maxwell

bin a hella long time since i put up a few pics so here is a ton! was a ecpi spring spent a ton of time while workin up north chasing pike n eyes on the fly and on my days off fishing teh bow ofcorse and hunting some bullies. set 2 personal bests with my largest cutty and pike too date! spent a good number of days slayin fish with LK and got a few new people into teh sport aswell!! now with the summer dryfly happening and back too fulltime fishin it should continue to be a hell of a year! enjoy!

those are 2 sick bows dude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nice shots! thanks for posting!

that is a trip dude! never seen that before!

that was obvious at the beginning teh year imho brian.. we cant afford him and i dotn think sutter was planning on giving hima contract in the first place.... bring in a kiler player for a cup run on his last year of teh contract light it up get fat deal elsewere n be set for life! it sucks but its a business

u can tie some deadly nymphs with the stuff! thinking about re-vamping my nymphs next with the stuff! looks deadly!!!!!

scandi nailed it!!!!!!! a relating topic imho would be hauling when you form a d-loop it does help build line speed but when u touch and form teh anchor you lose most if nto all of that momentum!!!!!! fun too mess around tho and i still find myself doing both of those thing when i can bored!

sick vid!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks for posting!

i think castus and harps nailed it! im not too worried yet.. might be a different story come late august if we get no rain but time will tell! until then get out and feesh!!!!!!

its going too be a tight race! goodluck!!!!!

unreal shots dude!!!!!!!!

we had a mild gradual runoff this year forsure and no rain compared too the last few years with a large heap of water coming down all at once.. like others mentioned flows are around then orm for this time of year now. i dotn think much will be different best case it has already bin a sick dryfly year and it will continue too on!!!! if she gets low things could get warm and like 5 ish years ago they will shut down all the east slope streams for fishign in a few weeks wich would suck.. madd weed growth brad it what makes oxygen not choke out oxygen they live off of co2 and mak o2 in teh fall it might be a little problem with less oxygen but i doubt it only because the polants once dead will move downstream and be swept away!

schweet franky!!!!!!! will be dope too see u dude!!

sick fish dude!

u could also do the reddeer river or lower oldman

a given dude! i got it!! just giving you more options brown stonefly nymphs in a size 8 would be another cgreat choice and copper johns in a 14!!! i fish 3 nymphs.. heaviest on top and the point (smaller) fly below! start with 2 nymphs and if u get comfortable with it fish 3! another deadly combo is the chernobyl with 2 nymphs below it at 2 and 3 feet!!

for teh summer dude it would be prince nymphs size 16, pheasent tail size 18, elk hair caddis size 14, chernobyl ant size 8, clouser minnow size 4 and wooly bugger size 6

it all depends on the fly being tied and how it is used.. i find lots of hackles and legs fall off of most flies tied or store bought but if u are rough on em with forceps(twisting them out of a fished mouth/clamping down on teh flies body(forceps with teeth are even worse... same with tearing off the crud u pick up off bottom, u can rip off legs and tails... most of the damage is done there .... same with ripping em out of trees.. fly quality is something that always makes me laugh.. if the fly looks good but has a bunch of brittle components dont be suprised it only lasts a few fish.. fly costs have gone up same with most things but that is the way of the world.. is it cheaper too tye your own flies.. hell no.... specially for most of the flies u see in flyshops..... the thing ive noticed in flyshops, big box stores and online sellers are cheaper flies are cheaper.... usually more basic patterns, poor quality ties and the worst part is cheap hooks..... keep in mind alot of those 3 doller nymphs and streamers have tungston cones, crystal flash things like that and better hooks..... if i were still buying flies i would get the 3 doller ones over the 1 doller flies any day of the week!

bloodworms "midge larvae" are awsome! and mini sanjuan worms work great for that but we do have tubliflex worm wich are aquatic worms jsut like a earthworm they have gills behind there spiracles too breath underwater and do what earthworms do just sub surface!

red wire on a hook size 6or 8 will slay em.. ive tied em with a few dozen different materials and they all work teh same... might aswell have the weight with some large red wire.. if you want to actually tie somethign tho floss, vinyl rib, dubbing, marabou, chenille, crystal flash, flashabou, larvae lace, vinyl sheet or anything else u can find in red will do too!

dope pics dude! thanks for posting!

sweet fathers day dude! thanks for sharing!

there are lots out there dude! lk and i lastyear became beaver pond junkies for a few months!!!

dope pics dude!! i love that spot!

yea like uber metnioned u cnat just take a bucket of fish form some lake or stream and stock it.. u can contact some fish farms can get fish too stock a lake tho! its not super cheap u need oto get the gov. out too test teh water tell u roughly how many fish u can put in it etc then u purchase the fish!