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The guides are in good shape. No rust. The ferrules fit nice and tight. Thanks for the input! Any thoughts about whether I should fish it? Is it likely to be brittle at this point?

Hi All. I'm hoping for a bit of insight from this group on a rod that I received from my father. He used it when he was a kid (1940s/1950s), but it hasn't seen use since. There are no markings on the rod or the tube. My dad thinks that it may have been made by his fly fishing mentor and uncle...

Very cool! I know that they eat flowers, but we were too late in the season for them. I'll probably time my next trip around more optimal Machaca fishing.

I didn't get a chance to surf, it was mostly a visit with some friends in the area, but I did do some diving, which was fun. Would love to go back. Beautiful country and wonderful people. My wife and I are working to improve our Spanish for the next trip.

We were in Guanacaste, in the northwest of the country.

Thought I'd pass along a short report from my recent trip to Costa Rica. I spent a day fishing in the jungle for Machaca with a friend. As it turned out, we were a few weeks early for prime Machaca fishing, but we got a few fish and had an interesting, fun day on the water. These fish are a lot...

Headed to Costa Rica in two weeks I already posted a question earlier about a weekend on the upper Pitt River in BC in July. If that works out, probably will do a longer trip next year. August will be ten days in western BC for trout. Otherwise, out for trout in small BC and WA streams whenever...

Thank you for the insight. I'm thinking about building or buying a 7 wt. I got rid of my old 7 wt. XP a few years back, and I've got a reel and spools with 7 wt. lines just sitting there. So need to figure out which way to go.

So how does the 8 wt glass cast? Where would you rate it between noodle and broomstick?

I also have an Orvis Silver label, an 844, that I still use. It recently had a crazy trip from getting lost at SeaTac to being found and delivered back into my hands thanks to a business card that I had put into the tube, an honest guy at a resale shop, and my friend who goes by @the_chemist who...

First thing I said to my wife this morning: Days are getting longer now!! It's a big deal for us here in the PNW. Always has been.

Worst Christmas song ever. Perhaps worst song of all time: Christmas Shoes by NewSong. When my kids were growing up, every time we heard the opening notes on the radio, one of them would scream "shoe song!!" and turn the radio off for at least five minutes.

Here's sort of a listen/watch thing here. Just watched "Randy Bachman: Every Song Tells a Story", I think on Netflix (I'm in BC, but I assume it's also available in the States). He walks through a bunch of songs from his Guess Who and BTO days, telling their stories and playing them with his...

OK, great. Thanks. We'll stick with the plan, at least for this year.

Thanks, ABITNF, for the input. Our time on Pitt lake will only be in transport, so hopefully we can get out of the weather on the boat. Does anyone think that we are making a mistake going at this time of year. I know that I'll be between the steelhead and salmon runs, but was hoping there's be...

OK, thanks for the input. I'll have that discussion with the guide when we are there.

I live in Vancouver BC, so it's a potentially great resource if I can figure out how to get a couple of epic weeks every year for just the cost of a round-trip jet boat shuttle each time.

We hired a guide and are staying in a cabin. They provide transport to and from the upper river and will guide us for a couple of days. We bring our own food. My hope is to figure it out enough so that next time I can just hire a ride up and back (there are a couple folks who do that) and camp...

Thanks, Evan. That high barrier to entry means that we need to book ahead, so no good way to judge the conditions. We'll need to get lucky on the weather, but it's our first time up there so at least we'll start to figure it out. Either way, should be a bit of an adventure.

Anyone fished the upper Pitt River in British Columbia? I'm planning a trip with a couple of friends in mid-July. Anyone had any experience there at that time of year? My understanding is that we'll largely be targeting sea-run bull trout, maybe some early salmon. But I'm also wondering about...