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  1. #426
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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.

  2. #427
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    Tgapp - PM me and we will get you sorted with something sinky. Between Roos and me we can get you going.
    Harvest the ride.

  3. #428
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    Chasing cutties in the high country.

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  4. #429
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    Walter loves fishing.

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  5. #430
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    Went up to Currant Creek today, loving the motor option for the drifty.

    We got there early and stripped up a few.

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    It got a bit stormy, electrocution was a possibility.

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    Fun was had, a never ever fly fishing guy got one.

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  6. #431
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    Gonna fish for a few days. Got here in time for evening hatch, but only 2 rising.Click image for larger version. 

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    Well maybe I'm the faggot America
    I'm not a part of a redneck agenda

  7. #432
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    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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  8. #433
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    That’s great! I meant to speak up and suggest you go there. I was working in the park and fortunately they put me up near the river

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  9. #434
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    Really tough today.
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    Although this was one of the more satisfying fish I’ve ever caught. It was the only rising fish on a big flat and it was moving all the time, so you basically had one shot each time it rose, because you had to guess where it was going to rise next.
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    Well maybe I'm the faggot America
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  10. #435
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    Something changed a little bit. Landed 16, another 6 or so short and long-distance released during evening hatch. Maybe the best one:
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    Well maybe I'm the faggot America
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  11. #436
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    A few from this weekend. More river camping and some fatty cutties.

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  12. #437
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    Couple of nice ones from Finland!

    Lähetetty minun LYA-L29 laitteesta Tapatalkilla

  13. #438
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    beautiful cutties!! I love it

    PSA - Ross Reels are on sale at Moonshine. Use code WELCOME10 for another 10% off

    https://moonshinerods.com/products/r...ce5ebd76&_ss=r

    hopefully someone here has less self control than I do and can benefit from this

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  14. #439
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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!!

  15. #440
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    These guys are bouncing all over my neighborhood:
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    So I went to my favorite under-fished low elevation trout stream armed with rubber-legged dry flies. If I made a good first cast, I had a take. Without exception. So fucking fun.

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  16. #441
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    ^^^^^ 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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  17. #442
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    2024 Fish Pic Thread

    Those Char are insane looking.
    Evening hatch was crazy. I played a little bit of “what won’t they take?” I mean, I kept it within the boundaries of my size 20 Baetis box of course.
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    After that it kinda got dumb.
    Well maybe I'm the faggot America
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  18. #443
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    Quote Originally Posted by tgapp View Post
    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.
    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.

  19. #444
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    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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  20. #445
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    Quote Originally Posted by I've seen black diamonds! View Post
    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.
    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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  22. #447
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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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  23. #448
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    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.

  24. #449
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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

  25. #450
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    Quote Originally Posted by I've seen black diamonds! View Post
    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.
    Funny.


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