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I use an 8 weight on the trin I would use a 9 weight if that is what I had.

I had an LL Bean reel that looks just like the Thames one and made in England. I wonder if it was the same but re branded

I like braid because of the hum with steel. That said my current setup is steel because I am lazy. Also, with kokanee the hum lets me know the speed went up and I need to slow down.

I have a book called the Fly patterns of umpqua feather merchants with about a thousand flies shown. Have you seen that? If it needs to be illustrations as opposed to pictures I have a book with a zillion drawings of salmon and steelhead flies. If that is what you are after I can check its...

Another starling and herl fan.

Wright’s Royal

I could see it being a cutty. If you look at Dave Westburg’s fish in the bamboo heading, the spotting looks similar.

Another vote for panther martins if we are using spinners. I kinda think that because the blades aren’t on a clevis they seem to spin better after they get bent which seems to happen a lot for me. We use Thomas bouyants mostly tho instead of spinners

Similar: We live in the neighborhood in our now super-gentrified town where you have at least one vehicle in your yard that is non operable. A guy had a ford ranger that was missing the engine and other parts, parked at the edge of the street. I’m guessing someone called the town and complained...

I like clouds and 50s like a lot of you. That weather is pretty rare in interior NorCal tho. I also like the opposite of the weather i just said-the warm evenings of my youth in the mid Atlantic, with fireflies, frogs, and maybe some heat lightning in the background.

My paternal grandfather left Fishtrap WA to join the Navy in I think 1936. He was a submariner in China and then in the Atlantic in World War 2. I recall when I was about 12, we went on a submarine docked in Baltimore Harbor that was the same class he served on in the War. I can still remember...

Do you fish that overhead or with water loaded casts?

Liberty, Loch Raven or Prettyboy? My wife lived in B more off of Hartford road so loch raven was a local

I would love to go electric for sure. No exhaust into the water and (hopefully) I could have a motor that both planes out my boat and can run at 1-1.5 mph. Now I need a trolling motor or I use a drogue. The drogue works but it, with the outboard running, kinda harshes the trolling mellow

I too have been bit by the kokanee bug. Out of interest, as opposed to needing a better option, I started tying my own hoochies out of bucktail on tubes. They work pretty well on our local interior Norcal reserviors. Gotta be pink though IMO

I looked into electric motors for my 14' Klamath. The salesperson said no-go as I would need 300 lbs worth of batteries for a boat that can hold 600 lbs. Not sure if this is applicable to your setup

Yessssssssss!

George the Wonder Springer doing his thing!

I like a size 14 or 16 soft hackle pheasant tail with partridge for the hackle, with some floatant. If the fishing is too far away to see that fly, I hang it off the back of a parachute Adams. Usually the Adams is a strike indicator.

piezometer?