Recent content by Skagittarius

What?! Blasphemy! Where's my virtual battery to throw at you! I completely agree with comment about the sound of a rink. There's nothing like being on or near the ice with top level players. Those guys just rip up rec sheet ice when skating hard. That noted, there's also nothing in the...

I had the same set-up. Just wait for the spring gremlins! Figuring out what worked 5 months before and doesn't anymore. The year before I moved my boat's radar dome somehow got filled with water. I could hear the aperture rotating and pushing water before it died. The boat was covered by a...

And disregard that cloudy water line 10-20 feet from shore. Nothing to see here.

Late to this thread but now is prime time. In a boat during normal wind/tide conditions my preference was to drift downwind on the shoreline and use my bow mount trolling motor to maintain distance to shore and position the boat so that bow and stern anglers could effectively cast to shore...

My home base for 24 years. Conservation restrictions notwithstanding - collectively those fish were dreadful biters even in "good" years. It blows my mind that dudes are spending $100K on sleds to fish that watershed. Sucks for them.

Light 'em up:

If you can find crystal wrapz (by spirit river) it's the perfect intermediate material before that wrap.

Yep. I would use that behind Ex large double tip wrapped marabou on winter SH flies to enhance the profile and build bulk without getting the natural and artificial fibers tangled.

I grew up spending my summers on the South Jersey coast. After baseball season my folks dumped me off at my grandparents place in Cape May and I spent those summers fishing alone on jetties ("rock piles" as my father called them). Rod and gear in hand, I used to pretend that I was an eagles...

So sad. 20+ years ago my summer afternoon routine would typically involve signing off early for the day, hopping in the truck with my 7wt, driving up to Cicero, walking the Whitehorse trail a mile up to just below Flying T ranch, crossing the river and fishing that "trampoline" run. It was a...

Yes. Put in at Taylors Falls.

Saint Croix River Fall fatty. This was one of the hardest fighting fish I've ever hooked. My buddy who was on the oars handed me a Murdich minnow he tied up and a few minutes later got this monster. I grew up fishing smallies on the Delaware, Schuylkill, and Susquehanna but never crossed...

If you need to move up to a heavier gear in the future, I've got an old-school reel you can have for an 'old kid'. It's a vintage early 50's L.W. Holmes Salmon reel. It's got a funky clutchless, bidirectional drag and doesn't have an exposed spool so unfortunately you can't palm it. But I...

This soundcheck is pretty famous in Phish land. So glad it was recorded...