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There was a massive hatch of these coming off the lake yesterday. Now we were fishing for stocked trout so I'm sure they had no clue what was up. Fish were suspended, so no one fishing bottom or power bait was having any luck. But once I put one of these on under a float on the spin rods for...

Couldn't wait, still short a lot of water, but I hit it after class (5 minutes from my building on campus). It's hard to go wrong starting with a sz. 8 black wooly bugger w/ gold bead. Found this little crappie pretty quickly. The red eared sunfish were the stars of the day. I may have been...

Last day of spring break for this kid. I know @Flymph was just making a tongue in cheek jest about WDFW, and I'm serious about how grateful I am for the opportunities WDFW provides. Yeah, it's easy to lament for the past, or wish for more, but I just choose to be happy. It's nice to have...

Ha Ha, all thoughts welcome. Here's where I'm at. Got plenty of rods and stuff, you all know that. I like the style, being right in there with the quarry. What I'm pretty sure I would like to do is upgrade my rod for tightline/esn style fishing specifically. I like fishing a ~20' 20# chameleon...

The stars aligned and I got a chance to fish with my son today. What a blessing and gift. I think he was as happy to get these twist locks for xmas as anything else. I got a chance to fish a straggle caddis and straggle stone. It just happened to come together this morning spur of the...

My confidence patterns are tweaks of old standards. In my ongoing quest to be a better fisherman I'm trying to become better acquainted with the food I can expect a trout to see on the buffet line and to tie something that looks like said food. Took a white tray, and a kick net to the stream...

Even though it's been 25 for several nights still seeing the caddis. 1.1" long head to wing tip. From WWCC on Mill Creek in Walla Walla.

This one followed me in, must be from Mill Creek, WW. More red than clear body, kinda washed out. Brownish overall. If I researched correctly I'm going to say Paraleptophlebia. Looks like the imago on flyfishingentomology.com.

So, I have tried my Cortland 444 multiplier with the line run over the roller bar and then through the stripping guide many times. The rollers are silky smooth, and the line spools nicely, but for the life of me I can't get used to the line control with it coming off the back of the spool. I...

What a change a week makes, waders, jacket, and shucks on this stream. Was chasing around like a maniac with my net, finally came up with one later. Sz. 10 2xl Shucks galore. Swung this set of three, no need to change. And I only lost one bird of prey. I've been having better luck with the...

Go a chance to meet @Zak today, and we spent a very pleasurable afternoon fishing and getting to know each other. Special day, thanks for visiting Zak. Fun to watch him cast and work the muddler. He casts a beautiful line and mends so well. I was a little concerned with the weather the days...

Over time I've come to realize the caddis is an important insect around here. Duh, right. Underwater I've got a hare's ear I like, a couple softhackles, and that version of LaFontaine's Diving Caddis has been good. I have some sparkle pupa that I got in a shipment from Big Y years ago, and the...

The feedback to my last post from @Hoofer and @Mike Cline helped me tie together a lot of observations, thanks. Headed out today to another stream that closes today that I knew had lots of shucks in the past. I've mentioned before that I've worked out a pat's version that seems to work really...

Here's your sign. Fished a section before it closes in a couple days. Lightning and thunder crashing overhead, 30mph gusts put a new cottonwood snag in about 100' behind me, and a surface covered with leaves. I was a little late, but the surface was carpeted after a gust Fished a bunch of...

So when I was out in the rain the other day the COE staff was doing some monitoring. He was logging water temps at 20C, down from a season high of 28. I sure could tell the fish are getting into the fall feeding mode. Fished a olive willy, followed 3 ft. by a black simileech, followed 3ft. by an...

OK, so you saltwater folks, or whomever, I don't know. What patterns have you got for Siberian Shrimp . 2-3" long body + antenne Way out of my league here, but the fam likes to fish here in the snake, spots above ice harbor to texas rapids, so I guess I should figure it out. We left our...

I tried flies Even had a hatch Really slow for me, so Good times Worms got lots of fish Fly rod dirtbag

Hit it early today Fished a couple different color small poppers and wet flies or leeches on a dry line, not much love. Switched rods to the type 6 and 2 leeches. And found a medium size crappie pretty quick. The little bluegill liked the black popper but couldn't hook up. The sunk leeches...

Hot walk back to the rig today, thankfully I was parked in the shade. The mountain stream when I left on the other hand found some shady hiding places. The deer never did detect my presence. and some sunny seams in the pocket water and some fish, which were just right for the 7' 3/4wt...

A different kind of creekin'