lonefisher

not to nitpick an obviously awesome fly but a bit of dark yellow or mottled brown raffia on the abdomen would be wicked. None the less I may have to try and tie up a couple of those myself. Just trying to undersatand the biots on the body but I think I get the gist of it.

wish I could see the detail better but man that looks like a sweet little fly....... nice work man

Man major surgery and he only misses one day on the forum! Thats dedicated. Glad to hear it all went well and I wish you a quick recovery!

WOW thats a great tie good work and nice rainbow too by the way.

I would definately jump on the Elk river...... Lower K is pretty tough fishing now without a boat. But you can still talk the odd one on at the inflows and outflows of the lake...... If you fish it big ass streamers will likely be the way to go but catatonic leeching does work during the summer sometimes for me as well. I think though that you will get more bang for your buck on the Elk......... That said I have only its reputation to go on........ never fished it. SO someone else would have to give you a report on its conditions ect.

Well all told I have about 85 years of flyfishing experience...... but the memories from the previous lifetimes are just a bit hazy. Back when I was Jason me an the argonauts used to take every sunday to toss some flies. When I was noah it took me several years to round up 2 of each species of fish....... which in retrospect I guess I didn't need to bother as they wouldn't have had to much trouble with the whole flood thing....... Most of my Experience though was when I was Alexander the great....... Cleopatra was a bit of a nag so I needed an escape.......... You all understand I'm sure.

LOL Yeah ai was just a little grumpy last night......... bit of a outburst I know..... ahh it added some colour to the conversation though i guess

Peaceful protest be damned I say we rise up and quash that bastard Bush before he reprograms OUR cyborg PM to follow his madness of mass destruction...... I feel that the Bush gov and the american way of thinking (ie madness) are a bigger threat to this country then any terrorist org out there. Screw the war on terror..... The Americans got themselves into it why should we bail em out........ Just wait we will have American Military installations all over in this country by 2015...... Thats if they are not already here...... and if they are don't tell me I would rather live blissfully unaware........ Sorry I am tired and grumpy tonight you have to excuse my rant as its likely somewhat hazy tonight. And to finish good night and godsBEEEYAAHHHHH!!!!!!

BEEEYAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Depends on what I'm fishing..... cutts I prefer evenings same with rainbows, bulls I like mornings, brookies mornings, browns I like evenings....... not sure why i have found different fish to be more active at different times but it seems to me char like to feed early and trout like to feed late....... but that said I would have to say evenings are my favorite..... But my favorite of all is to start before sunrise and finish up after sunset...... But I often burn out early as my workload is pretty high this year and the long days are getting to wear me out.

I'm guessing he meant a longer belly line...... basically means that instead of a short shooting head and a longer running line it has a longer head hence a longer belly..... Really though I should not be guessing as I know next to nothing about spey lines but as I understand the longer belly line is going to have a much longer fat section before tapering down to the running line. This thicker line will make mending a long line easier....... I think

I don't live to work, or work to live I'm workin on livin.

I hate work...... yet I never call in sick...... even when I'm sick.......LOL

Been up there a bit lately and the fire ban signs are not missable......... some people must have selective eyesight I suppose

WOW....... edit in not wowing at you harps just at the damn the enviro as long as I'm happy attitude of the previous post...... funny though that arguement usually does not come out until the debate is already quite heated.

BBB think of your roll cast its not really like the line is hitting the water behind you..... its anchoring behind you...... The anchor I think is key to most friction (water loading) casts.... Not sure of the terminology really but without the contact you do not load...... Touching the water is only bad when overhand casting and not even always then either..... sometimes it can help you on your overhand casting as even if you lose the loading that is done by the line flexing the rod you can still reload the rod just by making your forward stroke....... this is caused by the lines friction with the water..... so if your timing is off and that fish rises just as you make your backcast you can pause let the line fall to the water and make your forward cast whenever you feel like it...... provided the current is pulling the line away from you not pushing it towards you...... I have a feeling this will be hard to understand but I am not sure if I can explain it better. PS MTB your right this guy is a hell of a caster

you will likely find this sort of casting requires water BBB grass won't load the road correctly you may be able to make some of them work but you will have to later change the technique to work on water..... best to find a little slough or even a wide slow run on the river..... or a little pothole lake. Just leave the fly off and swap it for a piece of yarn or just clip the hook off....... might save you some painful learning wounds

Some of those casts are super pratical I often use the power roll like he does....... it takes about 10 feet more back cast space then a regular roll cast but also increase's the distance by quite a lot especially when you are tossing a heavy rig...... Watching it again I saw very few casts where he needed more then 10-15 feet of space behind him..... he may be standing in the middle of the stream for video purposes but he could do most of those casts right at the edge of the water with trees behind him...... I can't say I know many people who can overhand false cast 15 feet of line AND leader (thats 5 or 6 feet of fly line) and put out a 40+ foot cast plus the length of the leader........ actually I don't know anyone who can do that. The clef and voodoo basically never put line behind behind the caster and would be usefull if you had a backdrop were even a regular roll cast would require more space then available........ Very practical for some applications IMO. One application I like of the multiple roll cast is the ability to start the rolls with the line downstream Use the rolls to load and toss a big D loop at the end and pump it out into a power roll cast...... I can't say I am all that good at it yet but I met a guy once who frequently used such a cast and had tremendous line control over the cast. He could start the rolls with the line anywhere and finish with the fly landing anywhere on the river.

I understand that completely Lynn just thought I would mention it..... And like you said 10 days of big bow river trout is a good time as well.

I would ask the little fish what the big fish are eating

LMFAO that was bloody hilarious

Wicked job SJW those flies require some serious dedication......

1 Kamchatka (sp) russia 2 NZ tie 3 Alaska tie 3 mongolia

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I would ask my buddy's dog why he always pops his tackle out when there are women around