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Just got back from two days of fishing the Elk River in SE West Virginia. Enjoyed the dry fly fishing for a change. Both Brown and Rainbow trout there were very cooperative on dries. The...

Got room for one more? We - the wife and I - hope to be in town the last two weeks of the month.

In addition to the coupons that you noted, Joanns has weekly specials where you do not need coupons. I buy thread there when it is 40% off.

My wife is on all the email lists and gets the coupons...

My experience in TN is that they eventually disperse. The longer they are in the river, the more they start acting like natural born wild trout. However in TN many of them are harvested so we see...

All,

Thanks for you comments. After reading them, I decided to go in a different direction and returned the Zap-A-Gap.

I found G-S Hypo Cement at Joanns ETC. It specially mentions fly fishing...

All,

I have found something at Joanns ETC that really works, at least on stocker Rainbows. The last time I was in TN, I tied up a bunch of small woolly buggers and used Sulky Holoshimmer thread...

The above posts are great advice. LRO - Byron and Paula - are top notch people. The store is one of the best fly shops I have ever been in. If they don't have it there, you probably don't need it....

My wife sews quite a bit. It is a common problem for sewers to loose or drop their pins or needles. They sell at sewing stores a very nice powerful magnet with a plastic handle on it. I have used...

I finally took the plunge and bought a small bottle yesterday at the local hardware store. Talk about liquid gold! I bought it to lock my lead wraps to the hook and form a smooth coating over the...

Jason and Tim,

Amen.

I am fairly new at fly tying. However, I have found suddenly that Michaels, Joanns and Hobby Lobby are some of my best new friends for shopping - feathers, foam, beads, thread, wire, tools, extra...

Jack,

Thanks for some great outings on the Duck (and Elk) over the last three weeks.

The Rainbows were about as eager as I have ever seen them on the Duck yesterday. Our little local special...

Jason,

Hop on Warren's offer. He taught me more in three hours than I had learned in four months on my own.

Just get going on this aspect of the hobby and you will be hooked both,...

I am a believer in glass beaded flies. I have some flies that the body is made entirely of beads and these flies work well on tailwater trout in TN. I like to use crystal or clear beads alot...

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Overall, I had an excellent first experience at a FAOL Fish-In. I felt there were some people there that I instantly connected with and would like...

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I returned to MI in a few weeks and went about my own business. Out of blue in June, I get an email from Jack Hise inviting me to the FAOL Fish-in. ...

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One of these two gentlemen happened to be WarrenP of this forum. He and I talked for awhile. WarrenP shared with me one of his Wooly Buggers since...

Two weeks have gone by since the FAOL MI Fish-In ended and the ether has worn off. Now my report can be told. :D

This year?s journey for me to the FAOL Fish-In began in early April 650 miles...