2022 SHITTY FISHING PICTURES AND TALL TALES OF THINGS THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN

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If you are getting inspections and refusals at the surface, that suggests leader shy fish.

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I’ve found sizing down tippet, and sometimes fly size, to help convince those trout to commit.

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I think this is probably what's going on. I'll bring some skinny fluoro tippet next time. I've thrown ants, hoppers, beetles, and a variety of attractors, as well as nymphs and emergers. A range of sizes. Ants were getting the most consistent interest. Smaller flies and tippet are probably my best bet. I'll bring along some shrimp and leech patterns too. A rainbow warrior (which I suppose could pass for a mysis?) on a slow retrieve garnered some attention as well.

Also, my boy caught his first fish on a fly today. Good thing we had the net with us.

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Also, my boy caught his first fish on a fly today. Good thing we had the net with us.

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Your kid caught a bigger fish than I did !

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I'll bring along some shrimp and leech patterns too. A rainbow warrior (which I suppose could pass for a mysis?) on a slow retrieve garnered some attention as well.

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Keep in mind that mysis are light averse and they stay deep in the water column during daylight hours. I doubt any trout you are sight fishing near the surface are actively feeding on shrimp. You'll need to check stomach contents to verify that lake was seeded with shrimp. Mysis were stocked in some alpine lakes in a misguided attempt to increase forage. Unfortunately, they tend to overeat the phytoplankton at the base of the food chain and usually end up lowering fertility.

Tie you up a meat whistle, throw it on a few feet of 10lb, and chuck that shit out there.


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Nicely done! There is an infinite difference between catching a first fish and first fishing trip.

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Also, my boy caught his first fish on a fly today. Good thing we had the net with us.

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He asks for a rod constantly when there is a river nearby, fly rod, spin rod, doesn't matter.
Green was silty, so a flashy spoon brought in a couple catfish and a small mouth bass. The creek feeding into the river a couple days later was crystal clear and full of BIG picky spooky fish. I landed a nice rainbow, bout 18" is my guess. Fun times.
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Dry fly eater

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Also, my boy caught his first fish on a fly today. Good thing we had the net with us.

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So great. Hoping to be there one day too.

In the meantime I'm very appreciative of cold tailwaters on a hot day. Water was 56 while the air was 96https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ebdabb700d.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...a1e3d0fc33.jpg

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Creeks full of small cutthroats. Fun on a hot day.
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Thank you for your purchase.

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I should be getting a sales commission from you. I met one of these Musky Fools over on the Chippewa and I gave him one of your stickers. He saw the one on my car and laughed about it. Now I see them selling these on their website…

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Appreciate it. He got a bulk order from me a while back.


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Appreciate it. He got a bulk order from me a while back.

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Cool people. Glad to see you working with them.

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Thank You. It gets a lot of comments.

Bought the set for my dentist after he ground one of my teeth flat enough that I can bite/pull on a 6x tippet. We even tested on a piece he had in his office.

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Yesterday I climbed up on a big boulder to get a look at the stream I was fishing and found a couple ladies sunbathing topless. Only have fish pics though.

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Long way to go for a fish!!

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That Atigun Pass shot is cool. Thanks for sharing.

Not as cool but here are a few from today's float on my home water.

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Stoke of the highest order.

That would be arctic char country too, right?

Fishin' and climbin' on the RM Front this weekend.

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Great view, where is that?

Swimmy will kill me for telling you about his secret fishing spots but that is Montana.

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Swimmy will kill me for telling you about his secret fishing spots but that is Montana.

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Thanks, been nice knowing you, your sacrifice won't be in vain. However, Swimmy is on his way.

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Yeah, that is my super duper secret spot somewhere in SW Montana.

Went musky hunting today.

River X has high water temps, so we headed to the legendary Chippewa. Had multiple Muskys follow the fly back to the boat and follow the figure-8, but no bites. Also had several violent strikes, but no eats. Big day, 12 hours, had fun.

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As a wise shop proprietor once told me, “I ain’t got no interest in a type of fishing where you get excited about fish not eating.”

Jesus loves musky but that guy doesn’t.


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Well, after a couple decades of living in Montana, surrounded by what is arguably the best trout fishing in the world, I recently decided to pull out the fly rod my dad gave me for my birthday seven years ago, and see how badly I suck at fishing, since I really haven't fished much in the past 35 years.

My first four outings in the lower Bitterroot (which is a five minute drive), yielded an exceptional amount of profoundly tangled leaders, and many lost flies. All I managed to catch was a four inch Whitefish, which had the distinction of being the smallest fish I've caught on rod and reel.

However, today I went elsewhere, to a smaller stream, lost fewer flies, tangled up somewhat less often, and landed the biggest trout fish (a stunningly bright cutthroat on a bumble bee pattern) I've ever had the pleasure to hook. I had no camera with me, and was more concerned to get the fish back in the water than measuring it.

I think I'll be going again often.

^^^ Nice work!

Don’t look at it as fishing; look at it as practicing your casting. Much less frustrating. ;-)

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Well, after a couple decades of living in Montana, surrounded by what is arguably the best trout fishing in the world, I recently decided to pull out the fly rod my dad gave me for my birthday seven years ago, and see how badly I suck at fishing, since I really haven't fished much in the past 35 years.

My first four outings in the lower Bitterroot (which is a five minute drive), yielded an exceptional amount of profoundly tangled leaders, and many lost flies. All I managed to catch was a four inch Whitefish, which had the distinction of being the smallest fish I've caught on rod and reel.

However, today I went elsewhere, to a smaller stream, lost fewer flies, tangled up somewhat less often, and landed the biggest trout fish (a stunningly bright cutthroat on a bumble bee pattern) I've ever had the pleasure to hook. I had no camera with me, and was more concerned to get the fish back in the water than measuring it.

I think I'll be going again often.

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Hell yeah! It's really addicting, isn't it?

I'm in the same boat. SFB was kind enough to take me out and teach me the basics earlier this year ("Joan Wulf called and she said put more fucking line out" | "Ten o'clock and two o'clock"), as well as a few other super kind mags and friends.

It took me a minute to get into the groove (get my shit together, set up my rigs, find my local go-to spots) - and I still suck - but today I practiced casting and hauling, and I managed to hook up a few times (one was right before I roll casted up river and the fish threw my hook pretty quickly).

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Nice. I did a bit of fly fishing as a kid (and a ton of conventional fishing on fresh and salt water). Just started fly fishing again this summer and I'm obsessed. The (re)learning curve was steep at first, but it has gotten much better. The tangles are much less common, the flies generally go where I want them to (with plenty of room for improvement) and it turns out that casting into the wind is possible. Practicing on grass, when I wasn't actually trying to catch fish, helped me a lot.

Fishing was a huge part of the 1st 20 years of my life. Now that I'm back at it I can't believe I ever gave it up. Especially today, when I was lucky to be on the river for three separate mayfly hatches. It was my best day of fishing since the late 90's. It was so good that I didn't notice that my feet had gone completely numb from 5 hours of wet wading. The 1st mile of the hike back to my car felt like I was walking on someone else's feet.