luckydude
08-08-2011, 04:58 PM
Hi guys,
I stumbled on this forum because I was searching for a lamson LP reel. Seems like a nice place and I already knew about Kiene's fly shop (never been there, have to fix that, but I have talked to Bill quite a few years back, great guy).
I'm just shy of 50, been fly fishing for decades, though the last one has been sparse because I had kids. Cut into my fishing time quite a bit. I'd rate me as pretty good, not fantastic. Fish almost exclusively drys, my goto patterns are elk hair caddis, parachute adams, and various hoppers - I know, a hopper is cheating. I'm almost 50, ok? Gimme a break :)
We're in the SF Bay area so my fishing is pretty much the Sierras though the Trinity Alps are fun too. One area I've never done well in is the Hat Creek/McCloud area. I think I'm just not good enough to fish those areas. Or something, just never had a good time up there.
We took a trip to Bryce, Zion, and then circled back to Mammoth Lakes and spent a week there. Fishing was OK, I got into a nice brown on Hot Creek. Upper Owens was a lot of fun though I never got anything bigger than 12 inches. Sigh.
The best part of the trip, for me, was that the kids wanted to fish, we tried lures, we tried (shudder) bait, and we tried flys. Flys worked and they were hooked.
Pics of the trip are here:
http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/2011-vacation
and last night I was fishing a local creek with my second son and I think this is a little steelhead, maybe someone can confirm that?
http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/steelhead/
Anyway, here I am and happy to be here.
Cheers,
--lm
I stumbled on this forum because I was searching for a lamson LP reel. Seems like a nice place and I already knew about Kiene's fly shop (never been there, have to fix that, but I have talked to Bill quite a few years back, great guy).
I'm just shy of 50, been fly fishing for decades, though the last one has been sparse because I had kids. Cut into my fishing time quite a bit. I'd rate me as pretty good, not fantastic. Fish almost exclusively drys, my goto patterns are elk hair caddis, parachute adams, and various hoppers - I know, a hopper is cheating. I'm almost 50, ok? Gimme a break :)
We're in the SF Bay area so my fishing is pretty much the Sierras though the Trinity Alps are fun too. One area I've never done well in is the Hat Creek/McCloud area. I think I'm just not good enough to fish those areas. Or something, just never had a good time up there.
We took a trip to Bryce, Zion, and then circled back to Mammoth Lakes and spent a week there. Fishing was OK, I got into a nice brown on Hot Creek. Upper Owens was a lot of fun though I never got anything bigger than 12 inches. Sigh.
The best part of the trip, for me, was that the kids wanted to fish, we tried lures, we tried (shudder) bait, and we tried flys. Flys worked and they were hooked.
Pics of the trip are here:
http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/2011-vacation
and last night I was fishing a local creek with my second son and I think this is a little steelhead, maybe someone can confirm that?
http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/steelhead/
Anyway, here I am and happy to be here.
Cheers,
--lm