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Phil, I'll take the Perrine 90 and the hook threaders if they are still available. Will barter you some wet flies. :)

They can but are surprisingly resilient. I've used them to top wings on magog smelt streamers and supervisor streamers and the peacock herl lasts about as long as the wings. It's way easier to get it to sit on top of a hairwing as opposed to the very narrow top of a hackle wing.

When the snow hits Whitehorse Mountain it's time to grab my 9' 7 weight Phillipson, Farlows President reel, a 15' sink tip line and a streamer wallet and start looking for bull trout. Hard work busting the brush to the river.. A very slow day but I managed to land one bull trout in a soft...

Used Patagonia fly fishing wader/boot bag. Well worn from trips to Alaska, BC and the Driftless but a great way to transport waders and boots in the car. Free if you pick up in Kirkland.

Am a huge Fan of the JW Young Martin Thistles. The line ring gives them some extra weight which helps balance my big sharpes bamboo spey rods...

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...