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As a bonus, it's much easier to take a size 6 or 8 hook out of a bluegills mouth than it is a size 16.

Excellent idea! Thanks for posting.

The Henryville Special comes to mind.

Exactly. And if for some reason the extra wire thickness did matter, just use a size 18 2x fine.

I agree. More than enough info for an experienced tier to tie the fly, without wasting time. It's also language independent, European or Asian tier can communicate without having to speak English, or use sub-titles. There's a place for both this style of video and the longer, detailed ones.

True. One year, my best smallie of the year took a size 16 pheasant tail while I was fishing for trout. A lot of stonefly patterns are going to be larger. Try a Montana Nymph, for example.

Not true. I have caught channel cats while fly fishing, and when the the white fly is on the Potomac, they'll take a white popper.

Right hand wind. I tried to convert to LHW back in the 80's and only managed to have to shift rod hands a second time after I realized the handle wasn't where I expected. I can cast with either hand (although prefer the right) so it really doesn't matter one way or the other. Whatever you're used to, I guess.

My feelings exactly. To me, the ideal release is to grab the leader and have the fish unhook itself before I have to unhook it myself. Second best is to lose the fish a bit further out. The net is just the last resort (unless I actually want to keep a fish to eat.) I don't particularly like to break a fish off, though. No need for it to go swimming around with a length of leader hanging from it. Plus, I've lost a fly, and have to spend time re-rigging.

Two different, but similar, taxes: Pitman-Robertson applies to sporting firearms. Dingell-Johnson applies to fishing equipment.

That's the problem with regional common names for critters. Where i came from, "Mosquito Hawk" always meant a crane. In fact, it seems to mean crane fly everywhere I've ever lived. I've never heard of a dragon fly referred to by that name, although it may in some places. "Daddy Long Legs" is the British term for a crane fly (it never means harvestman). It's been in use for hundred of years. It's also so used in some places in the US as well, although where I grew up it meant Harvestman (which are arachnids, not crustaceans.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy_longlegs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly

You think? I believe the sun will rise in east tomorrow.

This from Wikipedia: . Many crane fly species have aquatic larvae and they can be an important food source in some trout streams, as can the egg laying adults. (The Killer Bug and Walt's Worm are both good imitations of those larvae.)

I take the occasional channel cat while fly fishing for smallouth. They're vastly underrated as a game fish.

It's my belief as well, and you should have no problem proving it, especially with the selection you've chosen. (I'm somewhat surprised to see no Renegade, though.) I did a similar thing about 15 years ago, fishing no fly not in existence before 1950. I doubled the number of fish I caught from the year before when I was only fishing the "latest and greatest".

Good podcast! I thought the fly box segment was pretty good as well.

They both have their place. Novel techniques that need an explanation benefit from the longer format, but the 1 minute is all that was needed for the fly shown in that example.

Many people on this forum tie their own. Seriously, this can be a concern. I usually use tippet material one or two X finer to my point fly than to my top dropper, so that if I snag it, I only lose one instead of two.

I think he wants somebody to give him a vise.

This should probably be in a topic of its own, but the difference between a Partridge and Orange tied with silk and one tied with UTC 70 will mostly be the color of the body when wet. The silk will turn a rusty brown, the UTC will stay orange. It depends on how much faith you put in color as a factor whether this makes a difference to you. FWIW, there's a reason my avatar here is a P&O: I've caught more trout on them in the last twenty years than on all other flies combined.

I don't mean to pick on you in particular, but a lot of people seem to have misconceptions about what Memorial Day is. It's to honor those who have fallen in the service of their country. There's nothing happy about that. And it's not the day to honor all those who served; that day comes in November.

Actually, it seldom ends badly. I land most of the doubles that I hook (most recently yesterday), and when I don't it's because one becomes unbuttoned as I'm netting the other. I've had doubles on land locked salmon with each fish over 20"; it's just not that hard to deal with. You're right about different parts of the water column, but there are other reasons: 1) You give the fish a choice: different sizes, different colors, etc 2) One fly can act as an attractor while the other seals the deal. It was amazing how often it would happen that I would be consistently catching on just one fly, cut off the other thinking I didn't need it, and then suddenly stop catching. Putting back the second, seemingly non-productive fly, would pick the catching right back up. 3) It's the only way I can think of that lets me fish one fly just above the water (other than right under my rod.) I can think of no good reason to not always fish two flies -- the maximum allowed in my state.

And they put the weight of the reel further back, making it easier to keep the rod tip up as required in Euro-nymphing.

You'd be surprised. Cane is in many ways much more durable than graphite. I have one rod that I bought with the understanding that one of the tips was run over by a car. I can tell which tip, since the guides are bent out of shape, but otherwise, it's structurally sound. Try that with a graphite rod. I regularly fish rods that are 80 years old. The only "extra maintenance" they require is to let them dry before putting them away -- hardly an onerous amount of work. Cane is different than graphite, but in no way inferior.

A bit off topic, but I bought exactly that rod last week, and for the same reason -- I remember Gadabout Gaddis. Back on topic, you could in theory play golf with a 9 iron and a putter, but why would you? Similarly You could in theory Euro-nymph with the same 6' rod that some people like for blue line streams, but it would do a lousy job. Jack of all trades is master of none.