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Small rod, Small fish, small unpressured streams, simple wading in shorts and wading boots my fav kind of fly fishing. Seeing a native cutties shoot up in crystal clear water, hit small dry fly on way up, do a few barrel rolls or back flips in the air, then inhale the fly on the way down is...

A Seattle mountain steam produced 15 inch rainbow for me on Saturday. First time in this river this season. High water in off season destroyed some fav old pools wile creating new ones. Caught this fish in a new to this season pool. There used to be more delicious runs when I started fishing...

Wow, that was not there a few weeks ago. Every campground had a warning of flash floods due to unstable soil from Forrest fires

. Forget your spin gear. Fishing this good with dry flies makes subsurface boring. This "bow and Arrow" cast got me into many tasrly looking buckets holding aggressive dry fly fish, smaller streams than depicted by Mt. moen in you tube

See the recreation director at Sun Mountain Lodge. He has Intel on small stream methods and flies. He also guides the Methow if you plan on hitting that. His flies attracted many little chompers. Buy a lot, cause you will loose a lot in low overhanging brush and trees. I had a blast and...

Fished only one day and found excellent 2 wt stream far up in mountains. 6 to 8 inch cuties hit dry flies like that had never seen em

I found a car camp spot on a wed a few weeks ago at Fall creek ch. It was most excellent. Burbling creek relaxing sounds in tent at night. Outhouse fairly clean and full of TP. Campsite including fire pit clean no wrappers or debris. Cannot beat it for $15 bucks per night. Thurs and Friday...

White haired beards with 70 s leather riding gear all over town for Norton motorcycle Ed vents

Downtown Winthrop most delightful

Caught and released many native cutthroat on flies I bought from recreation director at Sun Mountain Lodge. He was excellent source of knowledge on where to fish 2 wt I'm small streams, plus listed off raft/ boat launches along the Methow.

Great time in Winthrop. Scored a UDFS campsite along a river that was closed to fishing.

Yeh - definitely tricky finding open water. My head spins. So many the good looking small streams. Tricky trying to figure out if they are open , closed or partial open. My old dog eared Delorms map is a big help in addition to Google maps.

My plan to row the Grande Rhond in NE Oregon fell thru last min. Grand Rhond is on my bucket list to try. Another bucket list is trout on the Methow River system. 2 goals for this trip. 1. Preview drift boat launches on the Methow. RWD van not good for steep rough launches. 2. Relax car...

Tom, what year was your rod built? I am ignorant of glass or bamboo classic rods

Wow. Great story and pics! Thank you. And that knot solves a problem that I did not know we all could have. I will try it next time I throw big flies on the Yakima. It looks so simple, easy to tie quickly

Ok caught a nice fat perch yesterday in a lake near I caught a fat perch yesterday on a lake near Maple Valley. Not sure if it is a yellow perch as I am not up on differences in warm water species. It hit on an olive bead head clouser that has huge red eyes. Water temp was about 65 degrees...

Finally got lucky on topwater early this morning. 16 inch bass

Finishing bending tabs tight with mallot.

Starting to bend tabs down with pliers

Using C clamp to compress spring and hold clip in place