lonefisher
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hey you forgot to fix your divot!
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Just looked up the intruder and would be interested if anyone swings them in the bow..... Looks like it could be an excellent trout fly as well as for steelhead......
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I believe there is also some that will glow a flouresent orangey red colour...... there is a product called gibbs glow yarn and imho it doesn't glow at all......... other products may be better but I have not used any.....
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just outta curiosity but can you post the theme and the deadline you set some other guys might wanna get in on it...... but if you want 1 on 1 thats cool
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try fishing a hopper as part of a nymph rig sometime..... I know a few places where this is sometimes quite productive as hoppers I think only stay on the surface for a while then they sink...........once they have sank they are down there till they git ate. I have tried fishing stoneflys and other dries in the same fashion with very little success...... I have caught enough fish on hoppers to know they are often worth tossing but there are many places where they are not productive..... you just have to call the spot and fish what you think stands a good chance of producing..... I don't feel this thread is anything to get heated about lots of great opinions and theories are being offered and the one rule of fly fishing is there is no rules of thumb that cannot be broken...... Hope that doesn't get taken out of context
I also feel hoppers are usually best fished from the water casting to shore rather then the other way around.....
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Yeah I would say hoppers are an important terrestrial food source......... Likely one of the most important terrestrial food sources IMO. But IMO a good hatch of aquatic insects will always be more productive while the hatch is going on and in the cases of large insects like stoneflys even long after the hatch has happened.... as long as there are enough of them to keep the trout tuned in to them...... But I would also agree with Taco that the number of hoppers is down..... I know that my main area of reference (the farm 20+ years) seems almost devoid of hoppers compared with some years....... Also they are smaller...... I have heard of grasshoppers having cycles even before I started flyfishing I remember a teacher once told us what all the variables were that affect their numbers but I am drawing a blank now...... sometimes I wonder what I went to school for
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Drunk on cheap scotch wet wading...... just like any other day for on the water with me and Glenbow LOL cept this time we will have kilts and a cheer leading squad......
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When do I get my Scottish Accent and flask of whisky?
...... This spey thing is tough not only do I have to learn about heads, grains, tips, and anchors I have to learn about malts and whisky ageing..... -
Toolman I wish I had camera today...... I paired the rod up with my SA double taper 6wt line, bauer jm reel, and 10ft3x leader and lead weighted Bow river bugger in olive and brown. I just wanted to toss some sort of rig on there to try and cast it..... first few casts were pretty sloppy but I finally really slowed it down and discovered it had beautiful response at slower speeds. So I started down the bow here in canmore basically just to get the feel of it..... I worked about 100 yards of river before coming to the main bridge in town. I casted out at the bridge pillar and quickly scurried under the bridge as I would not have been able to cast or hold the rod upright under the bridge...... Once emerging from the otherside I mended downstream to pick the bugger off the bottom. I kinda figured the rod would not be as sensitive to takes as a shorter rod..... wrong..... just as the bugger lifted off the bottom I felt a rod shaking thunk..... Crap snag I thought for a millisecond before the line peeled up past the pillar and around it into the current...... I quickly readjusted my drag as I had it super super tight and was surprised the line had taken that hit. Then I started to tork the fish back around the pillar I wasn't sure whether I would get her around but once she came around I new she was in the bag. About 30 seconds later after figuring out how to get the line controled with my hand with such a long rod I cradled a female brown of atleast 23 inchs...... my biggest (brown) out of the bow for the past 2 months (mind you I have not fished the lower bow since there was still some ice cept once for about an hour after fishing the highwood area). I admired the fish and took a quick measure and let her go....... Where she was landed though I would have been hard pressed to get a pic anyway but I would have loved to get a pic of the first fish on this rod. Anyways I figured that was a good first session and headed home to get ready for work
Gotta say I love the line control and simple casts the long rod enables you to make..... another addiction.AS to your post I would LOVE to hear the results from your line tests..... And I thank you for taking the time to do it.
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I will try and get into the city here sometime and would love to hook up wih you and test some stuff out I will try and find the time
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Cool I'm pretty sure most everyone will remember you. I do you were in northern sask/man right? its good that you made it around to this forum
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Bait
in Ask the Pros
cool good on ya
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I figure thats all part of the fun of kayaking..... I watch a guy go ribs first into a big rock off a small falls on the highwood..... I thought for sure he was gonna be seriously hurt..... he ended up upside down and bailed out and was just loving it..... no serious injury even.....
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Bait
in Ask the Pros
still kinda curious whether that dead line was pulled in and tossed in the trash or not..... but regardless I guess if theres a fish hooked on it it is probably to late by now anyways.
