Recent content by Wilderness Medic

Shouldn't their adipose fins be clipper though?

I'll be damned... Never expected they would stock a small creek way out there but you were right. Stocking record of 1500 "fine spotted yellowstone cutthroat." That's crazy... There were so many they looked way overcrowded in the shallow water. Like little sharks with there fins sticking out...

How can you tell? That would be strange if they were. I was waay out in the middle of nowhere fishing a tiny creek that only went another mile or two before dead ending up the draw.

Went to a new area and had a good experience. Is this a cutthroat, and a cuttbow? The bottom doesn't look like any rainbow I've caught before.

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Selway? Was just up there and had a blast. A local guy said the water was about to get too hot and put them to sleep. Is that how it works?

So it should be gtg? It's not some type of metal that snaps after getting bent back and forth a little?

Remember how I said I have horrible luck? Well after searching around I only found one CT so I drove 30 minutes away and bought it. Got home to pull it out to practice and one section was jammed into the tip line guide and bent. Whether I bent it while pulling it out or if it was bent from when...

Dang. Glad I asked. I'm pretty sure they weren't mistaking them. But I'll make sure to return them safely from now on. Thanks.

A couple years ago I met a group of fly fisherman on a river and joined them. They told me that mountain whitefish were invasive and to throw all of the ones I caught on the bank. After Googling them it sounds like they are a native species and I cant find anything about them being bad. Were...

I'll definitely give that a try next time. But FWIW the only thing that changed was the fly and maybe an inch or two of the same tippet tying on the new one. I had something that looked like a royal coachman with red and green that they loved. Oddly enough, looked like no bugs around. After...

Well that certainly explains my lack of success in years prior with a "take this bug or nothing" approach. Haha

Very cool and I wish I had done it sooner. I've done a lot of river diving looking for gold in California where I did all my previous fishing with nearly zero luck. It was rare to see a rainbow so I figured that's just how few of them there were everywhere if they weren't biting.

Is this experience I had with the same trout suddenly refusing similar flies something you guys have experienced? I thought as long as it was pretty close they wouldn't care. But it sure seemed like they were that incredibly picky. Fish and fish came up and veered off at the last second with...

Quick shout out to Lamson, they contacted me offering a replacement. So if Cabelas didn't honor the warranty they would have.