I think I recognize that stream... but maybe not. :DQuote:
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I think I recognize that stream... but maybe not. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by lifelinksplit
Catchin' bass on gurglers Mass:
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Bite has slowed for us the past couple of days. Rain, 40 mph winds, cold temps...any excuse you can think of we got it. : )
Back at it tomorrow.
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Just back from Nootka. Strong Southwesterlies kept us from the big water, but the spring and coho were abundant. Limited out on the salmon (springs avg 20lbs with a few hitting 25lbs and one near 30), 2 possession limits on the ling (most only just minimum length, just one 20lbs lunker), and almost limited on rock fish (my fav eating). Wife was a rockstar at the helm in the rough seas while buddy and I manned the downriggers and lines, and she reeled in the biggest springs. Jigging was mostly out of the equations with the active water, so no halibut this year.
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Wife with Coho and boat buddy with 25lbs Spring
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Lots of otters, seals were abundant but thankfully kept their distance. Whales and porpoises spouted in the distance a few times.
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Last meal at camp.
No prawns this year - commercial guys have cleaned out the sound the past 2 yrs now.
3 days processing.
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Canning the fish head soup today. Need to brine some caviar this eve as well.
All in all a very good year.
Went back to Strawberry today, been there the last 5 Saturdays. The mussel check dudes in Heber know me pretty well by now. Did a mixture of stripping and trolling today. Trolling brought the little rainbows to the party and deeper water stripping brought in the cutts. Probably the last weekend I’ll target them like that. We saw a few floating cutts, the pelicans love the slot limit up there. We brought home three planters for the freezer.
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Beautiful day on the Blackfoot. Caught a few little guys. Damn the water is low for late June though. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...57630735bf.jpg
My buddy hasn't fished in a year much less spent much time with this hatch. Showed up yesterday and bagged a nice one on the dry. It was also his birthday.
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This guy was a fighter — prolly beat down an osprey prior to snatching my nymph
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Quiet on the D yesterday, plenty of splash/giggle action…fisherfolks seem to be elsewhere
went up to some high mountain lakes and had a three species weekend
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This is why this hatch brings me back every year. Super fun morning.
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Nothing but rain and high flows over here in the alps. Season started mid April and I’ve been a measly total of six times.
Past few weekends We’ve been running some of the smaller freestones closer to home. Some great whitewater and dry fly fishing.
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Nice dude ^^^
Another solid day here.
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Landed a really nice fish early on.
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Then I hit a home run and stuck my biggest fish of the year on the salmon fly.
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Only a few more days left but the stoke meter is pegged.
Back at it again. Had a solid boat today. Three sticks who can all row.
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It was the best dry fly bite since I've been here. Lots of eats and the fish we netted were all quality.
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I caught one bigger but no photos. Didn't realize but I the webbing on my boat net had come loose and had a huge hole. He ended up swimming away. No biggie. We all got to see it.
This has been a solid 10 days of fishing in one of the pretties places on earth to catch a trout.
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Got out this morning for what might be my last float of the hatch. Took the Striker and was first one down. Love that little boat. Smokes the Flycraft IMO.
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Bite was a bit slower but I managed to find one last nice one.
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Happy 4th! What an awesome country we get to live in and call home.
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This one was funny. Not much he can do but buzz when his mouth is packed with rodent.
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had a great time getting out for poopers on the SUP with dibs
missed a few shots but saw him land this absolute tank + a few others
really fun, really challenging fishing. Dibs makes it look easy
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almost forgot the most important part
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Went to the river but stayed on the reservoir instead. Only one vehicle and didn’t feel like paying for shuttles. Wife and youngest were tired of the river, but neither had been on Flaming Gorge on a boat.
The motor turns the drift boat into fun time tube pulling boat. In between pulling them around I trolled some crankbaits, enough smallmouths chasing them to be entertaining. None very big, but I’m easily entertained.
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Trolling the 12yo was fun.
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Prespawn, girthy.
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We worked on fish presentation, he’s got a ways to go before he’s Huge.
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Time spent on the water with your kids is priceless.
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As is with 12yo boys, “can I shoot the gun?, can I shoot the gun?, can I shoot the gun?”
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Headed north to fish with friends and explore some different water. Some of you guys may recognize this boat from 420 on the green. I’ve met and fished with some really cool folks as a result of that meetup. Stoked I decided to come hang with you all!
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Motors sure come in handy in this part of the county!
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Watched the hometown couple put on an absolute clinic in techy dry fly fishing
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Jealous, very very jealous. Those fingers look familiar when those things take off it’s like hooking onto the city bus.Quote:
Originally Posted by L8APX
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The big bugs finally got to our neighborhood. Didn’t take time to take any actual fish pictures, but camping on the river never sucks, and it’s even better when the fish are eating bugs the size of your pinky.
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gonna be up in Jackson with stbmrstgapp two weekends from now on a little babymoon
any mags wanna tell me where I should go fish for an afternoon?
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I've got a hook set question for the collective:
Last night I found some really fun, challenging dry fly fishing that was quite different than what I usually do. In order to reach rising trout I had to make 60-70 foot casts across a slow, deep pool into a slightly faster current. To get good drifts I used long tippet and a downstream reach. I had plenty of takes but, unsurprisingly, only a few hookups. For those of you who fish more big water than I do, what can I do to even slightly increase my hookup rate? What details could I be missing? Would you go for shorter drifts but less slack? Fluorocarbon tippet to reduce stretch? Thanks.
It was a great evening. An osprey and a few mergansers were fishing with me. I wish I brought a real camera as my phone pics just don't do it all justice.
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Suggest a soft hackle dropper under the dry — it might be that they wanted a drowned fly?
The fish I caught (and missed) were on a PMD emerger under a parachute pattern I could see from far away. I also caught a few small fish that were rising much closer to me on the emerger. You could tell from the rise forms that they were eating just under the surface. I don't think fly patterns were the issue. My problem was getting a good hook set with so much line and leader out (slack + stretch). I know I can't make this problem go away, but I'll bet there is something I could do better. I mostly fish small/ medium water. Typically, the only casts I make over 40' are in my driveway.Quote:
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Get closer. ;)
That just sounds like a tough cast. Shorter tippet could help, maybe less pause than usual for a dry fly hookset? Probably just need to get more practice in to figure out the rhythm.
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Supposed to kill the Brookies.
It does -- and it's truly hard to guess from this side of the internetQuote:
Originally Posted by MarsB
I'll offer another guess that it might be timing the set (or predicting it), more than extra limp line between you & the fish.
The water should provide enough resistance to move the fly itself w/ alacrity when you strip set (lifting the tip may not provoke the same kind of hook movement)
altho it may not necessarily always be in the direction you want (subject to position/direction of the tippet)
Man... I love fishing for those aggressive little brookies in little creeks.Quote:
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One of our favorite things to do before dinner when it’s super hot.
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Diamonds, that weather looks awesome.
Good day for Goretex. And fishing.Quote:
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Well, now I see your problem diamonds - you need a spey rod for that water.
Would have been better than the janky, limp, loose-ferruled loaner I fished. Whatever. Didn't even diminish my day a little. I was in a strange-to-me place targeting a species I've never caught before and the afternoon was non-stop streamer action. Plus my brother-in-law and nephew managed to land a few fish and are stoked. I'm hoping I can convert this into more fishing on future family trips.Quote:
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Very cool
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