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Thread: 2024 Fish Pic Thread
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07-20-2024, 07:47 AM #426Registered User
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Roos, The alpine trackers comparison is pretty spot on! Extra spool sure is nice for quick changes but it’s not the end of the world to just change out the line on your reel. Especially if your going to fish one line for the day.. Just keep an extra line box/spool to flip onto. The plastic airflow ones are the best. SA and Rio are all cardboard these days.
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07-20-2024, 09:57 AM #427
Tgapp - PM me and we will get you sorted with something sinky. Between Roos and me we can get you going.
Harvest the ride.
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07-20-2024, 04:22 PM #428Registered User
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Chasing cutties in the high country.
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07-20-2024, 04:51 PM #429Registered User
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Walter loves fishing.
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07-20-2024, 11:03 PM #430
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07-21-2024, 09:01 PM #431
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07-22-2024, 10:43 AM #432
huge shout-out to lindenle for getting out with me and getting me on to some native fish
stunningly beautiful water, a handful of natives, and great company
copy that on the sink tip, makes total sense. I'm just being a frugal bastard. Might be able to score an extra spool for that Bauer, if not, I can always sell some skis.
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07-22-2024, 06:12 PM #433
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07-22-2024, 11:01 PM #434Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
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07-23-2024, 10:04 PM #435
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07-24-2024, 10:43 AM #436Registered User
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A few from this weekend. More river camping and some fatty cutties.
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07-24-2024, 11:12 AM #437
Couple of nice ones from Finland!
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07-24-2024, 11:58 AM #438
beautiful cutties!! I love it
PSA - Ross Reels are on sale at Moonshine. Use code WELCOME10 for another 10% off
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hopefully someone here has less self control than I do and can benefit from this
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07-24-2024, 02:35 PM #439Registered User
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PSA: lots of flies up again on Sierra trading post. Both Montana fly company and umpaqua. Go restock your $1 chubbies and jigs head droppers!!
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07-24-2024, 04:15 PM #440
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07-24-2024, 10:04 PM #441
^^^^^ YEP isbd!! Isn't summer time great?
Admittedly I get a little more love on the dropper portion of my hopper dropper setup, but enough surface eats to keep things interesting.
Tonight I went to an area that marsB showed me originally and ended up with 8 fish to the net in 15 minutes. Wild. Absolutely wild. Had a chubby on top and then a brown perdigon that Fleaches tied for me, and that perdigon was absolutely slaying it. Just insane.
Probably my favorite part about this sport is that - as an adult learner - I am acutely aware of how bad I suck, which makes days like today even more deeply affirming. After taking the time to learn to read water, practice casting, focus on what bugs are out, and then fishing hard as frequently as I can, it's just incredibly, wildly fulfilling when it all comes together.
This was far from the largest fish I caught today, but boy, I sure love those spots. What beautiful creatures.
And yeah, so much love to this community. Thank you all so, so much.
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07-24-2024, 10:25 PM #442
2024 Fish Pic Thread
Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
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07-25-2024, 08:38 AM #443
I'm with you. There is something wonderful about the way that every time you go fly fishing there is a chance you will feel like a bumbling novice, or a brilliant apex predator. Either of these feelings can me me laugh out loud when I'm standing by myself thigh deep in a river. Yesterday gave me plenty of chances to feel like the apex predator. I made a couple tricky casts that produced nice fish - one under some long grass up against a cut bank, the other between a boulder and a branch to get a drift under an overhanging tree. I had to laugh at my own brilliance. I was Lee Wulff reincarnated. I, with my rod and line, might have reminded a passerby of a show cowboy doing fancy rope tricks (in those moments it was easy ignore to all the other casts that I fucked up, the trees I decorated with my flies...).
A month ago I was fishing an East coast pond that holds some fat rainbows. They were hammering what I think were swimming damselfly nymphs. I had some damselfly nymphs in my box! But the trout were unimpressed. I tried water boatmen, leeches, chironomids and more. I tried every retrieval I could think of. For hours. Nothing. Finally I had a take! I had cracked the code! It was a four inch bass. This was also funny.
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07-25-2024, 02:04 PM #444
This visiting teen's first trout and he was thrilled. In the past three days he has caught mountain whitefish, brown, brook, other rainbow and cutthroat trout. The first one was caught with a spinning rod tossing rooster tails but most of the others where on a flyrod.
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07-25-2024, 09:09 PM #445
ha yep, this all feels resonant. I tell myself a lot "well if I'm not catching, i sure as fuck better be learning" - every cast is an opportunity to practice my stroke timing, every drift is a lesson in mending, every fucking fly stuck in a goddamn tree of heaven is a lesson in fucking casting accuracy. grateful for those active learning days - every day on the water is an opportunity to practice equanimity and presentfulness, but I'll tell you what, it sure is good to have a fire day
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07-25-2024, 11:13 PM #446
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07-26-2024, 03:10 PM #447Registered User
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Big shoutout to the guys down at Fishpond in Denver. I blew out the zipper on a 5 year old cutbank boat bag. Sent an email, took some pictures, and had a brand new one FedEx to me the next day. No charge, no return. Just had to mark it up with a sharpie. Pretty awesome customer service/warranty. For the record, I beat the shit out of this bag and might have been at fault for overstuffing it for an overnight trip…
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07-26-2024, 05:11 PM #448
Nice! Are you coming to Bob’s Birthday Bash on the Green this year? If so, I’d like to take a look at that. I have one of their Green River bags, and I’ve outgrown it. I’ve seen Ben’s Orvis boat bag and am about ready to pull the trigger on one of those, hadn’t seen that model.
Everyone else, just like 4/20 on the Green Bob’s Birthday bash is a yearly thing. All are invited. It’s at the usual place, my property in Brown’s park or if you’d prefer the Bridge campground just down by the river. It appears most folks are coming out Friday the 9th of August and leaving Tuesday the 13th (My Birthday). I’m heading out the 9th and staying till the 18th.
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07-27-2024, 10:34 AM #449Registered User
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Im in for Bobs birthday Green weekend! The Mrs is hopeful too if she make it work with work schedule and possibly some non-mag buddies . We will set up shop at the campground.
I was going to switch over to the orvis boat bag, but fishpond came through huge I with the replacement. . Really like the tippet holder on orvis one
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07-27-2024, 01:54 PM #450
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