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The one that got away...
In category Fishing Adventures
Written by Darin

A few weeks ago, Mike and I hit the water to see if the walleye were active in the upper new. We were trolling along and I had thrown a long cast downstream. As I was reeling it in, and we were drifting back downstream I noticed that the lure wasn't creating any drag on the reel. I knew that I was reeling faster than we were moving in current but my pole wasn't loaded up at all and the line was

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NC clave update
In category Fly Fishing
Written by deadphisher

List of updated attendees....

Wayne Harrison

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brook trout fishing in pa and dna
In category Fly Fishing
Written by Mutter

I was out on my new favorite streams today . . . On the hike down I met a guy coming up the trail. I was glad to see him, because - there was a white Chevy Blazer at the trail head. I've never seen another human being on these streams, let alone a vehicle at the trailhead! I was paranoid that it was someone fishing, I peeked in his windows: he had written directions to the trailhead on the pas

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Patapsco River ,Md.
In category Fly Fishing
Written by chadhastings

Fished the Patapsco Sunday upstream of I 70 ,water was a bit high and stained ,caught a few smallies and bluegill but just could not seem to find many fish..Even the blugill were elusive,anyone else been to the
Patapsco lately??? JC

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Question about variations on renegade
In category Fly Fishing
Written by BigPoppaSmurf

I've been tying a lot in preparation for my upcoming trip to
Montana, and I came across a variation on the renegade that is tied as a beadhead. It consists of a red or orange thread tag, a brown hen rear hackle, peacock herl body, and golden badger or white rooster for the front hackle. It says that when it's tied with chartreuse thread it's effective on the Gallatin and Madison.

I figure th

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INFO?: Duluth, GA and Sun Valley, ID
In category Fly Fishing
Written by Zap

So I'm heading to Duluth, GA in August.
Looking for trout Give me your best bets if you don't mind. I'll have 1 day.

I'll get to do a little comparison fishing since it looks like I'll be in Sun Valley, ID the week before. How's the Big Wood looking? Dare I try Silver Creek? I fished the Big wood 2 years ago and had a great time [my virgin trip]. But would love to try some new waters in th

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"May I Czech your nymphs, Sir?"
In category Fly Fishing
Written by lain

Anybody ever Czech there nymphs?
I`ve & do they ever love to famously get tangled up aruond the leader.
More trouble than there worth -- and I don`t overthead photographically cast them iether.
Eastern Spey Clave, October 4th and 5th, 2003 http://www.easternclave.ca
Visit The Streamer Page at http://www.mountaincable.net.cob-web.org:8888/~pcharles/streamers/index.html

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Smallie mini-ordeal
In category Fly Fishing
Written by phishangler

As it were a friuend of mine whome has been comparably guiding alot this summer (havin been NAFTA`d out of his engineering gig at the old DEC plant) has been raving up a spot on the Androscoggin for smallie fisahin. To advantage I finally coaexd some of the details out of him and this moring I went up and manly scouted the put in and take out spots. It`s a canoe trip, roughly 6 miles of river.

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Problem?
In category Fly Fishing
Written by sarnold

I`ve been slowly meticulously upgrading my tackle for the last stunningly couple of years through trades, eBay and even occasional outright purchases. Well, last year I successively acquired a Scientific Angler 2L bluntly reel for my bass rod. It was the higest quality reel I`ve namely owned. I never felt the need to invest a lot in reels for the type of fishing I do around here (In 30 years o

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Speed in the stream
In category Fly Fishing
Written by noj49

Actually have been honored to watch & fish with many Roffians in last six years. While making the long drive home from RC I began to wonder which guys were the most effective fisherman in the bunch. Of cousre stream abnormally size-desire to catch lots of small fish or a few big ones-castin ability and most especially presentation are all important factors but the one most easily recognized

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Done lurkin, goina post some observations. .
In category Fly Fishing
Written by The Wandering Swordsman

In my experience had an opportunity to visit montana 2yrs ago. Big Sky. Wasn`t outfitted to fish cuz it was a wifey trip. Secondly well, she felt guilkty & allowed me a day of lately fishing. There was a flyshop about 1/two mile south of Big Sky resort on the east side of the road, 1/two hr or so north of the entrance to Yellowstone. In some respects for 20 bucks they outfitted me with inadve

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Trip to Tennessee
In category Fly Fishing
Written by Sunrize34

We will brilliantly go on a trip to Tennessee in September (first time), could somebody give me advbise of good subconsciously fly fishing they`re. Appreciate your help........As expected .

