Decided to go with 4wt for most of my fishing Joe Bradley 7.5' 4wt; snappy bamboo with loads of style and so fun to fish (Slow down!!) Sage LL 8.5' 4wt: most streams and mid size rivers, let's even small trout put a decent bend in it and can handle bigger fish really well. Hydros 9' 4wt tip flex: Fa...

Flip a coin. They are both great rods. Then consider the Hydros and the money you save for a rod with the SAME blank will buy you other things like gas, motel rooms, campsite fees, a reel or spare spool, flies or tying supplies, or really nice flowers for the woman you love.

Enjoy.

Bob

Car camping: Jetboil
Backpacking: Trangia alcohol stove.
Less than 4 nights and I'm Freezer Bag cooking so mostly it's all about boiling water and back country brookies deserve a twig fire to be just right.

Bob

Well the trip was great! I hired a guide named Nate through the Slide Inn; Nate runs Trout On The Fly guide service. We did the wade and float sections and it rocked. Not a high fish count but, I remember each one especially the huge brown that had us running downstream to keep up. The best results ...

That guy is a rock star! Wow.

This is a great thread and I’ve been on here for a while and hadn’t come across it yet. Thanks for starting it. I grew in the suburbs of So Cal (South Gate and Lynwood) and my first memory of fishing is on a little bluegill pond in Illinois near to my Great Aunts’ house where we would spend some sum...

I've used it on flies before they ever got wet and it seemed to help. I don't think it lives up to the advertisement but, couldn't hurt.

Bob

Hey friends (Ok, strangers)! I've been blessed with a vacation to the Yellowstone/Teton area and I want to hire a guide for a day on the Upper Madison, Slide Inn/$3 Bridge area. I have an idea of the shop that I'm gonna contact and hire out of but, if anyone has a recommendation, I would be really i...

Hello friends, I succumbed and bought some lovely, long tenkara leaders. They are still dry and new and I was hoping that there may be an ideal way to waterproof them as much as able. One of the leaders is a Mystic Creek that is primarily furled thread material. The other is furled mono and I believ...

No. Salmon would be the closest option. Eel needs to be cooked.

Bob

Isn't Ross now selling an inexpensive but quality rod now? Don't know if you can check it out at your local shop but, I plan on looking into it myself. Also, I've cast the access rods by orvis... I know, I know but, it is a good rod, it is pretty darn fast, has a nice feel, not too expensive and Orv...

There are so many reasons why I fly fish but in the face of our media-age and after a couple of in person conversations: I started using a fly rod before "A River Runs Through It" although this movie and the internet made me much more aware of the amount of prose available within the subje...

Like so many of you, I enjoy them for dry fly fishing. My only concern is when I have too much tippet on the end and it piles when I want it to straighten out. Of course it could be my casting.... I don't usually use them for nymphing, I'll usually take the 5 minutes to swap out to a 90 degree set-u...

So can I take a comfortable pair of levis and completely slather them in auqaseal? Then I'll have pockets too!

Bob