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Bamboo rods are meant to be fished. The last four years that's all I've fished. Winter, summer, salt water, steelhead, mountain lakes, creeks. The impregnated Sharpes bamboo rods are close to indestructible. I'm maybe a little more careful with my varnished Grangers or Winstons or...

Bruce you can have the BC lake book and Fly fishing Nevada book. Send me a PM with your address and I'll pm you the shipping cost.

Hahah. My version is a reprint dating back to the 1970's.

Fly fishing guides and fly fishing books. Free if you pick up in person, Kirkland WA. Otherwise you pay postage. I'm striking through as they go... Trout streams of northern New England published in 2001 Fly fisher guide to Nevada published in 2010 Mid Atlantic budget angler published in...

Short course in coastal cutts: Rocky beaches near a small creek because cutts stay close to home. Avoid north sound beaches in winter because the cutts are in the skagit or north stilly or sky. Watch the wind. 15 mph and less fine. Gusts to 35 mph (like today) are a problem.

Had a fun talk with Ira at the Bellevue Fly fishing show. Booked a meadow lakes fishing trip. Learned about a Yellowstone area Boy Scout camp that rents rooms out really cheap when the scouts aren't there. Bought some fly tying hooks at 50% off. Talked spey lines and flies with Joe Rossano...

I was wondering if you'd put the rod into the dreaded j-curve but it sounds like that wasn't the case. There's an art to playing a big fish on bamboo. Here bamboo master @Greg Armstrong shows how to shortline a sizeable coastal cutt on bamboo... Here I'm looking nervously at the tip of my...

@Chris DeLeone, did you fish a Skagit Mist Spey fly in the skagit mist?

The skagit was on the rise and coloring up yesterday but I went through the motions. Saw a few others braving the rain...

Bill, you are learning from the master!!!

Oh to have been a fly fisherman back then. I read in one of Enos Bradner's books that the Skykomish River sport catch (sport catch, not the total run) was 7,800 fish in 1968...

Dennis, is Afternoon hole the long left hand bend below IRS which flows along US 2? Today the top of the pool has a nice riffle and break. The middle of the pool is a big wide flat (bull trout water). The tail of the pool is very slow and not particularly fishy.

Agree that a type 3 tip or very short line is what you need to do when fishing the riffle head.

Of course you knew about the back channel Curt. Why am I not surprised. :) I also took quite a few steelhead in the long tailout between the back channel pool and thunderbird. Never saw anyone else fishing there. I think they might have been fish getting ready to spawn because I saw redds...

I wasn't the only person who knew about the backchannel pool. Figures that @doublespey knew about it. It was overlooked by most of the boats and gear guys coming down the main channel. The run across from IRS fishes nicely. Isn't it called Jack Daniels? I think the cones were up at the...

Hadn't been on the Sky in years. Drifted Sultan to Ben Howard yesterday to see what the flood did. Firemans is still the same. Two Bit is gone. The entire river goes right and the old left channel is now almost dry. Anyone else ever catch a steelhead at the pool at Rivers End Cattle...

Very impressive. I once saw harry tying in hand at the wa fly show. Remarkable.

It was Harry Lemire Day today. Took my 12' Sharpes spliced fly rod, a 4" Hardy and and some Harry Lemire Patterns to a big riffle. A fair amount of sediment in the water. The Golden Edge Orange looked nice in the sunshine but no steelhead. Stopped by 5B's for a cinamon roll after...

This fish was approximately 20 miles upstream from the salt water.

I put my farlows on Sharpes spliced bamboo fly rods. Have 9', 10', 12', 13' and 14' Sharpes spliced bamboo rods. They are switch and spey casting machines and excel at casting longer belly spey lines. I use the Rio Midspey, Barrio switch, Bridge Wintertide and Carron spey lines.