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he took a small salmon bomber on the dangle, go figure

One of the coolest fly fishing pics I've ever seen.

Congrats!

My biggest and prettiest brookie to date

I just bought the Rio large, it's very nice but it's not as big as I thought it would be. It must be designed for tips etc, not so much full heads. It'll no question still go to good use but I was wondering if someone could recommend another product or perhaps a DIY wallet for lugging around a few heads on the river.

I haven't bought any high priced items from American vendors in awhile and was wondering, to give an example, what would be my best bet at having a $500 valued item shipped to Canada without having my pocket book raped by customs or the shipper?

I'm out east., smaller water and smaller fish, for the most part. Eastman, we've spoken on here before. You coming to CB still this summer? I'm moving to Wolfville at the end of August. Do you know anything about fishing stripers on the south shore?

I've been there. They have special containers set up as soon as you get off the plane, before customs, where they give you a little speech and ask you to anonymously discard all sorts of things that they don't want brought in. They are very strict about keeping invasive species out. This was 6 years ago, it's probably even more strict now.

Yeah, it's for the 5126. I just got it in the mail this morning; I had the day off so I had to go fishing. All I can say is what a blast! Funny thing is, all I have is a 420 skagit short and I ended up catching this guy on a #18 dry with it. There were fish in the pool I was working but they weren't taking anything I was throwing at them. I tried a whack of different stuff to play with the rod, no takers. Anyways, after a few hours they started rising pretty steady and it was too windy to string up the single hander so I put a 9' trout leader on the skagit head and nailed a nice rainbow and a brookie. The rainbow was probably a pound or so and surprisingly put a bent the rod and took a bit of line.

Here's a newbie question if there ever was one. How much shooting line at a time should I spool up on a steelhead/salmon rod for medium sized waters? I was thinking of cutting a spool of miracle braid (150 ft total) in half and lining up two rods. Does this make sense? 75' of braid with a head and leader gives me well over a hundred feet of line before backing, sounds about right to me.

Take a video next time.

I say go with the pair that fit the best even if they're a mens version. I'm a guy and got Simms G3 womens in a large. I had to get em, they fit perfectly and we're half price because they we're in the shop for over a year. My girl friend is small and also wears Simms but in a mens because they fit her perfectly. Fit is so important in any athletic clothing, especially when your shelling out big bucks.

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I agree, a med fast 9'6" for a 6 is a great choice for an all around rod for Bow river sized fish. However, some may consider it a compromise if you also used it for dries, some may not, regardless, it would work very well for long line nymphing and streamers. You could go with a 9.6 or 10 for a 5 which would do it all but heavy streamers, i.e., a 5 weight would prob not cast tandem double bunnies very efficiently, but a fast 6 prob could. Me personally, I bring 2 rods when wade fishing bigger rivers for trout, a light switch and a 3 or 4 weight for dries.

The only fish I didn't release last year; hence the crap net and rocks. It was taken from a river in Nova Scotia. I forget the exact length but it was a fair size fish, 20 inches I think, and fat. It weighed exactly 1.75 pounds. Before weighing it that night I was sure it was gonna be heavier. A 9 pound trout has gotta be huge. My guess is just shy of 30" and fat. The average Atlantic Salmon out here is 12 pounds and around 32" long.

That was near the sandbar in East Bay, just by McCormacks school; aside from some inland lakes it's was pretty much the only place open near Sydney for the last month. However, some more promising water just opened on the 14th and I hear trout are starting to enter the rivers. I'll let yas know how I get along. By the way, there is a great new NS fly fish site at www.nsflyguy.ca

Sydney River here.

Guys are raving about this very rod and line combo on the east coast.

I've been GASing for a full length 5 weight (5126 is at the top of the list) for awhile now. How is it for scandi and in the wind? Maybe now that the dollar is close to par I can justify the hit to my meager student pocketbook.

Thanks for the tips everyone. Been having a lot of fun with the new line. I was thinking about trying the shorter Rio versi leaders, they are 6 feet and 45 grains.

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I'm a newbie to tying these types of flies and from what I've gathered I would think that it would depend on conditions your fishing. For example, 6s and 8s are the more popular sizes for most hairwing patterns for east coast salmon, especially when fishing low water or when targeting smaller fish. When the water is up a lot of the same patterns are used but in larger sizes. If your tying these for chrome, since that particular fly is one of the more popular patterns, why not tie a couple of each size. I personally find 8s and smaller a bugger to tie, with the small hooks it always takes me a few flies to get the proportions right.

I've had great luck myself and have heard nothing but good things about the Sage repair department; they'll take good care of you. My understanding is that if the rod is a relatively recent rod that you can definitely get a new tip without having to wait too long but, since you don't have the broken part they might charge you for a spare tip which I think costs a bit.. but they may not. Give em a call.