Welcome aboard. Good to another one interested in chasing (and catching) carp.

That would be something to see - Ariel buck banging, chest popping and stomping her way to her favorite Lower Owens fishing hole. Keep it on the beat, Gal, keep it on the beat

Nice! I've only floated that stretch once but I remember very fondly both the hard-pulling fish and the scenery. Thanks for sharing you trip with us. I need to get back up there and float it again.

Happy Birthday!

That's a great opportunity Zee. Thanks for the update.

For a fast sink rate I love the Rio Custom-Cut Outbound lines. For a 6wt rod, cutting the T-8 Custom-Cut Outbound back to a head length of 30ft will give you the 240 grns that load up a 6wt rod. These T-8 lines have a sink rate of 7 inches per second. The goal here is a line that helps you deliver a...

Happy Birthday! I hope you are out fishing somewhere on this important day!

So after a day on the water with David, I learned that using regular lead core line works great for a sink tip. I now use lead core trolling line... the neat thing about this stuff is that A) it gets you down fast and B) is really cheap, you can buy a entire spool (30 yards) from the big box store ...

If you get (or can get) Fly Rod & Reel take a look a the April 2009 issue. Ted Williams (the conservation columnist not the dead baseball player) has an article about this issue and California's trout stocking issue in the April 2009 edition and the Decembr 2008 edition. They are a good read.

I caught a fish in March so I might as well enter it (in the hopes that Randy is the guest judge of the month for March )

Ouch!

Great choice. I love mine!

Cool pictures of some of the critters our trout eat.

Great question, Eric. I was sondering the same thing. What do you use to buff out scratches in the LCD?

I'm retiring my original Pentax Optio Wpi and replacing it with the newer Optio W60. I retiring the older model for two reasons. One leads into my question. Over the past few years of hard use, slipping the camera into and out of shirt pockets, fishing vest pockets, sleeves of kayak jackets .... the...