Recent content by MT_Flyfisher

Your problem made me wonder whether it’s the same store that I had a problem with awhile back. Here was the issue I had there: “I experienced the WORST customer service today at a store in our town. I don’t want to mention the name of the store because I’m not sure how to proceed. Yesterday...

Daniel - Thank you for sharing that story. You will surely cherish those reels and those memories as the years pass by. My great grandparents on my father's side emigrated to the US from Switzerland in the late 1800’s, ultimately settling close to the banks of the Allegheny River in NW Penna...

The wing is Pearl Krystal Flash, and the body is SLF Pearl Prism Fiber, tied in a dubbing loop. You could use Ice Dub, but I’m a big fan of SLF, which is finer and softer than Ice Dub, and I think it gives more motion, simulating life underwater. I tie them mostly in a size 12 heavy wire...

I catch more large fish coming out of the lakes on this fly in the Fall than I do on any of the well known popular patterns.

In planning your trip, keep in mind that a number of the campgrounds in the area typically close for the season at the end of September.

I don’t know if the original owner died, or something else happened to him. But based on the age of those items, together with how well they were packed and taken care of, a good guess might be that he died, and as you say that’s very sad if that was the case. One of my son’s is in the real...

A friend of my wife, who knows that I do lots of fly tying and fishing sent these 2 videos to my wife yesterday that show an incredible amount of fly fishing and a fly tying items, plus many other valuable things that were in an abandoned storage locker that a guy reportedly bought for just over...

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If anyone is thinking of buying Apple Air Tags, they’re on sale right now on Amazon:

I owned 6 Ford trucks between 2000-2022, including 3 F-150’s, and a F-250, F-350 and a F-450. The last 2 F-150’s I had were 3.5L Ecoboosts. I had another 2022 3.5L Ecoboost F-150 on order for a year when Ford was not able to get the chips and other parts (the same as other manufacturers) to...

Bob - They are nice nets, but I think they are on the heavy side. My suggestion would be to go to a fly shop that has the model in stock that you’re thinking of buying. Put something that weighs a couple pounds in the net. Hold the net out in front of you with that weight in it to simulate...

Technically, I didn’t get it for Christmas since I’ve had it for more than 30 years, but I never took it out of my rod rack, cleaned it up, and discovered just what it was until Christmas Eve. My father-in-law had this rod in the attic at their summer home on Chautauqua Lake in New York...

Yes, it is beautiful, and very uniquely marked I think.

A pretty PA Brookie.