It’s Monday – time for the weekend roundup of fishing rumor, innuendo and outright fabrication. What do I know? Not a hell of a lot, but what I don’t know I’m willing to make up. It’s the Internet…
Dave Edmondson bobbicated a couple of fish on the Upper Sac through town late last week, though success was limited and the water was still high. In fact, water levels have actually gone up a bit with the recent warm weather, so the snow’s melting and the river’s feeling it. (Probably a good time to go to Tennessee and fish.)
Dave Roberts says the Mother’s Day Caddis on the Rogue aren’t quite there yet, but – with warm weather – they could happen any time. Still, that’s far from a certainty (unlike the Sulphurs in Tennessee), and readers are best advised to contact their hatch snitches in Oregon for up-to-the-minute information.
Ian Rutter (who guides in Tennessee, where fish are eating dry flies) reports pretty good fishing, though fast-resolving high water levels can interrupt fishing for a day or two.
Happily, Jim Troyer of Southern California – the Underground’s Surf Fishing & Bikini correspondent – had an epic day on an O.C. beach (one assumes pouty-lipped movie stars were present, but Jim doesn’t say):
Had one of my best days ever on Sunday at low tide. The water has been chocolate milk for the past week and I was itching to fish. Drove the beater down into the heart of the O.C. and started fishing. It had been an hour with only one small bump and I was getting ready to leave when I got a good hit.
To make a long story short, it was WIDE OPEN on YFC for about 2 hrs. and I was the only one around. I had two break me off and a couple almost take me into my backing. Mixed in with the YFC were some nice big BSP’s to round out the fun. It was BENDO on almost every cast. The grub fly I tie was the “go to” with a small olive/chart. clouser as the dropper. The YFC were 12-14″ with my biggest@ 19″ and fat. Days like that keep you coming back for more.
Sure, the Underground isn’t even clear about what a “YFC” might be, but there are the letters in black & white, so clearly they’re important. I’m just hoping they’re fish – maybe even the handsome specimen Jim’s holding below (which is nice, but it’s not a trout like the kind you’d catch in Tennessee).
See you on the river.
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Always trying to help out, I googled YFC and BSP, ’cause frankly I had no idea either. Turns out YFC stands for “Youth For Christ”. This is apparently a worldwide network of Christian Youth Groups. Of course, that does little to explain how Jim was measuring them (12″ to 14″?!), nor why they were biting flies and even swimming for that matter.
And here’s what I found for BSPs. “BSP Worldwide is an association of people interested in the development of the Bulk Synchronous Parallel (BSP) computing model for parallel programming.” Well, that certainly would seem to “round out the fun” as Jim claims.
As for me, I’ll stick with the standard rainbows and browns found here on the Upper Sac, and just remain thankful everyday that I’ve left SoCal behind. After all, I was never able to keep up with the latest SoCal trends in music and fashion, let alone fishing…
– Dave
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Excellent work. You’ve clearly cracked the code. I was going to suggest something kinda dumb for YFC (like Yellow Fin Croaker) but you’ve spared me the embarassment of getting it dead wrong.
Though maybe Jim should explain why these youth were swimming.
Once again, the Internet comes through.
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I hear there are a lot of christian youth in Tennessee maybe you can hook one there Tom.
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Man, I’ve been racking my brain to figure out what BSP and YFC are…
If you google: “yfc bsp fish”
you get a bunch of links to people catching a bunch of them. I still am too dense to figure it out…
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btw, where is the bamboo news?
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In a bit. Gotta write something for the folks who pay me to do so… 8-)
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TC,
Of course YFC stands for Yellow Flying Catfish. You only see those around the OC this time of year.
Your bestest chess buddy,
TeeRex
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$$ talks, Tom. I unnerstand.
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Took time out from my busy schedule to explain YFC and BSP. YFC is short for Yellow Fin Croaker and BSP is short for Barred Surf Perch. I will continue to keep everyone in the Underground guessing as to “what the heck is he talking about” and one day go trout fishing again. In the meantime, I’m stuck in the O.C., flyrod in hand,looking for an escape….
Jim
BTW Tom,
No pouty-lipped movie stars were found on the beach…darn!
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I wonder if noodling for pouty lipped starlets is allowed in the O.C.? Maybe not… But I’ll bet it’s OK in Tennessee so if everything else fails you’ve got something to fall back on.
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I think Jim’s wrong, and TeeRex is right. Yellow Fin Croaker is stupid. Yellow Flying Catfish is kinda cool.
Remember – this is the Internet. Reality is what we make it…
And I’ll bet there were pouty-lipped starlets on the beach (how could there not be?). I mean, we’ve all seen the beach documentaries (BayWatch, The OC). I think you just weren’t looking hard enough.
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