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DavidinMD, I was always prejudiced against rods with more than one ferrule. I considered them weak spots and like J. Castwell says, I figured they made the rods too stiff. Then I got an unexpected...

Like Philly says, a couple shad (roes I think) were reported caught at the warm water power plant discharge in Trenton. This is usually where the first reports come from because the early shad hold...

Do it Anthony! Maybe it's just cabin fever or keeping away from the opening day trout mobs but no fish gets me more excited than American shad. I'm always cool as a cucumber when my pards and I go...

Speck, DianeID, What I was really saying by my long-winded (though I left out lots of details) discussion on tanning/pickling is call a taxidermist or (DianeID) take Merle up on his offer. You...

Hi DianeID, the simplest thing to do would be to wash them in detergent and soak them in a jar of rubbibg alcohol for maybe a week. This is called "pickling" and is fine for your purposes. Afterwards...

There have been forays. But not sucessful....yet. I always figure tax day (4/15) is the day to get serious. I've only been out already because I wanted to get on the river, limber-up my casting arm...

I have several small game skins tanning in my basement as I write this. First the animal must be skinned and the hide scraped to remove blood & dirt. Then you wash in detergent; some say to wash in...

Congratulations x 3. Great looking rod, great looking fish and the Adams must have been pretty great too to fool such a fine fish.

Anybody know what gives with people from the U.K. and ghosts. I've worked with several folks from England and Scotland and they all told ghost stories and I think they believed them. I was just in...

Sip some anisette, then chew your flies. Just try it. Enough said.

If you're concerned about the smell of preservatives, head cement, etc. on your flies here's something that may help. About thirty years ago an Amish flyfisher I met on a Central PA. stream told me...

Vocelli,

I hadn't seen the forcast. Thanks for the heads up. I just took my gloves and scarf out of my suitcase. Putting them back in as we speak. Thanks again.

American shad have been reported caught in the Delaware at Trenton. The run is on and I have to be in N.Y.C. all next week in a suit, tie and spit-shines doing my best immitation of a grown-up. Oh...

Uh-oh! Nobody tell Ohiotuber where I grew up and who my favorite current Superbowl champs are.

Vocelli has it exactly right. This is a standard tactic when fishing for American shad in the Delaware river. You need light leaders because shad are extremely leader shy but they fight HARD. Newbys...

LeeS, he's told me about them but he only fishes trout. Apparently they were stocked illegaly and are believed to be some of the biggest in North America. They apparently feed on the large schools of...

Pennsylvania.

She's a woman. She's called FlyGoddess. I'd be very, very careful what I say if you know what I mean. Sorry, I can't write any more I need to go check the lightning rods.

Boyer, I wanted to save my reply to you for a special post. First of all, I know a good bit of the Schuylkill River like the back of my hand from decades of canoeing and fishing it. What most people...

Thanks guys, you really know how to make a guy feel welcome. Now the questions:
Grumps, my son works out of the BLM office in Coeur d' Alene.
flymaker2, I've only been tying flies for about 35...

I'm finished. Aaaah I forget, how much did you say I get paid for this?

I just wanted to say hello. I'm sabot and I've lurked on this site for a long time. I've seen so many posts that I've itched to reply to that I figured it was time to come in from the cold. I live...

I have the TFO TICR X in 7wt. While I can't tell you about the TICR my X is a rocket launcher. It's took me a while to get used to the casting stroke but in practicing with it I pulled a bunch of...