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During my steelheading days, I usually fished with someone who was more than happy to take a hatchery steelhead home. In the rare times I fished alone, if I caught a hatchery job I'd usually keep it because I knew lots of folks who would take it off my hands. I figure I paid for the fish...

This sounds familiar. They've always said she could blow again at any time ....

I believe this question was asked in the past but my best producing WB is still what I call The Chestnut: Gold bead head Gold wire rib Black marabou tail Variegated olive/black chenille body Black hackle feather

If they did get two more "State" universities, they could call the conference the Pac- State

The Pac-whatever lives ! It appears that OSU and WSU pulled it off saving the Pac. 👍

Seems to me that the teams of the Pac 2 and doing pretty well so far this season....

I thought the reason for false casts was to dry off the fly ???? There always seems to be a new and improved tool for doing something or other that you don't really need.

Okay, so from what I've read, OSU and WSU (the Pac 2) are seriously attempting to recreate The Pac 12 (or some number of at least 8). They have some monies they got from the Pac 12 and are obtaining donations from who knows who in the endeavor but who the devil can get to join their...

The cat subject reminds me of one of my first flyfishing cartoons published in my famous unknown cartoon book:

Has anyone yet attempted to attach one of the toys permanently to a hook? As someone who once scoured craft and hobby stores in search of new tying materials, I find those cat toys extremely interesting.

I remember one steelhead I caught magically changed into a heck of a large sucker by the time I could see what I hooked.

Ah yes, smallmouth trout. Usually you can move up or downstream from where the whitefish are holding to locate the trout. They don't prefer the same water flow as the whitefish. During the winter months I'll target whitefish when nothing else will play the game.

Well those are all just terrible .... Just to toss in a negative comment. Truthfully, those are very, very good. I've spent most my life around artists and writers and you my friend, are a hell of a talented artist.

Dave Hughes once told me he figured fish look for a reason to eat something, not a reason not to eat it. Which would explain why they ignore the sharpie piece of metal hanging out the butt of a fly and a cable tied on its nose.

I'm going sturgeon fishing Friday, I don't think thread color plays into it. Most likely not.

If a fish is going to totally ignore the hook eye, the bend and point, why would they pay attention to the thread color? Maybe they do. Maybe they don't. I normally try to match the thread color to the body but that's only because that's how I was thought to tie flies. Could we get away...

Me and one of my fly tying buddies decided to build some model insects ... and they did look really nice. Extended body dry flies, almost an exact match stonefly nymph .... they took a lot of time to build but the results were impressive .... Except to the fish. Time and time again a...

Ah yes, Fishing and Hunting News. They tried hot spotting but their reports were terrible. They relied on resorts and local fishing shops for the information on the fisheries. That is why the reports on a specific river or lake would never be below "fair". Usually they inflated the...

Someone in the flytying biz once told me that it is more difficult to produce barbless hooks than barbed ones because the machine that makes the bend uses the barb the barbless variety is more labor intensive... thus more expensive. Of course that was back when barbless hooks first hit the...

Seems fine to me. Unless its always been slow so I don't know the difference ....:oops: