Goodbye Utah BFT

[AFFamily]

Well, we've been reassigned down to Arizona and will be leaving Utah in August for the desert and lots of desert bass lakes. I bid you Utah BFT'ers a farewell and will miss the BFT community here. Y'all have a wonderful wilderness resource so please don't take the Utah outdoors for granted! I've traveled extensively throughout the US and the world and have found few places with the beauty and phenomenal fishing of the high Uintas, so enjoy it for me! I'll miss badly chucking flies at native cutts and tiger trout.

On a side note, anyone have some suggestions on how to jump start the AZ boards?

Also, y'all should feel very fortunate about the Utah fishing fees. I'm not looking forward to AZ's license fee + trout stamp fee + Reservation access fees.
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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]Good luck with the move. Where will you be plunking down. I lived in both Tucson and the Phoenix area for a total of almost 20 years. I would be happy to help point you in some good directions once you are settled in.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]No answer for the Arizona board. I started it about 10 years ago and never could get it humming. There are a couple of local bass chaser boards down there but even they are quiet. Seems like there are just not the numbers of computer savvy anglers in Arizona who like to participate on forums.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Say hi to Sheriff Joe.[/#0000ff]
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[AFFamily]

Looks like we're going to be getting a house in Goodyear. I grew up in the Peoria area so I'm quite familiar with the lakes down south and up north on the Rim. I will miss all the trees up here! I do know that I'm probably going to have to get a boat now, shore fishing at some of the the lakes (Pleasant, Saguaro, Bartlett) will be quite the pain if I want to target some nice bass.
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[TyeDyeTwins]

Bummer AFF! You shall be missed. Good luck and please put up a few AZ reports here and there for us.

If memory serves me right Causey will miss you.
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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]Arizona is one of the hottest and driest states in the country. But it has the highest ratio of boat owners to population of any state. And some of them are even fishermen...or think they are.[/#0000ff]
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[AFFamily]

Thanks for the well wishes. And wouldn't you know once I get the evil mistress of Causey dialed in, we are out of here.
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[BearLakeFishGuy]

Something about that boat ownership:population comment on AZ that just didn't seem right to me. So I did some checking. There are many websites that claim exactly what you said, but numbers don't lie. These are from the US Coast Guard who keeps track of those stats better than most DMV's or other methods of registrations. These numbers are old (2004) but there is no way AZ could move up the list to #1. The following numbers were obtained from the U.S. Coast Guard. As far as I can determine, these are the only official statistics maintained on boat ownership in the U.S.
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RankBoats (2004)2004 PopulationBoats per 100,000%Per Capita RankMinnesota 48534485,100,9581673116.73%1Wisconsin 66054675,509,0261099010.99%2South Carolina 93974584,198,06894689.47%3Michigan 294480010,112,62093439.34%4North Dakota 4252961634,36683498.35%5New Hampshire 321016261,299,50078207.82%6Iowa 202281402,954,45177227.72%7Alaska 4549225655,43575107.51%8Arkansas 262057452,752,62974747.47%9Mississippi 232092162,902,96672077.21%10Maine 35945821,317,25371807.18%11Louisiana 153099504,515,77068646.86%12South Dakota 4451604770,88366946.69%13Montana 4059271926,86563956.39%14Delaware 4351797830,36462386.24%15Idaho 36836391,393,26260036.00%16Oklahoma 252060493,523,55358485.85%17Alabama 172640064,530,18258285.83%18Missouri 133262105,754,61856695.67%19Florida 194607217,397,16154385.44%20Oregon 271901193,594,58652895.29%21Vermont 4832498621,39452305.23%22Wyoming 4925897506,52951135.11%23Nebraska 37776361,747,21444434.44%24Tennessee 182614655,900,96244314.43%25Washington 162660566,203,78842894.29%26Kentucky 281744634,145,92242084.21%27North Carolina 113569468,541,22141794.18%28Rhode Island 46436711,080,63240414.04%29Maryland 242066815,558,05837193.72%30Georgia 143222528,829,38336503.65%31Ohio 841493811,459,01136213.62%32Kansas 33985122,735,50236013.60%33West Virginia 39635041,815,35434983.50%34Indiana 212133096,237,56934203.42%35Virginia 192426427,459,82732533.25%36Connecticut 311119923,503,60431963.20%37Utah 38742932,389,03931103.11%38Illinois 1039385612,713,63430983.10%39Pennsylvania 1235407912,406,29228542.85%40Texas 561677922,490,02227422.74%41New York 751906619,227,08827002.70%42Arizona 301472945,743,83425642.56%43California 389488435,893,79924932.49%44Nevada 41576122,334,77124682.47%45New Jersey 222096788,698,87924102.41%46Massachusetts 291506836,416,50523482.35%47Colorado 34980794,601,40321322.13%48New Mexico 47384391,903,28920202.02%49Hawaii 50132051,262,84010461.05%50
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