Wild West Bass Team Event at Shasta!!

[MThompson]

Was browsing around the interwebs and saw a familiar name from this board. Ryan Williams and his partner came out on top in a 180 boat field and beat a bunch of guys who are straight up assasins on that lake.
Congratulations!
SON!!

[McFish]

Way to go Ryan! Were you fishing Flot N Fly? Or was this a gear deal? In any case it's good to see your success.

[Ryan]

MThompson this is great! I love hearing stuff like this! I am so dang beyond ecstatic about this I have a hard time putting it into words. Absolutely shocked to be honest. Thank you for the cred on the board!!!

McFish I am proud to say I used the fly rod the entire time. And yes f&f was my go to of corse. Did not set it down once. And my partner used a conventional rod up front. Overall the fly rod deffinately contributed 50/50 to the bag. The fly got one fish that was close to 4lbs. And my partner Logan pulled our big fish at 4.5lbs on the spinning rod.

So I definitely went out there and proved a point for all us fly fishers! I really hope people recognize this as a huge victory for all fly fishers. That was my goal 100%!

[MThompson]

Awesome. I've really gone down the rabbit hole with the float and fly thing recently using your methods of course. It's fun to tinker with. I actually used my 4 wt switch rod last trip out and it worked pretty good. The extra length helps as far as getting fish in the net.
Hopefully all the circuits get rid of the stupid rod length limit.

[Andy]

Nice one! The Redding paper did not mention sticking with a fly rod for the win, that is confidence competing with the bassmasterson crowd.

Tied up some jig heads last year but never gave it a go. Gonna have to resist the ned rig temptation and stick with it on my next Shasta trip, I am inspired.

Andy

[Ryan]

Good stuff MThompson. Real fun to tinker with just like you said. So many different things you can do. 4wt switch would be perfect. I have heard good things about the switch rods and the technique.

Andy that sucks the Redding paper didn't mention this fact! They probably published so quick they didn't even realize. Kinda should have been in there with the ff community in redding though! Darn! Fish your flies with confidence!