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When you are dead drifting with a spinning rod, you have the bail open, and line is being pulled out off the reel. The line is just dumping off with slack though. If your bobber goes down, you have to engage the bail, reel in your slack, and then set the hook. With the centerpin rod, the...

It was the original "spinning" reel, before the Mitchell. If you didn't want to use a baitcaster or a fly rod, it was your other main option. It wasn't just used with a bobber, people threw spoons and other lures with it. I'm sure the main reason it fell out of favor was it's 1:1 retrieval rate.

They used to have one, for the Euro/UK market, a hover/int. Their salmon/steelhead lineup has suffered since the ownership change. Could be manufacturing issues, or maybe nobody in Colorado fishes for steelhead. Don't know what the deal is, nobody has stepped forward to set the record straight...

I coulda sworn that Aquaz was the same manufacturer for Patagonia's waders.

Never fished the Methow, so I'll just hang back and watch the addicted video after it closes.

I have a pair of G3's I'm trying to squeeze the last bit of life out of after almost 10 years. I'm now trying to decide between Patagonia and Grundens.

Are there a lot of sound rivers that remain open to trout in WA? I see giant cutts as steelhead bycatch on IG in the winter (I've also seen some large cutts), but the OR coast is closed to trout fishing, that is what stops me. I guess you could "swing for steelhead" and throw big natural...

I don't really get it. If you are using 10 or 12 feet of full t-material, the butt end of the sink tip pulls the tip of the floating skagit head down anyway, so it seems like the same effect. Feels like one of those things that was dreamed up to create another SKU or had too much time to think...

Feel free to share the successful technique! I know it's been discussed before.

Talking to myself again, I asked a local shop about it, and their answer was that it is more of a flycraft competitor (also mentioned that people usually sell their flycraft and get something wider/bigger), and they thought it was pretty narrow for Oregon rivers. Tubes are also smaller than an...

Dunno, seems kinda bad we're living through this and it's either our fault, or we are exacerbating things at the very least. The "cycle of life" evolved after the Chicxulub meteor, too.

They are in there for sure, all the way up to the dam (over 800 wild coho this month). I seent 'some for sure. There's gotta be some up to eagle creek. Edit: Whoops, I'm talking about the Clackamas here, not the Sandy.

I would try stripersonline message board. Someone on there might have one.

Nope, I just had this one. Rod is sold by the way.

I don't fish above bonneville for coho, but I just checked the counts, and uh, it's looking pretty, pretty good...

The one person approach looks pretty comparable to an outcast or watermaster (it is a couple of inches narrower). It looks like the slipstream might be a more capable raft (wider) if you are rowing heavier water. The lack of talk could be because they cost twice as much. Does seem to have nice...

My daughter found a feather in our neighborhood that I'm pretty sure was from a western-screech owl (we have a pair that regularly nests on our block). It had long and webby fibers kind of like a mallard flank. Not a barred owl, but like any owl, I bet they wouldn't be stiff enough. You'd need...

Looks like you're doing great! Just don't start fly-fishing for steelhead and you'll continue to be happy!

The intermediate poly is clear, and it's a steelhead rising to a swung fly, so I bet it doesn't matter that much. I just throw 5-6 feet on there because it gives me enough to change a couple of flies, and seems to turn over adequately. The poly provides all the stick. Ends up being 6+ feet with...

Man, I would love to catch a bobber coho with a bead on my pin rod. I've never been successful doing it, but I have caught them nymphing glo-bugs for some reason. It was a small creek though.