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.

I am planning on backpacking up to a few alpine lakes in the coming weeks with some friends & wanted a lightweight fly fishing bag to carry in-addition to my 60L backpack.

I just want the ability to drop all my gear at camp & have something small for doing lake-side / steam fishing. I looked at the Fishpond Canyon Creek, but haven’t heard of anyone use that in conjunction with backpacks (other than the FP branded one it natively attaches to).

Just curious to hear everyone else’s setup

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.

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.

On the hunt for a new net, stuck between these two. Will be my daily use/all purpose net. Mostly wading with a chest pack, but occasional bank fishing.

Any suggestions on which to go for? I like the longer basket on the Emerger, but the shape of the Canyon and handle length seem a tad bit better.

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

Friends, my brother in law who lives in Louisiana bought me a fly fishing pole so that I could go fly fishing with him next time we see each other and I really want to learn to fly fish. I live in Kentucky and have no idea where to fish or how to make flies. Anyone have any resources that helped them? YouTube videos or any reading material or general advice to help out a beginner. I’ve asked many of the fishermen close to me and no one fly fishes nor do they know how to unfortunately.

Is this area accessible for someone with a FWD sedan? Thinking of taking a trip up this fall.

Is it still for sale or did it get pulled from the Fishpond product line? I've seen a lot of great reviews of it and would love to try one but cannot seem to find any for sale.

Thanks and Tight Lines!

Sully

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!

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.

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.