If you cannot get onto the spring creeks, another option is the head of the Clark Fork in Warm Springs. The view is a disaster, the river is small, and probably crowded, but there are some very big...
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If you cannot get onto the spring creeks, another option is the head of the Clark Fork in Warm Springs. The view is a disaster, the river is small, and probably crowded, but there are some very big...
This might be too much here, but here it is. Depending on the mayfly, are they swimmers or crawlers? If they are swimmers, maybe they were only eating the nymphs on the way up. If the nymphs are...
oldfrat, there are definitely differences, but few activities draw the same sort of "enthusiasm" for its participants, ("obsession" for the participants significant others.) I do love them both, and...
These are my two passions, and while some fly fishers claim that they are incompatible, I think they are very similar.
Though fly fishing is not as apt to ruin a good walk as Mark Twain surmised....
Yes you are entitled to pay. If you work in the store for any amount of time, you must be paid for it. Someone mentioned the W2, this is true, did you fill one out? Further, you are legally...
I bought one, and its clearance makes the dirt roads a little tough, so as a fishing car you may want to look at a Ferrari instead... I wish I had.
I do not have a ton of flies, but I like to categorize my flies by the hatch. So I live in W. MT which means I need a box for my stoneflies, and I buy the 4 compartment pretty big compartments...
When I was better informed with lines I remember reading that the Airflo had a mono core. That would be consistent with the memory problems you have noted. It will straighten out as you fish, but I...
I have one word for you MCGINTY http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/wink.gif. When I was a kid every assortment had a McGinty in it (a bee pattern). Obviously they work for some people, but not for...
Rob and FG,
I stated it incorrectly. I reread the post that had parenthses around the ind/bobber part concerning the top fly. If I am fishing a larger fly in season (ie golden stone in early...
JC, I do not think that anyone is disparaging the indicator as a bobber. It is a bobber The difference is (for some), and this is not my opinion, but the bobber is used for the sole purpose of...
I think the proper answer to your question is "Yes, you probably are," but only you know for sure. The benefit of the indicator vs. watching your line tip is distance. Imagine that your fly (the...
A general rule of thumb when selecting the proper tippet (for trout) is as follows. Take the hook size you are fishing, Let's say a #12 caddis, and divide the hook size # number by 3 or 4 to figure...
In MT every town has a fly shop. So I would agree with Bitterroot though I tend to shop at Kesels on Reserve. If my wife responded she would say that not only is the shop close, but it's in our...
The Loomis GLX will be more fragile than other rods, but I agree with another poster who generally blames operator error. I own 4 GLXs (3#,4#,7#,9#) all of them are over 7 years old, and none of...
I have gone the other way. I now appreciate the slower rod. As for the name, is it the Van Halen reference?
LF and JC, I must say that I appreciate your board. My best story is a dog I had in college named Juanita. She swam across the river while I was setting the hook. The humpy ended up in her leg......
The best description that I have heard is what OK said, but different. If you have dial up it takes a long time to download info. A larger cable tranmits more info and so it happens quickly. If...
I am sure that others can weigh in better than I, but my understanding is that if the same amount of force is applied to different lengthed/ same weight rods, each 6"= approximately 5' of distance. ...
I agree that the testing strength is probably different for each company. The fluoro that I looked at was Seaguar, and the comparable tests (the only basis for valid diameter comparison I believe)...
I understand that the tippet is picked by diameter. But wouldn't Rio call 3x tippet 6 lb when in reality it is 4.9 lb or something (I am guessing here). I understand that it is .oo8, and that is...
Not to disagree, but wouldn't the misnaming of tensile strength be applicable to flyfishing tippet as well? I have taken identical pound test from a spinning spool and compared it to Rio fluoroflex...
I think I might have a little info here. If the hype is to be believed fluoro is denser than mono which means that it will sink, and the refraction properties of fluoro are closer to water than...
I am going to resay just about everything everyone is saying, but differently, since people connect to different descriptions and visuals. My first thought is to move the tip of the fly rod in a...
My dog fishes with me whenever I go fishing, and when I pull out my rod tube she gets excited. Doesn't really like the water but when I set the hook and the line comes off the water, she comes to...