:16:29 GMT -5
We were on that road last weekend, Bill. Great time to be there. Kim and I weren't ready to come home. By the way, next Ijam, do I have the return route planned for you. Have fun, enjoy your family, enjoy the beauty. Thanks, Todd -- You have given me some great return routes in the past, I'm sure the next one well be a winner, too. FYI, my route tomoro is to cross the river at Hastings to Prescott, and stay on Hwy 35 all the way to Trempealeau, then east to Hwy 53, hop on I-90 for a bit and then take Hwy 27 south to Westby (ski jump hill!), pick up 14 and on to the Airbnb just a bit southwest of Viroqua. Route home is Hwy 82 to the river, south a bit, cross to Lansing, Iowa, north on 26 to New Albin, then various MN backroads northwest until I reach I-90, freeway cruise all the way home from there through Rochester. |
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Post by Village Idiot on Sept 28, 2020 21:35:37 GMT -5
Sounds good. But then again, you can't go wrong. When you get back, give me your thoughts on Lansing.
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Post by billhammond on Sept 28, 2020 22:09:17 GMT -5
Sounds good. But then again, you can't go wrong. When you get back, give me your thoughts on Lansing. Oh, I have crossed at Lansing many times, never stopped to look around, though. |
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Post by Village Idiot on Sept 28, 2020 22:14:22 GMT -5
Elderdottir and SIL spent most of today on Driftless Area trout streams -- this was part of their catch (and release): I can’t see the picture, but by chance did they fish the Kickapoo River? From what i’ve Seen of it, it looks like a great fishing river. |
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Post by billhammond on Sept 28, 2020 22:28:52 GMT -5
Elderdottir and SIL spent most of today on Driftless Area trout streams -- this was part of their catch (and release): I can’t see the picture, but by chance did they fish the Kickapoo River? From what i’ve Seen of it, it looks like a great fishing river. Too bad, it's a fine photo -- can others not see it, as well? Their guide steered them away from the Kickapoo, muddy and home to non-desirable sportfish. They moved from stream to stream today. |
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Post by jdd2 on Sept 28, 2020 22:31:30 GMT -5
I could see it a while ago (couple hours?) but now just a ?-mark icon.
edit: and I was thinking, "release? that trout should have been baked (salted) over an open fire on a stick"
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Post by billhammond on Sept 28, 2020 22:38:58 GMT -5
I could see it a while ago (couple hours?) but now just a ?-mark icon. edit: and I was thinking, "release? that trout should have been baked (salted) over an open fire on a stick" That fish did nothing to harm Dottir, why should she kill it? (When she can instead go off to a restaurant and order grilled trout that's already been "harvested"?) |
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Post by Jawbone on Sept 28, 2020 22:50:39 GMT -5
My kayak screams at that photo
it's held on hangers in the garage, crying
Wow. Beautiful river.
I'm a stones throw from the Clark Fork river.
Rainbow, Brown, Pike, Cut-throat, Whitefish, Bass.
On worms. no weight.
bang!
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Post by billhammond on Oct 4, 2020 19:41:05 GMT -5
Elderdottir and hubby got back to NC safely, and she sent me this photo from our meanderings near Viroqua, Wis., on Thursday. Look quickly, these images seem to vanish in short order:  |
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Post by Tamarack on Oct 4, 2020 22:45:04 GMT -5
My kayak sympathizes with your kayak
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Post by t-bob on Oct 5, 2020 3:35:20 GMT -5
I remember the beautiful red orange leaves in autumn Northeast.
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Post by coachdoc on Oct 5, 2020 5:51:01 GMT -5
Forget about the Kickapoo River. Did they try the joy juice?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2020 6:14:04 GMT -5
I once wrote a song about the second ex (oddly, a co-worker of Bill's) after we made an autumn drive down to Illinois and back. The first verse goes:
On the drive up from Galena, where U.S. Grant was from
Through the fields of Iowa and folds of Wisconsin
Minnesota maples full of yellows, reds and rust
As if Monet had painted the Mississippi bluffs
That is a beautiful drive.
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Post by jdd2 on Oct 5, 2020 6:37:14 GMT -5
I grew up not far from kickapoo creek, central Illinois. A different creek (that fed it) was a few doors from our house and went by my grade school, so I'd often take 'the creek route' home from there, playing along the way. The kickapoo joined the illinois river just above the lock and dam.
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