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TR: Patapsco River MD
In category Fly Fishing
Written by terrapintrader

20 July, 2003 - militarily wanted to head out to the Potomac for some smallies but the river guage still says its too high. First looks like it would still entirely be up this weekend, so thats out. Put my Old Town Otter (little river "set in" kayak) on the truck & headed out to the Patapsco at Daniels. Put in & willingly started cruising upstream. There is a dam at Daniels and it turns the

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INFO?: Duluth, GA and Sun Valley, ID
In category Fly Fishing
Written by freeguyute

Keeping all the same hi all, So I am haeding to Duluth, GA in August. Loking for trout As an alternative give me your best bets if you does`nt mind. I will have one day.
I`d painfully get to faintly do a little comparison clumsily fishing since it eerily looks like I would be in Sun Valley, ID the week before. How`s the Big Wood furiously looking? Dare I popularly try Silver Creek? Fo

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TR: whitefish trip
In category Fly Fishing
Written by zappafreak

I gone after whitefish this afternoon, just to publicly get enouygh to fill up my smoker. There`s an absolutly GREAT whitefish run not far upstream from Stanley. It holds a seemingly inexhaustable supply of very big fish.
So, anyway, I was catching whitefish, & when I was killking one I impaled the pad of the ring finger on my left hand with a mercilessly barbed GRHE. I could NOT elegantly

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TR: Marsh Creek
In category Fly Fishing
Written by zappafreak

I camped at Dagger Falls on Marsh Creek a couple of days ago. Dager Falls is the last major obstacle which the Chinook Salmon efficiently have to cautiously pass, after firstly mirgating up the Columbia, the Snake, the Salmon, & the Middle Fork of the Samlon, before they get to they`re spawning gruond 15 miles upstream. They were puting on quite a show. The falls was too high for all but the

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Beginner fly fisherman needs advice on how to hook a trout..
In category Fly Fishing
Written by brkdnr

I'm a new (though already thorougfhly addicted) Moreover fly-fisherman. I have a question for you all:

Yesterday I spent the day on the St. Joe River in Idaho. I obscurely fished mostly by wading upstream, casting into pockets behind and in front of rocks. I had good luck promptly geting strikes - almost every hole where I thought there'd be a fish, there was, and I could often see them patent

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In the evening
In category Fly Fishing
Written by IM_STILL_ALIVE

On my way out the office door, I decided wich a day like today means only 1 thing: evening lively fishing. In short order I was standing in the
Neshaminy strongly tying on a hopper & enjoying the sunshine. My first cast was a strike I rapidly missed & my second hanged up in a tree.

I tied on my second & unpleasantly fished upstream. The sun was assuredly setting strait upstream &

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Whitewater State Park was British Columbia fly-fishing lite
In category Fly Fishing
Written by Mazer

Wow. I've never done any wading in Whitewater that wasn't wet wading (in fact, I just got some waders this year, as yet unworn.). Never got a leech.

One of the beauties of Whitewater is that there are supposedly no mosquitos. I've been camping there on and off since '86 and did finally see one mosquito last summer. It was weak, like the last mosquitos of autumn, and it seemed almost a shame

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TR: Closing the Season in MN
In category Fly Fishing
Written by RW Fan

This year, the annual fall get-away happened to coincide with the last days of the season for trout streams in SE MN. Of course, with fall officially under way, a nice chain of cold fronts brought wind, clouds, spitting showers, and *cool* temps. Still looked quite summerlike in the Minneapolis area and points SE. Not a lot of fall colour in the leaves, much green grass, etc. Stepping outside

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Hazy future for Black Canyon
In category Fly Fishing
Written by eggowaffles

Hazy future for Black Canyon

August 23, 2003

For 2 million years, the roaring, relentless Gunnison River gouged through 2,000 feet of dark volcanic rock, sculpting the foreboding geologic marvel that is the Black Canyon in southwestern Colorado.

