{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Lefty's Tiefest? Looking for info on it.

You know, I haven't seen any ruddy ducks in a long time.  I was seeing a lot of shovelers and the (ridiculously common) hoodies, but not so much recently.  I have a beautiful picture of a black that I use as my desktop at work.....most people think it's a mallard.  

That's a good sampling though Morgan -- thanks for sharing.  I've said before:  If you're bored with birds, you're bored with life.   

I don't care a thing in the world about celebrity.   

Clearly no one will heed this beer-fueled silliness -- everyone should distrust everyone's opinion, and try things on their own (including fests).  You/they may think it's more exciting than a weekend with Batman.  

Gene

On Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 9:27:20 PM UTC-5, Morgan Kupfer wrote:

 

Didn't get a great picture of the Bald Eagles sparring over the ducks, but heres the best I got...

On Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 9:23:23 PM UTC-5, Morgan Kupfer wrote:

I was out as well. Amazing to watch these ducks congregate on open water. The Severn is full of Cans, Lesser Scaups, Redheads, Ruddys and Mallards with a few Black ducks mixed in right now (worth the trip if you can over the next few days before warm weather moves in...amazing sights and sounds, completely worth fighting the frigid temps.

With a bachelors in biopsychology with an environmental science minor, I get where your coming from too. I can't disagree with you at all regarding brown trout. I do catch them, often...its hard not to with the states stocking program...so I embrace them. Im familiar with Battery Kemble, I actually caught one of my first carp on the fly near the mouth of it years ago and nearly caught a snakehead there last Spring. 

Regarding events, to each their own, I understand if being social isn't your thing and maintaining the sport as a personal hobby is. All I ask is that you give others a chance to enjoy an event, make their own judgement after experiencing it first-hand and maybe have a little respect for a 90 year old man that helped evolve the sport into what it is today.

Morgan

On Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 4:40:05 PM UTC-5, TurbineBlade wrote:

Morgan - I don't know you either but I can show you a great picture of a Canvasback I took yesterday on 4MR when I was there....and as usual, alone with frozen hands.  It's the first Canvasback I've seen in 6 years of living here and a beautiful one at that.  I can show you HUNDREDS (thousands?) of pictures of wildlife I've taken while fishing on our local waters, and few (if any) people on here have taken more time to share this with the group.  I require no lessons on respecting any resource ;).  

My wife and I are both wildlife biologists and have been involved in virtually every conservation/stream sampling-monitoring organization that exists.  I have a basement full of old seine nets, buckets, and old aquarium parts I had from keeping native fishes (NANFA -- I was a member for several years).  http://www.nanfa.org/

I can probably guess the ph, conductivity, E.coli, etc. of "Battery Kemble" (or most other DC streams) at any given moment and be fairly close to the real figure - this is the stream which flows very near to where they rent boats at Fletcher's boathouse that you drive over before going under the tunnel, probably without thinking a thing about it.  

Fishermen do a lot of good (even great) things for conservation, but they also knowingly or unknowingly support things which are directly at-odds with protecting resources.....like, well...anything related to brown trout in this entire country.  It's just fact -- I don't care in the least, but it's true.  So everyone should be somewhat cynical about any overly broad statements made about how great fly fishing is.  

I still consider most fly events to be predominately social events, and there's nothing wrong with that -- it just isn't our thing.  I've listened to enough people talk now for a lifetime.  

Don't worry - once the weather turns I'll be outdoors 24/7 and the forum will see a 40% decrease in cynical comments ;).  

Gene

 

On Friday, February 27, 2015 at 7:12:36 PM UTC-5, Aaron O wrote:

Can anyone tell me about Tiefest? I can't get a clear answer about how this event goes.  Including what to expect, what is the cost?… etc…  I tried looking on line and tried the Facebook page but that was no help.  

Anyone else going?

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