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Had my first really good lake session yesterday with some bigger fish. Early it was all about chironomids. I was using black (the one that was in the empty slot) but apparently about any color would have worked. Around 10 the callibaetis started hatching. Fish were rising to them for...

Canada geese sitting in strange spots at Smith Rock recently. Even watching the climbers. Crappy light and just had my cell, but it was fun to watch them. Seemed to be frisky behavior but seems late for that kind of thing - right? We did see a pair with one baby.

AWD and it fits in the garage - built a house 10 years ago and planned ahead! The van has been part of the retirement plan for a long time. At one time I planned to put the canoe on top. I built some contraptions to get it up there, but I couldn't figures out how to get it down by myself. One...

I will 2nd JayB's comments. I have been working on this rig for the last 4 years and have been using it as I go - 38 nights in it so far with most of that being fishing trips. It is sooooo nice to be able to do an overnight trip to a spot that is just a bit too far for a day trip. Many more...

Congrats on your retirement! How are you feeling about it? I am a bit ahead of you. My last day is May 4th. I have been part time the last few years so that means 4 work days left! Very strange feeling when you start deleting thousands of project files off your computer 😳 . Good luck with...

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I think the lists are going to get so long they will not be helpful. You will have 100 different adds for dumbbell eyes - lead, brass, painted, silver, black, large, 3 mm, 1/8"........ Why would I want to search on a material?

you are too fast - I updated my post. What is the point of the drop down list?

I tried to submit and got a message that I didn't enter materials: do I need to add them to the drop down list? I don't see the usefulness of the drop down.

Very cool. I poked around a bit and will add a fly or 2 tomorrow. One filter that might be interesting is the type of food source being imitated - a subcatagory of fly type. Saltwater/crab or coldwater/egg instead of mixing water types and food categories in the fly type filter.

We went once and got lucky. My wife is not a birder but she spotted them after we heard them. Cool quail species down there too - might be my favorite. I was sleeping in the back of my car on a forest road one night and had one wake me up. If memory serves it was a Montezuma.

Have you gone up to Madera Canyon to look for elegant trogons?

We really enjoyed Task. Disturbing story but great acting and enough likeable characters.

Trust me, I have seen more leeches than 99% of fly fisherman. Growing up we camped with a great walleye angler - RIP Ron Erdman. He used leeches as bait. The leeches you can buy in a bait store in MN are twice as big as anything I have seen in Oregon - I keep a good number of LMB and they eat...

Quite honestly I would not call that a leech pattern. I wouldn't call a normal bugger a leech either. Leeches are skinny. I think buggers are so effective cause they move well and trigger a wtf is that response. The only way the fish can find out is to eat it.

Anyone know why some hooks - like the Kona - have curved hook points?

The front is a hollow tie - nayat tho. Paul has a video

Paul Monaghan's flashtail roach is my new goto baitfish pattern. LMB and trout love it. So easy to cast and doesn't foul too bad.

I don't read many books. When my neighbor, Peter Fox, self published a book about his life as a river guide, I had to grab a copy. So glad I did. A big part of fishing in the west is floating rivers. Peter and his friends took it to a different level. He talks a lot about reading the water...

thanks. strung fuzzy fiber in a loop