Somerset 2015 in just a few weeks.

[dcabarle]

I guess we should start the who's going thread and who will meet up with who and where.

I looked at the brochure and was deeply saddened by the fact that the Saturday morning prayer session to the invisible guy in the sky was removed from the itinerary and replaced with a "How to beat your spouse and get away with it" class... WTF is this world coming to?

 

[WBDluver]

So will you be attending my class Sunday morning? Can i put you down as a yes!

 

[jmoore]

I haven't been to the show in Somerset since 2002. It is a 6 hour drive for me. With gas prices being low, I am considering making the drive this year.

Are there still good deals at the Somerset show? I went to the Lancaster, PA show last year, and didn't find that many deals.

 

[dcabarle]

I haven't been to the show in Somerset since 2002. It is a 6 hour drive for me. With gas prices being low, I am considering making the drive this year.

Are there still good deals at the Somerset show? I went to the Lancaster, PA show last year, and didn't find that many deals.

I've gotta be honest... If you're not looking for a seminar, resort to stay in or see the latest products by Sage / Simms, etc... it's probably not a place for you. There are a few places that try to dump last years stuff for a discount but if you want those deals, you're going to have to be early. West Branch Angler usually has a boat load of SIMMS stuff but I don't think that was the case last year. I think they focused more on the resort aspect of things.

It's a nice day out but I don't think I'd go there looking for a killer deal. You'll be disappointed.

 

[FIN-ITE 34]

I haven't been to the show in Somerset since 2002. It is a 6 hour drive for me. With gas prices being low, I am considering making the drive this year.

Are there still good deals at the Somerset show? I went to the Lancaster, PA show last year, and didn't find that many deals.

Use code MSRP for show deals.

 

[jmoore]

If you're not looking for a seminar, resort to stay in or see the latest products by Sage / Simms, etc...

There are some seminars I would like to go to, and some new products I would like to see. I was just wondering if there were any good deals anymore. I'll probably go just to get out for the weekend.

Maybe you'll sell my GLX back to me. I miss her every time I'm on the D.

 

[Trout Nazi]

I haven't been to the show in Somerset since 2002. It is a 6 hour drive for me. With gas prices being low, I am considering making the drive this year.

Are there still good deals at the Somerset show? I went to the Lancaster, PA show last year, and didn't find that many deals.

I picked up a pair of G3 waders last year for around $240, however I consider that the exception, not the norm. Go there to speak with other fly fishing geeks, and maybe find some materials that you normally would not come across. This is the fly fishing equivalent of Comic Con or a Star Trek convention, with people walking around like they are about to go fishing, the only thing they're not wearing is waders and nets.

 

[MACFLY]

So will you be attending my class Sunday morning? Can i put you down as a yes!

It's good that you can speak about the abuse you receive from your wife. It's the first step in healing

 

[FIN-ITE 34]

Will DC be holding the Bible Study class again this year?

 

[dcabarle]

There are some seminars I would like to go to, and some new products I would like to see. I was just wondering if there were any good deals anymore. I'll probably go just to get out for the weekend.

Maybe you'll sell my GLX back to me. I miss her every time I'm on the D.

No way! I still use that rod!

 

[MACFLY]

Beetle and I will be there on Saturday to plan our epic guided trip with Joe d. Recall that beetle was adamant he pay for us to go on this guided trip. I am looking forward to it I will even bring him a small coffee

 

[striperknight]

I'm going to try and go on the Friday.

 

[mudbug201]

Beetle and I will be there on Saturday to plan our epic guided trip with Joe d. Recall that beetle was adamant he pay for us to go on this guided trip. I am looking forward to it I will even bring him a small coffee

I'll be there Saturday w/ my cousin.

Looking forward to hearing Gierach. Beyond that, I'll probably just wander around like an idiot, or go check out Underwater Ozzie's subaquatic hardcore fishporn extravaganza if that's in the offing.

But the point of the show is not to get a deal on gear, or to book a trip, or to learn how to roll cast like Lefty Kreh. It's to fantasize about warm weather fishing for a day in the late-middle of winter, when things are especially bleak. And it's really good for that.

 

[lightenup]

I'll be there Saturday w/ my cousin.

Looking forward to hearing Gierach. Beyond that, I'll probably just wander around like an idiot, or go check out Underwater Ozzie's subaquatic hardcore fishporn extravaganza if that's in the offing.

But the point of the show is not to get a deal on gear, or to book a trip, or to learn how to roll cast like Lefty Kreh. It's to fantasize about warm weather fishing for a day in the late-middle of winter, when things are especially bleak. And it's really good for that.

