Made the trip to Verdigre Creek with Qtip, Dennis and Josh. We did fairly well catching several fish and working almost the entire fishable public stretch.

Here's some pics:




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Friday morning was a special day on the Creek.

One in a million; non-stop action.






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I am going to be picking up a 4 month old GSP next week. His given name is Max but I will call him Max Immelmann, continuing a German WW1 fighter ace name theme.

After a great morning(100+ birds seen) walking for prairie chickens on Sunday, I am getting so excited for pheasant/quail! I believe that the NGPC is correct on their survey in my area, with pheasants being down and quail up. In late Sept. I walked a field that usually has at least one good covey and scared up three in short order. In my opinion we will see quail hunting in my area better than it has been in the last 10 years. This will be my first year ever sporting an auto instead of my standard...

In this post:
1) Gluing Up

One special note at the outset here: the further along I get in this process, the more indebted I feel to Lee (hexrod on this forum). Lee is a bamboo fly rod maker in Lincoln and his advice and guidance has become essential to me! I’m not sure if Lee still visits the forum, but if so, thanks Lee!!!

So anyway…...