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Tip #1.... Stay the hell out of the water... Myth #27... "small hook only catch the skin,nobone"... (poor presentation only catch the skin,nobone...)

I've also caught a couple of Burbot on the swing. Burbot love leeches and I love swinging leeches.

Not all that often, but it depends on what you are swinging. I sometimes get a few if I'm swinging stoneflys or occassionally on a leeches, buggers, blood worms. I recall catching a few really big whitefish, swinging stones on a sink tip, down at Burnco in late March, a few years ago.

So what's the latest word on donations for the StreamWatch Auction, Rick?

Good to hear that your first Spey outing was effective and fun. Were you swinging tips?

Leaders/polyleaders typically run from 1x too 1.5x rod length depending on the size of fly, presentation, conditions ect. You can use both 10' or 14' polyleaders plus tippet, or tapered leaders in mono/fluro. Tapered mono leaders or floating PL's, can run up to 1.5x rod length, even a bit longer at times. At the shorter end of the spectrum, if you are using super fast sinking polyleaders and larger/heavier flys, a 10' PL with 3'-4' of tippet will give you more turn over power.

That was a great day Lornce. As shown in the vid, you had some pretty spectacular Rainbows to hand. It was epic on the dryfly that afternoon as well. Dutchie almost had the biggest brown of the day, but that rookie lost it at the net... :$*%&: Then he blamed me for not netting it properly. :lol:

Happy Birthday Lornce! Hope you're having a great day and thanks for the awesome fly's you have tied for me in the past year.

Excellent ties and patterns, tgo.

SOS Midge...very cool.... CDC Caddis are very effective on the Bow. ps. Bhurt sucks....hahahaha. Call me asap! NEED LEECHES!

Great set up and as Mark mentioned, tapered running lines have a few uses, including nymphing or to lengthen an existing head, add extra grains ect., but not very useful for swing fishing with Skagit heads, in my experience.

I would have to agree somewhat, that body color seems to be of less importance with Caddis dry's than most anglers realize. Size, profile and presentation are much more important factors.

Hey Gordon, well, the Expo was ok this year and it was great to chat with old friends and such, but ... it wasn't like the old days when there were Scotsman wearing Kilts and reeking of the Highlands finest, entertaining us for the weekend.

Rene Harrop and Ken Morrish are a couple of my favorites.

Love that film. I believe it is in Seoul, S. Korea.

Happy Birthday Rick, hope you had a chance to catch a couple today.

An epic adventure no doubt. Thanks for the pics.

Well, well, well... look what the cat dragged in... :Hi jack:

I always cheer for the fish... Fun vid. thanks.

I spent a bit of time with the Evotec 8136 that a friend of mine is using and it is unique. I liked it better for Underhand casting with a Scandi head than for Skagit use. I also forgot to include my Opti 8124 and the Guideline LeCie 13'7" 7/8 to my list of fav's for 2010. I also test casted a couple of the Metal detector rods this year as well, the 400 Switch and the 510 with matching Skagit heads, which were decent. Other notable mentions would be a Burkenhiemer 13"7" 8/9 (pretty sure this was the rod size), and GLoomis NRX 9130, but I did not spend enough time casting these sticks to give a proper evaluation with different line systems, but I liked them both. Have not had a chance to cast any of the Vision rods yet, but there may be an opportunity at the Fly Expo if Courtney brings a few along.

I'm going big for 2011.

Had the opportunity to cast many different rods in 2010. Mostly all of them were nice to cast, (with a couple of exceptions) and a few were very, very nice, yet different from the other. Here are a few of my fav's. A very unique rod that I cast recently, is the Loop Epic 9140 Med/Fast, which is now labeled as the Evotec series. The Epic, which I believe was only released for a short period of time, in Europe, has a hex shaped top grip and an adjustable reel seat like the Opti Power Spey. We lined it with a 480 grain Compac Scandi and fast sink Polyleader. Very crip, light, responsive rod that can shoot a country mile. I hope the current Evotech 9140 MF has the same awesome mojo as the Epic. Recently, I lined up my Scott McKenzie DTX 8130, with a 540 Compac Skagit w/11'-T-14 tip to see how this rod would throw the junk. It responded to the task with authority. Very smooth, light in hand, powerfull and effortless. Other 2010 favorites, well I'm still lovin' my Loop Goran Andersen 6120 and Guideline LeCie 9126, but I would also include the Sage TCX 7126, Meiser MKS 13'6" 7/8, Meiser 7130 S-Series and Guideline LXPe Switch rod series. What were your favorites of 2010?

Harry, That looks really great. Many thanks for all of your efforts and also to the sponsors who have contributed generously. Don't forget to pick up your tickets folks, great prizes for a great cause. See you at the Expo!

More useless garbage.

This fishing method is Ayu fishing, not Tenkara fly fishing. Quite facinating actually. Ayu fishing is also done with nymphs. Here's a link to explain it. Ayu fishing technique: http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~y-ogura/hyper/hyper.html