Got ta get there first Dean, I'm in the UK, but it looks worth it.That is definitely a private creek. But you could pay to fish one, and it wouldn't cost you your grandmother - a couple hundred bucks though.
I'd buy your Grandma and take you fishing for Bass in south TX on Private water where they use fish like that for bait.Just watched this, I'd sell my grandmother for a day on there.
If you are taking offers.....I'd buy your Grandma and take you fishing for Bass in south TX on Private water where they use fish like that for bait.
As long as she would cook me three meals a day,keep the house clean,do my laundry and clean my hogs and deer.
S.Brilliant clip Larry, watched it twice.
S.
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Got ta get there first Dean, I'm in the UK, but it looks worth it.
S.
Hey Don't feel alone...I was raised by elitists..you fished a dry fly or you your some kind of low life...streamers....they let you slide sometimes..nymphs don't even come back into camp with that story.There needs to be someone who dumps on a video like this and I'll take on the job.
Let me explain, I only made it as far as where they are showing the fly box filled with rubber legs, foam and what look like glow bug yarn flies and I stopped there.
Yes I tie shank flies in outrageous colors for salmon. I even use Crystal Flash and tinsel on some but salmon flies have always been gaudy creations and I try to remain within certain parameters.
I never fished a private spring in Montana but spent hundreds of hours on some of the best in the East, Pennsylvania in particular. I reached a point fairly early in my life as a fly fisherman where I accepted that 'it' isn't just about catching fish. It's about traditions and personal challenge and also about taking in the entire scope of the day and area.
I could never tie one of those things to my leader. If the fish will not take a Henryville or a BWO or something that actually reminds me of a fly suited to a brown trout on a spring creek then I guess I would get skunked and I can live with that.
Times change, I get that. Changing times are why I tie and offer Tubes, Shanks and cone heads to anglers who fish with me. Changing times are why I switched from braided lead heads to T-11 because modern anglers are accustomed to T-11 sink tips not 30 year old technology in a braided lead head.
Honest fellows, I could never open a fly box filled with those puffs of foam and poly yarn while attired in Tatter Sail casual shirts and fish a classic spring creek. I often keep thoughts to myself so you don't think I'm a butt head but every now and then I let something out. I don't know if I'll ever get to fish on my old haunts again but if I do, for better or worse I'll be dressed in my olive drab and wax cotton if it rains. I'll use traditional flies not hot pink so I can see them, and I'll be happy just to be there.
I'm just not a fly fishing video rockstar kinda guy I guess.
Sorry but now you know.......................
ArdThere needs to be someone who dumps on a video like this and I'll take on the job.
Let me explain, I only made it as far as where they are showing the fly box filled with rubber legs, foam and what look like glow bug yarn flies and I stopped there.
Yes I tie shank flies in outrageous colors for salmon. I even use Crystal Flash and tinsel on some but salmon flies have always been gaudy creations and I try to remain within certain parameters.
I never fished a private spring in Montana but spent hundreds of hours on some of the best in the East, Pennsylvania in particular. I reached a point fairly early in my life as a fly fisherman where I accepted that 'it' isn't just about catching fish. It's about traditions and personal challenge and also about taking in the entire scope of the day and area.
I could never tie one of those things to my leader. If the fish will not take a Henryville or a BWO or something that actually reminds me of a fly suited to a brown trout on a spring creek then I guess I would get skunked and I can live with that.
Times change, I get that. Changing times are why I tie and offer Tubes, Shanks and cone heads to anglers who fish with me. Changing times are why I switched from braided lead heads to T-11 because modern anglers are accustomed to T-11 sink tips not 30 year old technology in a braided lead head.
Honest fellows, I could never open a fly box filled with those puffs of foam and poly yarn while attired in Tatter Sail casual shirts and fish a classic spring creek. I often keep thoughts to myself so you don't think I'm a butt head but every now and then I let something out. I don't know if I'll ever get to fish on my old haunts again but if I do, for better or worse I'll be dressed in my olive drab and wax cotton if it rains. I'll use traditional flies not hot pink so I can see them, and I'll be happy just to be there.
I'm just not a fly fishing video rockstar kinda guy I guess.
Sorry but now you know.......................
It's a slippery slope whenever we discuss things of this nature. For many I suspect "traditional" is what gear was commonly used about the time you personally began to fish. I don't have any problem with what others care to use. Whether it be bobbers, or an artsy Abel reel. I don't care to fish like Ike Walton either. But fly fishing has been about fur and feathers since the beginning as far as I know. That is what my fly box is going to approximately look like. My large rods will cast most lures or live bait if this is only about making it as easy as possible to catch fish. For me that isn't what it's about. In the end most all of us do draw a line somewhere or it ceases to look much like fly fishing.The flies in question are all hopper patterns near as I can tell.
Hoppers are a big deal in Montana and people have been fishing foam patterns for about 30 years now.
Hoppers are flies suited to brown trout on any creek or river in Montana and pretty much everywhere else in the Rocky Mountain west.
If you were to open just about anyone's fly box in Montana during hopper season you would pretty much see the same thing.
Tradition? Where does that start and end?
How many of you out there are fishing bamboo, cat gut and horse hair?
Graphite and Boron are certainly non-traditional. Hell even fiberglass, which is now experiencing a weird sort of renaissance, is pretty much a modern technology.