SilverDoctor

Once I am settled I intend to do a YouTube channel. Will send you a link at that time.

Greetings all, I hope everyone had a great season so far. As for myself, my life is now going through change. I will be moving to British Columbia shortly where our family is originally from. Have promised my wife to return and we feel we need to help the family out there and retire. I have enjoyed this beautiful province, chasing trout in our wonderful streams and rivers. It has been fun doing demo fly tying over the years and tying for local shops and Fly Fishers. A great many of you I have fished with and called friends, I treasure all these relationships. I will be stepping down as Administrator of this forum. Being in BC will no longer allow me a local perspective. I wish you all shining waters full of rising trout for all your days. Old Doc

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Excellent a must have

Suspenders work better than a belt on waist highs for me.

My latest waders have actually been my longest-lasting Reddington sonic-Pro HDZ. 3 years so far. When these finally go I am tempted to go full circle and go back to hip waders again. or at least waist highs.

That was a good deed.

Thanks for posting

They own Rio, Sage, and Reddington.

I wish someone would make decent waders that last more than a few seasons, I have had a run around with a few different brands. My Simms Guides for example were sent back 3 times for repair and I finally gave up on them when the crotch seam went.

We have lost much of this over the years, As a young man the older guys would never think of bing so boorish on streams as I have seen nowadays. My fishing partner and I are careful and chat with others to establish the direction they're fishing and how we all approach the water.

Love seeing the young trout, it means some are getting through whirling disease.

Thanks for posting

Yikes major drought coming if no monsoon.

And don't forget teh oil companies pumping water out of the creeks.

Looks kike another year of drought and low water.

I use a site called Imgur and post a direct link here, works great, really easy

Great ties

Just thought I would post a few of my favorite pictures, post if you have some favorites. Love Cutties on dries. Leftovers from tying orders. Dads tackle, still in occasional use.

They are a real living Jewel

Here is how to reverse the F2 Bighorn. 1. Remove the spool by placing your thumbs on the small black/grey rubber, and push, the reel should come off. 2. Remove the rubbers on both sides of the reel (drag knob and axel) 3. On the axel housing you will see a little notch, you will have to remove this one with a small Alan key (hex wrench) 4. In the drag knob you will see a screw, remove and twist off drag knob completely 5. You will be able to pull the complete drag housing apart and will see the inside of it (cork, brass insert etc.) 6. Remove the brass insert and the axel out of the axel housing 7. Inside you will see a ribbed 'insert' this is the 'one-directional bearing', you can gently push it out, in most cases it will slide out 8. Turn the bearing 180 degrees and put it back in; make sure you take it out in such a way that it doesn’t fall, if you by accident drop it and put it back, I guess you have a 50-50% chance you changed the retrieve : )) 9. Now your reel is the opposite retrieve 10. Place back the axel and brass sleeve, and slide back on the axel attached to the reel housing 11. Twist on the drag knob 12. Screw in the tiny notch/screw in the axel part of the housing 13. To set the drag: tighten the knob in such a way that if you turn it from 5 to 12 counterclockwise back to 12 you should feel the drag come lose (at 12 is where the screw will be stopped by a peg and will be your drags range, let's say) 14. You can set your drag a bit tighter or looser by placing the screw at 5 to 12 or let's say 10 to 12. 15. Put back the rubbers Please make sure you take it apart above a towel, the screws are pretty small and fall and bounce everywhere. Good luck

I did one in the fly shop a while back, it was years ago but I believe you pop the rubber inserts and then flip the bearing. It was a bit tricky, took some fiddeling.

Great observation on sink tips, I have a couple of lines that are dedicated to sink tips, I've stripped the core and done a loop to loop with the core and served over. Runs through the guides easier. Good use for the old lines.

I do like a floating line with a sink tip most of the time. Makes pickup for the cast easier. It is a good idea to carry a full sink when they are hanging in that lower layer.