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    Unhappy The Things We Love

    I was just watching a show with Flip Pallot and Rob Fordyce spending a little time together and sharing a lot of old stories and memories while doing some shad fishing and snipe hunting around the St. John's River in Florida. There's always a soft background music while Flip speaks about how many people and kids today will never get to see any of this area that he and Rob grew up in. The conversation goes on about how many kids in big cities never get to climb or fall out of a tree. How many have never gotten to catch a bluegill or build a campfire. Things that most all of us on this board take for granted. Beautiful natural things that are going by the wayside as technology and electronics and gameboys take over the world.

    No, we can't turn back time. The salmon will never spawn where they used to like they used to. The water we all love and need is being bought up by Central Valley farming conglomerates and we continue to evolve though not in a positive direction.

    I fear for my kids, especially my grandkids, because they will never get to share and enjoy the gifts of nature we've grown up with.

    It's good to reminisce about the old days and the fun we had growing up, but sad to think our loved ones may never get to enjoy what we did.
    Tony
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    I hear you man.Come to Australia or New Zealand .....fortunately we can still do that stuff here.

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    Powerful stuff Tony.....

    In the 1950s we use to get on our old Schwinn bicycles with a fishin' pole and a 22 rife and head south of Sacramento into the rural

    farm land. Back then almost everyone hunted and fished because our fathers, grandfathers and uncles took us. Many driveways had a

    small aluminum boat on a trailer on one side. We hunted pheasants, ducks, quail and doves. We fished big spawning runs of Stripers,

    salmon, and steelhead.



    This lifestyle still exist all over rural or middle America.

    We go to my wife's birth place, Platte, South Dakota, that "feels" like Sacramento in the 1950s?

    A small town where nobody locks there house, the keys are in all the cars, everyone will say Hello and talks to you.

    One difference is lots of farm kids ride dire bikes and ATVs instead of horses or bicycles. They put their fishing poles and guns

    on their ATVs and head out into rural South Dakota.

    If you are older and yearn for that old life that we lost just go to rural America.

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    Bill,

    We headed north. We'd walk from Woodlake through North Sac, then west on El Camino into Gardenland carrying our shotguns and canvas bags full of shells. Northgate was just getting started back then. From here it was all open country.

    There was no I-5 or Sacramento airport......just lots of fields and ditches. Jack rabbits, pigeons, and crows were plentiful. Crows were a favorite target because they had a bounty of $.50 and could pay for our shells. We had to take the crows to the F&G Office behind Sac State and the warden there would simply pay us out of his pocket. He told us next time to just bring in the heads so he didn't have to throw away to many carcasses.

    That was a long bike ride to get rid of those crows
    Tony
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    I heard the "north area" was just tons of fields back then.

    Our cousins had a rice farm out north of the Sacramento airport where we hunted ducks and pheasants and mud hens.

    My grand father's family had a ranch on the Consumnes river near Plymouth were we fished and swam.
    Bill Kiene (Boca Grande)

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    Heh, we used to Dove/Pheasant hunt where Thunder Valley Casino is now......or out at the north end of Watt Ave.
    "For years, every time he stopped at the house to collect his paper money, it was the same routine. The old man in the wheelchair would ask him how he'd like it if he took him fishing and showed him a few things. He always said he'd like that.
    When the old man finally passed away, his wife gave the kid a box of flies. He has them today, tucked away in a closet, never to be fished."

    Walt C.<---------------------------- not me, though I wish I had written it.

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    Australia, my favorite fishing area. I've done at least 6 trips to the Gulf of Carpentaria and just this past Oct we fished in the area of Princess Charlotte Isle. I hope to make it back and fish in the Exmouth area before my fly fishing career ends.
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    Take a kid fishing (or just hiking, camping, digging around in the creek, etc) whenever you can! Be sure to hide their smartphone while you’re at it too
    JB
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    What Jay says is true. Australia has an incredible number of remote and unfished areas, particularly in the Tropical north. Sure there are big Crocs and Stingers in some parts but the fishing for any number of iconic species is unparalleled....big Queenfish are so common they actually are a pest when you're targeting other fish like Barramundi....then there's the Blue Salmon, Snapper, Cod and other reef fish plus the country's biggest Bonefish on the north west coast at Ningaloo Reef and the Exmouth Gulf.

    So many places, so little time (and money).

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    My brother Dick and I took our 3 kids when they were all under 10 on a overnight up on Caples Creek, off the Silver Fork American.

    They all had a small back pack so they got the total experience. It was there first time sleeping in the wilds.




    *There is something magical and timeless about sitting around a campfire in the wilderness with friends and/or family.
    Bill Kiene (Boca Grande)

    567 Barber Street
    Sebastian, Florida 32958

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    Contact me for any reason........
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