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I have just returned from a trip to the Bitteroot valley, I was a week late for the Salmon flies last year and a week too early for then this(must save up for a lear jet!!) but if you find the softer...

Hello to all last year I had the pleasure of fishing the Blackfoot, Bitteroot and Clark Fork rivers in Montana, it was a totally new experience for me river fishing from a boat, I caught some nice...

Thanks for all the US nick names, very funny. Going back to the wire on the river, I read a bit about stream access before travelling and there really seems to be a conflict between landowners and...

Taff probably originated from the fact that the river that flows through the middle of Cardiff (welsh capital) is called the Taff, Irish folk we call Paddys or Micks, Scots we call Jocks and the...

Hello and Howdy to y'all, literally I have just crawled off a plane after 24 hours flying from Missoula to London and then 4 hours on a bus to Wales. First I must say what a fantastic time I had!!!,...

Hello to all, I am a Taff (Welshman) coming to the US next month to fish the Clark Fork and Bitteroot Rivers I was just looking for some advice on fly patterns to use, I roll my own flies and have...

As some others have already stated "477" is not now produced, there are modern day replacements and these are perfectly ok but if you want the real Mc' Coy be prepared to pay over $100 for a card and...

Not sure if you can get these lines in the US but the Snowbee Prestiege XS are very good , was chatting to Hywel Morgan (ex world champion fly caster) and this is the line he uses for his...

Hello, I tried to fly fish in WV when I visited there about 4 years ago, I was based at Morgantown, and was told by the tourist office that the better fishing was in Maryland, I fished the Snake...

Charles Ritz was French if I'm not mistaken. :wink:[/quote]We are both wrong, Swiss!

Although I have heard of some of your choices, I am familiar with people like Gary la Fontaine, Lefty, Bob Clouser, many I have not, here is a list of Brits who have helped me become a better angler,...

Thanks for all your replies, very interesting, can I ask you all is any of the fishing in the US privately owned or if you purchase a state license (like I did in Maryland) can you fish just about...

As a new kid on the block so to speak I was just wondering if all you US flyfishers venture further afield for your sport, now I know that some of you fellas could drive for ten hours and still be in...

Thanks for the tip about bringing some of our home flies across, I am a reasonable tyer but I have a friend here who is exeptional, not a pro but just as good, so a few home favourites may not go...

Thank you all for you help and advice, it seems this fly is a big old so and so, 4 and 6's seem to be the popular sizes a bit different from the stuff I have used in the UK, Poland and Slovenia,...

Thanks for the advice chaps, going to be fishing June 10th through to the 16th on the Bitterroot, Blackfoot and the Clarkfork Rivers, so hoping there wont be too much high water. Plus never fished...

Hello first and foremost to all, this is my first post on FAOL, BB so if I have placed it in the wrong catergory please forgive me. I am from Wales in the U.K and have just booked a trip to fish in...