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quote: freshwater bonefish..........THE CARP....

I know a guy in Nevada who ties a cottonwood seed fly, imitating the white fluffy seed balls that float on the water in spring. I guess carp eat them, that is what he claims, anyway. There is some good fishing in parts of Nevada, but not like here!

COHO!

BMT

The problem picking is the fish comes with an environment and the combination of the fish and the environment make for the experience! I really enjoyed my trips to Alaska (Yakatat) and fishing for Sockeye's and Kings and there's nothing like a fresh King on a 7 weight. Included with the fish was bears and moose and coffee with my Grandfather over a campstove. The fish at that point is just garnish.

That being said the wife and I went up to Maine a couple years ago to fish the Rapid River for Brookies and Landlocks and that was a ton of fun. Got a 21" Brookie on a size 16 EHC that was a blast. The better part might have been that I got to help my wife get her first fish of any sort on a dry fly on a fly she had tied.

Ten minutes from the house here I've got the Patapsco where I can walk a mile or so upstream and catch all the smallies I want wet wading on a pleasant summer afternoon when the choirs are done.

Course, if I were to put it down to just plain pulling power I'd have to go with the redfish that spooled my six weight one afternoon in Pensacola 20 some years ago. I've never forgot that total no way I can land this fish on this tippet feeling.

Allen

For pure fight I think silvers would be at the top of my list.
For just a plain fun day of fishing would be grayling and dollies on Yukon River tribs.
I also enjoy pike fishing out in Kaiyuh.

Saltwater: Bonefish for their reel screaming runs
Freshwater: Summer steelhead for their reel screaming runs

Wild spring run Alaskan Steelhead are simply knucklebusters. Fall bows are awesome too but I do love the metelheads.
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I gotta vote for steelies and bones.

nice steelie. welcome to the fire, ptarmigan and Frankie.

Being that 99% of my fishing is warm water my fishing passion is LARGE Bluegill sunfish on ultralight gear. Little brother made a 3 weight 6.5 foot rod for my 50th birthday. That rod with 1 or 2 pound tippets makes for a very exciting day of fishing. Salt water is for me wading for mullet (poor man's bone fish) with a 5 weight. They spook like bone fish on the tideal flats, they run, jump, and when that doesn't work they just put their head down and sulk.

Very nice fish and welcome!
M

Big Rainbows-freshwater. Have a San Juan River trip next week and plan on finding some. Being landlocked, I don't have much opportunity to fish the salt, but expect that to change in the near future.

Salt: False Albacore on a 7. Fresh, i know I am speaking heresy to some, but I love Small mouths on a 5!! Make you wonder what the fuss over trout is all about! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> NYS

NICE FISH!!! NYS

Never done any saltwater fly fishing.

Freshwater: Silvers more fight pound for pound than kings. I also like flyfishing for dollies and grayling on a couple of clear water Yukon River feeder streams and northern pike in the side sloughs and lakes in the same area.

Welcome Ptarmigan. Nice fish.
Care to divulge the general location you caught that? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> I've never fished for steelies before.

Fresh water - those of you who DIDN"T choose rainbows, come up here and catch an 8 lb rainbow and then choose. Last weekend I took a friend who never flyfished before out to an interior lake. He fought and landed a 4 pound rainbow - it took him 20 minutes - and had a smile on his face that didn't disappear for hours.

Oh how I miss fishing those interior lakes in the kamloops region.When I lived in Heffley Creek,I could be on a lake in any given direction in less than an hours drive,flyfishing for those big Kamloops strain rainbows.

Mine has to be Summer Steelhead, not that I do it a lot anymore since they don't have hatchery fish in the upper Kalama anymore but used to have a blast up there.

Appalachian strain Brookies with stream bred rainbows a close second....

I guess I like large Rainbows almost as much as SE Steelies!
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I go for beauty more than size anymore. I love the Greenback Cutts which are an endangered species and native to Colorado.