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My friend Leonard, the Publisher of Wading List, has a saying, "David, sometimes cheap is expensive." I used to buy mid priced waders from Cabelas. The quality has nosedived and I gave up on them years ago. Couldn't get get a season's use out of them before they start leaking. Bought a pair...

I feel good about the scarf. Here's how it came about. When I bought tne rod one of the rod tips had a repair wrap. When Mark Frey refinished the rod (and he did a good job) he removed the repair wrap and didn't replace it. When I was fishing the rod on the Cowlitz it broke at the tip where...

Your lake drains downstream into a lake which has a population of browns, brooks, cutts and kokanee. Not surprising that some of the browns have run up the connecting river to the lake you fished. I read that a fall spawning survey reported a 30 inch plus brown in the connecting stream.

I could fish year around for all species with different sizes of Hare's ear wet flies. Size 1/0 to size 18. Also maybe a few dry hares ear or parachute hares ear when I want to fish on top.

Visited Twisp for a few days. After a slow morning on the Methow River we went into the foothills to avoid the heat and the innertube hatch. The creek was cool but not so much that wet wading was uncomfortable. I fished a granger 8040 Victory, Cortland Sylk 4 weight double taper on an old...

"Let's go back to the lake in the rocks" said my wife, so today we went back to the lake in the rocks with some friends. The climb in is steep as ever... A mountain goat looked down on us while we were fishing. Lots of rising fish which were happy to take a size 14 black gnat wet fly cast...

Others have missed that trail as well. :)

It's a lovely small stream rod but I'm not giving my 6'9" Constable and 7' Tom Fulk bamboo rods enough use so I figured I'd sell it. If I lived on a jump across creek I wouldn't sell it.

Sharpes Eighty Five Bamboo Fly rod. 8’5”. Two piece, 1 tip. 4.8 ounces. Staggered ferrule so tip is longer than butt section by design. Tip section comes with bamboo plug for us when rod is stored. Yellow thread tipped with red. Rated as a 5-6 weight.Rod end engraved 0.4 along top with 173...

That lake has been on my list to visit. How was the road to the trailhead (can sometimes be sketchy) and how was the waytrail to the lake?

Granger Victory 9660 9’6” 3 piece, 2 tips. 6.2 oz. Prob 1935 granger. Has short coke bottle reel seat. Dates to 1935-1938because of the short 5& 3/4" coke bottle reel seat. Post 1938 grangers used a 7 inch reversed half wells grip. Amber colored ammoniated cane with varnish finish. In...

6'6" Sharpes Scottie Bamboo Fly rod. 2 piece, 2 tips. 2.6 ounces. 4/5 weight. 5 & 1/2" cork grip. Downlocking sliding ring over cork reel seat. Impregnated cane which is impervious to wet and doesn't need to be revarnished. Comes with original Sharpes of Aberdeen bag and an aluminum tube...

Was inspired by @Tom Butler to do some bamboo blue lining. I fished a 6'9" Constable 4 weight and my friend fished a 6' Winston Little Feller 3 weight. Size 14 Royal Wulffs and Yellow Humpies did the trick. Mostly small fish but this pool produced a surprise on a Royal Wulff... Get better...

Tom, is that a brookie or a bull trout?

Nice report. Classic wets and bamboo. That's what it's about.

The black and blae is a winged black pennell. Golden pheasant tippet tail, black dubbed or floss body ribbed with silver tinsel, black hackle and sparse jay or starling wings. I tuck a small box of size 16-18 flies, including black and blae wet flies in my fishing jacket for calm days and...

Just returned from a 4 night stay at Meadow Lakes Fishing Camp. I fished an 8'6 inch Winston bamboo 6 weight and an 8'6" Tom Fulk bamboo 6 weight. My rodmaking friend Doug Moore made a delightful 8' "Meadow Lake" 6 weight bamboo fly rod using a Payne Taper for the trip. The lodge was full...

I prefer double taper floating lines with bamboo. Flexes the cane better. Also like double taper for swinging wets. Easy to mend.

Cooper Lake out of CleElum/Roslyn. Great views. Owhi Campground (22 tent sites only) at lake. Fishing available in lake with boat or float tube(brooks, rainbow, browns and cutts). Plenty of hiking accessible from campground (Pete Lake one way and Cooper River trail the other way from...

Haven't had any problems with the guy who lives next to the launch - or his dogs. He's chatty. I heard that he used to own most of the land around the lake. He sold the land but has the right to live there for life. Someone tried to turn the lake into a hipcamp destination by ploughing a...