Brian

How?

Get the Redington CT. Go to a local fly shop if possible, they'll recommend a good inexpensive reel & decent line. This is a rod you won't immediately want to upgrade out of as you learn (vs. the others you listed)

#flyfishing people - do you tie your own leaders? please talk me out of it....

Love the pheasant tail variation

Drop the brand info, please!

A brook trout in a fishing net

Success from the Guides' Choice Hares Ear tonight. Amazed how well a sz 14 klink works as an indicator and can easily float a weighted & beaded sz 16 nymph.
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This was the first year I tied klinkhammers for my dry box.
Glad to find that they work!

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First trout of the year, on a brook I hadn't fished before today. 15 days earlier than my first trout last year. Took a sz 14 prince nymph tied this winter.
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YouTube video by Flylords We drove 30hrs to FLY FISH HERE! | FLY SHOP TOUR Szn 3 - Ep. 1

Very cool to see one of my local fly shops, Tied by Night, featured by Flylords in this video. Roland is a local legend. Even seems like he tidied up the shop for this video!

youtu.be/slF3xPuwZ2w?...
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Ahhh I see. I really like the cam style. Makes it easier to adjust during tying, like flipping a parachute fly sideways, etc.

Where are you seeing the new traveler with a screw jaw? I read the only difference was a wider base and the material clip coming included.

So what were the tips 🧐🧐

Dr slick mitten clamps!!

How do you like the Recon?

Filling a new box with this year's ties
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Ok, what's everyone's fav online #flyfishing retailer that's offering that SA 2-for-1 deal?

I've always wondered, why use dry fly hackle for this style of hopper? It's supposed to imitate legs, which soft hackle would do IN & on the water and without changing the floating angle of the fly.

Reading @davidrcoggins.bsky.social "The Optimist" and it's the first time I've heard someone other than my own father wax poetic about Snyder's of Hanover brown box pretzels

Also notable is how the feathers are more narrow and longer

Mid-tie thought: isn't a stimulator just a really big elk hair caddis? #flytying

aoc and bernie look like every local action news anchor team.

Realized today that the only "true" dry flies I tied this winter are Elk Hair Caddis, Para-Adams, and Stimulators 👀 Everything else is a foam hopper or an emerger.
Should I tie up any other "true" dries?

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Stepping out of my comfort zone to spin some deer hair for bass flies. This is as close as I have come so far to a presentable Taps Bug
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Anyway I just sent a fax to my senator.

faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

Honestly the box on the right in this pic is that box for me 😆 it made it into my pack at the end of the season last year 🫣
Maybe everything from the other boxes will end up in there this year.

Oof. Last year's mess. Technically I have enough newly tied flies that I don't need any of these 🤔
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I've basically been doing this but on each side rather than top/bottom, but a bit of the dubbing shows on the top/bottom even after teasing out. Btw do you tie yours with weight on the shank or just bead?

A poorly crafted LaFontaine sparkle pupae fly

These sparkle pupae 'bubbles' are really annoying me. Difficult to get right. But the quest to figure it out makes it easy to tie a dozen #flytying #flyfishing

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I saw their exhibit in 2019, very moving!