I met underwater Ozzie a few months ago, what a nice, humble guy....he gave me two videos to watch, the filming was very cool, but the narration will put you to SLEEP!!!

 

[mudbug201]

I met underwater Ozzie a few months ago, what a nice, humble guy....he gave me two videos to watch, the filming was very cool, but the narration will put you to SLEEP!!!

I concur with your assessment of Ozzie, and his narration.

I love his films though, because they're basically impractical with regard to fishing. Just an amateur ichthyologist nerding out with waterproof cameras.

Case in point. My favorite moment from my few visits to the Somerset show was two or three years ago during one of Ozzie's movies. He had inserted a waterproof camera on a boom down into the bottom of a plunge pool, to film these gorgeous brook trout that were hovering below the froth, facing downstream.

It was an illustration, he said, of the fact that currents on the bottom of the river can be entirely different from those on the surface. The water was eddying vertically in this pool, appearing to flow flowing downstream on the surface while flowing upstream along the stream bed.

"And this is quite typical," he said. "Of plunge pools. From the surface you see a turbulent downstream movement. But these fish are facing downstream, waiting for food to come back upstream on the bottom of the pool, propelled by the current."

(one of five guys in the audience who is not asleep, who happens to be wearing Ass-Hat camo, raises his hand)

"How would you achieve a natural drift with a nymph under these conditions?"

Ozzie looked at him for a moment like he'd never thought about this.

"Oh, you are never going to catch these fish."

 

[lightenup]

I concur with your assessment of Ozzie, and his narration.

I love his films though, because they're basically impractical with regard to fishing. Just an amateur ichthyologist nerding out with waterproof cameras.

Case in point. My favorite moment from my few visits to the Somerset show was two or three years ago during one of Ozzie's movies. He had inserted a waterproof camera on a boom down into the bottom of a plunge pool, to film these gorgeous brook trout that were hovering below the froth, facing downstream.

It was an illustration, he said, of the fact that currents on the bottom of the river can be entirely different from those on the surface. The water was eddying vertically in this pool, appearing to flow flowing downstream on the surface while flowing upstream along the stream bed.

"And this is quite typical," he said. "Of plunge pools. From the surface you see a turbulent downstream movement. But these fish are facing downstream, waiting for food to come back upstream on the bottom of the pool, propelled by the current."

(one of five guys in the audience who is not asleep, who happens to be wearing Ass-Hat camo, raises his hand)

"How would you achieve a natural drift with a nymph under these conditions?"

Ozzie looked at him for a moment like he'd never thought about this.

"Oh, you are never going to catch these fish."

throw the damn nymph in the plunge. let your line slack and you will catch those fish...I have done it and it has worked...wonder why he said that.......The Ass-Hat camo probably threw him off......

 

[WBDluver]

I would throw on a red wiggler with a red and white bogger and catch fish all day. I dont know if i will be going, 2 hours each way for me and it take me under two hours to see everything.

 

[moosekid]

nice profile pic.

is that a 1 weight rod you've got??

 

[lightenup]

nice profile pic.

is that a 1 weight rod you've got??

I believe that is the red wiggler he was gonna "throw on"....but he is using two goya bobbers....

 

[Trout Nazi]

I concur with your assessment of Ozzie, and his narration.

I love his films though, because they're basically impractical with regard to fishing. Just an amateur ichthyologist nerding out with waterproof cameras.

Case in point. My favorite moment from my few visits to the Somerset show was two or three years ago during one of Ozzie's movies. He had inserted a waterproof camera on a boom down into the bottom of a plunge pool, to film these gorgeous brook trout that were hovering below the froth, facing downstream.

It was an illustration, he said, of the fact that currents on the bottom of the river can be entirely different from those on the surface. The water was eddying vertically in this pool, appearing to flow flowing downstream on the surface while flowing upstream along the stream bed.

"And this is quite typical," he said. "Of plunge pools. From the surface you see a turbulent downstream movement. But these fish are facing downstream, waiting for food to come back upstream on the bottom of the pool, propelled by the current."

(one of five guys in the audience who is not asleep, who happens to be wearing Ass-Hat camo, raises his hand)

"How would you achieve a natural drift with a nymph under these conditions?"

Ozzie looked at him for a moment like he'd never thought about this.

"Oh, you are never going to catch these fish."

I will throw a few blockbusters down there and get those fuckin fish. If you tell me I will never catch those fish, then in immortal words of the great Barney Stinson, "challenge accepted!".

 

[WBDluver]

nice profile pic. is that a 1 weight rod you've got??

Ahh boys, my eyes are up here.

 

[mudbug201]

Be careful what you petition for thurst.

is that jager?