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I don't do any fishing so I wouldn't know. I haven't been to that trail in a few years but last time we went the creek was still pretty. Not ashy and was crystal clear.

 

from April 2013

 

I was trying to find my old pictures and they were lame haha that's what it looked like though

 

Feed that dog, Bob! It looks like you photoshopped a dog body on a deer's legs a really skinny dog.

 

he's 60lbs of pure energy man! he's got plenty of meat on him..he never stops moving

 

By the looks of him I don't doubt that!

 

I have been thinking the same thing...trying to talk the wife into doing some real camping with me sometime soon. I have never gone fly fishing before..is it possable to catch anything with just a regular rod and reel?

 

Yes, regular rod and reel will catch fish just fine. In some instances it actually works better.

 

Yes

 

Good to know...thank you. Just use a small trout lure? I have not gone fishing in prolly 10 yrs.

 

2,4,or 6 pound test line, I see lots of guys using 8 pound and higher, it's too big. I use mostly 4 pound.

Mepps lures work pretty fair. The yellow ones with the black dots work well. You can't go to small. Trout have small mouths. Some of the biggest fish I have caught was with a tiny mosquito that I could barely tie to the line.

Honestly you can tie a fly to a regular rod, use a small casting bubble to get it out there and you'll have the time of your life. Most of my small stream fishing is like that. I save the fly rod for bigger rivers where you have room to swing that thing.
Skeeters aren't quite in yet another week or two for them to really hit hard woolly booger works good, yellows, browns, black for colors.

Go through the fly bins at Sportsmans and look for the ones that are almost empty.

For some reason dark lures/flies work well in murky water and flashy stuff works good in clear water, seems backwards but I'm not a fish.

 

Great info! Thank you I am gonna try to get out there asap.

 

does the trail lead right up to this?

 

Yes

 

Well then...Metberry Gulch here I come...Do I dare take my rental Frontier there? lol

 

Do it.

I took a rental Yaris to an autocross once and won the novice class with it... returned it with some feathered tires and no issues.

 

haha nice...the fronty has no ground clearence.

 

I grew up in Michigan so I grew up with a spinner in my hand. Picked up fly fishing last spring and haven't looked back. So much fun; adds more of a sport to it, at least to me. As BDN said, there's no such thing as too small of a hook. It amazes me the size they bite on.

Agreed on the color of flies/lures also. My grandpa always told me when I was younger to match what the surroundings were (i.e. flashy bright colors in clear water and sunny, while using dark colors in murky waters and overcast skies). For some reason it works so I haven't questioned it.

Here's my last fish of last season in the Deckers area.

 

Thats pretty sweet. I know nothing about fly fishing. I grew up in New England so its all lakes and ocean there.

 

all this fishing talks makes me want to take some fly lessons!!

i grew up fishing rivers in NY with spinner bait for small mouth, so i'm outta my element here...just got too caught up in other hobbies out here and never got back into fishing..i know i've been missing out terribly