Fly Fishing BS thread

My fat belly gets in the way of my elbows when I kneel down. Easier to hold the fish out in front. Lol.

 

I'm typically adjusting lighting to show off the fish best but you know alot of people are doing this.

 

Didn’t look arm length to me. Great fish.

 

Personally, I don't take many fish pics unless they're good fish based on how much I've fished (I know, I know, terrible problem to have ).

When I am taking pics I want the focus to be on the fish and less me. Lots of ways to do this, 0.5 zoom, portrait mode, holding the fish out so it's framed better, etc.). If it's an absolute monster and I want better perspective on it's size I'll change the pose but you can usually tell from hand size.....

 

I got to do a little fishing last weekend. Was a nice retreat from the heat we’ve been having at home lately.

 

A few fish on barbless chubbies out of the pontoon

 

Late night streamer eats

 

Bulls and browns in the same water body I'm jealous of that

 

If you want to find more bulls target white water with small streamers. That might be hard to do with a tenkara set up though. Everyone always says big pools for bulls but I catch most of mine tucked behind boulders in fast water.

That sounds alot like our headwaters Freestone creeks lots of cuts/white/bulls if they aren't damed down low then the rainbows get up there aswell.

But there is one creek that should have everything overlapping rainbows/browns/cuts/bulls/pike/whites/perch. No dams obstructing travel but there is a very defined line where the terrain and the species switch. The lower stretch has bows browns pike/perch it's far more muddy bottom with heavy grass banks in the low lying foothills but once it hits the rocky terrain it's all cuts/bows/bulls and whites. Over 9 years of fishing that area i have yet to catch a brown in the cooler waters higher up. I really thought the browns would of appreciated the cooler oxygen rich water but yet they seem to stick in the warmer slower waters.

Speaking of browns...



Also shameless non fly sturgeon plug. Because they are awesome.

 

The FISHWHIP, dear friends and I spanked very small numbers of very nice fish.

(Feed ‘em mice in the daytime!)​

Full trip report here, with pictures, in case anyone’s interested in some north woods shenanigans.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/midwest-fishwhip-build-now-w-fishporn.808230/page-2#post-30721871

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The misses is jealous of those brooks, our brookie fishery is pathetic and only getting worse from what I can see.

As I continue to fish this one river i have decided it was actually irresponsible to continue to fish my 10' 2wt that's meant for the mountain cutty streams any longer. Added a 10'6 3wt to the roster and I can see the value in the shadow x over the shadow 2. The front locking reel seat combined with the lighter blank makes it muuuch more pleasant to hold for hours on end.

 

Your glasses look weird