I switched to a vest 5 years ago, or so, after 15 of backpacking. I won`t back, for my backs sake. With my vest I`m able to disperse weight. + being able to tie in the middle of the river/creek has landed me countless more fish.
My dad just bought a new backpack...I guess he likes goin back a...
I know a guy that uses `em and we missed fish after fish with em. Not sure if it was his lil hang back/down method with the hook 2" away from the bead or the HUGENESS of the bead. Not really caring to find out.... I have some 12`s for big/colored water, never have thrown `em. I go yarnie if I...
I should explain a bit more. Tommy broke a rod on a fish about a month ago. Neither fish were that big but....SNAP! He lost the 1 a while back...I don`t remember him takin it as well as he did today:)
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But good team work prevailed!
HHM was kind enough to help...I just wanted video!:cool::D
I got the scrappiest twout of my life...well maybe. Other than youngbuck showin the old farts 2 steel it was fairly uneventful. Great meetin ya finally though HHM, I`ll be scoutin a certain...
Nymphs are a good option. As are egg patterns and leeches. I don`t know anything about the Madison but if you got a sink tip and heavy flies/some shot.... think BOTTOM!....then yerr timing is golden to early, they are in tharr. Assuming them water levels hold and ya find a place to crash:)...
Sandy and McIvor are MUCH better bets in Jan than Dec. But if`n yerr wantin coastal steel head over to the Nestucca. From there you can hit 3 rivers as well. I would say spend a day on that system. You`ll find water to your liking that will surely have steel available. Fish hard and move on to...
I wouldn`t actually say there is NO way.. But it`s not:)
1 good way to find out (if`n we`re still carin that much...it is a feesh:), is to ask ol brotha beav what the eggs looked like. 4-6mm or 8-10mm size berries. Long fat skeins or shorter skinnier? A summers berries, in this particular...