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Not true weedy I took a girl out the other night..... never heard of fly fishing before but of course I brought it up (idiot I know)..... she wanted to see how it worked yadayada so we go out to the lake and I punch a couple overheads, couple rolls, couple continuous action casts, a few snake rolls, double speys ect trying to show off right..... I hand her the rod and she pumps a 30-35 foot overhead perfectly first try.... I strip a bit hand it back to her to shoot some line poof she drops about a 40 footer turns to me and says "man don't you get bored doing this"....... That was our last date

Teach you how to cast? No problem. POOF done.... edit In all seriousness I don't like to lecture people so I don't but if anyone including you ever wants tips from me (I have no idea why) you just have to ask.....

Hell of a guy Glen thats the only reason I fish with him.

I have been doing a lot of that stuff just for fun most of the time (and I imagine pretty poorly)..... I find that little of the really fancy stuff is used much when actually fishing but sometimes the more basic ones like the snake roll, single spey, snaps and stuff can be really handy.....I like working on some of the fancier ones just because it makes the simpler ones feel even easier when they are needed while fishing..... This style keeps the fly on the water.. I would have to say an enourmous % of the casts that I make are roll or spey casts. Keeps me more outta the water and allows you to approach fish differently then if you were wanting to overhead cast..... As Brent mentioned he was likely using a shooting line but a regular line can produce very similar casts but with a bit less distance......

LOL I still feel bad about just showing up for the bbq so I was glad I could help out on the grill. Also (hangs head in shame) they even let me win a shot glass in the raffle...... And miraculously there was a bottle of whisky for me to test her out with.... saved me from another moment of total sobriety it did. Thanks Pipestone and Wongrs for setting things up and thanks to everybody that was out cleaning that day.

hmmm not sure if I quite understand but if you use the ill#2a and carefully seat the knot you get a small loop through the eye of the hook that would be about 1/8 th - 2/8th's of an inch in diameter.... the loop should not close when you have a fish on.

Anytime we playin fer pinks tho' Biootch

hmmmm Funny I still don't want one......... LOL unless they got a 4x4 edition

I think this depends heavily on your rig...... Not sure if there is a rule of thumb but I find all lines have a sweet spot that changes depending on the rod its casted on..... the same line on my noodley 6wt dragonfly seems to have a noticibly different sweet spot then on my 10ft g loomis which is a stiff high line speed rod...... That said I think it also depends on the goal of the cast..... and the amount of weight you are casting..... Sorry wish I had a better answer for you....... PS I'm a hack so don't listen to me

You guys are in for a treat on Sunday. Gordon is a excellent teacher........ He had to beat a couple of points into my head but in the end he showed me a lot and even had me casting a little ways. Thanks Gordon and thanks TM for letting me test out your lines and reels and stuff. I now have a good idea as to what I need to outfit my rod with...... Then I can get out and really chop some wood

http://www.redchaser.com/monoloop.htm Thats the loopknot I use.... Thats a altwater site but the knot is the same.....to be precise it is illustration 2a

Thats actually a hand holding a rod while battling a big bull trout...... The mtns are in the back. I messed around with the levels in Photoshop a bit to give it that psycedelic look.....do you like it?

I actually catch quite a lot of those big bulls on my anchor rope they just bite and won't let go...... The fact that i use a 30 piece bucket of KFC chicken as an anchor plays absolutely no part in it........ But in all honesty that was a very long fish but he was early season and was actually quite skinny compared to some of the fish later in the season. His tail gives you a good idea of how much he(she actually I think) would have bulked up. Thats a pretty big tail. But rather then completely poaching this thread I will offer an insight of mine to leechs..... exact patterns mean nothing like many of the critters we imitate they do often come in different shades, sizes colours ect. I like to use very subtle imitations that have some attractor qualities. Bloom off this forum is basically where I got the idea to put a red head on my leech patterns...... I find this tiny attractor quality plays a large part in convincing fish to bite..... I also like materials that have either a shiny look or I like to hide a bit of flash or red flash within the body..... One of these days I will post a few of my leech patterns..... I also find that sometimes you can work an area hard with one leech pattern until the fishing slows and then simply switch to a pattern nearly the same but a bit different and re' educate the fish a second time.... Also I like a lot of weight for most of my leechs and I (this is a matter of some contention) prefer loop knots for the added action......

I can try and get someone to email em to me but I do not currently have a pic. But I have seen the actual pics..... Massive massive brown

Always found wedge was a matter of patience with bigger grayling as the reward. Quarry usually has more action but an smaller average size.

what a brute I put the measurements, as he was weighed on a household scale, through one of those fish weight equations and came out with 18 and some odd pounds thats about what I would have put him at...... still woulda been the alberta record if the current still stands at 17 something......

chicken wing? I used the whole damn chicken! Now thats dry fly fishing!

Rickr I thought it was suitable but I hope TM and BBB don't see that as insulting as its not meant that way..... I just think it comes more down to the person releasing the fish in a timely manner..... I personally rarely use a net but in certain cases I would prefer to use one...... Like that Turcks link posted there are situations where a net is handy and even preferable..... But I rarely find myself in situations where I am catching numerous 20" plus fish on 6x tippet.... I find most places extremely light tippets are not needed and even when they are needed I find that a good knot even on 6x will hold for the landing of most average BIG fish. I am not saying you can tail a 15lb brown on 6x tippet but most big browns, bows, and cutts really don't go over 5 lbs or so.... In fact I think very very few do.... PS just thought I'd ask if anyone heard about the 21lb brown that came outta grotto pond this year?

Whoever posted that gaff hook suggestion obviously pirated my account as I would never say that Seriously though it was just a joke. My opinion on the net vs hand debate has been posted every time this topic comes up so I won't bother posting it again..... All I will say is I bet very few of BBB or Toolmans released fish die.... both being fairly ethicaly minded and capable fishermen likely have a pretty damn low mortality rate..... This is like a battle royale with Mother Terresa VS Mahatma Gandhi pretty much pointless..... I think that fish on the whole are fairly resilient creatures likely moreso then they are given credit for around here...... Just don't bounce em off rocks or run em up and down the shoreline for 5 minutes showing all your buddies. Bring em in whichever way admire em for a sec and let em go. People who use nets kill fish..... people who tail fish kill fish...... wanna know which people don't kill fish? The people who don't fish..... never wanna kill a fish? quit fishing..... I hooked a brookie early in the year had him on the hook for about 5 seconds before he spit it 3 minutes later he was floating upside down.... I waded out tried to revive him for several minutes no luck some times these things happen..... Thats the only fish I know I killed this year but looking back there is nothing I could have done differently I think that fish was killed as much by the shock of the hookset as anything as he was never even landed and spent literally 5 secs on the hook.....

Speyghillie. I hope my reply made it to you if not I have the details and the meeting place and will see you friday morning!

Ahhh so many cracks but they all verge on crossing the line...........

try a gaff hook

http://www.missouritrout.com/mikesmohairleech.htm http://westernsportfishing.ca/flytying2.htm http://shop.flyfishing.about.com/fly_archi...etails/1255.htm http://www.about-flyfishing.com/library/weekly/aa062901b.htm http://www.telusplanet.net/public/dmanders/leech.html and the little beasties themselves http://bio-ditrl.sunsite.ualberta.ca/searc...p_find=Annelida hope all the links work and a shameless big fish plug

You woulda been let down it was just a photoshop job of a cats head and paws on a man holding a fish..... kinda funny. You could just google images cat fishing

never mind link didn`t work