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It's through The Fly Shop on the west coast. I'm not sure if they use another outfitter over there or not
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Biggest trout to date! So much fun the past couple weeks catching big rainbows and some decent sized brookies. Summer in OR is awesome!
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Beautiful fish! Looks like some nice water.
I've yet to get out for trout yet this year. Landed quite a few pike and bass on flies though.
Something feels far more special about getting a trout on a fly. I think it might be because tricking pike/bass feels easier.
tight lines!
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#25390290 - 08/15/18 02:11 PM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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Beautiful!!
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Got back from Russia. Slayed em on the Zhupanova river. Had to show you guys a couple of 30" rainbows and a super khundza. Many other fish averaged 25-27". Unreal fishing. Still can't believe I was actually there.





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@Thayendanegea you have to go man. It was worth it brother.
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Gorgeous fish!
Trip of a lifetime.
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100% just fucking incredible!....I've actually got wood at the moment. Did these giants jump like typical bows do? What kind of set up were you using?...my guess would be an 8 wt. rod with maybe a 3X or 4X tippet? Slinging buggers?
I'm gonna put this place on my bucket list.
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I'm gonna put this place on my bucket list.
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Wow!
I'd also like to hear a little bit about the gear/flies. I've heard tales of these monsters delicately sipping dry flies from time to time. Would be super cool to get one on a dry.
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Good Lord, Fantastic! Well done!
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That’s awesome some of my friends have worked over there and it sounds so amazing. We’re slaying the trout and silvers right now in AK, and the king boletes are all over the place too
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I fished a 12 foot 7 weight Sage Z Axis switch rod. We were using 15LB tapered leaders that I would trim back and even made some 18LB leaders. Big fat #4 Dhali Llama streamers. Black and white, olive and white, tan and white. Then the mouse patterns called Mr Hankey. Had to pinch barbs on all.
You catch a lot of Dollies and salmon so you have to have big gear. Even those big rainbows and khundzas would break you off if you didn't. The rainbows would go ape shit on the top water, big acrobatic jumps like 3-7 times and some would tail walk like a marlin in the side channels when mousing. Some of the big rainbows and khundzas would hit so hard I thought for sure I snagged a rock until all hell broke loose. Some the them would pull line through my finger as they ran and there was nothing I could do about it. Burned like hell haha
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We would see fish and show them everything with no avail then get them to eat a dry. I got one of those that was behind a tree in the water on a sculpin fly that I casted over the tree and let it dangle about 2 feet in front of it's face then it attacked and I got em.
The best was moving a fish on a streamer. Pulling over right after someone hooked up giving me enough time to walk back upstream to tie on a mouse and get him to eat. So cool.
The mouse takes were either it sucked the whole thing down, a quick take from behind or just an absolute demolishing of the mouse. Each fly had crazy teeth marks on the foam. It was sweet.
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Flyfishing in Russia.
I bet that was an incredible experience man.
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Bout to spend the next few days camping and fishing some back-country mountain streams for feisty browns on the 2wt. Too excited
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Sounds like my type of fun!
Tight lines
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cheap thrills said: Bout to spend the next few days camping and fishing some back-country mountain streams for feisty browns on the 2wt. Too excited
Enjoy and stay safe. I love fishing for browns.
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Wow! Those rainbows hitting mouse patterns sounds crazy! As for the 2 wt. outfit....that must be like waving a willow branch, lol. Never went below 4 wt.myself. Incidentally, the man who developed that sculpin pattern (Ed Shenk) was from my area growing up..he used that as a big trout fly with a lot of success on some of the small spring creeks in central Pa. He was also a friend and fishing buddy of a couple guys that taught me how to fly fish..(Joe Lehner and Ed Koch).
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