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Fwiw even if you get a fema map you need to really look at it and possibly need to amend it. I was building a trail bridge (actually not building it as our bids came in over the funding we have) and the fema maps missed the creek entirely and showed the floodplain on a bluff 30 feet above the...

My kokanee rods are on 3 weight blanks and when I mess around and cast them with an eighth oz lure the rod is too soft in the middle to launch anything. Maybe better with a spinning reel but with a baitcaster it does not work for me. Fwiw

Do you glue the heck out of the half hitches or do the hood pretty well on their own?

Ok, so I have switched to finishing parachute flies on the post as opposed to the eye. Made this switch about a decade ago and am happy with the durability. Thing is though, I have this unpleasant-to-me gap between the fly body and hackle where I whip finish. The fish don’t seem to care but oh...

I’ll be there this next weekend!

So this and the fly tying thread and thr cooking threads are pretty much why I swing by this site regularly. Puget Sound is amazing and I am quite jelly, even though I live in good trout fishing country! Thanks for posting stories and pix on this thread!!!

How about 45 bucks for the tippet, the Wheatley and the 5 wt SA GPX line

Hi, I have 3 new spools of Umpqua Phantom X Flourocarbon, a nearly new Wheatley fly box with ridged foam, and a used SA GPX 5 weight line for sale. Is 65 bucks shipped a fair price? The GPX is in that RIO gold box. NOTE it is not Rio Gold it is an SA GPX. Sorry about the false advertising!!

I have tried bags but think I bought to big… it kinda pulses in the water and when it fully opens it’s like the brakes get slammed on. We have stumbled when standing. I think it is also because I ran it off the bow cleat because when towing from the stern it kept heading in toward the prop. As I...

this thread got me thinking. I would like a prop that lets me troll around 1 mph with more throttle than just first click on my outboard. I have a 14’ Klamath with an 18 horse tohatsu and it flies. So a prop that makes the boat go slower on both ends of the throttle spectrum is fine by me...

We just named our 14’ Klamath the Aluminum Falcon

We have winter, mosquitos, yellow jackets, smoke, winter for seasons some years!

My neck of the woods… Do you guys ever run Fordyce Creek? Fishing can be good there! My trips are one step less rugged as our little Frontier Pro 4x is also my daily driver and work truck.

I have experience with the new school manufactured homes, not for retirement, but for work. The land conservancy I work for owns a property up at 7600 feet (norcal) on which we wanted to build some ski huts. The ski huts are open to the public and we wanted to have a more ‘European style’...

Famous fly tyer Andy Burk told me, after I tossed a bunch of brittle capes in the trash, to soak capes with brittle feathers in conditioner. He swears by it, although we did not get to which brand or scent. That said, I bought some (no joke) anise flavor conditioner from Frisky Jenny Flies...

I kinda took my retirement on the front end. I worked a ton but in lower paying jobs. (Bicycle mechanic and ski tech in a mountain town). But I made a lot of turns and rode a lot of miles, and my wife had a go at being a professional bike racer. It was cool. I have some regrets as I head into my...

George likes to fish. He is pretty good with rattlers, but eats a dead fish on occasion, which I'm told can be toxic. We go the boat route usually. Oh one other thing... he gets fussy the most about the canoe or boat getting cold. Esp with the canoe, the water cools the hull down...

Mr. George fishing and dreaming about fishing

I have them for a 14’ skiff. If I can get the bow in front of one of them I can get the boat loaded straight in the wind. Pretty happy with them. Also if launching in the dark with my tinted windows I can see the lights atop the poles which is helpful.