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The best fly fisherman ever.
#17528140 - 01/10/13 03:00 PM (12 years, 8 days ago) |
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Ok there will be a poll added later on but who do you think is the best fly fishermen ever? I'll start out Deke Meyer Dan Blanton Lefty Kreh Bob Clouser I forgot to add Billy Pate You guys go from there and nominate.others
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Re: The best fly fisherman ever. [Re: r00tuuu123]
#17528806 - 01/10/13 05:00 PM (12 years, 8 days ago) |
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Joe Brooks. I think he was the first to take a salmon on a fly. I could have misremembered that though.
Lefty was a guide for Joe Brooks and Joe mentored him.
Then there was Lee Wolf of course.
These are all the old timers.
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Re: The best fly fisherman ever. [Re: Icelander]
#17528962 - 01/10/13 05:26 PM (12 years, 8 days ago) |
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Icelander said: Joe Brooks. I think he was the first to take a salmon on a fly. I could have misremembered that though.
Lefty was a guide for Joe Brooks and Joe mentored him.
Then there was Lee Wolf of course.
These are all the old timers.
Joe Brooks added.
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#17528993 - 01/10/13 05:34 PM (12 years, 8 days ago) |
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Lee and Joan Wulf added. as well
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Re: The best fly fisherman ever. [Re: r00tuuu123]
#17529020 - 01/10/13 05:38 PM (12 years, 8 days ago) |
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Remember kids this ain't just trout it goes clean up to billfish and tuna and tarpon musky pike etc etc.
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Re: The best fly fisherman ever. [Re: r00tuuu123]
#17529066 - 01/10/13 05:45 PM (12 years, 8 days ago) |
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The best pike flyfisher man was "Old Backwoods Toothless Joe the Redneck Hillbilly". That was his formal title, his friends called him "pork rind".
He tied the first pork rind fly and took a big ol pike with it.
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Re: The best fly fisherman ever. [Re: Icelander]
#17529178 - 01/10/13 06:03 PM (12 years, 8 days ago) |
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Well one vote for pork rind.
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Re: The best fly fisherman ever. [Re: r00tuuu123]
#17529267 - 01/10/13 06:17 PM (12 years, 8 days ago) |
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Please refer to him henceforth as"Old Backwoods Toothless Joe the Redneck Hillbilly" Pork Rind is only for close friends.
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Re: The best fly fisherman ever. [Re: Icelander]
#17529512 - 01/10/13 07:04 PM (12 years, 8 days ago) |
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Some of the modern badasses may include: Heinrich Mortensen Scott Howell Simon Gawsworth John Hazel
May not have done some names any spelling justice..
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Re: The best fly fisherman ever. [Re: RedSnapper]
#17569540 - 01/18/13 06:30 PM (12 years, 2 hours ago) |
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Dave Whitlock has been a leader in the fly fishing and fly tying industry for decades.
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Re: The best fly fisherman ever. [Re: Eat A Peach]
#17569584 - 01/18/13 06:37 PM (12 years, 2 hours ago) |
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Yes Whitlock is good.
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Re: The best fly fisherman ever. [Re: r00tuuu123]
#17570578 - 01/18/13 10:13 PM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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Izaak Walton?
Father to John Boy Walton.
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Re: The best fly fisherman ever. [Re: Icelander]
#17571287 - 01/19/13 01:29 AM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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It's good to know there are other fly fishers on this board. I nominate John Gierach because I like his books and he seems like he would be a cool guy to have in your camp on a fishing trip. Also Jay Jones, The Humblefisherman. Check out his videos on the YouTube. He's also a straight up nice guy. I do most of my fishing in Norther Cal and the Sierras.
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Re: The best fly fisherman ever. [Re: Noiso]
#17571814 - 01/19/13 07:00 AM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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That's a beautiful area (understatement) I live in Southern Oregon and haunt Northern Cal. I lived in a cabin on the Smith River in Gasquet for a year. I fished every day. The cutthroat fishing was amazing and I was the only person I met who fished them. Everyone else fished the Salmon and Steelhead.
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Re: The best fly fisherman ever. [Re: Icelander]
#17572032 - 01/19/13 08:38 AM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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Icelander said: "I live in Southern Oregon and haunt Northern Cal." Awesome! I have friends in Medford - beautiful! I haven't had the pleasure of fishing in Oregon, but I will some day. One pal in Medford was asking about hunting actives there. I checked Mushroom Observer to find no reports (of cyanescens), so told him maybe Medford but for sure on the coast.
