feathers and tying flys with them

Larry wrote:
"rw" wrote


The Copper John uses goose biots as well. I believe that it is now, or
recently was, Umpqua's #1 selling fly.




A small CJ with bright red goose biot tails is, in my limited experience (
10-12 days there), a great fly for the Big Lost



That's my experience on the Big Lost, too.

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"rw" wrote

That's my experience on the Big Lost, too.


This one
http://tinyurl.com/lzf2k

has worked very well for me on both of the 'Bigs' in your area .... I've
only fished them after mid August, fwiw

I suck at nymphing, but I once fished in downtown Ketchum not far from an
old (even to me!! ) guy that told me he and his sons had fished the "Bigs"
every season since the boys were young ( they looked 35-45 now). We were
both nymphing similar water, but he wasn't catching that day and I was. He
finally came over to look at my flashy nymph ... he was very distainful of
how 'gaudy' it was, but took one when I offered ..... it was probably the
one and only time in my life I will outfish anyone, anywhere.

Larry wrote:
"rw" wrote

That's my experience on the Big Lost, too.



This one
http://tinyurl.com/lzf2k

has worked very well for me on both of the 'Bigs' in your area .... I've
only fished them after mid August, fwiw

You should try to make it to the Big Wood in June for the Green Drake
hatch. It's really something special. This is going to be a high-water
year, so bring a wading staff. :-)

I'd recommend the Brown Drake hatch on Silver Creek in early June, but
it's a zoo -- billionaires arriving on private jets. If you don't mind
fishing at night and setting the hook by ear, though, you'll like it.

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I'd recommend the Brown Drake hatch on Silver Creek in early June, but
it's a zoo -- billionaires arriving on private jets. If you don't mind
fishing at night and setting the hook by ear, though, you'll like it.



I trained dogs for a very nice guy that has a couple big Caterpillar Tractor
dealerships in the Fresno area of the Valley ... i.e. big buck dealerships


He'd leave his duck dog with me all year except for hunting season and fly
up to leave him off or pick him up. The second or third time I met him at
the local, tiny, airport I was surprised when he walked up to the truck and
I said, "Oh I didn't see your plane come in, just a big blue one." He
replied, "Oh, I'm in different one of my planes today." ( he had a personal
pilot and all his dogs had to be taught to lie under his feet in the
airplanes )


Last time I fished the Big Lost, a couple guys walked towards me in the
water ( you know about the locals and having to stay in the water to avoid
buckshot ;-) and I said something about "Try to move carefully please, I
have a good fish working right over there" pointing.

One of them said, "Larry, is that you?"

It was my billionaire guy .... your comment about "them" and private planes
reminded me off the story G

It IS a small world, last year in W.Yellowstone, stopped at a light I hear,
"Larry, Larry, over here!" to turn and see a local dog guy I know ...
actually I've run into a dozen or more people I know there over the last 5
years. The man that owned the Oakdale paper ( weekly) and I met for the
first time on the Firehole two years ago, even though we have several mutual
acquaintances ..etc etc

Larry wrote:

I trained dogs for a very nice guy that has a couple big Caterpillar Tractor
dealerships in the Fresno area of the Valley ... i.e. big buck dealerships


He'd leave his duck dog with me all year except for hunting season and fly
up to leave him off or pick him up. The second or third time I met him at
the local, tiny, airport I was surprised when he walked up to the truck and
I said, "Oh I didn't see your plane come in, just a big blue one." He
replied, "Oh, I'm in different one of my planes today." ( he had a personal
pilot and all his dogs had to be taught to lie under his feet in the
airplanes )

One of the first times I fished Silver Creek was a morning Trio "hatch."
I'd never fished a trico spinner fall before, but I was prepared and I
lucked out. The spinner fall was immense, and by blind luck I'd placed
myself right upstream of a huge pod of fish. Easily my best day ever on
Silver Creek, so far.

Anyway, I ran into these two guys fishing downstream from me -- total
novices fishing Royal Wulffs, clipping the water on their backcasts, 3x
tippet, and having no luck at all. They thought I was a flyfishing
god. Little did they know. :-)

They were pilots for Edgar Bronfman Jr., the Seagram's heir and
socialite in Ketchum (among other places). He'd just flown in and they
had a day off, so they were checking out the fabled Silver Creek. I
quizzed them about his jet (he had at least three that they knew of --
Gulfstreams), how much they cost (about $60M each), how much they cost
to operate (about $6000/hour), how many crew (3), and so on.

These people don't live in the same world we do. Something has happened
to this country in the past couple of decades. The distribution of
wealth has become dangerously skewed.

There will always be rich and poor, but I'm afraid we're becoming an
hereditary aristocracy.

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