Fishing shop guy also said he was just a bull trout cause he couldn't be anything else.

I caught another fish! I thought it was another bull trout but it has different markings on back...?

Brook trout? Brookie bull hybrid? Just a different bull?

Not great pictures
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Heh. I'm not ready to go spey yet.

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Nobody cares about my new pole?

No bickering please.

I got my own pole today so I'm now all in on the fishing thing.

That's interesting. The fish was caught near the mouth of a bigger tributary to a pretty big river.

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...

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...

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...

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...

I caught my first fish on a fly rod today, also on a fly I tied.

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That's the type of fly.

I hooked one last week but it came unhooked :(.

That fly was Daryl

I'm tying them myself. And naming them. It's fun.

My friend gave it to me

This is my favorite fly so far

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I made a pick your pocket

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I made a wooly bugger

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