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Tom, is that a brookie or a bull trout?

Nice report. Classic wets and bamboo. That's what it's about.

The black and blae is a winged black pennell. Golden pheasant tippet tail, black dubbed or floss body ribbed with silver tinsel, black hackle and sparse jay or starling wings. I tuck a small box of size 16-18 flies, including black and blae wet flies in my fishing jacket for calm days and...

Just returned from a 4 night stay at Meadow Lakes Fishing Camp. I fished an 8'6 inch Winston bamboo 6 weight and an 8'6" Tom Fulk bamboo 6 weight. My rodmaking friend Doug Moore made a delightful 8' "Meadow Lake" 6 weight bamboo fly rod using a Payne Taper for the trip. The lodge was full...

I prefer double taper floating lines with bamboo. Flexes the cane better. Also like double taper for swinging wets. Easy to mend.

Cooper Lake out of CleElum/Roslyn. Great views. Owhi Campground (22 tent sites only) at lake. Fishing available in lake with boat or float tube(brooks, rainbow, browns and cutts). Plenty of hiking accessible from campground (Pete Lake one way and Cooper River trail the other way from...

Haven't had any problems with the guy who lives next to the launch - or his dogs. He's chatty. I heard that he used to own most of the land around the lake. He sold the land but has the right to live there for life. Someone tried to turn the lake into a hipcamp destination by ploughing a...

Iceland. Wide open spaces... Brown trout... Sea-trout... Artic Char...

There are wild reproducing trout in the high altitude cold-waters streams of Koke'e State park.

But have you caught trout in Hawaii. I understand there are trout in a couple high mountain streams in Kaua"i.

Yes. I buy the skins from the uk. They are a little bit brighter and more brilliant than dyed blue guinea. I also like to use jay feathers for wings

The lovely and talented Mrs Westburg accompanied me on a trip to an alpine tarn. One of the steeper pitches on the way in. There were snowbanks along the shore. I fished my Granger 8642 bamboo rod, 5 weight intermediate line, a claret bumble and a golden olive bumble and found quite a few...

Haig-Brown often fished two flies in BC. Here's a passage from Western Angler: "Over several seasons on the Nimpkish, I fished two flies on a cast, one of them a dark fly, such as Greenwells Glory, the other bright, full-dress, salmon fly, Torrish, Silver doctor, or Durham Ranger. I found that...

Here's a picture of the sliding band reel seat versus your uplocking seat. Your rod also has a cigar handle reel seat and mine has what I think is called a half wells.

Tom,my fly rod has the same blanks and maroon wrappings as yours but the stripper guide is round, there's a sliding band reel seat and the label is different. One of the nice features of the Sharpes fly rods is they put little red dots on the ferrules so you can line up the guides when...

Summer has begun. The Tom Butler fly fishing posts have started. Your cortland 444 rod was built on a Sharpes Impregnated bamboo blank. They did this in the late 60's and early 70's. Hence the "made in england" and the maroon wraps. I own a 7'6" Norm Thompson by Farlows rod which looks like...

I always carry flying ants in my lake dry fly box. I need them about once every 5 years but when there's an ant fall the dry fly fishing is spectacular. The pattern I use comes from a Michael Fong article in Outdoor Life in May 1970. The article was titled A Fly For All Seasons. You pull...

I fish a 15' 6 or 7 weight sink tip when I'm fishing for bull trout with my 9' winston 4 and 7/8's or 10' spliced Sharpes or 9' Phillipson 5 and 5/8's. I started down the classic streamer trail by fishing sparsely dressed mickey finns for north stilly cutts. Some of the classic featherwing...

@speyflyfisher , we were using a new and an old wilderness lite. The newer wilderness lites have velco which secures the seat... My wife sewed some straps to the older wilderness light to keep its inflatable seat from sliding up. If you aren't happy with the inflation value you can pull...

Great looking flies. The dubbed body Black Pennell gets better the more fish it catches, especially if you use seals fur or a rough dubbing material which will fluff out as it's chewed on.