I made a pick your pocket
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I made a pick your pocket
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This is my favorite fly so far
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Looks like a nice setup there.Quote:
Originally Posted by mtngirl79
My friend gave it to me
my top producing fisherman this year told me to go deep with either flies, spoons or whatever which means you are gona lose lots so buy cheap flies & lures
I'm tying them myself. And naming them. It's fun.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
there aren’t a lot of feelings that compare to catching a fish on a fly you tied
I hooked one last week but it came unhooked :(.
That fly was Daryl
When you said you give them names I just assumed something like wooly bugger
That's the type of fly.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
I caught my first fish on a fly rod today, also on a fly I tied.
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Congrats.
That process that you just went through will last you a lifetime, and affect everything you do in your life in some small way.
congrats mtngirl, beautiful fish
Helluva first fish!
But what is that?! An odd-colored brown?
Bull trout. Or Dolly Varden. They use to say they were the same but now they are slightly different.
The only char native to Washington.
He was way prettier in person. His spots were golden and he was a deeper greenish brown.
God that's what it looked like but didn't know you had them there...never caught one myself.
Congrats, gorgeous fish!!
Nice fish!
Well done!
It appears to have the broader head and long jaw length of a bull trout. If the head is a little large for the body and the upper jaw extends well past the eye, it is probably a bull trout. This is the time of year when bull trout migrate down from small tribs to winter over in holes in the river.Quote:
Originally Posted by mtngirl79
Nice Bull!
So naming your flies.... Just for kicks and giggles I looked at all my boxes & totaled up my flies, and I have exactly 1 zillion. No I haven’t tied all of those, but a fair bunch, and that’s a lot of names.
I also lose flies, (very rarely), it seems like I would just get too attached to them if they had names. I have more of a rancher/cattle relationship with my flies.
Looks like you are practicing keepemwet so did you keep it or catch n release ?
They are protected here... catch and release.
I actually stopped naming the flies because my favorite fly I had made, thus far, Bob was lost on this trip. Then, my next favorite a fish taco that ended up with too much space at the eye so it got a head was lost. He was named after my favorite co-worker, Manny.
The hoh bo spey I caught the fish with didnt have a name yet, so no more names.
Now they get descriptors like little weirdo and pink guy.
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Nice job MtnGirl, this thread makes me smile.
So I was looking this up and apparently in western Washington and southern BC bull trout are in the lower parts of the river below the barriers that block sea run fish and Dolly Varden are higher up and unable to get to the sea. This is opposite from most places.Quote:
Originally Posted by neckdeep
There are four different types of bull trout. Their habits tend to keep them separate populations.Quote:
Originally Posted by mtngirl79
The rarest are anadromous bulls in the Puget Sound and BC coastal watershed. They are resident in the lower river systems and can travel between them in salt water. They generally spawn in the creeks along that habitat and they don't need to travel above the dams.
There are riverine bulls that are resident in large river systems and migrate up tribs to spawn.
There are lake dwelling bulls that mature in lakes and make spawning runs out of the lake.
There are the tributary resident bulls that winter over in whatever green water they can find in the smaller rivers or big creeks.
Dolly Vardens have three forms that correspond to bulls but dollys do not have a headwaters/tributary resident form.
Here is my favorite, "if I could only pick one" fly for steelhead, the Babine Special. It is a "two-fer". Fished on the bottom under an indicator, it gets bit by steelhead, salmon, dollys, rainbows, coastal cutts etc, basically anything that eats a roe pattern. It also works pretty well when swung in a traditional quarter cast and swing presentation; its got the basic size and color of a Polar Shrimp (a classic attractor pattern) that can annoy a feisty steelhead into striking.
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I haven't done the indicator thing.. my friend seemed to have a negative attitude towards it?
We do the cast and let it swing down stream and strip it back in and take a step down stream and cast again thing..
I have been tying lots of hoh bo spey because that's what caught the fish and also big flashy intruder types because they are fun...
A dollar says mtngirl's bull was an anadromous fish. Nice work! Here's a brief read about bull trout from a retired WDFW Fish Bio.
https://www.washingtonflyfishing.com...threads/83193/
That's interesting. The fish was caught near the mouth of a bigger tributary to a pretty big river.
Yeah, some anglers like to make up little rules. Swing vs drift, dry vs wet. Whatever. That tradition stuff descends from the elitist British gentlemen who developed fly fishing during the Victorian period when salmonids were the exclusive quarry of the gentry. Angling had to have rules of class and manners the same as everything else in upper class British society. It's as archaic as the gear they used back then. The point is to effectively cover as much water as possible. Success is measured by fish to hand, not by form. Having those arbitrary prejudices just limits the water you can effectively fish.Quote:
Originally Posted by mtngirl79
Quarter cast and swing has its limits. Its a good choice for covering a lot of square footage in medium to large water. Its a poor choice of technique for narrow streams and pocket water. Steelhead small water often requires that you get a fly down fast and have it ticking drag free along the bottom. I've caught 25-30" steelhead out of snag and boulder filled creeks barely three rod lengths wide. You can't do that swinging flies on a sinking line. Even in larger rivers, nymphing is sometimes more practical when you need to put a fly down deep fast to get it directly to a piece of structure.
^Found the fruit booter
Well, I guess that explains it.Quote:
Originally Posted by neckdeep
Aw...Whatsa matter? Drake too slow? Haven't showed anyone up this week? Bitter guide syndrome got you down, as usual? Whatever. If I spent my summer kissing rich man's ass for tips, I'd probably be bitter too. Most fly fishing guides are.
Shit, I thought you could take a light jab.
Drake’s long dead. I’m not a guide.
Timely comments, though. Just got these stickers today. PM me an address and I’ll send you a care package.
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No bickering please.
I got my own pole today so I'm now all in on the fishing thing.
Do we get to make pole jokes? [emoji3]
You're the savior the fly fishing industry didn't know they needed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Underoos
Neckdeep, you might give a listen to Ben's podcast on the Drake, I think you might get what he's up to, mainly making fun of himself, a little better.
Nobody cares about my new pole?
We all care about your pole
How big is it? Do you hold it with one hand or go double fisted?
Heh. I'm not ready to go spey yet.
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Here’s a link.Quote:
Originally Posted by snapt
https://soundcloud.com/user-95965900...-and-on-and-on