forgeblast
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I have a tankara fly rod, first cast caught a pan fish but then the wind took over. Fly fishing is something I really want to learn, just need to wait for my daughter to get older so we can both learn.
Anyone Fly fishing?
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I remember watching fishing shows about 20 years ago regarding tarpon fly fishing. That does look fun. What a fighter.
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23 miles east of Payson, Arizona is a 150 acre lake named Willow Springs Lake with rainbow trout, loudmouth and smallmouth bass. It is a heavily forested area with Ponderosa Pine, Oak and Douglas Fir trees at 7500' elevation. I was there a few years ago in September and the water was unbelievably clear.
Willow Springs Lake | Near Payson and Heber, Arizona
Willow Springs Lake | Near Payson and Heber, Arizona
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I used to, don't do a lot of fishing anymore, mostly Bluegill & Largemouth Bass around north MO!
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If it was a little earlier than just 20 years ago I would guess they were Stu Apte videos...he was pretty much the main instigator in fly fishing for large salt water sport fish and especially Tarpon... google "Stu Apte" to read about an interesting character.
FWIW...
IMO Tarpon are a magnificent species...they are accessible to anyone with a rod and reel...boats are not required, they hit both artificial and live or dead baits...they feed day or night...There is little that can compare to seeing them jump and spin at night under a full moon...they are pure silver and their scales are so big (old species) one or two will cover the full palm of a large hand...!
Ever heard of 'MirrOlure' ?? they were invented by a man named Harold LeMaster who was an avid Tarpon angler...his shop was just a couple of miles from where I grew up
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I used to do quite a bit of dry fly fishing in the rivers of eastern Washington, Idaho, and Western Montana. Loved to camp and fish from the banks and take a nap along the shore during mid day when they weren't biting.
I tied my own flies, caddis, drakes, hoppers, etc. It was a great hobby at lunch time when I worked in a Boeing cubicle. Eat a sandwich, pull your vice out and clamp to the table edge and tie a few. Had a good friend that should have been a guide instead of an engineer for a day job.
We floated the Yakima several times with great luck. But mostly I enjoyed bank fishing and wading. Learning the rivers is key. Knowing how to read the water, the 'pillows' and dropping your fly (not that) against a grassy bank for best presentation to the fish became an art form.
A great hobby while soaking up nature, but like golf, I have found it too time consuming. Can't wait for retirement.... I have so many hobbies, I will probably be busier than I am now!
I tied my own flies, caddis, drakes, hoppers, etc. It was a great hobby at lunch time when I worked in a Boeing cubicle. Eat a sandwich, pull your vice out and clamp to the table edge and tie a few. Had a good friend that should have been a guide instead of an engineer for a day job.
We floated the Yakima several times with great luck. But mostly I enjoyed bank fishing and wading. Learning the rivers is key. Knowing how to read the water, the 'pillows' and dropping your fly (not that) against a grassy bank for best presentation to the fish became an art form.
A great hobby while soaking up nature, but like golf, I have found it too time consuming. Can't wait for retirement.... I have so many hobbies, I will probably be busier than I am now!
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I'm kinda in the same boat, so to speak, as dragoneggs, too many hobbies.
My dad got me started on his bamboo rod, showed me how to roll cast up brushy small creeks, how to look at the hatch and pick out a fly. When I got a little older, he bought me a casting/fly pole for my birthday. To me, it was a great fishing pole, 7 feet long and very limber. It would break down into a shortish aluminium tube for back packing.
Later, in high school, i started tying flys, floaters and sinking. I would tie up some caddisfly larva or adult, depending, for myself and dad, walk over the the Yakima and tap the water, just on the trailing edge of the water pillowing over a rock, with an adult fly, tap tap tap and sometimes a hit. Great memories of time with my dad.
My dad got me started on his bamboo rod, showed me how to roll cast up brushy small creeks, how to look at the hatch and pick out a fly. When I got a little older, he bought me a casting/fly pole for my birthday. To me, it was a great fishing pole, 7 feet long and very limber. It would break down into a shortish aluminium tube for back packing.
Later, in high school, i started tying flys, floaters and sinking. I would tie up some caddisfly larva or adult, depending, for myself and dad, walk over the the Yakima and tap the water, just on the trailing edge of the water pillowing over a rock, with an adult fly, tap tap tap and sometimes a hit. Great memories of time with my dad.
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Unbeknownst to most, there's a huge salmon and trout fishery in northern Indiana on the St. Joseph river. The river mouth is on Lake Michigan in St. Joseph, Michigan. It's about a 60ish mile run up the river over 5 dams up all the way to Mishawaka, Indiana. King salmon, skamania, steelhead, coho, some browns, too. Quite fun to watch. I don't participate yet. I'm more of a spinning rod guy. I do, on occasion, fly fish for panfish. That is quit fun. But I can do just as well with a casting bubble and leader on a spinning rod.
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That's cheating... according to some.
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Growing up here in Wyoming I learned at an early age to fly fish so I guess I fly fish the West. 
I run up to Montana and fish the Bighorn or the Yellowstone from time and a yearly trip to fish the Lamar valley in Yellowstone. My home water is an hour drive.
I've caught red fish in the gulf, bone fish in Mexico on fly rods but nothing compares to a large trout rising to a fly that I tied. Well, maybe a new tractor but that a different rush
I run up to Montana and fish the Bighorn or the Yellowstone from time and a yearly trip to fish the Lamar valley in Yellowstone. My home water is an hour drive. I've caught red fish in the gulf, bone fish in Mexico on fly rods but nothing compares to a large trout rising to a fly that I tied. Well, maybe a new tractor but that a different rush
