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Wicked bro thanks for sharing.

Good tip Doc.

Dee O gee

Bro I haven't used a barbed hook in 30 years

Its the same as any technique sometimes it works and most times it doesn't. My retrieve hook ups have been fine. All just have to be a little more careful when am helping the wife.

I would have to say that Don Anderson for sure. Barry Mitchell ranks pretty high on my list too. Bob Scammell I love Bobs column been reading it for ever. Finely Dave and Amelia Jensen I can't thank them enough for how much I've learned from following their adventures.

I did consider circle hooks but i think the problem is the technique itself and the response it gets from trout and not the hooks themselves. I've got it to about 98% of the trout I hook it's in the lips or close to it. But last time i used it was on Thursday and I was just slaying trout almost every cast. The problem was when i stopped to help the wife land a fish i would hook a fish while my fly sat out there not moving and sure as heck it would be deep. Gunna try not letting it sink on a slack line just stay tight till it sinks and if i can't have my hands on the line all rip it in and get it out of the water. So you mean bend the hook point up towards the shank to change the angle it takes to remove it? I've actually been bending mine away from the shank so you just have to push it back a bit to get it out.

So I've Been fishing this technique this year. I'm sure you have all read about it or maybe you even use it yourself. Now I've read about in many fly fishing books and if you read the Alberta weekly Fishing report the lad doing the lake section usually recommends using it. The technique is using super fast sinking lines to drag a floating hook down to the bottom and retrieving it. I absolutely love this style of fishing its very fun for me. First thing i do is peel my line off right to the backing and double haul my whole line out into the lake sometimes even shooting backing with my line. For me its that act of bombing casts as far as I can that i find appealing. The problem with this technique is its fricken brutal on the trout. They tend to just inhale the hook if you let them. Now I've modified my flies by going to a little more open gap and cutting about 1/8 of an inch off the point and re sharping making sure there is no barb what so ever left on the hook I started losing about 1/3 of the trout i hooked just by them throwing my hook. Also i keep my hook moving to minimize deep hooking..Been working pretty good my hook falls out as soon as there netted nine times out of ten. Problem is no matter how aware you are your going to deep hook a few fish . I just don't know what to do i love this style of fishing but i hate it at the same time. i don't want to piss off the old boys on the lake either because if I know its hard on trout so do they and I have i lot of respect for those guys So anyone have any advice on how to make this technique work without damaging fish. Am at the point where am going to cut my hook off at the top of the bend and just leave strait shaft and just fish for strikes still alot of fun really.

Haven't watched an NHL game since they rigged the Stanley cup finals and screwed Calgary out of a cup. So ya could careless as long as my taxes aren't used for it.

My hooks are almost identical to the Mustad 7970 except mine really are from the 50's Thanks though i wouldn't have know exactly what they where without this thread.

This what your looking for. These came from my grandfathers fly tying kit. Not sure who made these one's but there fairly old. Might part with some if your planning a special trip.

Sorry to hear that brother. breaks my wife's heart hearing this. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.

Thanks for sharing that Pete, glad your getting back to the things you love in life. I've never fished with Dave or Amelia but they motivated me to be a much better fly fisherman. I doubled the size of my PB brown because of their video's . I don't know why but everytime I see Dave and Amelia it makes me think of Joan and Lee Wolfe or Barry and Cathy beck, Dave and Amelia Whitlock. Still blows me away watching their video's even though I've watched them a hundred times each lol

Wow thank you such a pretty trout. colors are incredible.

Well when you hit a rock sideways like that you need to act fast. The tendency is for people to lean away from the rock causing the boat to flip or get swamped faster. You need to use human weight as ballast, counteracting the boats tendency to roll and flip.This takes quick and determined action, What most experienced boatman do is continue using the upstream oar to make levering sweeps, trying to pry and spin the boat off the boulder before it flips or swamps. This is where human ballast comes in. You need to lean into the rock, using human weight as ballast in fighting the boats tendency to be pushed under. If you own a drift boat you owe it to yourself and your passengers to educate yourself. Your passengers and whoever you get to row needs to know these things before you get on the river. If i could suggest a few great books by Neale Streeks called Float-Fishing Strategies and Drift Boat Fly Fishing (A river guide's sage advice).

Don't care what anyone says we need the death penalty back. Time to get tough on these assholes

Got two nautilus NV-G reels, great reels if you can afford that kind of money for your hobby.

Was really impressed until I read that the fees are in US funds, So impressed I was going to book a 8 day,7 fly outs for me and the wife. Than she said paid in US funds and i Said forget it am Canadian am not paying in In US funds to fish somewhere in Canada

What a silly thing to say, looks like a snobby shop too funny.

Well i made it to the 40 second mark cant stand that type of comedy myself.

Justice How about if we just hang them outside the courthouse

Couldn't agree more with Tungsten. my go to chromie is a very simple thread body with a gold bead no rib or anything, It constantly out fishes any of the other fancy chormies in my box by quite a large margin from BC to Manitoba.

I've used my XL Hybrid on lakes many times and love fishing out of it. I set it up with a front anchor mount from Hyde and pyramid anchors on both ends and have comfortable fished in high winds no problems. I Hardly even notice the waves in my Hyde and I've fished in 50 km/h winds a few times lol.

Let me try that again than. I remember a time when you could have left your trunk open all night and came back in the morning and nothing would have been missing.

Sorry to hear that Steve. To bad it wasn't someone from our generation, they would have just closed your trunk for you.