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The cat subject reminds me of one of my first flyfishing cartoons published in my famous unknown cartoon book:

Has anyone yet attempted to attach one of the toys permanently to a hook? As someone who once scoured craft and hobby stores in search of new tying materials, I find those cat toys extremely interesting.

I remember one steelhead I caught magically changed into a heck of a large sucker by the time I could see what I hooked.

Ah yes, smallmouth trout. Usually you can move up or downstream from where the whitefish are holding to locate the trout. They don't prefer the same water flow as the whitefish. During the winter months I'll target whitefish when nothing else will play the game.

Well those are all just terrible .... Just to toss in a negative comment. Truthfully, those are very, very good. I've spent most my life around artists and writers and you my friend, are a hell of a talented artist.

Dave Hughes once told me he figured fish look for a reason to eat something, not a reason not to eat it. Which would explain why they ignore the sharpie piece of metal hanging out the butt of a fly and a cable tied on its nose.

I'm going sturgeon fishing Friday, I don't think thread color plays into it. Most likely not.

If a fish is going to totally ignore the hook eye, the bend and point, why would they pay attention to the thread color? Maybe they do. Maybe they don't. I normally try to match the thread color to the body but that's only because that's how I was thought to tie flies. Could we get away...

Me and one of my fly tying buddies decided to build some model insects ... and they did look really nice. Extended body dry flies, almost an exact match stonefly nymph .... they took a lot of time to build but the results were impressive .... Except to the fish. Time and time again a...

Ah yes, Fishing and Hunting News. They tried hot spotting but their reports were terrible. They relied on resorts and local fishing shops for the information on the fisheries. That is why the reports on a specific river or lake would never be below "fair". Usually they inflated the...

Someone in the flytying biz once told me that it is more difficult to produce barbless hooks than barbed ones because the machine that makes the bend uses the barb the barbless variety is more labor intensive... thus more expensive. Of course that was back when barbless hooks first hit the...

Seems fine to me. Unless its always been slow so I don't know the difference ....:oops:

Mine was during he autumn on a Oregon coastal river with my best fishing buddy. It was an extremely rare day. We caught SRC, Chinook, silvers, jacks and lots of steelhead. It was nonstop action and at the end of the day we both agreed that was our best anadromous fishing day ever and it...

A lake somewhere between Portland and Eugene holds at least one dang big trout (perhaps breed stock?) .... that narrows it down significantly :) Here's the PFD rules for Oregon...

NEO ..... doesn't exist. Should not try to find it. ;)

I wonder how many of the land owners will sell their homes if commoners are allowed to start floating around on the lake .....

I've found that if I don't bother the rattlesnakes, they don't bother me. It's their home so I give them a wide berth. Dogs are bitten more frequently on The D than humans. Keep that in mind if you're considering taking your dog with you to The D. Ticks, on the other hand, I hate with a...

Bit of an update: Jury finds city of Lake Oswego too restrictive on public lake access By Conrad Wilson (OPB) April 22, 2024 5:07 p.m. A jury focused on city’s ordinances that prohibited entering the Oswego Lake from three city owned properties. A judge is expected to issue a final order...