Recent content by Dave Westburg

@Salmo_g do tell how you managed to break the tip. I hope it was playing a big fish!

Gaia has helped me find some streams

Grew up fishing the Lake Washington creek in my backyard so have a fondness for small streams. I've had better small stream fishing on the east slope of the cascades. The streams seem to be lower gradient and there's a longer growing season. There are some gems... The small streams...

I fish the classic wets. Butcher, Fiery Brown, Dunkeld, Peter Ross... Irish shrimp flies on small trebles when I'm going to keep Cowlitz hatchery cutts... A sparse Brad's Brat in honor of Enos Bradner... Classic new england streamers like the Chief Needabah or Col Bates or White...

That’s one healthy trout!

Each fall I hike to the North Cascades Creek which my 7' Tom Fulk 5 weight bamboo rod is named for. This is a wild stream with ice cold water and nothing but elk tracks on the bank. The morning started slow but we found wild cutts on size 12-14 Adams and Humpies as the water warmed up...

I can testify that the fly works!

Mike, Speyflyfisher outfished me on the day. He used one of his own secret flies and a Monsos bamboo rod. Look at this cast.

The golden scud is a Steve Raymond pattern. You can find the tying details in his book Kamloops. I found a scud in a boat at Meadow lakes fishing camp which had a couple strands of olive flashabou tied over the body before the clear shellback is pulled over and secured by tinsel. I think the...

I tie the marabou damsels the same as self bodied careys except that I don't put any hackle on the fly.

You have the drift Zak. Tie in a long natural pheasant feather by the tip for the tail and also tie some oval silver or gold tinsel at the tail. Wind the pheasant feather forward in broad turns to the front and then counter rib with the tinsel. Use a second feather for the hackle. I...

Since my trip with Speyflyfisher I've added some size 12-14 pheasant tail nymphs and hares ear nymphs to my lake fly wallet so I have an option when the fish are looking for callibaetis nymphs.

Agree with you Greg - the impregnation and the taper makes the Wright and McGill WaterSeal a little quicker than its Granger/Wright and McGill counterpart. John Gierach liked WaterSeals. He called your 8'6" Waterseal "a good, quick, authorative dry fly rod" with a "nice and crisp" action.

This fly wallet is for lakes and Canada. It's got some extra strong wire hooks which I thought I might need because the cutts in this lake can get big and you have to turn them away from snags and logs. The wallet contains scuds... Marabou damsel nymphs... Self bodied Carey specials...

Yes, it's the lake we got skunked on a few years ago.