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"Fishing with John"!!! I rented that CD. Quite cool. Really. That John is unique.

Local Yokel!! Is that you???

I consider pocket water to be big, fast, gnarly water. Picture rocks the size of washing machines scattered willy nilly with heavy flow in, around and over them creating pockets of tub sized pools, back eddies, etc. Something you would not want to fall into. In all that madness, fish sit in the calm behind the boulders looking for food to roar by with only a split second to decide if they should go for it. The Brooks Stone was invented for pocket water. Heavily weighted to get down fast and tied in the round to look the same no matter how it tumbled about.

I never realized how much weight you had in that fly. Sounds like it would sink like a rock. No wonder its effetive. Thanks for sharing.

Good looking fly. Golden pheasant? Hard to see. Good idea, though, as it has great markings. Can you post the receipe? Always looking for a good golden pattern, especially for the Bow. ps. Your barb is showing.

I agree it was a great accomplishment. Considering how many fish are caught every day, and how many times that one fish was caught (once), it was a 1 in 10,000,000 fish. Good on them. But I don't think it should be a world record, or if so, in a different category.

Barry Bonds. Good one. I should grow a bigger fish in my bathtub and then release it into my dugout and break that record. The only problem is I don't have a bathtub big enough, or a dugout, but if I did........

Must be photoshopped. Those two guys look *exactly* the same.

I've read conflicting advice from *real* experts' magazine articles and books hundreds of times. That garden path is well worn. As long as a person is willing to share their flies, techniques, experience, etc with me, they are pro in my book. Compare that to the guy down the lake who's hauling the fish in. When you ask him what he's using, he says "A hook!". That person is not a pro, no matter how many fish he's catching.

Maybe try sharpening your hooks. Especially if they are larger. Deeper penetration should result in less shake-offs.

LynnF. Was it you who was looking for waist high waders? I got a Cabela's catalog in the mail and they have stockingfoot waist-high's for $139 (Gold Medal Dry Plus) and another upgraded model for $179 (Guideware Dry-Plus). They look like they would stand up to a lot of abuse. PM me if you want me to scan the pages in for you.

Or with a sliver tinsel underbody and wire, a minnow.

Amen. But whatever takes me, I hope I don't see it coming.

No. Its not mine. I got it out of a circa 1986 Fly Tyer magazine. It was the author's father's favorite fly and he trolled it. I get some good luck with it hand twisted and stripped. I guess I should give the recipe. Tie black wire, black floss and yellow chenille at tail end of fly. Wrap floss forward, pull chenille under the body and wrap wire forward. Finish off with pheasant butt feather as a hackle.

Some of you might remember on the Fly Fish Alberta forum, I posted this fly, wondering if it was a good lake pattern. Well, it is. Give it a try.

There is no one place. Seems like whenever I'm looking for a specific item, I have to visit 3 places before I find it. Either they don't carry it or they are out of stock. I wonder why its so hard for some of these places to keep their stock up. I understand if they don't carry it but when you see numerous "out of stock" tags, they need better inventory control software.

Static bag for scud backs. Doll hair for streamers. A friend's daughter combed their rabbit one night while we where having some pops around the fire. An odd brown colour. We were going to go on a raft float down the Bow the next day with them. Told her I was going to invent a fly with it and called it the moxie fly (the rabbits name is Moxie). Sunny hot day with thousands of rafters. It was the only fly hauling in the whites. No trout. Just whities.