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Looks like you got into some nice fish, thanks for sharing! I'm on my way home today but unfortunately couldn't get a layover in MT... Will get a proper trip report posted in the next day or two. It's a shame about all of the flooding in MN. The water still looked very high yesterday driving...

Those look good to me! Are you throwing the pike flies on an 8-9wt? Sure hope the flooding gets better in a hurry! It looks like the whole region, well up into Canada, is experiencing flooding to varying degrees. A handful of ties from last night:

Those are all in the neighborhood for sure, ought to consider change your handle to Northern Ontario!

We'll be on and around Red Lake for the week. Does your annual trip take you up near there? I've been once before but it's been about fifteen years and at the time I was exclusively fishing gear. Hoping to learn some new tricks this time around! I had guessed I might want to fish a quick...

What's your retrieve look like when you're fishing the shallows?

Almost forget about mosquitos here in WA, thanks for the reminder!

Yeah I saw reports about the late ice-out this year. I am hoping that will encourage some fish to hold in shallower water than they otherwise would in June but we'll see what happens. In any case, I'll have a couple of fast sinking lines with me to dredge bottom if need be. Regarding pike, do...

A bit of thread hijacking, but does anybody know if Emerald Water will be bringing back their tying classes anytime soon?

Does anybody here have experience targeting walleye in stillwater that they'd like to share with a newbie? I have a trip to a northern Ontario lake coming up in a few weeks and am trying to get prepared as best as I can. I've been tying up clousers and leech patterns and plan to bring a 6wt...

That's the plan minus the killing part.

A few #8 & #10 Clousers for the coming weekend.

Confirming there were chum fry at a south sound beach this morning.

I like the sushi board idea presented in this article, maybe with the addition of some low profile nubs to keep line from sliding around.

So what do you think of the 10 footer? Do you notice the difference when you're out in your tube?

I'll give it a shot the next time I'm out on the water. When you strip line, are you tossing it over the side of the boat or dropping it between your feet?

I'm typically fishing a 9ft 6wt. Does the extra foot make a big difference?

The apron I have works well enough for shorter casts. Problems with coiling occur when I have more line off of the reel. It probably doesn't help that I've recently been out in lower air temps, around 40f.

Are you still able to shoot some line with this method? I imagine you would be fighting quite a bit of drag with any amount of sinking line hanging down in the water.

It's certainly better than nothing, but yeah, I tend to start having problems once I get head plus 15 or so feet of running line off of the reel. Coils in the line start to catch on each other and knot up, even with a good stretch.

How are you all managing your stripped/running line in a float tube? I've got what I believe is called the 'LCS' stripping apron for my Super Fat Cat and can just tolerate it, but there must be better options out there. Is anybody making a linekurv style basket (hard plastic nubs) but in a...