Look at the Adam Graves supporter up in here lecturing us about clean hockey.
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Fly fishing isn't that hard to become "decent" - it's just that the aquatic insects have a bunch of sizes, shapes, names, and only pop up around specific times of year.
Use this hopper fly mostly anywhere in the west in summer, cast towards the soft water along the banks of a stream in a valley or mountains, away from too many people, and you'll catch some trout.
It's as complex as you want to make it.
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To add to what diggerpup said...
Most adult aquatic insects have unique characteristics. Caddis have no tail and 1 set of wings. Just match color and size. Mayflies have long tails and come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes and colors. Stoneflies have 2 sets of wings and have a short tail. Most are very much time of day, time of year dependent. It's really not that hard once you start spending time on a stream.
And, if you just want to catch trout you can get away without knowing anything material about those things and still catch the “dumb” ones, and I’m not just talking about recently stocked fish. Matching what the fish are feeding on is as much angler judgment as it is reality. If I drift four patterns over a feeding trout without a rise, then the fifth pattern (say a #14 Royal Wulff) draws a rise, it certainly doesn’t mean that fly matched the hatch better than the first four.
Fly fishing is a delivery method. You still have to know within a moderate radius where the fish are to be found, and what range of things will trigger them to strike.
I havent gotten up since the mentor weekend due to kids sports....
But anyone with the time to get up to Pine should.
Also next week is the Upper Pine Trout Derby. Loads of fish. Cash prizes. Hopefully good weather.
Conveniently being swept under the bookcase holding the Holy Binder
He was a naughty boy
I dont know much. But one thing I do know is we and the board will ....remember.
Be careful what you hold onto! I’ve been trying to get the cesspool to lighten up for about a year. What’s in the past, is in the past.
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If we are being honest the lightening up is because this board has for the most part observed the ceasefire and greatly respects your olive branch with JTS.
And lar and lars "reported" shenanigans are only a month old. So I'm not sure what your definition of past is.
Also just because we haven't merged 2 RBY threads into a single thread doesn't mean we have gone soft around here.
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They will simply go back to the way they have always done it.
You got banned from HR for asking posters for the sources of their accusations? Must have been moderated differently a few years back.
As Cael would say, I'm grateful to live in SW Montana.
We flyfish from February thru Thanksgiving, and it's phenomenal.
My best fishing buddy out here is another PSU grad, born & raised in Latrobe.
Fair number of PSU / PA folks relocated out here - you'd be surprised.
I grew up & lived in PA & the east for 20+ years.
I'll never move back east. F that.
Northern Rocky Mountains - so many outdoor pursuits, not too crowded (aside from Denver/Boulder), and no humidity. No concrete jungle, no traffic, low crime, clean rivers, wild trout, zillions of trails, tons of public land to hike or hunt, mountains at 360 degrees, dry powder to ski, insane views everywhere you look.
I work for myself out of my house in t-shirt & gym shorts, have design projects in 4-5 different states, including PA. I do just fine. I'm very grateful.
You guys can have the NorthEast and keep it. The northeast is a shitshow. 🤣
Have you ever landed 50+ trout over 20" in one day on flies? There are some redeeming qualities of the Northeast.
And PSU wrestling matchesBut how can you live without Broadway Shows and big city cultural pursuits????
The bagmen will just go back underground.
At least we got a glimpse of how much money certain boosters are willing to fork out.
Elk rainbow/steel I assume?Have you ever landed 50+ trout over 20" in one day on flies? There are some redeeming qualities of the Northeast.
I fished Upper Elk & 20-mile in Erie every once in awhile when I'm back in PA to visit family.Have you ever landed 50+ trout over 20" in one day on flies? There are some redeeming qualities of the Northeast.
I've fished Salmon River & Oak Orchard in NY.
I've seen 500+ fisherman at Walnut Creek, zero fisherman in the Montana backcountry, and a lot in between.
We all have our likes & dislikes.
And yes, you can catch 50 trout 20-inches or larger on flies on the Missouri River near Helena, MT, downstream from Holter Dam
... just need a buddy w/ a jet boat._____________________________
The best spots are the "B-list" creeks and small rivers that you never read about in the magazines.
All those squiggly little blue lines on the state atlas.
Can fish all damn day, never see a soul, and the number of trout you move on dry flies on the 1st cast is only limited to how far upstream you want to hike that day.
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$79 one-way Allegiant Air flights to Vegas & Phoenix help keep me sane during the deep winter months. lol.But how can you live without Broadway Shows and big city cultural pursuits????
"Flights to Vegas keep me sane" -- words spoken only by degenerates like us.
What Town in SW MT? I fish the Madison a lot manty times a year south of Ennis
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