Search results

I'll be out saturday morning giving all you jerks with boats the side eye from the shallow!

As far as I'm aware they're not around anymore. I went out with a guide who worked there, I believe as far as he told the story its no more.

No, fishing in close does kind of suck. I've found that rather than strip into the guides (really don't do that on a 12' rod, it is a pain to get it back out), I do some sort of Jedi lightsaber move and pull the rod really far to the side and behind me till the fly is close enough that I can...

For beach salmon my lineup now is: 7wt 12'6" Echo Beach Boost - This is the 2h overhand rod echo makes. I have a love hate with this one, great casting distance with not a lot of effort, annoying as shit to strip in and fight fish with. 7wt 9' Echo Boost Blue - Just got this and it replaced the...

I bought one of the 12v compressor coolers (euhomy on amazon, $235 for a 58Qt) and used it this summer on a trip to Neah and Ft Flagler over 4 days with my Jakery 1000aH power station. Overall I thought it was great, as others mentioned: No fucking around with buying ice, which also means no...

Just to be contrary I find that the LONG rods are easier to learn on than the short ones. The long rods force a slower cast in my experience. Which, of course, can lead to problems swapping to a shorter rod after you've learned. That said, I do find that using a short rod does have the advantage...

Finally got on the humpie train with this guy.

Every time I've driven by pass lake this summer it has looked like a poorly maintained hot tub. Still tons of trout rising.

Also if you haven't check out the WDFW fishing regs app, it lets you click on the water body you're interested in and see all the currently relevant rules from there, and you can put it into "pamphlet mode" to look at general rules throughout the year. Given how often the thing downloads new...

What does one look for when looking at the used boats? Especially the whalers with their foam filled hulls?

Over the past few years my tally is 2. The first was a Reddington Claymore. I'd tied down my rod on my Watermaster, launching from Dodge Park on the Sandy. There is a rapid immediately after the launch and this was maybe the 3rd time I'd used the raft. Things did not go well and I ended up on...

He did get back to me this morning and said that he'd have the tip shipped out monday from Echo. I hope dealers get special access to tips because Echo lists the 7wt boost blue tip as Out of Stock currently

I sprung for a boost blue to replace my crappy sage foundation. Got home today from a trip all excited to fish it tomorrow . . . . except it didn't have the tip section. The joys of e-commerce. Of course Echo is also out of tips so can't even go that route as a shortcut. Sent an email to dirty...

Got out early (for me around 6:30) Sunday, missed the pinks by about 30 minutes judging by the guy who had a brace on a stringer. Only saw one landed after that, had a beach mostly full of fly folks which was nice. Gave up around 8:30 or so and drove home to take care of some stuff, then drove...

AAaaaan now I have a 7wt boost blue on the way.

With 8-1 being open I decided to hit up my local beach last night to see if there was anything going on. Wasn't expecting much and wasn't surprised, but just wanted to try and get a better understanding of the timings up here. What I did find was the joy of people who don't really get the...

When I can't get what I want at The Confluence (or I just don't want to drive an hour to Bellingham) Spawn is usually first on my list of places to check, although I do try to spread my love around different WA shops to some degree. I need to plan a trip down to Cape Disappointment and actually...

Yeah, theres been a bunch of good discussion in those threads. It'll be at least next year if not later for me. Need to drag my wife out to sailing lessons to see if she enjoys sailing enough to commit to that (outlook is cloudy there) and pay off the slide in truck camper finally. I'll use the...

Following along here. Although I'm in the north sound and have a big truck already so possibly looking at something pretty different. Either way looking forward to hearing the reasoning for different choices.

Then I don't know 🤣 I do think half the time by the time I get my head back out of the guides I could have just been false casting and hauling!