Posting this just to kind of distract myself today after the events in Vegas. So here goes. Years ago I used to fly fish a particularly productive tributary to Lake Ontario for fall/winter brown trout and steel head, with the occasional rainbow thrown into the mix. It did have a salmon run but after breaking a rod by hooking one up I decided to leave them be and concentrate on the other species mentioned above.
So head over one fine cold Sat. a.m. just after sun rise as I recall, ok more like 8:30 a.m. or so but still pretty early! Now this is going back more than several years probably more than 10 yrs to be sure. Anyways arrive there and as usual not anyone around save for yours truly. So the first thing I do is check a "hole" for fish. Have some good polarized glasses on and can see big male browns swimming around and harassing each other along with some other fish. So getting my 5 wt. Orvis ready to go with a nice rabbit hare's nymph a sz.14 which is mostly what I used on this creek. Trying to decide if I am going to go down stream or up and work from what end to another. Glance to a tree on my right and there stuck in the tree is a folding knife. Stuck right in it the crotch of the tree which is a thorn apple tree that is still there last time I was over there several yrs ago. Holy crap I says that is a nice looking folder. Pull it out and can't believe the knife someone left there. Now I look around and find a very nice pair of long needle nose pliers on the ground right at the base of the same tree. I still use them to this day.
I've enclosed pics of the knife too. So hang around pretty much all morning fishing in the general area and am catching some good looking browns, mostly males, that frankly pretty much just bull dog the bottom when you hook one but fun on a lighter wt. fly rod. Stay as I recall till past 1 p.m. and leave. Fishing was so good though I go back and do the same thing Sun. and pretty much till the creek freezes over for the winter. Yep fishing was that good from Nov. until the end of Dec. till freeze up for years. Now not so much, so go figure.
So the knife I will leave it to you all to decide as for a real Sebbie or what. I carried it a bunch for a couple of years and then put it in my sock drawer and then somehow it found its way to my underwear drawer in the same sock. No one ever came back as far as I know and I was over there a bunch fishing that creek. Matter of fact I fished that creek for 20 yrs or so with great success but as stated not so much now and the DEC can't really tell me why.
As for the knife itself I just rediscovered it a week or so ago and noticed that the blade has light stains on it but other than some marring on the handle slabs the functionality is perfect. It has the typical old school CRK bearing system for the pivot and is as smooth as a babies behind on opening and closing. Sharpened it up a wee bit and the steel feels like ats34 to me with the type of edge it takes and with the light staining you can sometimes get with ats34. I could be all wrong about that though. I do know that I changed the pocket clip on it for a real Sebenza clip I had lying around and it fits perfectly. I have the original clip too, but as I recall I flattened it out cause it was hanging up on stuff when I carried it. The slabs are non magnetic and the wooden accents are seamless and haven't loosened at all. So hey beats me but happy I rediscovered it in my sock drawer. I was actually looking for a Mitch Rosen belt slide holster which I couldn't stand and was looking for something to tinker with and thought I would store my .45 in the holster wrapped in news print to stretch it for a couple of days. Which I did and now it works as it should so it is nice and easy to take the gun in and out. Ok basically thats it on the story of the knife. I should also note that I am a firm believe in Karma and like I said I went back fishing the stream thinking maybe someone would show up. They didn't.
This is the same stream where I lost a nice mini Commander the day I got it and stripped down to my skivvies and hip boots to find it! Yep it was in November. So a little distraction from todays events. keepem sharp
So head over one fine cold Sat. a.m. just after sun rise as I recall, ok more like 8:30 a.m. or so but still pretty early! Now this is going back more than several years probably more than 10 yrs to be sure. Anyways arrive there and as usual not anyone around save for yours truly. So the first thing I do is check a "hole" for fish. Have some good polarized glasses on and can see big male browns swimming around and harassing each other along with some other fish. So getting my 5 wt. Orvis ready to go with a nice rabbit hare's nymph a sz.14 which is mostly what I used on this creek. Trying to decide if I am going to go down stream or up and work from what end to another. Glance to a tree on my right and there stuck in the tree is a folding knife. Stuck right in it the crotch of the tree which is a thorn apple tree that is still there last time I was over there several yrs ago. Holy crap I says that is a nice looking folder. Pull it out and can't believe the knife someone left there. Now I look around and find a very nice pair of long needle nose pliers on the ground right at the base of the same tree. I still use them to this day.
I've enclosed pics of the knife too. So hang around pretty much all morning fishing in the general area and am catching some good looking browns, mostly males, that frankly pretty much just bull dog the bottom when you hook one but fun on a lighter wt. fly rod. Stay as I recall till past 1 p.m. and leave. Fishing was so good though I go back and do the same thing Sun. and pretty much till the creek freezes over for the winter. Yep fishing was that good from Nov. until the end of Dec. till freeze up for years. Now not so much, so go figure.
So the knife I will leave it to you all to decide as for a real Sebbie or what. I carried it a bunch for a couple of years and then put it in my sock drawer and then somehow it found its way to my underwear drawer in the same sock. No one ever came back as far as I know and I was over there a bunch fishing that creek. Matter of fact I fished that creek for 20 yrs or so with great success but as stated not so much now and the DEC can't really tell me why.
As for the knife itself I just rediscovered it a week or so ago and noticed that the blade has light stains on it but other than some marring on the handle slabs the functionality is perfect. It has the typical old school CRK bearing system for the pivot and is as smooth as a babies behind on opening and closing. Sharpened it up a wee bit and the steel feels like ats34 to me with the type of edge it takes and with the light staining you can sometimes get with ats34. I could be all wrong about that though. I do know that I changed the pocket clip on it for a real Sebenza clip I had lying around and it fits perfectly. I have the original clip too, but as I recall I flattened it out cause it was hanging up on stuff when I carried it. The slabs are non magnetic and the wooden accents are seamless and haven't loosened at all. So hey beats me but happy I rediscovered it in my sock drawer. I was actually looking for a Mitch Rosen belt slide holster which I couldn't stand and was looking for something to tinker with and thought I would store my .45 in the holster wrapped in news print to stretch it for a couple of days. Which I did and now it works as it should so it is nice and easy to take the gun in and out. Ok basically thats it on the story of the knife. I should also note that I am a firm believe in Karma and like I said I went back fishing the stream thinking maybe someone would show up. They didn't.
This is the same stream where I lost a nice mini Commander the day I got it and stripped down to my skivvies and hip boots to find it! Yep it was in November. So a little distraction from todays events. keepem sharp
