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Unreal Steve looks like a great trip . Beautiful fish, unbelievable setting. Ive always wanted to see what medicine lake looks like when it drains and have never made it up there.

Ya thats a tough lesson to learn and one I did myself once. Thank god it wasn't my sage and was just some cheap rod I had at the time.

Happy birthday Rehsifylf & Hack. Have a great day

There you go Bandee. Thats on 3X I could have pulled in quite a bit more yarn than i did. You would be using it higher up on your leader where its thicker and a lot easier to get it to stay in place, takes a bit of trial and error to get it right. Once you get a feel for it though its pretty handy. Nice thing too it doesn't kink your leader up and very easy to adjust and take on and off. Forgot to add its a heck of a lot cheaper than buying indicators and you can use many different types of tubing. Goose quill even if you like the natural matierial.

What was the temp Rick? When I was out on the Ram in the morning it was about 48 F and by the afternoon it was up around 53 to 54 which you would think is about perfect.

If you used a bigger sized tube you could make it hold up quite a bit of weight. If you keep your yarn in a film container or something like that, soaking in floatant that helps too. I have stopped using 3 flies because I tend to foul hook too many fish. But I haven't had a problem fishing 2 flies with this setup. Check out the "Super Hopper Dropper" in the fly tying section, if you want to suspend a lot of weight.

Pretty sure you just describe any major city in the world. I always thought Calgary was pretty clean compared to most cities I've been too.

Wicked fish Gary.

Thats a really good question Mark. I don't fish the southern waters, except the bow. But one of my fav's is the North Ram and it did seem a lot harder to fool the cuttys out there than I can remember. Plus the numbers and size are way down off the scale from what I am used to. But to be fair up till last year I hadn't fished Alberta waters for a good 12 years. I haven't had a lot of time to explore the ram to much and its totally changed with many new channels, most of the pools I fished are high and dry now. But some pools and runs are still the same and I could only get a few cuttys out of those spots. When in the past I could have stayed there and caught fish till my arm got sore. But without a doubt they sure seem harder to fool though.

Quite the pellet pig alrighty. Obviously SRD has nothing to do with managing those community lakes.

I like your polaroid too. Cant wait to see some shots of a monster brown taken with that.

Wow Wolfie that must have been fantastic to meet Joan, always admired her myself. The Japanese girl is Jeong Park and I agree shes fun to watch.

Actually there's some absolutely awesome fly fishing gals in Alberta. Amelia Jenson, Karen Vanderwater, Lynda McLennan. Pretty sure anyone of these gals could fish circles around most of us

In my search for better methods and tricks for fly fishing. I came across this neat little indicator by Rudi Ferris and absolutely love it. Thought I would share it with you all. Just take a empty ink tube out of a ballpoint pen and cut it into (1to3mm) long pieces, longer will provide more friction on your leader to hold it in place better. You can use different sizes of tubes for bigger or smaller indicators. Attaching the yarn is a piece of cake. · Double the nylon and feed on a ring. · Slide the ring down to open a large loop above it. · Feed the yarn into the loop and slide the ring hard up against it. · Now pull both ends of the nylon in opposite directions. · If the correct thickness of yarn has been selected the ring will jump up and hold fast under tension. · Try pulling the indicator up and down to see if it will stay put while you are casting. · If not wrap the nylon one more time over the yarn before you pull the ring in place. It will hold really well. It takes a bit of playing with them to select the right amount of yarn (or whatever you choose to use) for different size rings. After you play with it a little bit it gets a little easier to judge the amount you need. To much and the yarn won't snap into place, to little it just won't hold. It dosen't kink up your leader either and is very easy to adjust depth and take on and off as the situations change. Give it a try and hope you like it.

Wow Doc that rod is awesome must mean a lot to you.

Probably just a forum troll messing with the guys who think they're king *hit of turd island but don't realize they're just fart the messenger boy.

I slipped when I was peeling an apple lol. Ya it was a great day untill that 40km wind hit us . Hopefully I can get out with you and lorney again before the snow flies.

Well considering Wolfie started the tread and is still involved in it I wouldnt exactly call it a thread hijack

Girlsfishtoo only goes fishing with me and I never get to far away. We carry walkietalkies and if I get one call all be by her side in a matter of seconds. I grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and Iv'e been to jail before and am not to scared to go again so if anyone ever messes with her they will pay dearly for it. Seriously though Iv'e never ****** with anyone that didn't have it coming.

Sorry to hear about your grandpa Jay. Some of my fondest fishing memories are the many trips I took with my family. Pretty much every weekend we where fishing some where in Alberta and my grandma use to out fish all of us. Totally awesome photos bro. Don't let people scare you off posting most of us see it as sharing our love of fishing. For those that see it as ego stroking are just jealous pinheads. I really don't get it, now don't get me wrong, I like being a part of this forum and sharing trips and great trout with others. Seriously if it wasn't for photo posts I wouldn't be coming here, because this is the last place on my list when I want to learn something about fly fishing.

Check this site out, some of the best fly tyers in the world on it. You might have to join the site to view people's flys. Well worth it though. http://www.classicflytying.com/index.php?act=idx

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Really nice classic streamer. Never fished one before, must lose alot of fish to that long shank. Ive always found longer shanked hooks tend to pop out alot easier. Still what fly tyer doesn't want a set of Carrie Stevens classic's on the wall to admire.

well I want it to hold up quite abit of weight so foam suits the job, but forsure you could incorparate it into other patterns. You just double up your leader and push it through the loop on the fly and pull it over and under the fly than stick your tag end through the back mono loop. No tying to the eye of the hook, its a loop to loop connection.