Fly Fishing show 2025
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Very nice to finally meet you. Take care, take what life gives you, hang in threre
My good fishing buddy handled a lot of tenkara. I am going to suggest intervention.
Just kidding, I think.
Just kidding, I think.
Laughs with Irafly and Roper and Scott. Got an update on the Meadow Lakes fish camp from Jason. Met a great Petersburg Alaska fly guide.
I walked around, and realized there really isn't much in the way of new gear I need or want. But those two; the Meadows Lake camp and the liveaboard Petersburg guide service were really enticing!
I don't really need any new gear either, but some days I find myself susceptible to impulse purchasing. Wandered by the Snowbee booth and began talking to the guy there. He introduced me to their plastic/fiberglass reel. It reminded me of the old Berkley 554, 556, and 558 plastic and graphite reels from the mid-1970s, with a disc drag instead of spring-and-pawl. For $45 I've made worse decisions in my life. They also had these super thin - 1 mm - neoprene waterproof fishing gloves. I think I can even wear my thin merino wool glove liners (thanks Stonedfish!) in them instead of using nitrile gloves that I rip up pretty fast. I'm always looking for ways to keep my hands warm when fishing since I have Reynaud's. And since we're into February, the bookstore had nice fishing calanders marked down from 17 to $10.
4 guys on a boat (meals, guiding, room) for a total cost of $2,100/day for the boat for the summer and fall season. That works out of $525 per angler per day for everything except tips. Am seriously thinking of doing this to chase estuary dollies and coastal cutts in the summer or maybe salmon in late summer or fall.
The spring steelhead trips are very expensive. He also said that about half of the steelhead fishing is dead-drifting and only about half the steel heading is swinging the fly.
You can try my tenkara Salmo! I love it.. one of the tenkara booths was giving what I consider bad casting advice.. other than that all of the rods were pretty sweet and priced well from 150 to 200 with show discounts.
So do it! We can go out.. now i want to take my tenkara with me to Skagit tomorrow! Hell to the ya! A native steelhead or dolly on a light tenkara! @jake be ready with the net for me.
Casting for Recovery logo with my name! Now you'll all know who I am! Fun show! Best one in a while.. going to volunteer to be a tyer at the next one and spend some.serious time at the bench.. since i can barely tie..
not!
I'm like a ninja.. followed you around.. you never know!
Kinda weird, I don’t remember you saying hi to me at the book store.
You weren't there either time I came by.
Irafly was out causing trouble.. like he should be... I actually know where he was.. but signed an NDA!
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Well bummer, I was there about 90% of the time, my loss.
I already had Steve's book and just started reading it.