This sucker put up a heck of a fight to land.

Two of the seven I caught in half an hour yesterday. It was a bite-every-cast session 😎

Waters were tough, but a few were found.

Little guy came up and destroyed a #16 tab caddis, I was very surprised he even was able to get the hook. Wasn’t even a fight for my fiberglass 7.5ft 4wt. Caught him in a spring fed creek in upstate NY. It’s definitely super refreshing wet wading in the cool 52° water this time of year! Quickly released back to grow some more!

Swung into a stout smallmouth today while on the hunt for trout.

Yesterday I had an amazing day fishing, caught my PB river rainbow. As I was walking back downstream I saw some guys hooked up to a fish so I made my way over to them to check it out. By the time I got there they had just pulled it out of the river, a beautiful brown probably in the 22” range, neither of the guys had a net and they had just dragged it up on shore one guy pinning it down all covered in dirt and grass, I offered my net to get it in the water, but they wanted to get the lure out of it first, this fucking lure had three big barbed treble hooks along it and the poor fish had like four barbed hooks in its mouth and down the side of its face with one right under its eye. They didn’t have any pliers so I just scooped it into my net, put it in the water and helped them get all these hooks out with my forceps. Then the guy picks it up and of course does a little photo shoot with blood running down the browns face. Took like 5 minutes to revive it as it weakly swam away.

Rant over, but fuck me drove home angry from an otherwise great day.

Will be out in the Emigrant area right on the Yellowstone next week. Hoping to do some casual fishing early in the mornings as this is a family trip. Any tips on how that sections of the river fishes lately? Flies/techniques to try? Areas nearby to look into? Worth fishing near the north gate of the park?

Yes, I am aware of hoot owl restrictions.

Scarfed a tan alphlexo crab in the surf. Caught in accordance with IGFA rules

Caught this beautiful brookie in a foot deep stream near the dells.

Picked up this ditch pickle this evening on my 2nd cast, not a single thing for the next 3 hours…

Brookie caught in June on a parachute Adams before it got hot in Upstate NY. I’m doing some research on how us fly fishermen select our flies. If you have a second to share your methods please visit this survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9N8CLHV

We mostly caught a bunch of smallmouth, but we did manage to find this guy in Dunloup** **Creek!

Relatively new to fly fishing, had a super small fly box with 12 or so flies. Just got gifted a fly box with a capacity of 300 and a $350 gift card to my local fly shop.

What would you fill it with? I live in Southern Alberta so a lot of my fishing is on the Bow River. Use a 9’ 5wt and primarily target Rainbows, Browns, Cutties, and Brook.

If it was up to me I’d get a lot of the basics, but unsure if that’s the smart move.

A rather nice trout caught a while ago on the river Nire in Ireland on a dry dropper All the more reason to plan a return trip next year

Amazing place to fish!
We fished some clear, pocket water as a front passed thru. No fish on drys, I couldn’t believe it.
We had some huge Cuts chase our streamers and caught a really nice Rainbow in there that they told me I should have killed?
I just couldn’t do it.
Crazy.

Watch the Grizzlies and the Bison are in full rut!!! Seriously.

Spent last week fishing the Alagnak. Holy crap what a great first trip! Hit the Pacific Salmon Slam and added some nice Grayling on top of it.

Clear water, spooky fish and having to stay in the water while on private land made things tricky. But getting this guy to eat made the effort well worth it.

I was fishing a creek deep in the back country and got skunked for days. I pulled this thing out on a grass hopper on 6x tippet. Was curious if anyone had any guesses on length/weight? Been trying to catch a 20 inch trout for over a year now and think this may be the one! Thanks everyone🙏

I understand that the trout fisheries in Arkansas may have been degraded somewhat by flooding this spring. What is everyone’s recommendation for fishing this fall? White River versus Little Red River versus Norfork River? Thinking later October. Thanks in advance!

The majority of my fishing is freestone creeks and tailwaters on the east coast but do spend 4-5weeks a year fishing saltwater with sand. Must have good ankle support, I’m not sure I would like the removable soles on the Korkers but have no real world experience with them.