MalibuSheriff

Good dad! That’s awesome! I’m big fan of Ross Reels (and Scott Rods too) and have #1-#4 of original Gunnisons, plus my personal go-tos - original San Miguel #2 and #3. First rule of fly fishing - you can’t have too much equipment or gadgets.

Great pics Damor. I like the re-released Ross Gunnison too. I’ve had my eye out for one of those reels. Here’s some pics from a late June 2024 trip to Wyoming with my son. I’ve shared with a couple of guys I’ve messaged with on the forum but forgot to post them in this thread. All hands were wet when handling the fish. 😀 Wild cutthroat stream: Camp at 10,500 feet: Dinner-plate sized grizzly track: Already looking forward to returning to Wyoming:

I saw this on the Twitter machine this morning…Apologizes if this is already wide-spread but this sad Okie LOL: Belated congrats on thorough ass-whoopin’ administered to my hapless Sooners last week.

I agree on too much ancho giving the raisin-y flavor. I’m probably 60% guajillo, 30% ancho, and 10% chipotle morita. Last batch:

Just saw this…I’m gutted. I probably don’t know many of you fellow miscreants personally but I knew Wolfgang and he was a wonderful person. A got a email from him last Fall after years of not seeing him, helped him with a product question, and told him if he’s ever in Tulsa, I’d buy him lunch. Thank you for alerting me to his passing and ways to help.

There’s a really nice Belgian-made 20 gauge Browning Superimposed in Gun Broker in 26” barrel, perfect for quick swing on dove and quail: https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1056724559

The weather next week is awesome - low 80s for highs and down in high 50s at night. Might pack a jacket for early tee times.

Some good stuff above. I’ve been so neck deep in high school kids activies the past year, we haven’t gotten downtown T-town that much. Here’s some other places/notes: Skip Cafe Ole - new owners and I’ve heard from multiple people that it has gone downhill at a high rate. I haven’t been myself since change but I trust the people you’ve been since the change. Isla’s Kitchen - downtown across the street from the ballpark on Archer is outstanding. Best new place I’ve been in the last year - https://www.islaskitchenok.com Fixin’s Soul Kitchen — also downtown on north Detroit is supposedly fantastic. I haven’t made it there yet but I’ve heard nothing but great things - https://fixinssoulkitchen.com La Tertulia is still outstanding. I’ve had great meals on all my visits, service was a little poor once but food was still top notch - https://www.latertuliarestaurant.com Heirloom Rustic Ales - best beers in town and probably most Austin-like place I’ve been in Tulsa - https://www.heirloomrusticales.com I’ve got very little for Bartlesville aside from aforementioned Frank and Lola’s. Close by downtown bar called Painted Horse was pretty cool - https://www.painted-horse.com

Stumbled across this recipe for German Pancakes earlier in the summer and have made them 2 or 3 times. Every time I make them, I marvel at how damn easy this recipe is to prepare and cook. Pancakey on sides and custard-like in bottom of the pan. Recipe I used: https://tastesbetterfromscratch.com/german-pancakes-2/

The very best chile rellenos - cornmeal battered green chiles.

My son has been wearing me out to make him some Eggs Benedict. I’ve never made Hollandaise sauce before and was a little spooked looking at the amount of whisking involved while also poaching eggs, cooking ham, and toasting English muffins. Then I ran across this video and thought the guy looked familiar…it was Kenji from over 11 years ago doing a One minute Hollandaise sauce. I used electric hand blender and tall mixing glass with his technique and it turned out perfectly. No pics as we both inhaled the Eggs Benedict but thought I’d share the video as it was amazingly simple and the Hollandaise sauce turned out as good as any I’ve had in a restaurant:

Speaking of bear country, here’s dinner plate-sized track along a tributary of Wind River from fishing trip to Wyoming a couple of weeks ago. Fishing in a place where something can and will eat you, hits a little different than out on the Llano or my Oklahoma streams.

I used to ride Vonlane to Dallas all the time during my time in Austin. Kids were little and my wife would take them to in-laws in Dallas. Friday would roll around and I’d Uber over to Vonlane pickup less than 5 minutes before departure and was off. No hassle whatsoever - comfortable seats, great wifi, and unlimited mixers for resident drunks or dudes having to put up with in-laws in Dallas for the weekend.

2012 Tacoma last week in Wyoming about forty miles off pavement in grizzly bear country.

My son and I are headed out to Wyoming this week on rambling trip fly fishing and camping in pursuit of the Wyoming Cutt-Slam: Hopefully no grizzly bears in our future as both Snake River and Yellowstone cutt streams are in serious grizz country.

Tailwater below Lake Pueblo is one of the best kept secrets in Colorado. Winter-time video of the area (this guy has a great YouTube channel for Colorado):

Those damn rock squirrels were my nemesis in my garden in Westlake. Most destructive little bastards. I finally had to buy a box trap and trapped about a half a dozen. They destroyed garden and also were digging under our deck. Do not miss those little SOBs.

Wow! What a blast from the past. I also started out with a Gold Team Murray and then on to Mongoose back in the day. I lived in single parent home and mom worked all the time to make ends meet. I had saved up for over a year for my Team Murray and some deadbeat, shitbag stole the bike off a second floor apartment balcony in Muskogee, OK. If I sound bitter, I still am…. Those were some good times though and then progressed from Mongoose to YZ-80 a few years later. Bob Hannah was the shiznit back in the day.

Pouring down rain in Tulsa this morning and cool. My caveman brain said ‘Chicken & Dumplings’ time. The sun came out and the weather turned quite warm this afternoon but the craving and meal plan was set. Good. Damn good.

I’m a day late for Willie’s birthday but recently found this full concert recording from Soap Creek Saloon on April 11, 1975: Happy Birthday, Willie!

Celebratory dinner last night for surviving tornado apocalypse. Quick Al pastor tacos with grilled pineapples.

I miss Chili Parlor enchiladas. You guys in Austin need to hit them up and also get Pepe’s nachitos.

There are a lot more cats running around Texas than people think. We had several neighbors in West Lake Hills that had spotted a mountain lion over a period of about six weeks in 2020. A lady sitting in the parking lot of a church at dusk as the cat trotted right past her car, cat seen on people’s decks, and caught on security cameras. Around 2010, there were lots of sightings in Barton Creek Greenbelt. My buddy and I found this cache on their family ranch out in Llano County in January 2017: My cousin and I had a close encounter with a mountain lion back in late 1980s in Osage County, OK. We were predator calling a canyon for bobcats in some really wild country. There was a light snow cover on the ground, we walked to edge of the rim rock and there were no tracks in the snow as we made our way to the calling location. When we had finished and didn’t have any takers, we were walking out the same way we came in a some huge cat tracks were 20 yards uphill from our calling spot. Much larger tracks than a bobcat and the lion must have scented us and left in a hurry.