Im usually pretty good on my ipad but dang if I can figure out how to post a pic on this site. I follow the simple instructions but my image gallery never posts. Nice reels men.
Abel Classic trout spey goes on T&T DNA 11.5' 4 weight trout spey Abel Vaya 5/6 goes on T&T Contact 2 11'2" 3 weight euro nymph Abel TR 4/5 Native Brook Trout goes on Scott G Series 8'8" 4 weight dry fly rod Abel TR 1 Classic Brook Trout goes on Scott F2 6'6" 3 weight fiberglass Ross Colorado 4/5 goes on Scott G Series 8'8" 5 weight my wife's set up Ross Colorado LT 4/5 goes on Scott G2 8'4" 2 weight beaver pond rod Ross Evolution R 7/8 that goes on 2 different rods. Part time on a Scott Centric 9' 6 weight and part time on a T&T Exocett SS 250 grain streamer rod.
Last edited by GuideGun; 07/21/22.
-Matt
"The proof of the whisky is in the drinking, the proof of the rifle is in the shooting."
Only have a few, mostly older. Pflueger Medalist from about 1952, my mothers. Ross Gunnison G-2, mid ‘90’s. Old Florida #55 for the denizens of the deep. 😂 Last my new Galvan Brookie. Great minimalist reel.
That's a section of Pennsylvania's Big Spring Creek, a renowned limestone creek. That stretch was known as The Blue Hole way back in the day, and was where Charlie Fox took a state record Brown immediately post-war. I was blessed to have fished it damned near every weekend from 1988-1990 - when it was still a place of enchantment. Now the PA Fish Commission has seen fit to have wrecked it in an effort to "restore" it to something it never really was.
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz "Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
Top row, L-R: 70's-vintage Hardy Marquis #5, 60's-vintage Orvis Flyweight (made by J.W.Young, England), 40's-vintage Weber (a kinda clunky reel but it was my Dad's so I keep it around for nostalgic reasons, and fish it occasionally for the same reason).
Bottom row, L-R: Bill Ballan Light Trout, Hardy Perfect 2 7/8" (probably gets the most use).
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz "Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
Where are all your "automatics"? I bet you guys have only cars with 3 speeds on the column or five on the floor, wheelguns, and single shot rifles and shotguns! Just so sadly 19th Century....
Actually I only had one "automatic" fly reel back when they were sort of popular, I think it was a "Martin" make. It sucked up the slack line when I didn't want it to, and didn't when I did! In short it sucked. So I went back to one biggish Pflueger "Medalist" and one tiny one and that's where I've been for MANY decades of popper and hopper ploppin'! Not much of a fly fisherman, but I sure respect the skill. Unlike golf.
And what IS that "spiny thing"! Looks like Hell and perhaps is something that came from there....
Was Mike Armstrong. Got logged off; couldn't log back on. RE-registered my old call sign, Mesa. FNG. Again. Mike Armstrong
Heres my crew. I am mostly saltwater only one freshwater 5 wt. You boys dont tease me about my pink Ross reel. My girlfriend picked it out for herself. Thanks Cheesy forvthe posting help.
Mesa, caught it in the Gulf of Mexico on Apalachee Bay near where I used to live. Salt water of course. Was told it was a striped Burr Fish, it kind of looks like it.