Fishing Jeepers...Post Up Your Pics
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Elroy231
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wjtstudios
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Brute
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Might need to invest in thick rubber gloves...to unhook electric eels...
wjtstudios
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It’s all just crazy. The amount of different species they were landing was amazing. And to have a lodge like that to at the end of the day was spectacular
2015 JKUR AEV JK350
1985 CJ8 Scrambler
Brute
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Agreed...you need a 6wt dry fly setup to catch herbivorous pacu, a stout 8wt that you might have to bow & arrow cast a large streamer on wire for the prehistoric looking wolffish, a popper setup for tucanare (peacock bass)...then there is a screamer fish that looks like a cross between a tarpon and Dracula...it is pretty crazy. After seeing all those electric eels, I might have reconsidered wet wading...
wjtstudios
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For sure
I need to try that bow and arrow cast. Pretty crazy
2015 JKUR AEV JK350
1985 CJ8 Scrambler
TrailHunter
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Jealous! what Rod/Line/Fly setup are you using?
Clutch
Caught the Bug
Just a beautiful area! Not sure how comfortable it would be wading in the water, but I’d be a happy camper hiking up and down those peaks in the background!
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Brute
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I pretty much threw everything at them...a 5wt w/ opst microskagit head swinging tungsten beadhead soft hackle stonefly nymph point in front of a 16 purple haze soft hackle (I also lost a fish on this, broke off)...5 wt dry instigator with a caddis bh nymph dropper...6 wt with 15’ sinking tip, black tungsten jig bugger...
wjtstudios
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For about anyone else, that’s a bunch of Mandarin
You really did throw the book at them. Nice to have a lot of a lot of chapters and when they are not cooperating
2015 JKUR AEV JK350
1985 CJ8 Scrambler
TrailHunter
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Whoa... that's a lot of work with numb fingers.
Brute
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Has anyone here tried their hand at European Style nymphing (no WJCO, it's not what you think it is)...aka Czech nymphing, contact nymphing, etc...Bill, Dan?
I'm thinking about getting into it...just ordered an Echo 10' 3wt Shadow X, a spare spool for one of my reels to spool on some Rio FIPS Euro Nymph line, sighting material and 2-tone indicator tippet...I've got plenty of jig style tungsten bead nymphs to try out...Heading to the Yakima next month and stay on the river for a week (or two) to get away from all this C19 and election bullshit...
I'm thinking about getting into it...just ordered an Echo 10' 3wt Shadow X, a spare spool for one of my reels to spool on some Rio FIPS Euro Nymph line, sighting material and 2-tone indicator tippet...I've got plenty of jig style tungsten bead nymphs to try out...Heading to the Yakima next month and stay on the river for a week (or two) to get away from all this C19 and election bullshit...
WJCO
Meme King
Well, I was going to reply but I guess it's not what you're looking for.
wjtstudios
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It’s very similar to how we target steelhead and salmon, and winter trout. High sticking or chuck and duck, but essentially it’s a long leader flip cast. I run a float line with a long leader set up on multiple weight roads. And then adjust the weight based off the current.
Works great for all. For longer casts you can still revert back to a standard fly cast, just depends on the amount of weight. Roll casts work well too.
2015 JKUR AEV JK350
1985 CJ8 Scrambler
Brute
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I’m thinking primarily for winter trout...we only have a couple rivers here open year round for trout, and the water is cold and low...hence why I think getting a 16 tungsten jig down on a 6-7x tippet into the deeper runs will work...but don’t see this rig landing a steelhead.
Speaking of steelhead, I’m going to give it a lot of attention this winter swinging streamers now that I’m n the mainland full time...
HighwayTrout
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Yep Ed. A lot of times I tie up a euro nymph rig on my 4wt in the smaller cooler high mountain streams. High stick a run a couple times and move on [emoji106]
Brute
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Are you using a dedicated euro rig with sighter etc?, or just running a long leader from one of your regular trout rods?...
One of my buddies that moved from WA to Sisters OR to be a guide down there is the one who has gotten me interested in this...he catches 20” pig bows on 7x tippet...he tells me this is possible with the very soft tip of the euro style rods that prevents break offs...ditto with a guide I know from CO, who caught his largest trout of his life, a brown over 30”, on this set up...
I’m barley efficient with standard fly rod tactics, and now recently have been trying one hand & two hand skagit...I’m wondering what the learning curve is going to be with this nymphing technique
HighwayTrout
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Haha. Same here. And I suck at all methods of take. That’s what keeps me hooked I guess.
My go to euro rig is a fiberglass Blue Halo rod, no sighter. Long (12+feet) tapered leader and tippet.
I did buy a couple of Rio euro nymph leaders that are pink and white. Just never tied them on.