Icelander said: "I lived in a cabin on the Smith River in Gasquet for a year. I fished every day. The cutthroat fishing was amazing and I was the only person I met who fished them." Sea run cutthroats!? I've never had the pleasure - but have dreamed about catching them and all of our "heritage" trout for the CA Heritage Trout Challenge That sounds like heaven to me man!
To add to the topic there is this guy named Bill Schaadt who is much written about in Russel Chatham's book,The Angler's Coast. He would definitely be a contender in this thread - that book is awesome, simply written by a guy whose main gig was painting. Great stories about steelhead, salmon, rockfish and striper fishing on the west coast in the mid 20th century.
I got this copy from the SF library (I think - it could have been Santa Clara). It includes a bunch of great old photos by the author and his friends.
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Re: The best fly fisherman ever. [Re: Noiso]
#17572111 - 01/19/13 09:02 AM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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Yeah, sea run cutts up to 20 inches. It was easy to catch a limit on streamers when they were in. Most of course were after the truly awesome salmon to 60lb. and steelhead to almost 30 lb. that the Smith produces. It's an amazingly deep river with holes to 100ft and crystal clear. What a beautiful experience to fish such a river. I still have friends down there and usually visit once a year at least.
In Oregon the Umpqua and Rogue and Williamson of course would be places you'd love but I think Central Oregon has some of the best fishing for large trout in the US. In many places a 10 lb. rainbow or brown wouldn't get you bragging rights.
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Re: The best fly fisherman ever. [Re: Icelander]
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Icelander said: Yeah, sea run cutts up to 20 inches. It was easy to catch a limit on streamers when they were in. Most of course were after the truly awesome salmon to 60lb. and steelhead to almost 30 lb. that the Smith produces. It's an amazingly deep river with holes to 100ft and crystal clear. What a beautiful experience to fish such a river. I still have friends down there and usually visit once a year at least.
In Oregon the Umpqua and Rogue and Williamson of course would be places you'd love but I think Central Oregon has some of the best fishing for large trout in the US. In many places a 10 lb. rainbow or brown wouldn't get you bragging rights.
I would love to make a trip to catch even 1 of these. http://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/greatlakesfish/brooktrout.html And lake Erie has summer run Brownies that range from 3 to 5 lbs. I have hooked a few but lost all of them, due to their acrobatics. They run from like mid June to August Depending on temperature and are Quite hit or miss. You gotta be in the right place at the right time.
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Re: The best fly fisherman ever. [Re: r00tuuu123]
#17577021 - 01/20/13 02:53 AM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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That Brown fishing sounds awesome. For some reason I'm deeply attracted to where a river flows into a lake.
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Re: The best fly fisherman ever. [Re: Icelander]
#17577057 - 01/20/13 03:35 AM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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Icelander said: That Brown fishing sounds awesome. For some reason I'm deeply attracted to where a river flows into a lake.
There are very few streams that draw these fish, they were stocked in the 1800s and manage to maintain a breeding population out of about 3 streams that I know of for sure. (first hand experience). All the streams are shaded and have some spring flow. 99.999% of people do not even know these fish exist. That includes wildlife wardens that patrol those waters.
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Re: The best fly fisherman ever. [Re: r00tuuu123]
#17577878 - 01/20/13 10:30 AM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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Doesn't surprise me. I remember the browns in Lake Michigan that used to come to the mouth of the Sable river in Ludington Mich. They were often 15 to 20 lb. and we could catch them off the pier at the mouth but I never saw one caught in the river proper. I never used flies though but I'll bet it could have been done with a large weighted streamer as it was deep there. We would catch alewives and use them for bait on the bottom. On a good day you'd hook three or four in a few hours. They were silver and looked very little like a river brown. They were fat like barrels.
BTW that river ran through Hamlin lake at Ludington state park about a mile from Lake Mich. In the spring in the marshes at the lake massive amounts of pike would spawn in the marsh grasses in a couple of feet of water. If you had a canoe you could pole in with a fly rod and get amazing action on pike up to 12 lb. or so. Most were about half that. http://michigantrailmaps.com/Mason/LudingtonSP/SableRiverTr.html
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