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pdxmonkeyboy
Since 16 May 2006
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 Wed Jan 16, 08 2:50 pm Smith and Bybee Lakes |
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So the family and I went out to smith and bybee lakes the other day to walk around and look at birds. After about the 20th time of me uttering "I wonder if you could kite here" My wife told me "to get on your little forum and see if anyone has".
So here I am. The lake is pretty damn big these days and I know there are several places you could launch from. Curious to know if anyone has tried it.
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TWIN-FIN
Since 24 May 2006
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Portland, OR
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| Wed Jan 16, 08 3:45 pm |
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I went sight fly fishing for Carp (fastest fresh water fish, for sport not to eat) at Smith and Bybee Lakes a couple of years ago. The lakes are loaded with fallen trees (i.e. snags). I have noticed that during the winter you cant see the snags under the water surface but during the summer the snags are every where.
Besides where would you launch from?
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pdxmonkeyboy
Since 16 May 2006
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| Wed Jan 16, 08 4:08 pm |
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| You can launch from several emergent wetlands along the edge of the lakes if you just follow the trail. I figured there would be a bunch of snags in there. That would pretty much put the kybosh on kiting there for me. Bad things can happen when you run into snags. I witnessed a guy puncture his lung while mt. biking on the north shore in B.C. Gasping for air and a gurgeling sound coming from a big hole in his chest.. no thanks.
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TWIN-FIN
Since 24 May 2006
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Portland, OR
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| Wed Jan 16, 08 5:24 pm |
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DUDE!
Did you get any pictures?
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Gman
Since 11 Feb 2006
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Portland
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| Wed Jan 16, 08 5:31 pm |
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| TWIN-FIN wrote: | | I went sight fly fishing for Carp (fastest fresh water fish, for sport not to eat) |
I want to hear more about the carp - I hear from Mark that the Sauvies lakes have them - do they get you into the backing? Seen some monsters in the shallows below bonneville - site fishing is super fun.
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chanson
Since 31 Jan 2006
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WISCONSIN
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| Wed Jan 16, 08 6:27 pm |
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we used to fly-fish for carp in Wisco with cotton balls.. they will eat anything....and yeah, probably to the backing. 
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TWIN-FIN
Since 24 May 2006
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Portland, OR
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| Thu Jan 17, 08 8:20 am |
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The best place around here for Carp is the little pond/lake right next to the Roster Rock turn off. Its waist deep in the summer, cast out a Red San Juan Worm towards a school, let is settle to the bottom, the slowly twitch it to still up some mud.
WAM! BAM! POW!...........................................................................................................................................................................FISH ON BROTHER
Totally into your backing, forsure 
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Tony
Since 28 Aug 2006
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Portland
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| Thu Jan 17, 08 8:32 am |
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I agree, carp are hella fun to catch...They bite on anything...but stinky old worms will do the trick most times...And those fu** can grow pretty big...
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Tony
Since 28 Aug 2006
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Portland
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| Thu Jan 17, 08 8:42 am |
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| TWIN-FIN wrote: | The best place around here for Carp is the little pond/lake right next to the Roster Rock turn off. Its waist deep in the summer, cast out a Red San Juan Worm towards a school, let is settle to the bottom, the slowly twitch it to still up some mud.
WAM! BAM! POW!...........................................................................................................................................................................FISH ON BROTHER
Totally into your backing, forsure |
Hey Twin Fin, is this the size of carp you been catch'n....? 
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pdxmonkeyboy
Since 16 May 2006
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| Thu Jan 17, 08 9:16 am |
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| TWIN-FIN wrote: | DUDE!
Did you get any pictures? |
Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures. People were basically standing there with their moouths open trying to figure out how to get him off the mountain. Two days later I saw some cross country boob face plant at whistler and put his front teeth through his lip and scrap a huge flap of skin off his nose with his wire frame sunglasses. He was face down in the mud and when we turned him over it was like a freakin horror show. He got a heli ride back to Vancouver.
It's not all grim and gore though, I miss riding the trails in BC so much but its hard to drive there every weekend and there is NOTHING that even comes close to the riding up there. Post canyon has some cool stuff but nothing on the scale of the NS. Check out this picture of a trail built last year in Nelson.
FUCKING AWESOME
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broadbandito
Since 26 Apr 2005
342 Posts
CSO headwaters
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| Thu Jan 17, 08 8:56 pm |
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| Looks like the work of a river troll!
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