SFR Camping in the rain

I am a blue tarp camping master, have made wall tents from blue tarps as well as huge tents that rivaled Ringley Borthers that keeps 30+ people dry for 4 days.
Necessity is a blue tarp designers motivation!
 
RAIN!! Need to make a float on the Quinault or Queets when you get more than 3inches of rain. Fish right on through it till the river goes out. I can remember guys that had those original gore Tex $400 dollar coats that wished they had my Helly.
 
CRO said:
RAIN!! Need to make a float on the Quinault or Queets when you get more than 3inches of rain. Fish right on through it till the river goes out. I can remember guys that had those original gore Tex $400 dollar coats that wished they had my Helly.
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Wet from sweat or wet from rain, sometimes nothing keeps you dry except a house!
Or in swimmies case a trailer :LOL:
 
Yesterday started off nice but we got soaked in the afternoon. Actually pretty severe thunderstorm which was kind of sketch.

Today, more rain. Gonna get out a wade around a bit this morning and hunker down in the camper this afternoon.

Tomorrow also looks like a soaker so might pack up in the morning.
 
Got out yesterday to enjoy the expected nice weather before the late afternoon or early evening thunderstorms. Damn thunderstorms were ahead of schedule. But the thunder sounded like it was up against the mountains, and I was in the river, so I rationalized that I was safe. Unfortunately the river began clouding up shortly before I decided to call it a day. Then the gathering clouds must have broken, because it didn't rain. Water just spilled from the sky, and not in rain drops. As a wet side native I thought I'd seen every kind of rain we ever have. This was different. I thought I'd just fish through it, but I couldn't see the end of my cast where my fly landed. And my casts aren't THAT long. I wouldn't work in my yard or garden in weather like that, so it was a good idea that I decided to go fishing. Caught a good sized bull trout in as excellent condition as I've ever seen, but it fought about like six wet dish rags on the line. Later I caught a steelhead and thought about taking a photo. But my camera isn't waterproof, and the fish was less than 20 pounds, and I had no means of including context that would show how large (or small) it was. With all that, I was glad I was fishing and not camping.
 
@Salmo_g

A steelhead? I cant handle the suspense, was it a kelt, very late native winter, early summer native, hatchery summer, Skamania origin, native broodstock....?
 
Go fishing! I like fishing in the rain.
 
swimmy said:
Guys, just checking in. I lost comms for a bit but still here.

I was thinking about going fishing but concerned about getting muddy.

Going to hunker down for a bit longer. Thanks for all of the helpful tips.
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It sounds like you were one of the fortunate few who made it through in one piece. Godspeed good fella....
 
swimmy said:
I was doing ok until the hail storm…
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I was on a MT river several years ago and the hail turned everything we owned into a dimpled golf ball. We were out on the river and turned our raft over and sat under it (propped it up with oars) until the hail passed...fishing was great not another person after the storm went by, the dented truck at the take out was a downer, but we lucked out, a tree and rock bluff protected most of our truck and it was repairable, others were totaled. Our camp trailer was unrepairable and it even separated seams and leaked.
 
longputt said:
My neighbor grew up in Wheatland WY and they measured the quality of a hail storm by how high it bounced!
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On that particular day in my tube the only part of me that was dry was my legs.so wet (warm rain) i didn’t mind was catching a lot of bows… the part i liked least was all the water running down my casting arm and into my arm pit and beyond due to gravity. The gravity part made it most unpleasant.
 
longputt said:
I was on a MT river several years ago and the hail turned everything we owned into a dimpled golf ball. We were out on the river and turned our raft over and sat under it (propped it up with oars) until the hail passed...fishing was great not another person after the storm went by, the dented truck at the take out was a downer, but we lucked out, a tree and rock bluff protected most of our truck and it was repairable, others were totaled. Our camp trailer was unrepairable and it even separated seams and leaked.
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Same thing happened to us, Eastern Idaho, quarter sized hail, made our brand new 2016 F150 look like a golf ball. All the houses in the neighborhood looked like someone took a belt fed machine-gun to all the siding and roofs. Got the truck back to Oregon and they were baffled with how to fix it at the dealership, they had the truck for over a month. They don't deal with a lot of hail damage here!
 
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