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A must stop in Jackson Hole is Jackson drug for a cowboy coffee shake and a bison burger

Everyone says you need to drift the snake to find good fishing but that’s not true in fall when flows drop. The gros ventre and hoback are wadeable and fished great. And then there there were the creeks. We did well on one creek and were skunked on another.

Spent the past week with some friends chasing Snake River cutts. Cold mornings but it warmed to 70 in the afternoon. A 9' Payne 206 5 weight bamboo rod was a delight swinging soft hackles through 200 yard long riffles or throwing Adams dry flies into the wind against ripraps. The big...

A great looking rod. Welome to the spliced bamboo club. Hockey tape works but it can leave a residue. Tom Bowden suggested clear electrical tape to me. It works great, holds securely and doesn't leave a residue. When you wrap the rod you should go it in spirals which don't overlap or a...

Winston would do personalization for people - different wraps and inscriptions. My rod, for instance, has the inscription “Canadian Rainbows Ltd.”

You are giving a clinic in how to avoid the dreaded j curve when landing a big cutt

You’ve caught cutts where we fished…

Headed to a sea run cutthroat river yesterday. Heavy wind all day. We had to stop to clear the road once... I and my friends each fished winston 9' 4 and 7/8's ounce 6/7 weight bamboo fly rods. They are great at making the long casts which this bigger river allows and have the backbone to...

@Salmo_g do tell how you managed to break the tip. I hope it was playing a big fish!

Gaia has helped me find some streams

Grew up fishing the Lake Washington creek in my backyard so have a fondness for small streams. I've had better small stream fishing on the east slope of the cascades. The streams seem to be lower gradient and there's a longer growing season. There are some gems... The small streams...

I fish the classic wets. Butcher, Fiery Brown, Dunkeld, Peter Ross... Irish shrimp flies on small trebles when I'm going to keep Cowlitz hatchery cutts... A sparse Brad's Brat in honor of Enos Bradner... Classic new england streamers like the Chief Needabah or Col Bates or White...

That’s one healthy trout!

Each fall I hike to the North Cascades Creek which my 7' Tom Fulk 5 weight bamboo rod is named for. This is a wild stream with ice cold water and nothing but elk tracks on the bank. The morning started slow but we found wild cutts on size 12-14 Adams and Humpies as the water warmed up...

I can testify that the fly works!

Mike, Speyflyfisher outfished me on the day. He used one of his own secret flies and a Monsos bamboo rod. Look at this cast.

The golden scud is a Steve Raymond pattern. You can find the tying details in his book Kamloops. I found a scud in a boat at Meadow lakes fishing camp which had a couple strands of olive flashabou tied over the body before the clear shellback is pulled over and secured by tinsel. I think the...

I tie the marabou damsels the same as self bodied careys except that I don't put any hackle on the fly.

You have the drift Zak. Tie in a long natural pheasant feather by the tip for the tail and also tie some oval silver or gold tinsel at the tail. Wind the pheasant feather forward in broad turns to the front and then counter rib with the tinsel. Use a second feather for the hackle. I...

Since my trip with Speyflyfisher I've added some size 12-14 pheasant tail nymphs and hares ear nymphs to my lake fly wallet so I have an option when the fish are looking for callibaetis nymphs.