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If you walk in make sure you know what sections are open. Lots of closed waters back in that area for the Paiute Cutts.

Guess I shouldn't listen to what I hear fisherman say :)

I haven't been over since late June and the Carson and Walker were still raging and brown at that time.

Most of the east side stuff I keep hearing give it 2-3 weeks. Mostly I was just complaining :) I have plenty of "jump across" creeks I know are fishing well around the lower elevations but the upper...

2011 is going to go down as one of the craziest years I've ever experienced! It's August, I'm starting to reload for hunting seasons right around the corner and people are still saying many rivers...

If you're anything like my brother you'll just donate it to the triver the 3rd time you use it.

Woops splash.......

They're handy for tracking conditions over the years. You may find some...

Had planed to take some time this week and head up the hill. This weather is the pits! Heard it was raining pretty high up last night. Wonder if that will get the snow pack melting and maybe runoff...

BBQ on Saturday followed by golf on Sunday. I gave up on crowds and blown river opening days a LONG time ago. If you haven't been to the sierras and foothills lately there is a TON of snow up there.

In the beginning you can save money tying just a few patterns. It gets pricey 10 years from now when you have boxes full of "why the hell did I buy this?" for all the must have patterns you thought...

Ever think of donating it to a museum? I bet a place that sets up reenactments of days gone bye could use those no longer available fibers. I'm thinking the big fly fishing manufacturers or even the...

I have a Powell 9' 8 weight 4 piece TiMax that I've only used 3 or 4 times. Got it for Delta bass and steelhead. Never really bass fish and use my other rods more often for steelhead. Would make a...

All my rods are outfitted with Teton Tioga reels. Want to get one for my Steelhead rod. Anyone got an 8 weight they're looking to sell? Looks like I recently missed a few :(
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Tied up a few alevin patterns. Tried my little panfish streamer with a few modifications: size 10 egg or scud hook, oversized black bead, Pearl Ice dub body, black crystal flash underwing, squirrel...

I put a video of it in the water on You Tube. http://www.youtube.com/user/davkrat5#g/u
Looks pretty good in the water could have used a little more weight but once the gills are on their beds in the...

The kids are out of school today so I figured I’d whip up some flies and take my son down to a pond and try to get some bluegill. My favorite streamer is John Barr’s Slumpbuster. A few years ago I...

Very cool! How do you form the heads? Is that something you buy or do you glue several layers of thicker different colored foam together and then carve to shape? I assume the foam disk is is pierced...

Yeah you don't really see many Yellow Sallies with anything other than yellow and cream on their bodies. I should have tied another type of bug but I was set up for Sally's so I just threw the ink...

This is a pattern I came up with for Little Yellow Sallies, small terrestrial and big Caddis. More of a slow water pattern not as buoyant as the flies with more foam but a more realistic profile.
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This is my version of a caddis pupa. I call it the CDC and Pearl Pupa.

1. Start with a beadhead on a caddis or scud hook. This is 2mm black bead on a #16 TMC 2487BL hook
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What loop would you recommend? I've been trying to add to my repertoire of knots. I've been trying the Duncan and Non-slip Mono Loops. Also the Harvey Dry Fly Knot. Seems though at last light when...

I paid $.75 for two at OSH in the prepackaged bubble pack. They were in the plumbing section. In the past I bought them out of bins like the nuts and bolts and think they were even cheaper than $.37...

Nice photos. Thank god bugs are so small, seeing a giant bug hatch would be terrifying. I get visions of "Aliens" every time I see a close up of a bug shedding it's shuck. Those photos have me...

Thanks. Yep Chartreuse and Olive egg yarn and then the red is called Float-Viz. It stands up a little straighter which is nice. There is some other form of yarn that is recommended as more water...

DOH!!! Missed another one. I haven't been active on this site in a year or so.

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Don't know if this has been posted on here before. A couple years ago I saw on the Global Flyfisher site how to make your own indicators. You can customize the size and color and if your like me and...

Tied up a few of those Hopper Juans and my caddis pattern. That foam style bullet head is super easy and quick, a lot easier than a deer hair bullet head.

I'm in on a floam fly swap.
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