Lol - latex gloves. Keeps hands dryer & warmer, and serves as stripping guardI'm freaking out over your fingers.
do you have gloves on ?
it appears you have no nails?
sorry if this is FMI.
Lol - latex gloves. Keeps hands dryer & warmer, and serves as stripping guardI'm freaking out over your fingers.
do you have gloves on ?
it appears you have no nails?
sorry if this is FMI.
Are the poachers back?Gillnet?
That is a snazzy looking bug Rich.A big diving frog
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Hook: TMC 8089 #2
Tail: Three rooster hackles on each side outside of yellow icelandic sheep
Collar 1: Yellow grizzly rooster hackle
Collar 2: deer hair
Body/head: white, chartreuse, olive and balck deer hair stacked
legs: silicon crazy legs
Eyes: 6 MM frog eyes
Weed guard: 20# Mason hard mono
That puppy wintered well. Probably ate most of her friends this past winter.Same fly: View attachment 62573View attachment 62574I may have let out some hoots. The fight was surreal and left me shaking. Blessed with some chunks this year.
TomHad good numbers sight fishing a bibio 3.5' behind a kate mckleran on an intermediate line, but noting big like you guy's are finding, maybe up to 14".
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Classic brush fly on an extra strong Gamakatsu SC15-2H hook.
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Nice! It's still too cold for that surface business over at our wet side here.