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now go win some tournaments

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damn brookies 😛

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Oh yea

LETS GO REDSOX!!!!!

Me 2004

I bought that hat at fenway in 2002! GO SOX!

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some guy in Sitka did some sort of thing like “if it rains ___ amount all gold jelwery sold that year is free” and then it rained that amount, he had insurance so it didn’t cost him a dime…

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If I were going lake run brown fishing I’d start by assessing water conditions, if feasable sight fish then use hex nymphs and stonefly nymphs, then try general attractors like franks flies.

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I’m not knocking sage, just saying that I’ve never seen a fly rod that wasn’t a sage break on a fish, and the only time I’ve ever seen rods break on fish were about 6 sages in one week of guiding (the peak of king season).

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Don’t get me wrong Sages are very nice casting rods, they are very light and such but they are so light that they sustain damage very easy and the graphite structure is such that if you scratch them at all the structure is compromised and thus they break on fish, which IMO a rod should never do.

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sage rods cast great but there is one reason and one reason only I will never buy a sage rod (even with pro deals) I have seen more sages break on fish than any other make of rod.

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think you have it bad, you can probably drive to a trout stream, or some bass water, or some freshwater that isn’t frozen, or drive anywhere at all

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that fish has FAT lips!

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Its actually pretty hard to find chrome chinook up here, usually between 12 and 24 hours per fish… The really really good days you can hook maybe 10 in a day but you have to sort through them to find one that you wanna eat… Sockeye on the other hand…

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If it casts anything like any other orvis rod, I wouldn’t fish with it either

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the second picture shows it… So theres no fishing for chrome salmon down there? That kinda sucks, I hate touching fish that far along if I can avoid it…

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CHROME!!! I can’t wait for it to really kick off down here in Indiana,

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I was thinking salmon actually

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so what kind of flies do you use for catfish?
Crawfish, I should read more lol

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9.5 ft elkhorn 8/9 wt with elkhorn T4 reel and steelhead mastery line
9 ft 7 wt TFO TiCRx with cabelas sla reel and a mastery quad tip and spey conversion kit
8.5 ft 5 wt cabelas stowaway with cabelas CR reel and SA headstart line

Coming soon:
Generic 5/6 wt 9 ft. 7 pc. bought off ebay for 10 bucks
7.5 ft 4 wt cabelas stowaway
some sort of 11 foot 6 wt
a 15 foot 10 wt.
and maybe a 3 wt. if I really like this rod building stuff.

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just finished the butt section and it looks freaking awesome!

Totally stoked even thought the blanke I’m using probably won’t cast worth a darn, but you know 10 dollars and ebay = practice right?

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small world indeed, glad you had fun on CC, which if anyone is reading has no fish

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Hey I was on Ugashik tower last summer and set netting in PWS the year before… Did I by chance meet you on Quartz creek one time?

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