The Epical 2025 Fishing Yarns and Photo Thread

[Underoos]

Pardon the shameless plug. Come party at Rancho with me, eat some good food, laugh, and win some guided trips and sweet gear in the raffle.

https://hugeflyfisherman.com/product/huge-fest/

Seems I can't embed videos anymore, so here's a link.

https://youtu.be/snPbBrvWDrA

[schwerty]

Sounds fun!

[teleee]

It does sound fun- got out for a few days finally. It was good to get on the water and catch some fishes



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[teleee]

Seeing if this works or if I need to figure out the 3rd party thing


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Yep need to figure out 3rd party to post photos

[I've seen black diamonds!]

^^^^ Doesn't work. And when I try to respond to your post it quotes Underoos' post.

[jpcm]

First weekend on the river this season. Weather was great, clouds of bugs, and hungry fish. Going to be a good year!





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[Rasputin]

Strong work!

[I've seen black diamonds!]

Looking for a place to fish? You can pay this youtuber and he'll tell you his fishing spots:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR-y7SPAnc0

[lifelinksplit]

Flows and weather finally good to go on the local. Went out for a float on the wife's bday. Didn't take many pics but put quite a few in the boat. I really need new rubber for my boat net too. Walter like the muddy dirt road.

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[lifelinksplit]

Figured I would put up a pic before this place shits the bed.

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[jpcm]

Post them while you can!


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[lifelinksplit]

I usually like to shut off while camping but it was game 1 of playoffs and wife is a huge Avs fan.

Hope you fellas are having a good 420 on the green!

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[Phall]

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Henry’s Fork caddis eater on our way to the Smith.


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[plugboots]

Going South for some saltwater fishing.
Got a new T-shirt for the trip:

[Rasputin]

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Nice shirt Plug!&nbsp;</p>
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I have not been able to get on TGR for weeks, and since the local rivers blew up with runoff I have not had much to report. However I will throw out there, that one day, I caught a nineteen inch whitefish, and a nineteen inch pike minnow, within twenty minutes of each other, and later a beautiful, fat, cutthroat in the confluence of two mighty Montana trout streams. Also the last fish I caught was a twenty inch pike minnow, which is the biggest one yet. Other recent trips have not been fishy, whether I was throwing a nymph rig, double dry, dropper, or streamer, I have not been doing any catching the last two or three times out. Saturday will mark the opening of tributaries, so perhaps I will make it out to big cutthroat creek, and see how my luck is there. Hopefully the speed with which TGR loaded today means that I will be able to post pics again.</p>

[teleee]

Nice! Good to see things up and running. Made my annual tarpon run. Managed a couple silver kings and my first ever permit on the fly. Crazy catch, out night fishing for feeding tarpon and threw a popper into a school of feeding tarpon and I will be dammed if a permit didn’t come out of nowhere to eat it. Still in shock.
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Yea photos still don’t work.

[plugboots]

That’s cheating on that permit. You know it.

[teleee]

That’s cheating on that permit. You know it.

Yep - it sure is, but if you aint cheating you ain’t trying momma always says.


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[plugboots]

How many have you had on before? I’ve had 4 on, (and I can tell you all the details), and landed 1. I prolly have had 25 follows.

[Phall]

wow, im able to get on the forum!
heading back east today to hang with dad, fish the Cheekey schoolie tournament and meet up with Brock Landers for some stripers. Photos to hopefully come.

[teleee]

I have had [emoji639] on prior - can also tell you all the details. Have had more follows than I can even count. My house in Belize is close to some prime permit fishing. They are frustrating fish. And I don’t care how cheating it was I’m counting it.


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[plugboots]

My best/worst was: one ate, (it was hard to see the actual take), I strip set, fish on, and then the line just kinda came back to me. Dang!
Right away, just near there, was a mud, so I cast into it, and on the second strip, another take, only the line came back quicker. I checked, and the fly had the hook broken at the bend, (the first permit crushed it).

[Rasputin]

Ignorant as I am about saltwater fishing, I thought all this talk about permit was about a fish you needed a special permit to fish for, but I looked it up today, and now I am a more educated reader. I do not understand this talk of cheating by catching one when trying for something else, it is not cheating, it is luck.

If not for luck I highly doubt I would ever catch any fish of any sort, including those I am trying for. Fish are often incomprehensible in their motivations, aside from the fact that they eat things they think are food. However I have had enough takes on indicators, dry flies I was retrieving against the current, and even jigs hanging above water off the edge of a boat, to believe that luck, or as I prefer to call it, divine intervention is what allows fisher folk to catch fish, and not our mastery in being artfully tricky.

I know, I know, accusing a fellow fisher of cheating is a tease born of friendly envy, and I am overly literal at times, but I like to act as a foil between the teasing and the coming to believe it to be true.

As the saying goes, I would rather be lucky than good. This does not mean that I think that there is no skill in fishing, certainly there are many barriers to catching fish by clownishly flailing in various ways, and thereby frightening the magical underwater denizens we pursue interaction with, but ultimately, the decision to engage with the often ridiculously unrealistic lures we throw is up to the fish, and to the Fisher of souls who animates the fish and fisher alike to do the dance in and on the waters which we love, and are frustrated by.

[plugboots]

Not for me.
I only want to catch the fish I am casting too. Even on a destination trip, I have left many places when the only option is to blind cast or, (non-sight), nymph.
I’m 65 and started fly fish at age 8. The randomness, (or whatever), just isn’t interesting to me.

[teleee]

Flu fisherman are a bunch of elitist judgmental mother fuckers. I loves stalking and catching the individual fish I am actually chasing, that being said permit are world class pricks and I have no problem “cheating” by your standards to fool a permit to eat a fly. As many times as they have fucked with me I have no problem getting one over on them.
I too have been fly fishing for as long as I can remember and have come to realize if the fish gods want to bless me with an unexpected gift who am I to argue.


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