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09-29-2022, 03:55 PM #451
Yeah you guys are all right - appreciate the good advice. I just got excited on a killer deal for a nice Winston, but if I'm going to spend big money (for me) on a rod, I want it to be perfect.
And I agree re: 5wt 9ft being the perfect Western quiver of one fly rod, but I love love love my 4wt TFO for throwing dry flies on a perfect day. Yes it sucks in wind and yes I don't really nymph with it, but it's still a joy.
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09-29-2022, 04:11 PM #452
Yep, 4 wt dry fly rods are sweet. And then you will find how nice a 9" 6wt throws big hopper patterns and smaller streamers. And then you will want to targeting huge browns in the fall with meaty articulated streamers and start looking for a 7 or 8wt. And then you'll start looking for a 7" 3wt to chase blue lines in the spring. And then you'll start looking into glass because it's pretty fun for that but also for other stuff, too. Then you'll book a trip for saltwater somewhere... And on.
Welcome to the disease!Montani Semper Liberi
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09-29-2022, 04:42 PM #453
And then you get a 1-piece 12wt and go musky fishing….
/everything else
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09-29-2022, 04:50 PM #454
Down.
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09-29-2022, 09:53 PM #455
Yeah I know the 9 x 5 is the hot set up, but I like throwing dry flies so much that I have the 3 and the 4, and then I skip the five and go right to the 6 (in a saltwater version), and I use that for when I know that I’m just gonna be nymphing and casting from the back of a drift boat with streamers and hopper dropper. And of course it works great as a surf perch and bonefish rod.
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09-30-2022, 08:18 AM #456Registered User
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I was an evens only guy for along time. A 4,6,8 setup suited me really well for all of my 20s, bouncing between AK and CO. The first fly rod I bought was a 8’6 mid level Winston 4wt. I was in college and had a big night playing poker on a fake id up at Blackhawk, bough that rod and a Ross reel the next morning. Still fish it occasionally 25 years later. A few years later I found myself working at a lodge in SE AK. Got laughed at when I busted out my 8’6 4wt. Quickly realized I needed more power and added a 6 and 8 via the lodge’s orvis deal. Still fish those rods too.
Generally Love the 4 weights. Always have a fast action 9ft 4wt rigged on the drift boat to fish technically to rising fish. Great for throwing small bwos,midges, and tricos. I like the shorter and slower 4wts for dry fly wade fishing . But this new Scott is just soo much nicer to throw than anything else I have. It’s my fist high end rod, and now I get it. Will end up adding the 4 and 6 once I can commit the dough or track down some sort of deal. It’s a fucking disease, way worse for me than skis.
I’d be game for the BBI on the Henry’s, we usually try to get up there at least once that time of year.Last edited by jpcmoriarty; 09-30-2022 at 09:34 AM.
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09-30-2022, 08:34 AM #457
100% on fast action 4 wt. Not just for castability but also line control. Very underrated when talking about rods but if they don’t have the back bone for long pickups, mends, and reaches, yer gonna work a lot harder.
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09-30-2022, 08:36 AM #458
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09-30-2022, 08:40 AM #459
I'm also keen on this trip, sounds awesome Schindler
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09-30-2022, 09:12 AM #460
also anyone mind sharing some good fishing lakes in the Uintas via PM? the lady friend wants to go throw for brookies this weekend, thinking round lake and fish lake but would love to hear some other options
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09-30-2022, 10:05 PM #461I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. -אלוהים אדירים
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10-01-2022, 09:32 AM #462
2022 SHITTY FISHING PICTURES AND TALL TALES OF THINGS THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN
For spring creeks Mrs. Plug and I like a 3 or 4 depending on the size of the creek, etc. and I bought her a Winston 3 a hundred years ago. It’s beautiful, but slow. Too slow now compared to modern rods, so I’ve liked Loomis, so I bought her an Edge 4. Ho. Li. Shit. Is that thing nice. So I waited for their 30% sale and got a 3. It’s amazing.
Well they had another 30% sale so I got an 8.
I have a problem.
Oh yeah, gotta stay with the thread theme. Yesterday:
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10-01-2022, 11:09 PM #463
Every time I visit this thread I get silly targeted ads for fish jerseys for a week.
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10-02-2022, 08:48 PM #464
After a long day of losing fish, decorating the outdoors with flies, untangling profoundly snarled leaders, and unleashing tirades of exquisite vitriol, I finally managed to catch a burly cutthroat, and take a bad picture:
After setting him loose, I managed to lose three flies in a half an hour, switched to a wooley bugger streamer, and caught my first ever bull trout.I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. -אלוהים אדירים
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10-02-2022, 11:16 PM #465
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10-02-2022, 11:37 PM #466
Unfortunately, the camera chose to focus on the water in the background, it's pretty I guess.
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. -אלוהים אדירים
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10-03-2022, 08:51 AM #467
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10-03-2022, 09:20 AM #468
Prehistoric
Nice outing
Thx for sharing!
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10-03-2022, 09:43 AM #469
Early June on the Henry's is a real roll of the dice. I'm not just talking about unreliable weather. If it's been a good snow year, the water is going to be high and off-color in early June and the dry fly action will be weak. Moreover, in early June, the Henry's is often the one river in the area that isn't in full blown run-off. That plus the most over-hyped hatch of the season means the Henry's is stooooopid crowded. I can't predict next year's snowpack or the weather but I can tell you with certainty that the Henry's salmonfly hatch will be crowded past the point of diminishing returns.
The railroad ranch season opens June 15 and that plus the arrival of drake hatches really helps spread out the anglers and kicks off the dry fly fishing that the Henry's is known for.
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10-03-2022, 03:07 PM #470
2022 SHITTY FISHING PICTURES AND TALL TALES OF THINGS THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN
Last edited by Harry; 10-03-2022 at 03:45 PM.
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10-03-2022, 04:24 PM #471Registered User
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Down for a Henry’s Fork gathering next June.
Don’t overlook this:
I wouldn’t bother showing up before then. The drake hatch was borderline non existent on opening weekend this spring. Contrast to 2021 when there were so many the seagulls were eating most of them. If the bugs are on though, it pays to be there the first few days when most of those fish haven’t seen a fly in ~8 months.
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10-04-2022, 05:26 PM #472
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10-04-2022, 05:39 PM #473
Woah!
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10-04-2022, 05:45 PM #474
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10-04-2022, 10:14 PM #475
Tonight I was at my favorite fishing hole. I hooked a good fish on my first cast, then lost him while trying to pull him away from the edge of the pool that is a matted mass of sticks and sand eight feet deep. I wish that was a thing that didn't happen.
Later the fish were rising pretty good, and then a beaver cruises in, underwater from upstream, surfaces at the head of the pool, sees me, then dives and slaps the water with his tail loudly. I don't know if that spooked the pool, but I got skunked today.Last edited by Rasputin; 10-06-2022 at 12:27 PM.
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. -אלוהים אדירים
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