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I wonder @oakbrookjeff, how, where and for what your friend intends to fish? Take your friend to a fly shop and have the shop string up a few rods for your friend (and for you to check out as well).

Those are some beefy (good) lookin' boots! (Back to @FlyHunt - worth checking out and their fins look very interesting too.)

I use Force Fins with the bungee straps @Bruce Baker suggests. Your profile says home is Olympia; may I suggest you go to a shop or two and look at fins? And @clarkman is right, with Force Fins, you most likely will wear neoprene type booties which SUCK for long hikes (that's what float...

This is listed on facebook marketplace, Quincy, WA. Very nice boat, lots of extras. https://www.facebook.com/share/1DCJ4Hzd6Y/

Not nearly enough time ….

One of the fly shops closed?

Yes it is an upgrade(and no). I do appreciate the upgraded technology in the Striker 4 compared to the Humminbird 120 and 140C that I "traded in"; it's the sidescan function of the two Humminbird units that I miss.

Kinda like your idea of the dropper tippet jammin' against the top flies loop knot. When I'm fishing the QR indicator with a leader that's long (long to me is +15' to tops 25'), I often add a split shot to the tippet above the top fly (I tie a surgeons knot into that tippet so the split shot...

Kinda what I figured, looking forward to your trip report and awesome photographs!

An unusual assortment for Crater Lake...... ;-) Very nicely done.

Trade you some rain for the wind we keep getting............

Yup. Three of us met Bruce Southern at the (then) fly shop in Logan Lake where my friend Keith hired Bruce to show us around the area. Bruce met us at Lac Le Jeune and noticed me tying on a dropper. He said "Oh, I see you're fishing a $150.00 cocktail". I asked him what he meant, he said...

WOW! After reading your post, I dumped my wire grill brush. I guess I'll use @Salmo_g's method.

And sometimes (perhaps more often than "sometimes") that trailing fly snags on the fish you're fighting.... (which may be why it's illegal to fish two flies on one "pole" in BC).

I used to tie to the bend of the hook on the upper fly, I don't fish barbed flies so I did lose the lower fly and tag often enough to switch to a loop knot tied to the eye of the upper fly. It works for me.

I really love the picture taken looking up through the trees with their tops shrouded in fog. Very nice!