Went out for a morning in Pharm ’s neck of the ocean Monday and had an epic morning. 10/14 kings to the boat. Gaffed the first two ~15 pounders and then tail grabbed the rest including this beast. Never had been king fishing before, and it was a blast. We had a double literally 90 seconds after first bait was in the water. Never even had a chance to put out all four rods. My kid loved it. Got a few sharks also which he thought was even cooler
This is the North Fork of the Shoshone, 3 miles East of Yellowstone. Hiking in to Slough Creek on Friday.
Hard to follow that post, but we absolutely slayed panfish tonight in the rain. Out for almost 4 hours, caught 2 dozen plus each.
Got the sirius marine weather module/antenna installed and activated the plan ($17.99 a month ) today. There wasnt much weather today so not a great example but this is the animated feature on sirius xm marine weather where it will collect data over the last 3 hours (or however long you have it on) and then you can animate it so it shows you the direction it has been moving. Also I think I’m going to have to get the coastal plan which is like $39 a month because I think plan I bought has some limitations offshore.
A 10 pound speck is massive. That's an impressive catch on 20 pound line on the fly. PS-I had to look up what tippet was.
Smallish local lake that my friend and I are still learning. 10hp limit which is great, way less traffic and no idiots. Even caught one on the Kabar handline!
Been a few days 5 or 6 total. Only the 1 really nice one. No interest in worms but smoking paddletails
rarely see anyone catching that size. those are great man. i have fished 3 times this year for them and no luck yet.
i went there last year, it is a really nice spot. i fished dicks creek area last time i went. have seen fish and had strikes but only caught the bream so far.
This is probably too far down for trout. Some may make it down there. I think the farthest to expect trout is a little past Earl's Ford. Never really heard of trout much even at the 76 bridge which is farther upstream that Woodall, but I'm sure some may make it down there when it gets cold.
These have all been NC streams since I assume water temps are up in SC. So I've only caught one in 4 SC streams so far. Fished 7-8 of them.
Dreaming of cooler weather - anyone have any experience with echo rods? I broke my 6 wt a few years back and never replaced it. I had a chance to lawn cast an echo ion xl, but it was a 7 wt, and really liked it.
It is a fine rod. Super cheap but I found it to cast great. A bit slow but I'd be happy to fish one. I made the switch to all gloomis stuff a few years ago to try and get a similar feeling in all my rods. Having said that, I have sage, t&t, scott, orvis, moonshine (don't laugh), echo, and few other "off brands". They all work. Most are high quality. Anything built within the last 10 years or so are going to be good rods.
My others are all sage, and much faster than this one, but idk it just felt great to throw I also don’t need to spend a ton of money on a rod that’s only going to see action a handful of days this winter.
found a dealer on eBay that has 20% off right now. The mangrove coast would be $263 and the Echo would be $160. Both seem to have good warranty reviews. You think the tfo is $100 better? btw, it’s trailheadflyshop on eBay if anyone wants to look. Seems like everything they have is 20% off
That is a hard choice. Both are good rods. $160.00 is hard to beat. I'd read a few reviews. I'd look at who has the better warranty reputation.
I went and helped DNR do shocking for sampling today 3 miles up the Chattooga near Ellicott Rock. In a 50 yard stretch we found over 80 brown trout and hundreds of other species (sculpins, darts, shiners, etc). They even let me run one of the shockers on one of the rounds. This one didn't make it for whatever reason
I'm selling the key west in the winter and buying a 24-26 foot boat with twins. The wife complained about the low gunnels so I pounced and took it as an opportunity to get a bigger boat. I've been running 50-60 miles out so I need twins anyways. Leaning heavily towards a Sea Hunt 25 Games Fish. 2018 and newer models are actually 26 feet. Also considering cat boats like a Twin Vee.