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wow congrats man and 25 hours without drugs! Your wifes a trooper........
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I will usually pic up anything that is not retchedly disgusting and that will easily fit in my pockets or backpack...... big things like canoe parts (weird how many canoe carcass's show up on the upper bow) barrels, barbed wire, and stuff like that I leave........ I also hate picking up minnow and smelt containers cause they STINK like you wouldn't believe. I also fish a lot of places where few humans go so much of the time I see very little refuse.....
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Makes sense Toolman thanks for all your help!
PS the rod was ordered on thursday shipped on the friday before the long weekend and just arrived at 1pm today the tuesday after the long weekend...... I call that fast shipping.... Rod looks awesome and feels awesome although it does feel really long. The next 8 hours of work today and 6 tommorrow morning are gonna feel really long but I should have time to toss a couple loops before my afternoon shift tommorrow...... I can't wait as I know a few browns that I have never been able to easily reach from shore who may be the first to fall victim to the big stick....... All I can say is that with my GLX getting back to me yesterday and my new spey today I have had a great week for rods so far......
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hmmmm without knowing the details and stuff I would have to say that that sucks big time........ I would have been almost livid as vacation time I think should be guaranteed but I don't know what sort of work you do...... obviously you are important though..... I would ask for 2 vacations next year or a damn big bonus.......
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Have fun man sounds like a blast of a trip. Take some pics so you can really make us jealous
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Thanks a ton toolman this technical stuff seems harder then the casting itself..... I am still a little torn on what system to go with as I do not really want to buy several lines and running lines ect all at once..... Plus a reel..... Do you use the big reels (10-12 I think) just for the extra backing capability or is it also for a better balance on the rod? Its gonna be a week or 2 before I can get to a shop that will have anything close to a 10-12 wt reel and was planning on rigging up my okuma slv 7-8wt large arbor for the time being so I can atleast toss a line when I get the rod...... I know that I will not be running into many fish that can strip all my line and backing unless I hook something HUGE on the lower bow which will not be till after I get a bigger reel.
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Deadly I want 5 of those stickers
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Just got my GLX back from G loomis first time it broke and I used it almost exclusively for well over a year and a lot. All they asked for was just the 5-6inch section with all the rod specs which is cheaper for shipping..... i got back a whole new rod and sock cost 60$ and shipping...... so about 80 bucks for a new rod that retails starting at 645 US....... I still have all 3 of 4 sections from the first rod which had just the one break 1 inch from the tip might toss a replacement tip on there just in case I break the new one while on a trip and i need a temporary back up...... of course if I break the butt section this will not be possible..... I was fairly impressed with the service as the rod was gone for less the a month...... I think actually about 3 weeks...... warranty fee is higher but the rods capabilities are great....... I know this thread was about tfos but I figured I would mention my loomis as 1 break in a year at 80 bucks for total replacement is pretty decent compared to some people with several breaks over a similar period at 25 bucks per piece replacement....... The great advantage of the TFO though is obviously the ability to just go in with the broken piece and out with a fresh one.
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Yeah I am easy and I know I will be happy with whatever SJW picks even if its the fish I have lots of shirts with fish on them...... But yeah Normans idea of a guy shooting some line is a good one...... I can't draw one though......
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Thats wicked MTB may need to be a bit less detailed on a t shirt but thats exactly the sorta thing I think would be cool......
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If anyone has a nice side shot of a caddis or a stonefly I could likely make a pretty nice silhouette logo..... but it would need to be on a white background as I am a photoshop hack and really don't know how to crop the background cleanly.......
Speycasting School
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Toolman in a Calgary nightclub? Don't know the TM that well but I know its tough to be drinking at the Back Alley or Cowboys and drifting skid bitchs for monster night time browns at the same time.......
PS Gordon your Canadian is getting good eh? I have however taken the liberty of correcting your previous post so it fits with proper Canuckish.....
Oh thats enough with the Scottish thing eh? Well two weeks to go eh and I will be in Calgary ? I do the Kilt wearing and the haggis eating, as for the cheap whisky eh.... well everybody knows that goes to Canada and the US anyways eh.
I think it's about time I came to Calgary with the Kilt on for a night oot, then the Bow for some troot eh?
So if you see Toolman in a Calgary nightclub saying he's not with the guy with the Kilt on, that will be me eh.
Gordon Macleod (Clan Macleod rep for Calgary)
You will also notice I corrected the capitalization errors....... Were Canadians eh.... not savages ;-)