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That’s a huge Grayling. As I recall over the fog of 50 odd years, we were catching 10-12” fish.

A friend and I went fishing for Grayling at a hike in lake in Colorado when we were young men. Naturally, we didn’t know diddly about Graying. The surface of the lake was covered with rises when we arrived and we were getting strike after strike on our dry flies but no hookups. Eventually, we...

I overheard two of those mosquitoes talking in one of the campsites the other day. They had some poor guy pinned down in a tent. One said, “Should we eat him here or take him outside?” The second one said, “If we take him outside the big guys will get him “.

The clam with dreadlocks. Where fly tying intersects with Rastafarianism.

Owl from my trip out on the dirt roads on the 4th. Guessing it’s a Barred but I haven’t looked at the bird book.

I tried it once and wasn’t impressed. But I was rowing my pontoon or using the flippers. A guide friend with a power boat says it works pretty good.

There Thursday. Looks like the beginning of an algae bloom which will shut everything down until it clears Even the Brookies quit biting. Hope I’m wrong about this.

Orange Julius Hook: size 10 heavy scud hook Bead: 1/8 orange Body and Tail: olive Maribou Rib: gold wire Flash: pearl crystal flash Comments: fish under an indicator or floating line and long leader

I’ve been fishing that lake on and off since the 90’s. There used to be lots more aquatic vegetation and the Callabaetis hatches were heavier used to last 2 hours. When I row out there, I see the bottom barren and pockmarked with little depressions from our anchors. Are we adversely...

That’s exactly what I used to do and it worked great with small fish. When I lost the rod, I was fishing a full sinking line in 25 feet of water. It was close to opening day and the lake I was fishing was stocked with jumbos. The drag setting was rather heavy and I was using 3x tippet. On...

About 28 years ago my daughter caught her first fish there- a 15” brown trout. I don’t know why they put browns in there. But once it warms up a clever fellow in a tube might try tossing streamers or muddlers at the shoreline. Worked 30 years ago. It’s an interesting little lake. Like a...

I think I spoke with you earlier at the lake on the top. The lake below is named Knuppenberg and was stocked with 1000 tiny brown trout. It’s a general regulation lake and bait is allowed. The brookies probably came out of the stream. No bass up in that country.

Rickards Callabeatis Nymph Hook: Daiichi 1550 size 14 Tail and wingcase: Wood duck Rib: small gold Wapsi wire Dubbing: Hare’s Ear Hackle: size 16 grizzly Comments: The directions call for the wire to be wrapped under the wingcase but that results in a fly that is not durable. The wingcase...

I’ve been there four times (but not on weekends) and haven’t seen anyone using gear. There is no Ranger. The campground is maintained by employees of the ski area and they take care of the fee collection. Any enforcement would be done by game wardens or Forest Service commissioned employees...

Anyone have any effective materials using this material? Any tips for dubbing with it? Most success I’ve had has been with dubbing loops.

Easy Callabeatis from the Fly Fish Food website Hook Tiemco 900 BL Bead- 7/64 copper Wire- Wapsi small copper Tail- Hungarian partridge Dubbing-Hare’s Ear Thorax- Brown ice dub brushed over the body Hackle- Hungarian partridge

The #16 bead head Pheasant Tail has been effective lately under an indicator in lakes.

If you see me there soon you can ask. I’ll be the guy with an ant pattern on the leader.

Foam ants during the Carpenter hatch are my favorites.

I’ve used that fly around Y2K around Merritt BC. The traveling sedges emerge and stick their wings forward like that to dry them while really big trout come up for dinner. Peterhope Lake I believe.