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Purple or royal para wulff size 12-14 is a good one to have in the box. Floats high and easy to see and is both small enough and big enough to get attention when nothings happening. I really like hippy stompers a lot for exactly what you describe but I took what you wrote to mean no foam...

I like your jigs a lot, those are fish catchers. I totally understand the aesthetic of the painted head. If you can figure out how to make it stay looking sharp let me know. I just gave up.

I stoped painting my twitching jig heads years ago and I do not notice a difference whatsoever. I tie a few hundred a year for friends and family and they honestly just keep getting simpler and easier to tie and the catch rate is remaining the same. They look so nice painted but I’m so over it...

Glass makes a killer redfish rod. A lot more touch and accuracy in close quarters then ultra fast saltwater graphite. My 8’6” iconoglass is an absolute sniper with 15’ of fly line off the tip and a weighted crab. And it’s not gutless either. I could still clear a whole fly line with a nice...

And I can do cash pick up in Seattle either tomorrow or Monday

I’ll take the Les Johnson book

I actually take a second pair of sunglasses and wrap the frames with lead tape so I can build the muscles needed to perform at a high level when it counts the most. I started with one hour when I was weak and feeble and now I can go 12 hours or more. A lot of people don’t put in the work to be...

Definitely clean your line regardless of what you do, I just use warm water on a towel, pinch around the line as you strip it off, maybe do the last 15’ a few times. Then I use the same towel with some mucillen on it (the green stuff) reel it back on the reel using the same technique. Once again...

Is that pheasant hackle? I really like that one and I’m sure the cutts agree

On the NF stilly a few years ago I netted rainbows, sea run cutts, a bull, a coho, pinks and a wild summer steelhead in one session. Easily my best slam.

Well done, my 896 has been repaired a few times in the last 6 years, most recently about a year ago maybe a little longer when they rebuilt my bottom section and I got all new cork and reel seat. So now all 4 sections are fresh. Moral of the story: Don’t let people use your XP’s 😂

One of the best! I’ve had my 896 for 15 years or so, it’s caught a lot of fish. What reel are you running?

The virus continues to spread.

i haven’t ever found trout to be really selective about yellow sally. But your destination may prove different. I carry some more realistic patterns tied slim and small like the naturals but also carry some more aggressive patterns like yellow micro chubbies. Yellow sally often overlap with...

That’s a very valid point. I think I’ll go with two of the regular version. One for stones and the other for… the others. Thanks for the offer, that’s very generous. Lost creek might be the ticket.

The tacky 2x looks good. Is the magnetic closure trustworthy? I have some cheap swing leaf boxes for lakes and the smaller tungsten flies like chironomids wiggle out of the slotted foam a lot. The tacky boxes seem legit.

I need a new fly box for storing nymphs only. What are you guys liking for beadhead nymphs these days? Thanks in advance.

STP has a lot of solid, cheap trout patterns by the dozen if you want to fill out your boxes. For example the yellowstoner chubby by MFC is a great fly and you can get a dozen for $10. I got my order last week and everything is tip top.

Same to you bud!

So you’re saying that was neither the eye of Sauron nor a galactic butthole? These were the only theories we were working with last night while sitting with some 13 year olds.