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Hit up lake Henshaw this morning for some fly fishing for carp which is one of my favorite yearly trips. The last few years there hasn’t been very many cloopers on the surface so I have been mostly nymphing using the drag and drop or dabbing techniques. Today the carp were not making them self ...

Took the kayak out this time and fished the flats of a local lake. I have my stripping basket on an h-bar so I was able to sight fish effectively… and was super fun until the wind picked up. Got a couple carp and a catfish. Was fishing the flies below which are a Montana hybrid and a loco moco fly.

:geek: Got back from 4 epic days in the Sierras this past week. Started out fishing fishing Rush creek on my way way up to Bridgeport. Fished the section just believe Grant Lake and if you know anything about this particular stretch you know how technical and spooky the fish are in here. We stop by ...

The past two weekends I've been going out with Tubefly . I've been exclusively sight fishing for Carp, but Bill doesn't have the patience and vicinity-fishes with an indicator. I got four carp last week and six yesterday, and lost a whole bunch more. But more importantly, I had the most shots on ...

Fair to excellent Calico fishing the last 3-4 weeks. Even with the red tide at times, we could find fish in patches of clearer water, but the catching has been better since the water cleared.

Flies, jigs, spinnerbaits all about equally effective. I have only been using flies. Best catching occurs ...

Hit up blacks this morning throwing out the fly in the surf… not great conditions with very choppy surf at close tidal intervals so there was a lot of sand messing up the clarity of the water. It was also an outgoing tide which is not my favorite but it was the only time and date I could go this ...

Got last-minute permits for Cottonwood Lakes (golden trout!) starting Aug 1. Looking for others who want to backpack in and spend a few nights fishing. This permit does not allow for exiting via Mt Whitney but there are other passes/trails to enjoy if that's your thing too.

More trips since last week still see lots of bonito locally. Maybe even more than before.

Todays trip hooked up immediately on dropping back a couple of crocodiles to troll to search for fish. Hit within seconds. Caught a couple more casting the croc then switched to the fly rods and a size 4 ...

Recently moved to Flagstaff AZ from San Diego, and I figured y'all would find this interesting. I have been fishing Oak Creek Canyon heavily, catching wild browns, stocked rainbows, and native Gila trout. The Gilas seem to love dries, especially hopper reaction bites when the fly hits the water ...

Looks like a lot of work to get there.

Didn't see any poison oak but it's winter time too. I have been along a few streams (while hiking or biking) that are supposed to have wild trout and they have lots of poison oak.

Great video… Absolutely love doing that kind of fishing.. But my old body won’t let me anymore… I really enjoyed your adventure.. Thank you for posting it..
Butch

Looks like a lot of work to get there.

Didn't see any poison oak but it's winter time too. I have been along a few streams (while hiking or biking) that are supposed to have wild trout and they have lots of poison oak.


I rolled in poison oak as a kid and ever sense haven't been too bothered ...

Went fly fishing on the Lower Owens river just outside Bishop California last weekend. The weather was awesome and the fishing was great… caught some wild brown and rainbow trout up to 15” long using a euro nymphing technique. The hot fly was a size 14 light brown thread frenchy with a pink 3.5 mm ...

Great video takes me back to my younger days when I hiked down below the BIG BEAR LAKE DAM and there were ponds I fished and caught some nice trout, too old, bad knees to do that anymore it was one of those you won’t forget no matter how bad my memory gets, THANKS

This is one of the situations where you wonder if the juice is worth the squeeze, but interesting for sure.

I remember being bitten by the fly fishing bug, enough that I would spend every weekend scouting random blue lines, coming home with bumps, bruises, scratches, and wearing down shocks and ...

Very cool video and an epic looking place to fish. Small stream exploring and bushwhacking for wild trout is always an awesome adventure. Be careful...dry fly fishing can be a major addiction (note my member name). :)

Depending on where you were and how close there was road or ATV access, the chair ...

mcquade outdoors wrote: Fri Mar 28, 2025 6:48 am a Tenkata rod would be perfect, I just haven't justified buying one for the 1-3 trips a year i might do.

I really can't justify buying most of my fishing gear (or other toys), but what the heck, we gotta have something to keep us out of mischief. ....
Butch

Having some desiccant or a method of drying the wet dry flies was the first thing I realized I needed the first time dry fly fishing. My first cast, I was all excited, my 2nd cast, a little less so, and finally by my 4th, my Parachute Adams had become a Adams Streamer.

I also find that material ...

I use a floatant that comes in the same packaging a product called dry magic. It may be the same product but mine is written in japanese so I don't know. It's like a vaseline that you put a drop on the fly and squeeze it in and it basically waterproofs it and helps it float longer.

Frogs Fanny in my go to dry fly floatant. The container comes with a brush to push floatant into the fly, it blows all over but works wonders. Fish slime can make the fly tough to float, make sure to get the slime off of it. Shimizaki dry fly shaker is a good one but doesn’t last as long but it’s ...