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I like patagonia pocketwire pack. its small and carries the stuff whether I’m on a bike or trout stream.
I have to say my Dad (deceased) and my Step Grandfather Johnny (deceased). They both used to tell me stories of spear fishing for barracuda and how they used my Grandmother (deceased) and all her very shinny and sparkly jewelry for bait.
There are no two people, three if you count the bait, I would rather spend one more day on the water with.
Thanks guys, my local shop has the IV in mid arbor, black and spools. They are an Orvis dealer and obviously honor this special.
Yeah, Ole Ronny Popiel called me up after seeing this post asking me to send 19.95 for the good old pocket fisherman.
It was an off year on the Cumberland and it seems to have been an off year on the White.
I beg to differ with you on the Cumberland. I ran over 125 commercial trips there this year and all were quality trips.
I had a wonderful season there. Once the water was turned off around Mothers Day, up until the water came back on in middle December. My season was spectacular there.
Mothers day caddis was an intense hatch and the fish were on them. So I started my Cumby season fishing dry caddis, that were backed by hatching sulfurs later in the month. IT’s hard to be unhappy when your catching dry fly fish.
The 17 year Cicadas happened on the Cumby this year, and it was on from the dam, to Tennessee. 75 Miles of water with huge terrestrials slamming the surface and monster fish taking advantage of them. June – July proved to be the best time for the Cicadas, even though we heard them in the trees for a month before and a month after their emergence.
After the Cicadas went away, the hopper fishing was phenomenal up into October. Big old hoppers wiggled and twitched along the banks got plenty of explosive rises from some very nice fish.
The spawn went off as usual. The main difference this year was that the spawn was well publicized and a lot of people came out to harvest big fish on the redds. The big rainbows that usually hang behind spawning browns were left hanging on stringers instead. Other than that, the spawn seamed just like other years with low water.
Now I will agree on the fact that the White River system did have an off year, due to all the rain that they got.
George, you’ve gotten some great responses. I might add that historically in fly-fishing literature, a “nymph” was technically the last instar stage of a mayfly when it fully developed its wingpads just prior to emergence. For that reason, early American nymph fishing techniques were identical to wet fly methods of producing a natural drift and swing at the end–what many now days describe as fishing soft hackles or emergers.
If you are interested in this aspect of nymphing, I would point you to Bergman’s Trout–still the classic. Read his early chapters on Wet Fly Fishing and Nymph Fishing. I would urge you to become familiar with these methods before coming to rely on a strike indicator which is the ruin of many an angler :-). I still use them, but I can easily slip back into a non-strike indicator mood and much prefer it for my own enjoyment.
