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I bought up a bunch of scientific anglers plain vanilla 15' type III and Type VI spey tips which were on sale and they work great with my 12-14' Sharpes bamboo spey rods. Don't think they are made any more. Scientific anglers now sells a 12' integrated spey tip which I haven't fished. The...

I'm a 15' Type VI guy as well with the exception that I may fish a 15' Type III on certain shallow runs on the Cowlitz to avoid constantly hanging up.

The reel looks terrific! Glad you're fishing it. The sharpes make a nice noise when a fish goes on a run.

Some hefty looking walleye. What's your favorite way to cook them?

Bamboo rods are great for streamers!!!

I like the classic british reels because they are a heavier than the modern high tech reels and balance a bamboo rod well if you are one of those people who like the reel to weigh 1.5 times what the rod weighs. I've orvis battenkill reels for backpacking (extra spools save weight), big JW Young...

Good for you Cliff. The deals are still out there is you look for them. I recently picked up a 3.5" narrow Farlows of London reel which looks like it might have been made by JW Young. The Farlows holdfast logo is faded but still there. Planning to pair it with a 5 or 6 weight 406 double taper...

4 chinook jacks in 18 years vs my 1 chinook jack in 50 years…spill your secret method Paige. :)

I have a book by a UW fisheries biologist and he's found that cutts are 6X more populous than salmonoids in urban streams while salmonoids are 8X more populous than cutts in pristine wild streams. I'd say the stream we are thinking about is more developed as opposed to completely wild...

Did someone say Million Dollar Cowboy bar... My favorite stop in Jackson Hole is Jackson Drugs for a cowboy coffee milkshake, elk burger and tater tots...

In 50 years of fishing that river for cutts i’ve caught 1 chinook jack about 15” and no chinook adults.

Have spent many a fall day on that stream throwing muddlers, silver browns and classic scottish wet flies.

Mike Sturza by the way is an outstanding Cowlitz cutthroat and steelhead guide. Fly fishing only, swinging the fly. I use him several times a year. He also operates a fly shop. https://www.lostcreekflies.com/category/Guiding-144

One of my favorite fisheries. They are hatchery fish so it's OK to keep a few for the grill. I usually fish Blue Creek to Mission Bar. You can also find them in a few spots above Blue Creek. Here's a picture of PNW member @Greg Armstrong playing a cutt in the Blue Creek tailout. Seems like...

Easy to overaccumulate. If I don't use a bamboo fly rod at least once in a year I sell it...

Great looking reels Rudy. Hope this means you're just thinning the herd and not cutting out fishing. I fish the Phillipson Peerless 8' 5 weight rod you sold to me whenever I can. Come out to the northwest some time to sample the fishing.

Well played. Hilarious!

You know you're in Jackson Hole when The Drake Magazine and bear spray are the impulse buys at the checkout counter...

Just spent four days swinging soft hackles for cutts in Jackson Hole. My rod of choice for the snake was a 9' winston bamboo 4.5 ounce 6 weight. It made long casts easy when there was a breeze and also roll casted well when I had a high bank behind.The snake has a reputation as a boat only...

A great selection of bamboo and classic reels. Like you I've been steering away from the small flies which are really hard to tie and difficult to see on the water...