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PoudreRiver or Cameron,
Do either of you have any experience with the Rio Grande? I’m going to spend a week on it and the Conejos in Sept.
Bryan
I bought my oldest daughter a Joan Wulff Fly-O when she was three with the hopes of her practicing and learning at a young age. At six she already knows more than me, hence practice is unnecessary. Hope you have better luck.
Nice photos, Cameron. I get a kick out of using and seeing vintage equipment to catch panfish. I had my Heddon and RW Young reel out last week.
Sulphurs watch NASCAR and eat lots of fried chicken. PMD’s prefer poached fish and salads and nothing amuses them.
scud
pheasant tail nymph
soft hackles
peacock and black woolly bugger
zebra midge
disco midge
hairwing adamsThese are my second tier favorites:
foam caddis
stimulators
olive hares ear
Carrey SpecialsThe best floating mayfly imitation I have ever fished is a Quigley pattern called a hay stacker–I think. You really need a gallows to do it right but it is a para type tie except that you substitute mono for the post and tie it in at the rear of the thorax,
I agree with Salty Ryan, they are exceptional reels and hard to beat up. I have a few and love everything about them–except the low end of the drag. In my opinion it cranks down too much and is prone to free-spooling.
Ok, so from having read this and combining it with a couple of other threads on the board to reach the widest audience, while offending the fewest amount of people, the ideal fly fishing person should really be depicted as a:
Yeah, the Hardy girl is actually tastefully done–I was trying to think of examples.
It isn’t the content, it’s the lack of originality, the yeilding to the least common denominator, the throwing their arms into the air and saying, “sex sells”. I just think it is a strange about-face for an industry that, for years, banked on elitism is now marketing hormones.
Bryan
I bought the camera case last year and it has done a fine job of keeping anything I’ve put in it dry. However, it isn’t a very practical photographers bag. I wear it on a belt and usually swing around to my back to keep it out of the way. On a couple of occasions in the time it took to swing it to the side or front, unclasp the latches, and pry the camera out I lost good fish.
On a similar note, I am not a superstitious person, but it seems any time I carry a camera or a net to the water I have bad days.
Bryan
My first guess would be something like a Dremmel tool, but the cheapest way would be to buy precut/preformed bodies.
How is your trip to BC going?
Man, where do you find all the time to get out on the water? Nice shots, as always.
The next time you catch a fish, pat its head for me.
Bryan
I really liked the second one (it seems to best highlight the shallowness of the depth of field), but all are great. How long did you have to wait with your setup to catch the sequence and how long did the emergence take once it began?
Bryan
Ding Darling is a bird sanctuary on Sanibel and is situated in a mangrove swamp of sorts. A one way road winds–I think–about seven miles through the preserve and fishing the culverts on the tides is pretty popular. Snook, drum, sheepshead, pompano, all those predatory fish will hold off the sides of the current and ambush bait being flushed through.
I was fishing there one afternoon and making a fly change when the tide switched. In the time it took me to pick a pattern and tie it on the water made an abrupt turn around and began rushing the other way. It was pretty neat to see just how powerful the tide actually is. The gulf tides had always seemed pretty benign– without a lot of drop or rise in their comings and goings. But, seeing it channeled through a small opening like that instilled a little more respect in me.
Another time I was fishing there I turned in time to see a leopard spotted ray with a six or seven foot wing span appear from nowhere, lanquidly roll on the surface and disappear. The water isn’t any more than three or four feet deep, but richly stained; it amazed me how easy it was for something so large to have gone undetected until the moment it porpoised, then vanish again so quickly.
Jose Wajabe did a show from there a few years ago. He waded a couple of the bays, but to his guides protest. There is a healthy aligator population on the island and they aren’t all that hard to spot when they are sunning on the surface or lumped on a beach. You would never see one laying on the bottom, though (see prior paragraph), and could easily walk into one’s maw.
I’d agree with bd, the snook should be on fire now. June is the best month for the tarpon. The reds have probably slowed some. The trout and jacks should be great.
Bryan
Korkers look like a pretty good idea. When one pair of soles wears out buy and snap in another. Plus, you can get cleated, felt, trail, and aquastealth inserts for the same upper.
Anyone have any practical experience with them. I’ve just tried them in shops.
Yellowstone is always my first choice with Captiva/Sanibel a close second. Take the yak, fish Ding Darling, Blind Pass, the light house on Sanibel at night, and the beaches. Rent a motor boat from Jensen’s for less than $200 to have a better shot at the tarpon.
Peerless reels and Orvis CFO’s look pretty classy on cane. The Abel TR reels have been discontinued and are steeply discounted. Ah, but if I had the means and the wherewithal Ari Hart would be my reel of choice.
Dan,
I usually check all of my equipment except for a four piece rod, a reel, and a nymph box that I carry on for insurance and have never had anything lost or redirected in about 20 years of travel fishing. I carry my cane rods when traveling with those; the two I take most often are two piece configurations and I’ve never been asked to check them. But, you can lash a number of multi-piece rods to a 2,800 ci back pack, crammed with an awful lot of stuff, and it still get past the gate–that’s how my brother usually travels.
I’ve never understood why so many anglers have had problems carrying on rod tubes, that simply roll into the crevices of the overhead bins, when the airlines don’t even blink at all the space hogging guitars filling the cabin compartments.
Thank you, Drifter. I’m guessing the last 13 years went by a little too quickly. I got started a little later in life having children, but had watched neices and nephews and close friends’ children grow up and it seemed as if they had been around forever. But, it seems I can’t quite account for the last seven as it pertains to my daughters.
The elk show up along the road late in the afternoon. I’m not sure if they’ve broken off into two seperate herds, but some frequent the field near the Walker house and barn and another group seems to favor the fields between the ranger’s house and the chapel. I have some digital photos that I could post, but in half the animals look almost posed, and in the other half the focus is kind of soft, or noisy, due to using the camera’s digital magnification. From what I understand the elk are much more active during the cooler months. We visited the valley last Nov. and saw dozens more.
