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I'll bring three Tom Fulk Fly rods: a 7' 5 weight, a 7'6" 5 weight and an 8'6" 6 weight.

Took my Granger 8642 bamboo 5 weight through the forest to a foothills lake today. Nice to walk through the shaded woods with temps in the 60's... Beautiful purple flowers on the boggy edges of the lake. And enough thick shouldered cutts to keep things interesting. There was no hot fly...

Count me in. I'll bring along some of bamboo rods I just purchased from Tom Fulk's estate.

Am a huge fan of Norman Maclean. How could I not be? He fished a Wright and McGill Granger Champion 9' 6 weight bamboo fly rod. His father fished a Leonard bamboo rod.

He was supposed to be one of the best at fiberglass.

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Phil K and I walked about 3 miles on old logging roads to a wild coastal cutthroat lake in the foothills. Phil is looking for mushrooms. I fished a Phillipson 8'6" 5 weight and a sinking line. Best fly was a size 12 Black Pennell fished right into the stumps and snags on the bank... Dark...

Good point mike. I can do may 2 or 3. Sundays are actually a little better for me than Saturdays.

The good news is that the Cowlitz winter hatchery run exceeded the 10 year average this March. The bad news is that Tacoma city light pushed the water level up from about 5,000 cfs in the first week of March to 15,000 cfs for most of March when the run peaks. It's still above 10,000 cfs...

Count me in. Saturday May 2 and Saturday May 9 are wide open for me.

The Battenkill Disc reels are workhorses. Nice tolerances, good adjustable drag,you can change from right to left-handed by simple pulling off and turning over the gear. Easy to change spools and easy to clean. I bring a 7/8 Battenkill Disc with 6 weight floating, intermediate and full...

Visited a foothills lake today which has just been stocked with 900 rainbow. I fished a 9' Payne 6 weight and a wallet of wet flies. My friend Doug found fish with an 8' 4 weight rod based on a Payne Taper. I found fish in the shallows just off the shore with an intermediate line and a...

@Smalma, I still enjoy fishing many of the lakes Bradner talked about in Northwest Angling...Pass Lake, Prices, Lake Isobel, Cottonwood, Knouff. Cutthroat Meadows washed out and is now a long hike behind a gate on Weyerhauser property. I also enjoy Bradner's Inside on the Outdoors, a...

I've enjoyed visiting many of the places in Bob's book. The steelheading is not what it was but the trout lakes are still fishing well...

I'll take it if it's still available.

Sorry to hear. Mark worked on a couple of my bamboo rods. I also bought some reels from him. Whenever I picked up any rods he worked on we always spent an hour or two in conversation on his little house in the woods.

@Para_Adams, whatever happened your 8'6" Winston? Still in your possession? I was casting my Winston bamboo 8'6", 6 weight, 4 and 5/8's today and realize why it costs 3 times more than most of my bamboo fly rods. I picked up three more bamboo fly rods this week from Tom Fulk's widow. They...

A great idea curt. Most of us carry phones on the water to take pics. I use the fishWA app to keep track of the regs and the Gaia app to figure out river access. It would be very easy to have a fish catch app to in which you record your catch. This would provide real time info to the dept...

You know it's spring when you can see Giant stoneflies (Pteropnarcys California) emerging on the streamside foliage. Look closely at the branch...

Yakima LoadWarrior medium sized cargo basket with cargo net. Mounts on the roof of your car. We had this on our Subaru Outback but sold the car. $300 cash or venmo or PayPal, pickup in Kirkland. 25 lbs. 44 inches long by 39 inches wide by 6.5 inches high. Here's a link to the...