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  1. I got em at Wholesale too. The razor slit looks sleeker, but i wonder if losing the silver tinsel on the bottom would make a difference? Can't find it now, but a pic I saw of one swimming really did look like it had a silver shine on the bottom. I guess I could always cut and glue to attach some.

  2. Got caught without any backswimmer patterns during mating season last fall, so I decided to tie up a few foam ones. Got the idea from http://www.westernsportfishing.ca/flyofmonth.htm but I didn't find any sheet foam in the color I needed; Fortunately I found some pre shaped bodies that were exactly what I needed. Since it was preshaped foam, I found the easiest way to get it on the hook was zap a gap. The underbody is holographic silver tinsel, and the entire thing is coated in shiny head cement (Hard as Nails) to give it a nice shine. The foam would also be handy if you need to use markers to imitate the natural while out on the water. These are size 10, but there are smaller sizes of foam available.

     

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  3. The rod isn't going to load for a normal cast when you've only got a short amount of line out (also depends on what rod you were using; this will be more of a problem with heavier rods), but you still have a couple choices. If you're nymphing and within a rod length or two you can use the water tension of the line when it's dangling downstream of you to flip your nymphs upstream and high stick or czech nymph (check google or ask Max for a lesson) through the drift (this can also be done with streamers). Another technique with streamers is to fish upstream of your target while swinging into the lie you want to fish, and slowly take steps downstream to cover the entire area.

     

    Both the scandi and skagit lines are shooting heads, just designed for two different styles of fishing, so you will have to strip both in in order to recast them.

  4. I agree. I was a tad nervous heading into that fight as I like BJ Penn as a fighter, but man oh man. I don't think I have ever seen such a one-sided domination.

     

    Great fight and a great win by GSP.

     

    Did you watch the Silva/Luchida fight before that? More one sided, and he ended it in the first round with a nice punch. I was hoping for a bit more entertainment like in the Jones/Bonnar fight before that.

  5. Was a fairly quiet night tonight. The casting pond is bigger this year so that 3 or 4 overhead casters can try out rods at the same time. The old one is off to the side but there's little room for backcasts and the ceiling is too low for spey rods. The setup is a bit better with the theaters on opposite sides, but the mic on the tying one wasn't working.

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