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There are posts on every type of hunting gear, how about some flyfishing equipment? One of my favorites is a Winston 8 foot 4 weight I got from Tom Morgan when he owned Winston. I went to Russia on a flyfishing expedition to the Kola Peninsula with Tom, Stu Apte, Buzz Ramsey and a few others of note, to do exploratory fishing on the Ponoy River for Atlantic Salmon. When I got back, I spent a lot of time with Tom and eventually got a bunch of rods from him. This 4 weight was the first, finished with an Abel TR-2 reel. When we were in Russia sitting on the river waiting to be picked up by the boats to take us to camp, a number of local Lapplanders showed up, so to impress them, I told them Tom and Myself had just graduated from Med school and were brain surgeons treating ourselves to a fishing trip. He then started calling me "Doc" Stovall and labeled some rods accordingly...
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Sage TXL 0wt with a Sage 3100 'Loomis Stream Dancer 5wt St. Croix Ultra legend 8wt
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Nice rods, and nice cutthroat from the Lamar. I am hoping to be back there next September to catch the end of the hopper season!
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I was there today, headed back to the Yellowstone Buffalo Ford Saturday...
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Nice stuff guys. I don't have anything in that league and with my skills it wouldn't matter anyway but I did buy a new 6wt TFO with some of my fur money this year. And a Redington 4wt I've had for a few years.
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Buffalo ford any good these days Shrap? Do they still fall for the "teaberry Shuffle'?
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The Buffalo Ford hasn't been the same for the past 10 years or so. 2 years ago, I went there and caught a couple small fish, indicating that the Cutthroats are coming back. This was last year, probably the biggest girth I have gotten at the Buffalo Ford. Be here at 5:30 in the A.M. and you can go with us...
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Im thinking about hitting the Lamar in September�.havent been there in a long time�.
BTW: thats a DANDY cutt for Buffalo Ford
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Where exactly is Buffalo Ford in the park and how are you fishing? Drys or nymphing? I'd like to make a trip there.
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Buffalo Ford is now re-named Nez Perce Ford and it is about 4 miles North of Fishing Bridge on the Yellowstone. There aren't many Cuts left, they are coming back... Tom Morgan Rodsmith rod, 8 1/2 foot 5 weight with Able TR-2 reall, Teeny DT 5 floating line....
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Was hoping to post a new fly rod pic today, but yesterday my fishing and my casting sucked�..
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Headed out to the Bighorn today, should have plenty of pictures by Monday...
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Bighorn should be getting good about now. Its only one of two places in Montana Ive ever see lightning bugs. The other was the lower Madison below the Bear Trap.
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Fishing report said lots of moss on the 'Horn. Still good but will be cleaning off the flies a lot.
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I guess I should call this one the special Long story short a guy was giving away some rod blanks if anyone had kids they'd like to teach how to build a rod. I took him up on the offer and had my son's each build the 7 and 5 wt he offered up. He also threw in a 9' 3 pc 4 wt that I decided to build for myself. Stinky deer suggested using cottonwood bark for the grip so I made donuts with a hole saw, sanded em flat then stacked them up. After turning it down on the lathe and putting on a coat of wax it came out pretty good. Was at the local hunting fishing store and they had a small stack of ross reels 30% off. The cimarron 1 looked to be the right size and I found one that was already spooled up. The sales guy said he didn't know how to price the line so it was gratus. Seems to be a well balanced no name setup with a sweet action. Just need to break myself free and chase some grayling with it.
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Sometimes the story bests the rod itself...
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I'm not about to show you my self made flyrod... You guy would laugh me out of this place.
I have a good rod but the one I use the most is a 7' 4wt Shakespeare micro graphite I got on clearance at wal mart for 13 bucks and change. I use it for a spin/fly combo rod. I stripped the guides off and replaced them with small low profile spinning guides. I'm gonna take the reel seat and cork off and replace it with a 12" tennessee handle with rings so I can mount a spinning reel at the top or a fly reel at the end. The trigger of a spincast reel mounted in the flyreel position can be pulled with the pinky and casted with your hand in the position as if you are fly casting. This is how I rig it when fishing for sunfish with tiny hand tied jigs under a float.
I took it with me on a motorcycle trip yesterday to the clinch river for sunfish but neither the sun fish or smallmouth weren't biteing flies real well so I changed reels and started catchin smallies on spinners. My cheapo fly rod saved the day. Its ugly but its a great tool. NOT picture worthy.
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TFO 3 wt, Okuma SLV 2/3 and a Row River Steelhead. Shoulder issues keep me from using much over a 5 wt these days, unless I'm in the drift boat. I caught two nice summer run steelhead yesterday on the Rogue, but used a spinning rod and bubble with a tandem nymph setup. It's still a lot'a fun!
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Better late than never? Redington CPX graphite 4-pc, 9'-0" 5-wt with Orvis CFO III disc drag reel.
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