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What size Carey Special ?

This is the info I need. Thanks guys!

I tried a lot of different hoppers while fishing YNP and the one that worked the best was a bit of a shocker. A Joe's Hopper worked when the others did not. A plain old ordinary Joe's Hopper was the ticket and it is now what I use for all my hopper fishing.

A friend is headed to Diamond Lake (OR) in a few weeks and will be taking his fly gear. I've never fished Diamond so I have no idea what patterns work. I told him I'd tie him some flies for his trip if I found out what I should tie .... thus, I'm trying to figure out what I should tie.

Good grief. The Fall is normally the best time (it can change from year to year) to fish Crane, Lava, Little Lava, Hosmer, Wick, Gold, East and Davis (if there's any water).

Good choice of thread ...

For our trip to Baja we wore PFG shirts and pants and boy am I glad we did. We had to stop each day by noon because it became too hot. Otherwise, what you have lined up is very close to our approach. I still use the PFG shirts during hot days in the PNW.

Sheeesh. I don't think Flipper ever offered fish to his human buddies. I haven't heard of Orcas attacking humans as do sharks. There is no way I'd accept a fish gift from a shark..... (or a bear, mountain lion, rattle snake and especially a tick)

Any team you want can play football in the Pac ... as long as the name of the team ends in "state". Well good. The Pac-2 was a little sparse.

Well hell, gott'a support the team ! 😬

Where's the vise ?

A friend of mine was able to catch cutts with a bare hook at Mann Lake in Oregon. He was a hell of a fly angler and we joked that he could probably catch the trout with just a fly hook. Just for the heck of it he gave it a try and did catch fish. Seems to me if something is at the correct...

If the pieces fit, chances are the mutant rod will cast and fight just fine .... unless one of the rods is an Ugly Stick 😱

We were visiting my Wife's Grandmother in Olympia when the mountain blew. I-5 was closed so we had to take a very long trip down 101 to Astoria. The bridge at Astoria was a traffic jam so it took about an hour just to get across the bridge. While driving from Astoria to Portland we rounded...

it's an atlantic salmon That's what it looks like to me.... 😁

Well ... there ya go... hard to argue with a divine statistic.

Caddis nymphs will use whatever is handy to make their cases. The sand and pebbles seem to make round cases. Pine needles and the like end up as squared off cases. If you put the larva in a habitat that only has aluminum foil for use to make cases, they'll use the foil. If you give...

I'd say tkww is on the right track. Depending where you were fishing (as in the Mckenzie River) it may have been a hatch of "Mckenzie Caddis". Personally, I've never seen a hatch of the Mckenzie Caddis (aka Mother's Day Caddis) but I fish more below Eugene then above it...

As far as a caddis emerger pattern to use goes, there are many, many different patterns to choose from. In theory, a traditional soft hackle in the color of your choice is supposed to imitate a caddis emerger but as usual, sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. I've actually had fairly...

I agree with Evan.