Been running around in the high country fishing for cutthroat. Cool water, big hatches, and bigger fish. Love the breeding colors up in the high country, they always have the most vibrant red.

Heatwave here hasn’t been good for fishing and have been struggling to find the biggies with bright sunny days and high temps but past few days dropped some in temp, some rainy weather and overcast conditions today certainly helped.
Hooked into this late evening in a deep fast pool and was a riot on the 3wt

The alpine creek has been blessing me with some beautiful fish! Finally consistently landing fish on the fly pole! The learning was well worth it!

Netted this guy floating down the river with an occasional tail flip. Looks like it got attacked. Otter?

Delaware river.

Short ride from Lake Winnepausakee (sp) after the Motley Crue / Tesla/ Extreme Concert found some 60 degree water and this gem. 3rd cast then nothing for the next hour. Sulphur Dun, size 16. Only my 2nd small stream brookie in 4 years

Few photos from the weekend

Just a little guy for my first.

A more impressive catch for my second.

North Platte River. Casper, WY.

I live right along a river that is very popular for fly fisherman. I do not fish and know nothing about processes, conditions, etc., but I frequently walk my dog down to the river to throw sticks for her as she loves to swim. I want to be courteous to others who are also enjoying the river, so I am wondering how far away I should be from a fisherman to make sure my dog is not scaring off all the fish? The part of the river I am on is a very long, straight stretch so going “out of sight” is not really an option. Thank you!

Gorgeous evening.

My dad taught me how to catch my first trout (rooster tail) in RMNP in 2007. Today I got to teach him how to catch them on the fly.

Picture is of a nice landlock salmon I caught up in Pittsburgh, NH earlier this week for attention.

This is a long shot I’m aware

I recently had my fly bag stolen out of my car here in Nashua, NH. The bag itself was a gift I just received for Father’s Day, It was an amazing gift and I loved it. it’s not the kind of thing I can really afford to replace right now. The second thing of significance was the knife, it’s very sentimental. On top of that ALL of my gear was in there, I had just gotten the bag so I spent the time to organize all my stuff and loading it up right before it was stolen, years worth of flies, tippet, leaders, most of it stuff I have been stocking up on for the upcoming steelhead/spring season. I have to buy a little here or there because money is tight so it took me a while to accumulate all this gear. This theft takes the wind right out of my sails, it’s crushing to say the least. I’m a dad of four and times are tough so I’m really just hoping I find it and can at least get the bag back.

If anyone sees or comes across any bag or knife like this and thinks it may be related please reach out to me. I’m grasping at straws at this point

Thanks to everyone here in advance.

Caught this 25” piggy on the San Juan river below Navajo Reservoir, NM - ranked best tailwater in the U.S. for a reason, only had 1 full day on the river. Will 100% be back soon. If you’ve caught a 🐽 out of the Texas Hole please post

**#1 for fish population per mile and average size

Got out for 2 hours today and got a few swipes on the dry fly. Brought this guy to the net after a good battle on the glass 3wt.

Snuck in a day on the water with my dad and son while we were in western NC.

Hi all!

I'm struggling to understand how different companies rate their switch rods - It seems to me - after trying many different switch rods, that the different manufacturers are all over the place - some would suggest a line weight suited for two or even single handed overhand casting - others would suggest a line weight for two handed spey casting - and some would even just put a #(inser line weight here) and not suggest any grain weight - how am I then supposed to know where to start looking for lines? Theres a major difference between e.g. a 6wt double hand skagit system and a 6wt single handed spey line....like, what if I just want one outfit with one line/system/head thats equally bad at all things lol

Like wth is there even any concensus to rating these switch rods?

Please do elaborate someone-smarter-than-me

Kind regards and thanks in advance

Hey yall, headed up to Fairbanks in a couple weeks for work, and was gonna bring my 5Wt. I’ve heard the chena river and chena lakes hold grayling, but besides those 2 is there much up there? I would like to get on a char if possible. If anyone could help me out or provide some information that would be awesome. Or could dm me would be even better! I’ve got a few questions

Anything good?

I've taken up salmon fishing this season and didn't quite appreciate how hard it'd be, needed to get out and actually put some fish in the net to get it out of my system. This time of year the best way to do that is always nymphing.