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@Dave Westburg I emailed the builder and he promptly replied that the rod is an 8ft 3piece 5wt designed for western rivers - built with his own taper. @jact55 Your expertise is on display! The rod builder verified that the reel seat is Koa wood. Which adds a special touch personally since I...

Dave, this was a gifted rod and reel from a generous friend through a Fly Fishing Collaborative auction: it's a J.M Brandt 5wt (unfortunately, I lost the specs on the rod and all that is scribed on the rod is "J.M Brandt no. 551") matched with a modern Hardy Bouglé I don't know much about the...

She's such a competitor (volleyball, track, choir in high school) that after we called the day , she looks over at me and says,"I caught more fish than you"...sheesh, what a dig - I didn't even hardly fish. Thanks for the comments, all.

@Kenneth Yong Cheers! It's my pleasure to share @Matt B Right? Killer tracks. @SculpinSwinger She chose the hat when we visited the shop. Great shop...pour a beer and shop around.

My oldest just finished up her sophomore year at the university. She's been so busy the last couple years that she has been unable to trout fish. Finally, she gave me the green light "Let's go fish, dad". Man, what an honour...I couldn't wait. Plus, I was gonna surprise her by letting her fish...

the St. Patrick Pattern from the 1902 Cork Collection of Salmon Flies Tied in hand fully-gutted to fish. Sláinte!

Just fantastic

Amazing.

I told my pal that I need a photo subject...someone who fishes bamboo and dry flies for steelhead. I guaranteed him a dry fly steelhead. He obliged. Stupid me...I brought the wrong camera lens to the river. So not quite the images I wanted, but one can't be too bummed about dry fly steelhead...

Right on!

Classic Clarkman report! Beautiful. Thanks for bringing us there.

I dig chewed foam!

I have raised winter steelhead on dryflies. The conditions required for success are in such a small window that I don't pursue this method too often in the winter. In comparison, I fish dries all summer and fall because I know I can fool more steelhead than swung wetfly techniques. I am that...

My best session for dry fly steelhead was in water temps that the thermometer registered at 37.8°Fahrenheit. It was a November morning with ice on the banks (and this wasn't in an eastside river historically known for a large native return. It's a hatchery river west of the Cascades). The sole...

Wang in a box? Sounds like an SNL skit

I skate and wake about 97%of the time. A swing just covers more area than dead-drifting when searching for steelhead. There are spots on my homeriver where I know that fish will hold and will take a dead-drift presentation. Atlantic salmon fishing is strong in tradition. Dryfly fishing for...

I agree regarding Dingley. I think his reels are better than Hardy's. Ironically, I also think it's more difficult these days to get a James Reid bamboo than it is to find a Dingley reel.

Dryfly steelheading indeed is a state of mind. I carry 1 or 2 wetflies in my summer steelhead box on the rare occasion that I fish a comeback wetfly (typically, all my comeback patterns are all dry flies) Below are the only 2 boxes that I carry from June-November (I stop fishing for summer-runs...

@Robert Engleheart , @DoesItFloat describes it better than I. It is the "Non-Twist Knot". A couple of dryfly steelhead friends found it on the Deschutes Angler instructional videos and shared it with me. I have landed a very nice Bulkley doe fish with this knot (I wanted to test it on big wild...