I'd rather be fishing!
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From: Downeast
I'd rather be fishing!
Land your helicopter out in the wilderness, throw the fishing line into a clear cold mountain stream, cook a Trout on an open fire, have yer snooze laying under a shade tree, load up and fetch your Geo's back to camp....now how can fixed wing compare to that? 
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From: Missouri, USA
As soon as I picked up my fixed-wing PPL I had a partnership on a small plane that was dirt cheap to fly. I began making at least one flight a week, usually to a small town picked at random. The guy behind the counter would seldom ask for ID before tossing me the keys to the courtesy car and I would pick up a local paper and head to a Hardee's or Arby's to read about the local goings on and make small talk with a few folks. It didn't take long to realize that no matter what town I was in there would be an older couple there, obviously on their night out for the week.
I was coming back from Louisville one evening and had to stop in a small town in southern IL to refuel. I was tired and it was getting dark so I walked the mile or so to town where the fair was going on. It sounded interesting, so I bought an orange sherbet shake from a vendor and nursed it while walking around, unwinding. It was the best trip I've ever made and I make a point of stopping there to refuel when I'm coming in from the east.
I read just the other day that the biggest difference between planes and helicopters is that with planes your enjoyment begins once you land, and with helicopters the joy is in getting there. I can't argue with that. And it sounds like you've found the best of both worlds, SASless.
I was coming back from Louisville one evening and had to stop in a small town in southern IL to refuel. I was tired and it was getting dark so I walked the mile or so to town where the fair was going on. It sounded interesting, so I bought an orange sherbet shake from a vendor and nursed it while walking around, unwinding. It was the best trip I've ever made and I make a point of stopping there to refuel when I'm coming in from the east.
I read just the other day that the biggest difference between planes and helicopters is that with planes your enjoyment begins once you land, and with helicopters the joy is in getting there. I can't argue with that. And it sounds like you've found the best of both worlds, SASless.
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From: Kammbronn
Originally Posted by SASless
Land your helicopter out in the wilderness, throw the fishing line into a clear cold mountain stream,
Never caught a thing, having spent a day in the sun. Very quite on the trip back. Having a jar with the boys that evening he berated my for my lack of fishing skills.
"I thought you'd fished before?" he moaned.
"Yes I have," I replied, "but that was on a 300 tonne stern trawler out of Hull, before I joined up."
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From: Norwich, CT USA
I always carry a pack flyrod with me. A few seasons back I spent a few weeks in a tent by a river that was full of Rainbows. Didn't fly that much, but the trout fishing sure made up for it. Plenty of Sockeye's in the river too. Ate one every day.
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From: Kammbronn
Tenuous, I know, but....
Originally Posted by chopperchav
Anyone done any helicopter fishing in UK. If so, Where?
At that moment a speedboat containing three men wearing Glasgow Rangers tops sped into view. One of the men took aim at the shark and fired a harpoon into its ribs, immobilising it instantly. The other two reached out and pulled the Celtic fan from the water, and using long clubs beat the shark to death. They bundled the bleeding, semi-conscious man into the speedboat along with the dead shark and prepared for a hasty retreat, when they heard frantic calling from the shore......
It was the Queen calling them to the beach. On reaching land the Queen went to raptures about the rescue and said, "I give you a knighthood for your brave actions. I heard the people of Scotland were racist and trying to divide the country in two but now I see this is a truly enlightened example of tribal harmony which could serve as a model for other nations. She knighted them and then sped off to Balmoral for tea and scones.
As she departed the harpoonist asked the others, "Who was that?"
"That," one answered, "was the Queen. She rules Britain and knows everything about our country."
"Well," the harpoonist replied, "she knows **** all about shark fishing. How's the bait holding up, or do we need to get another one?"
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From: Land of the Angles
Twenty years ago whilst on 78 Sqdn, a few of us on a day off jumped a ride on the Chinook battle bus to Little Chartres in West Falkland to try our luck snagging sea trout during the run upstream.
A rare sunny day, a fine catch and a lifelong memory, followed a few weeks later with a Sqdn barbecue of sea trout cooked in foil and garlic butter and washed down with a great many cold beers.
What memories.
A rare sunny day, a fine catch and a lifelong memory, followed a few weeks later with a Sqdn barbecue of sea trout cooked in foil and garlic butter and washed down with a great many cold beers.
What memories.
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From: West
BBQ on the DMZ
Our outgoing company Commander in Korea (1997) took our BlackHawks to the DMZ and threw a BBQ. The LZ was one that was clearly visible to the northern neighbors.
Kind of surreal, large bon-fire, no cold beers but the whole company kicking back. No complaints about the loud music either. Oftened wondered what the other side thought.
Kind of surreal, large bon-fire, no cold beers but the whole company kicking back. No complaints about the loud music either. Oftened wondered what the other side thought.
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From: All The Places I Shouldnt Be
Apart from the first, all the rest are shot here in Kiwiland.
River not far from Squamish, BC
Trout fishing in the rivers behind Nelson in the top of the South Island NZ
Same area, different river
Top end of Great Barrier Island
Bottom tip facing the Coromandel Peninsula
Eastern side of Cormandel
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River not far from Squamish, BC
Trout fishing in the rivers behind Nelson in the top of the South Island NZ
Same area, different river
Top end of Great Barrier Island
Bottom tip facing the Coromandel Peninsula
Eastern side of Cormandel
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From: All The Places I Shouldnt Be
Apart from the second one down which is in a river not far from Squamish, BC all the rest are shot here in Kiwiland.
Top one is trout fishing in the rivers behind Nelson in the top of the South Island.
Third one down is same area of the country but different river.
Fourth and Fifth are on the edges of Great Barrier Island. First one is top end, second one the bottom tip facing the Coromandel Peninsula.
Last one is on the eastern side of Cormandel.
Cheers
Ned
Top one is trout fishing in the rivers behind Nelson in the top of the South Island.
Third one down is same area of the country but different river.
Fourth and Fifth are on the edges of Great Barrier Island. First one is top end, second one the bottom tip facing the Coromandel Peninsula.
Last one is on the eastern side of Cormandel.
Cheers
Ned
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From: Aberdare, Wales
Heli-Fishing
Tried to add this to the http://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/219...r-fishing.html thread but it was closed.
Fishing in Murmansk, Russia.
Fishing lodge
Fishing
and catching fish
Russian mil-mi 8 helicopter being used for transporting visitors around Murmansk
another of the mil-mi 8 in Murmansk.
From what I've been reading fishing in Russia is quite popular but it cost about $5000 for a week! I hope they allow you to take the fish home.
Fishing in Murmansk, Russia.
Fishing lodge
Fishing
and catching fish
Russian mil-mi 8 helicopter being used for transporting visitors around Murmansk
another of the mil-mi 8 in Murmansk.
From what I've been reading fishing in Russia is quite popular but it cost about $5000 for a week! I hope they allow you to take the fish home.
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From: UK
Can be a bit risky, judging by todays news:
BBC News - Fishing trip Britons killed in Russia helicopter crash
BBC News - Fishing trip Britons killed in Russia helicopter crash