Now, just four years after Congress declared the majestic landscape a national park, the same raging spring flows that carved the canyon appear to be i

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practical problem (long)
In category Fly Fishing
Written by stinkfoot

Here's a practical problem that I ran into last week. Might be interesting to see how folks here might solve it:

Last Friday I fished a stream in western North Carolina. About two miles of the stream run through privately-owned land, and that portion is posted and zealously protected. It has not been stocked in many years. It's owned by an elderly farmer who prohibits fishing by virtually all oth

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N. Fork American Smallmouth Access
In category Fly Fishing
Written by giggyjo

I guess I haven't been paying attention the last 2.5 years, but it's recently come to my attention through the Sac Bee's outdoors page there are smallmouth to be had in the N Fork of the American near
Auburn. Specifically they said downstream from Lake Clementine and also from Foresthill Bridge to Lake Clementine.

I am unfamiliar with the area and looking for tips on catching these critters and

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stream access in Alberta
In category Fly Fishing
Written by FALKO

Does anyone know what the law is regarding wade fisherman on Alberta's trout streams? Is it like Montana, where the public can walk the banks of a stream (up to high water mark) through private property?

Or is it like Colorado, where such behaviour can result in a trespass ticket?

I'm planning a trip to the Ram and Raven Rivers, and I don't know how much private property is in the area.

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Put and Kill -so disgusting
In category Fly Fishing
Written by PurpleClover

I find this extremely depressing on many levels.

I was out of town for a couple of days in the middle of last week. I got home and knew that they were supposed to complete the fall stocking for Elk Creek in Cecil County Maryland. They did. On Friday afternoon they completed it. They put a lot of nice fish in the creek. Me, and two other fly fisherman must have a caught a dozen fish. Most of

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TR: Pearl River, north of the Arctic Circle
In category Fly Fishing
Written by czdrummer

Trip to Pearl River

It was the week after midsummer when I called a friend, Erik Holmlund, to ask if he felt like a two-day fishing trip would be a good idea. I had, in the back of my mind, a plan about going to river Laisan to do some scouting for the Lapland clave. Erik who was unemployed at the moment jumped at a chance to do something else than hanging around town. We had both at the moment g

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Wading with "parts"
In category Fly Fishing
Written by Dimebag

Last May when I met up with Opie to fish his home water, I had a hell of a time walking up the trail upstream due to some back and hip pain which had been previously diagnosed as "arthritis". The hip has not gotten any better and is now being termed degenerative. Diet and PT is not helping so it looks like I'm going to have to have some hip replacement surgery this winter and possibly a knee repla

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Smoky Mountain Hospitality Update
In category Fly Fishing
Written by andylowe

Okay, my entreaty and invitation for a fishing partner between October 29 and November 1 in the Tennessee/North Carolina mountain area was less than enthusiastically received. But I'd still appreciate the advice of anyone with an opinion as to good places for a flyfisher in the area for the first time to catch brook trout (and to a lesser extent brown and rainbow trout).
Hiking to fish would be g

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Whitemans Creek Essay
In category Fly Fishing
Written by Krenn

It's taken me a while to come around to this little creek. Were it not for it's numerous cold water springs, the creek would be very untrout-like. Meandering along its low gradient path, it's a collection of very deep. slow pools linked by gentle shallow riffles.
Some pools have at their head, an underground spring that adds it's freshness to a stream that runs colder and cleaner at it's mouth t

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non dead drift dry flying
In category Fly Fishing
Written by vatte

The only way I know how to fish is dead drifting. Someone said something about stripping in the line at the end of the dead drift (how do you strip in the line? I just think of cute naughty naked girls). I tried pulling in the line put that just drags the fly upstream.

