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The owner of the company is pretty amazing. @FlyFishDan works with him and might be able to give you more information about bulk buying. As for painting them to make them easier to see, I’ve come to terms with the idea of not yucking someone else’s yumm, and the idea is not any more weird...

I still tie some with pins.

Once I first saw a jig hook, they became my hooks for balanced leeches. The Ahrex are great hooks.

In my “humble” opinion, balanced/jigged patterns fish better as point flies under indicators than non balanced patterns. Both will work but balanced/jigged will provide a better horizontal profile when sitting static, thus more likely mimicking what they eat. I don’t balance/jig my top...

Then UConn had to go and ruin it on the women’s side. 3 number 1s and a number 2…

All number 1s! That is kinda cool!

On a side note, daphnia should not be ignored. I’ve heard people complain about finding daphnia in throat samples, thinking that the fishing will be a bust. If the fish are on daphnia, it is likely that the daphnia is all that is available. They will eat other offerings, but you have to...

There are not as many species of daphnia as there chironimidae, but they do differ about the same. Different colors do exist.

Just that, a leather sheath. Sorry no knife inside.

Rod socks, a reel case or two, wader bag, fly tying tool, neoprene boot inserts, a clothes pin… STH spools and top, don’t know where the bottom is, one spool has an unknown floater and the other an unknown sinking line. Lines are used 6wt Type 5 that broke about 20 or so feet up from the...

Unfortunately, we are hosting a family dinner tomorrow. I do appreciate the effort to try to wrangle the cats though.

Tom, that could be the same leader…

Pro Tip, to really set your flies up for success and to give them a little more action in the water, you should consider a spring/coil leader system. Or, it might be time for me to replace my leader, one or the other.

I’m so bummed I wasn’t the one who caught the perch.

Fly line! I use the peg as another visual level for takes.

Yes but not by much. I use heavy flies most of the time that counter that potential issue. Couple that with sensitive, pear shaped, dual colored indicators, and the extra distance and ease of casting I gain far out weigh the slight change in full vertical leader.

On a side note. I highly recommend drilling out your pegs so they can easily slip over your knots.

1X is thick, and as such could mess with the way that your fly sits, but might also be too much for line shy fish. As for my set up, I use either a 12’ or a 15’ knotless tapered leader that ends in 2X. From there I add 3X fluorocarbon long enough to reach where I want me top fly to fish.

There is like $120 bucks worth of chironomids alone in there! What a freaking bargain!

Totally worth the read! Thank you.