What's Catching You Fish?

Stonedfish

Known Grizzler-hater of triploids, humpies & ND
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What size hook is that? I need to order more src salt hooks, was looking at the sl113h in size 8 as a contender.

If you decide you don't need 3X strong for searuns, the Umpqua U401 would be another hook option that goes down to size 8.
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jasmillo

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Hit couple of beaches today and caught these…


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On these….

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Then hit a lake and caught a dozen of these...

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On these…

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I think this is my 3rd or 4th time fishing chironomids on lakes so happy with the result. No jumbos and not a single fish on a stripped fly which was a first for me lake fishing!
 

clarkman

average member
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The bottom 2 put fish in the net.
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Like this...
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Here...
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Surprisingly though, a fly I hadn't fished in probably 10 years put the most into the net....an unweighted prince.


It definitely wasn't lights out by any stretch, but today didn't suck.
 

Bob Rankin

Wandering the country with rifle and spey rod.
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I picked up a CatcherCraft Freestone last week and have been giving it a go on some local lakes. It’s a real pleasant ride, but can be a handful trolling in the wind with no fins. Can’t wait to take it down the Yak once my knee is better. Anyway…This guy has been crushing it the last three days on a type 3 sink. Sorry no fish pics, I wasn’t feeling it, but all were in the 14-20” range and feisty! Cheers
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Buzzy

I prefer to call them strike indicators.
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Ah - Rio! Hike a mile and half with a float tube, fins, net, fly boxes, two rods/reels, waders, food and a float tube only to break your floater in half. Oh, not ah, Rio. Oh sh--! Thanks to Engee thinking instead of cussing (I might have been), he square knotted the line back together.

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As the weather deteriorated (it got windy with some pretty strong gusts), I went ashore to warm up, eat my PBJ and observe my friends deal with the wind.
I decided to fish from shore with that square knotted floating WF6F Rio Grand** fishing a vampire leech tied jig style, I hung it under a bobber.
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Hey, a PNWFF hat and a smallish trout that took the vampire leech.

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** For giggles, I contacted Far Bank and told them I'd hiked into a lake only to have my Rio line break. I asked them how often they hear about their lines breaking like this, their response: "I am sorry to hear about the fly line breaking like that. No, I have not heard of that happening."
 

NRC

I’m just here so I don’t get mined
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Ah - Rio! Hike a mile and half with a float tube, fins, net, fly boxes, two rods/reels, waders, food and a float tube only to break your floater in half. Oh, not ah, Rio. Oh sh--! Thanks to Engee thinking instead of cussing (I might have been), he square knotted the line back together.

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As the weather deteriorated (it got windy with some pretty strong gusts), I went ashore to warm up, eat my PBJ and observe my friends deal with the wind.
I decided to fish from shore with that square knotted floating WF6F Rio Grand** fishing a vampire leech tied jig style, I hung it under a bobber.
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Hey, a PNWFF hat and a smallish trout that took the vampire leech.

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** For giggles, I contacted Far Bank and told them I'd hiked into a lake only to have my Rio line break. I asked them how often they hear about their lines breaking like this, their response: "I am sorry to hear about the fly line breaking like that. No, I have not heard of that happening."
RIO - Replace It Often
 
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