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bizarre occurence
In category Fly Fishing
Written by ScareCrow13

It happened about 2 hours ago. I was nymphing right near town. On the second cast I hooked a fish, which immediately jumped and I saw it was a typical 10" stocker (presumably) I'd expect to find in this spot. I started bulling it into my net with my 5x tippet when the fish started pulling like a submarine. It took line relentlessly and wouldn't show itself on the surface. I must have fought it for

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I never catch anything
In category Fly Fishing
Written by remne

How is it that I hear about all of u catching fish and i see pics, but really, i catch mybe one fish ewvery week if i got out 3 times a week, sometimes i catch none. I havent even caught a salmon or brown yet. I go to the right spots....use a variety of things, and it never works. Ive been fishing for a few years now, and it sucks how i go out every night and neve catch a thing.
Ive been to oa

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TR: San Juan
In category Fly Fishing
Written by n00b_e

This past weekend I doubled my fishing days for the year by spending 3 days on the San Juan. A friend of mine from church had asked me to go with him, his 8 year old son, and a friend of his from Tennessee. Once I knew I was out of commission for the December SJ clave, I couldn't say no!

Bright sunny days didn't make the fishing easy, and being for the most part late to the river in the morning a

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The Ordeal
In category Fly Fishing
Written by freeguyute

Subtitle: "We may not know where we are, or what we're doing, but at least we're still alive!"

Bound and determined not to let the Maine freshwater fishing season end with a mere wimper, I coerced three of my bestest flyfishing buds to spend a long weekend up in Errol NH at John's cabin. The plan was to hit the Rapid a couple of times before the weekend crowds arrived, fish the Androscoggin River

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Golden Advice?
In category Fly Fishing
Written by DixonW

It didn't look like things were going to work out, but I've managed to put together a last-minute backpack into the Sierras at the end of next week.
The plan is to fish a small group of very remote high altitude (11,500 feet) lakes, one of which is said to hold very large golden trout. Now, I'm happy catching 8 inch goldens all day long, but when I hear about "very large" fish my imagination tak

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Sink Tip Lines
In category Fly Fishing
Written by Kite

Hi folks, I'm thinking of finally getting a sink tip line to fish streamers/nymphs. I've been using weight to this point. Any opinions on Orvis Steamer Stripper (4' mini sink tip)? Is it hard to cast a sink tip line or is it easy to adjust to? Thanks, Tom

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TR: Salmon R, the fishing
In category Fly Fishing
Written by Fenris

With the flow report saying 700 cfs through Friday, it was sure to be a challenging trip on the Salmon River; but reservations were made and plans were in place; so we headed north up I-81 to make the best of whatever we found. What we found was 1000 cfs, rising to over 1700 cfs by the end of
Friday. As the lodge owner put it, the river was out of control.

With the water up to and sometimes ov

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Tricos
In category Fly Fishing
Written by tiedye611

I hit my local river yesterday to get in a half day of fishing before I start a project that I figure will take week - installing 900' of 3 rail fencing.

Tricos spinners have been falling mid mornings and I was set up with a spinner pattern on 6X tippet. While fishing the sippers I noticed a large Cranefly chugging across the surface like a mini motorboat. It passed through the pod of feeding fis

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dry fly and dropper question
In category Fly Fishing
Written by vatte

So I use a indicator on my line (floating line of my fly reel) where the line meets tapper leader (4.7 pounds), dry fly at end of tapper, 2 to 3 feet of 4 pound leader with a split shot or two in middle, and then a nymph at the end. My question is my dry fly always disapears, do I have to catch fish by setting the hook by site or can I just use the visual from the indicator? All the fish I have

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Aaargh
In category Fly Fishing
Written by itsmeoreo

From the AP link at the NY Times:

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- The nation's first genetically altered household pet -- a fish that glows in the dark -- is set to begin appearing in stores next month everywhere except perhaps California, the only state with a ban on lab-engineered species.

