Fly Fishing BS thread

Question.

I use a fuck ton of tippet and always buy the small spools.

Has anyone found a good bulk solution for this?

 

It doesn't work for most of what I do. It's hard to fish big rivers and cover a lot of water without an indicator, especially out of a drift boat which is how I fish most of the time. I can't stack mend a drift all the way to my backing without a bobber! But I like tight lining nymphs on smaller streams sometimes.

 

Either buy the guide spools from Rio or SA, which are usually 100 yards. Or just get the bulk spools that gear fishermen use. There are way more companies making mono/fluoro for gear fishing than fly fishing. It isn't usually marketed in the 1x, 2x, 3x, etc system, but you can just cross the tippet diameters to whatever you are looking for. It's way cheaper, especially for fluoro.

 

Boy is 9. Really trying to get him fly fishing this year. Was out three hours yesterday with him, and he managed to land one. Had lots of hook ups, he just had trouble bringing them in.

 

Anybody else fish a butterstick? Just bought one and I’m having an absolute ball with it.

 

I think there was talk of those in this thread, iirc.

 

@TacomaHammer
Here it was. Not much. Thought there was more chatter about it.

 

Buttersticks look sweet, little pricey. I love glass, just picked up a Blue Halo, love it.

 

I had thought so too at first. Sportsman’s warehouse as them for 150 right now (the original) and I can work with that. It’s no R.L. Winston but honestly I don’t want one and would rather catch a fish with this rod. I couldn’t believe how much play it has when fighting!

 

Oh wow, online sale? I need a 3 wt. Glass is super fun with the light weights. The Blue Halo is my second glass, the first was a 5/6 eagle claw.

 

https://www.sportsmans.com/fishing/rods/fly-rods/redington-butter-stick-fly-fishing-rod/p/p1368336

There's one in town where I live but looks like they have 3 wts

 

Great deal, thanks for the link.

 

Nothing big, but he got 7 stocked rainbows today in a few hours. You can see the pod in front of us. I switched flies several times, but couldn’t get any consistent bites and one pattern for him. Beadhead hares ear was the most productive after he started playing and let me fish.

 

I have an old style 6’6” Butterstick I fish from time to time. Bought it used broken off a buddy for 40$. Sent it in for repair for another 40$. It’s a nice little 80$ rod.

 

Any suggestions on putting a tying kit together ? Figured it's time to start learning how to tie the staple flies and nymphs. Also, suggestions on where to purchase material or material in general. I live in New Hampshire, so I'm assuming a fair amount of material may be available to me as I'm out in the woods all the time

 

Your local fly shop, May even offer free lessons.

 

Yeah, I'm a frequent at almost all 3 local shops over a 50 mile radius. But between working third shift and having a scheduling conflict and the prices, just looking for additional options

 

Try some big box sporting goods store, ie Feild and Stream. Online stores have good prices, The Fly Shop in N. Cali has a good online store.