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No, Cape Breton. However, I'm very familiar with the valley. I did an undergrad at Acadia and am going back in the fall for post grad.

Nova Scotia

I miss the Bow.

Thanks, that's exactly how I feel. I'm so glad I got the pic.

I should have mentioned that I'm out east right now.

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 just checked the Rio site. I made a mistake there, the #7 steelhead is 193 gr at 30'. However, the whole head, 59', is 354gr.

The line I'm replacing is actually a standard sharkskin. I found it to be a great dry fly line for overhead casting but, as you mentioned, it wouldn't work well for spey, for me at least. Regarding the Rio steelhead, I already have one in a 7. I bought it for a switch rod which I don't have anymore. I didn't even think to try because I assumed it would be too heavy. The head on it is super long and heavy, over 300 grains I believe. Is it worth a try on the 690?

Z-axis 690

I'm in the market for a new floating line for my 6 wt. The line is to be a general purpose line dry line for trout fishing - dries and hopper dropper rigs mostly but also simple nymph and wets/soft hackle rigs, no streamers. The thing is, if such a beast exists, I'd opt for a line that excels at single hand spey casting at the expense of being a great overhead casting line over your run of the mill weight forward. Out of necessity, I'd say that 80%, or more, of my casting for trout on rivers is spey; therefore, it would be great to get a specialized line. For the last while I've been fishing a wf7 line which seems to get the job done but I know there are better options out there, I just don't know what they are. I've read that the Rio Gold might be a good bet? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I'm so wanting a TXL.

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.

Pawn shops always have a wide selection of grain scales.

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