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Update; I was padding the catch numbers on the bobber on local lake when Steve says come on Tom tie on a dry. Of course he makes this suggestion only so he can get ahead of my catch count. I cast the dry to targets and nothing, then I look away and down she goes. OK, you happy Steve? I got one...

Good times last night for sure. I managed to get my dry fly April catch. Bit unintentional but it still counts. Haha. Bobber and casting nymphs on floater was just too effective.

Thank you for the report. Couple summers ago, I took my daughter's boyfriend fly fishing. I nick named his bird nests appropriately after him. "Kasan's". No kidding, I had eight of these to deal with during the day. Think I actually swore at him towards the end of the day. He is thankfully no...

I met a guy named Hardwood Phil last summer on Teal lake. He trolled so fast his pontoon boat was on a plane. He was catching fish though. Guy was a hoot but it looked like a lot of work to me and I was catching just as many fish on the indicator. I will use cast and stripping type III and micro...

BriGuy, we had a little surg in the tugs after you left and then the fish started jumping almost like someone commanded them to jump. Awesome day even for the guy catching sore-backs.

Bummer, I fished dry emerger but failed to connect. They were taking some adults off the surface but as Steve noted it was a Soft hackle day

Still trying to catch one on the emerger. I saw 2 fish rise today and had one long shot with the paraloop emerger. Size 14 splash was my only reward. I did get to test my newly restored 50+ year old pram. Months of hard work paid off with a very functional light weight pram.

I should have been there to meet you Phill. I only live 2 miles from the lake. Glad you sipped my share of Steve's anti-freeze. Hope it kept your feet warmer than it does mine.

Nice one Stacy. Good thing Steve and I use shorter rods. Crap if we used the standard 9 or 10 footers we would rip their poor mouths off.

I like the way you think but Steve would never let me get away with that. I watched him c&r 2 on the dry fly but the first one he missed was so amazing. I was looking right at his fly when this nice fatty swirled the fly only to have Steve pull it out of her mouth. Steve and I both yelled at the...

So close. Fish hit the dry emerger while stripping in the fly. Of course I missed it, Fly was still 20 feet behind the boat so started stripping it again. Fish attacked the fly aggressively and I set the hook way too hard. The 6x popped and just like that she swam away with my paraloop dry...

I hope to get out Wednesday with Steve and hopefully C&R one on a dry but would be happy to just to catch fish on the old type III sink

Knock off that dying crap talk. We still have way to much fishing to do

Wow, you are a much better man than I am. Last July I had a similar experience at a pay for play lake in Canada. Great Callibaetis hatch casting to shore then back out across the drop off, lots of fish. Things were going most excellent until this GUMBA tries to pass me on the shoreward side...

BST is on it and HELL YES! Not only will this old guy paddle his pontoon boat around all winter and freeze his scurvy feet off but I will even catch them on dry flies. My goto Fav is the #14 Paraloop emerger. Orange one fellas.

Great post SilverFly. I showed my wife this thread and we both busted out in laughter mostly aimed at me. I laughed so hard until I noticed you had a bigger pile.

Thank you, You packed a lot of information into that post. Looks like I have some winter reading ahead of me. Steve (Bambooflyguy) sent me down the dark path of bamboo and urged me to purchase a Hardy LRH. I purchased 2 Featherweights, Uniqua and recently purchased the St George. Like you said...

You probably showed me 20 or 30 of these JW Young and Dingley reels on one of the multiple Steve reel tours. They just blended together after looking at so many different reels. Too much fun

Really nice collection. Thx for sharing the pictures. Acquired my first Hardy St George 3" and fished it Thursday. Good reel but just a little heavy for my 6 & 7' bamboo. Looks like I need to research JW Young and Dingley reels because I was not aware of those manufactures.

Brian, Took Steve about a year to talk me into Bamboo. Now the plastic rods just collect dust.