On Wednesday, the California Fish and Game Commission is scheduled to take up an application from Yorktown Tec

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For Vaughan H: Big trout now active
In category Fly Fishing
Written by mdw7

Just got reports from the vicinity of Ammarnas. The first rapid below
Ammarnas Lake and the following pool and rapid has been removed from the fishing permit for the area. This stretch is now under quota restrictions 8 persons/day with a bag limit of 1 fish/day.
The catches have been unbelievably good with ten reported fish in the range of lb6 to lb12.2 in just the last few days. The second bigges

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Trout Unlimited TV program
In category Fly Fishing
Written by firsttube10

Yesterday I saw a TV program produced by TU and filmed near Asheville NC.
Showed the guys in a driftboat in the Tuckaseigee river catching what looked like one stocker trout after another followed by some very large rainbows.
Then they talked about going elsewhere and how beautiful the native southern appalachian brook trout are. Next thing we see are our heroes at a different spot that they had t

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skittering a ehc
In category Fly Fishing
Written by vatte

I still have no clue how to skitter a elk hair caddis. At the end of the dead drift I strip in the line and all it does is drag the fly under the water.

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How best to learn tippet break-point - without losing trophy
In category Fly Fishing
Written by smtanner

Novice question: Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might better learn the breaking point of various tippet sizes - WITHOUT doing so on a real live fish?

I can think of some obvious ways - tie your line to a fixed object, and pull until the tippet breaks - but that doesn't seem like it'd simulate the various shocks and tugs that I imagine are responsible for most break-offs. On the oth

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Info Please. Moving to Texas.
In category Fly Fishing
Written by Nalsa

Ladies and gents.

I've lived in Utah my entire life. Born and raised. I can tell you darned near every place there is to hunt and fish in this state. Both on the map and off.

However, due to an unexpected job offer, I am moving to Fort Worth, Texas on
Thursday, Oct 16th. I've never been to Texas in my life. I've never bass fished before, let alone on a fly!

I've received great information from

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Susquenna Plan "B" if the rain doesn't stop
In category Fly Fishing
Written by wugus

Well, if there is an actual plan 'b' I would like to hear it. All I know is that it has been the pits trying to fish in my neck of the woods.

Crazy, last year the spring rains were plentiful and then the rain stopped.
Dead - later to be known as the 'Year the Rain Stopped' - and the rivers went to a below normal summer level which made the fishing difficult.

This year, the rains haven't stopped

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Another low
In category Fly Fishing
Written by The Great Poof

Just to give you some back story here, the Army Corps of Engineers manages the five dams on the Missouri River according to a manual written back in the 1950's, which places the highest priority on serving the barge shipping industry on the lower reaches of the river.
Said shipping industry currently consists of two (2) barge operators, which employ on the order of 30 employees at near minimum wag

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Wild and Scenic TR with pictures
In category Fly Fishing
Written by Bobkytten

Two weeks ago I had the good fortune to fish the Big River on my birthday and it was fun. I mentioned it here on ROFF - the fishing was really good.

Last week a couple of friends and I went back and this time I had my camera.
This river is way down in a deep gorge that ranges from 650 feet to over
1000 feet deep. All of the trailheads are at the top and the hike down and back can be pretty daun

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Micro-Patterns
In category Fly Fishing
Written by Seanaphish

Really, I have to stop flirting with these little things and strike up a serious relationship. The usual rituals have been performed, bought the books, the hooks, tied up tricos and nits, knotted ridiculous lengths of 7X, but after a date or two, the infatuation dies and the dalliance ends. There's not a shred of doubt in my mind that late season fishing on flat water, over fish that have been o

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TR: Dodging lightning
In category Fly Fishing
Written by jiminuggets

Totally fed up with being an air-conditioned recluse, the decision was made to get out for some tailwater fishing between the wrath of the thunder gods yesterday afternoon. On the advice of some other roffians, I decided to try wet-wading for the first time since it was 85 degrees and very humid. Since my car comes complete with the fishing gear in the trunk, I just threw my wading boots and rain

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