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This is why the “do nothing approach” to indicator fishing is only a small part of my game plan. I progress through a series of retrieve techniques to discover what the fish want. I rarely ever fish the naked approach, not because it doesn’t work better, but more because I want to watch the...

It is an indicator…😂

No full sleeve, but my tattoo artist would like that. It started with the indicator. The sculpin, fly and line were all together and were a plan for a long time.

Thread and the past its prime Gorilla Glue. 😁

All me Roper!

Good idea. Looking at juvenile perch and other species like fat heads, black and white seemed to match best to match the profiles out there.

I’ll let you know after January.

Sculpin under an indicator is worth 4 any other method.

Actually kind of a mix, but I believe it was a shortfin model with some stag in there.

A tier named Curtis Kauer on the Facebook group Panfish On the Fly shared a technique of using safety pins versus straight pins to create balanced minnow patterns. I played around a bit with it. The first picture shows the skeleton of the pattern and the second shows a completed pattern...

This really is a great idea by the WDFW!

Would you consider a mini swap? I’ll tie up a dozen of my favorite Stillwater bugs and swap you. If not, put me down for the offer. There are a couple that I want to look at closer.

Out of 8 billion people on the planet, I’d be surprised about anyone having any unique thoughts, but those upper Columbia steelhead are very trouty and as such tiny nymphs and yes chironomids work great on them. So does just about anything else.

Searuns seem to be stupid carnivorous gluttons. Yesterday I landed fish on 6 different flies, from a muted Rickards Stillwater bug, to a flashy Kreelex pattern.

I’m in for $80

Not me, if you know me at all, you know that I want more people fishing with me, not less. Bring on the crowds!

Is this a Douglas Sky rod? If so, is it possible that it is named something else?

I gave up on “tradition” before I ever started fly fishing. Does it look like food? If a fish thinks so, I don’t care what I’m fishing on the end of my line.

I deal more in multi colored foam, so I don’t think it was me.