What are you fishing this week?

[Drag Free]

Another BWO eater on the Downes, now with vr reels trutta 3" reel. So much fun.

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Keep 'em coming, Matt. At this point I'm living vicariously through you and the Downes.

[paramount]

Great day to be out on the home river the Deschutes. Overcast, in the high 50's, water level, clarity decent, and a nice BWO hatch from about 12:30-2:00. Took turns fishing a 7 1/2" Drueding Special and a 7'3" McDowell 5wt.

[PYochim]

Jim Reams 5 weight

[Woodlakejag]

Great day to be out on the home river the Deschutes. Overcast, in the high 50's, water level, clarity decent, and a nice BWO hatch from about 12:30-2:00. Took turns fishing a 7 1/2" Drueding Special and a 7'3" McDowell 5wt.

Nice Drueding. You don’t see many of those around.

[Woodlakejag]

Two Heddon trade rods. Top is a 10ft 3F made for Macy. Bottom is an 8ft 2/2 0F Lyon and Coulson.

[Greg Reynolds]

Fishing close to home with an Orvis "99":

[paramount]

Nice Drueding. You don’t see many of those around.
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Thanks Woodlakejag, my history with this rod is here. viewtopic.php?p=846577&hilit=drueding#p846577

Looks like you commented on it back then. Nice bass and Heddons.

Bruce

[quashnet]

First time fishing a newly-acquired Paul H. Young 8'9" rod custom made for Stanley L. Eldert in 1942 (I now have three rods that PHY built for Eldert). Wartime metal shortages probably made it necessary to originally use a cheap generic reel seat and poor ferrules. In December 1948, PHY refitted the rod with his high-quality marked cap and ring hardware and August Pernack ferrules. The blank was almost certainly supplied by Edwards (I know that Young had Edwards blanks in his rod shop in 1942). It will cast a WF7F line sixty feet with ease while seated in a canoe, which is where I was when this brown trout chased a black woolly bugger. It peeled some line off the old Hardy Perfect and put a satisfying bend in the rod. The net was handmade by Paul H. Young.

[PYochim]

Jim Reams 5 weight. This was my first fish if the year and it was a beauty. After 4 spectacular jumps I was able to get it to the net, snap a quick shameless cell phone photo and release it. I used a timeless classic fly, the infamous Ray Charles.

[Woodlakejag]

Quash- that 8’9 PHY and net are outstanding. What a combo!

[Lockfast]

No fish today but who cares when you can enjoy classic tackle.

7' Orvis "99" made in 1959 and a 8½' Leonard 51 with a Leonard "Volstro" reel, both from the 1980's.

[MattZilliox]

7'6 AJ Thramer Hollowbuilt 4wt got its first feels of fish today. Much softer than the Downes 7613. Dry fly fun.

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[teter]

Great rod, and very nice fish. Thanks for posting!

[MattZilliox]

Great rod, and very nice fish. Thanks for posting!

You need to come join!

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[GerardH]

Matt, superb pics, stellar 'bows, and beautiful Thramer. AJ's rods are some of the best out there, without a doubt one of our greatest contemporary rodmakers.

[kevinhaney1]

I’m in love with this combo, a Granger 8040, Pflueger 1492 ringer, and a Phoenix silk line.

[MattZilliox]

Get while the getting is good


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[MattZilliox]

Yesterday and today it was Jenkins: a 75 and an 80L with Featherweight and LRH, DT4 and Dt5, respectively.......Add a 70L and a 79, and I could make a good case that the rest of my rods are superfluous. A case, however, that I will not be making to my wife!

are there pictures around of your Jenkins rods?

[Caneghost]

I began the Catskill dry fly season with my Leonard 66H which is nearly as old as I am and a Quill Gordon. No mayflies identified among the black caddis and stoneflies but the QG took 2 of 3 that were rising, browns of 17" and 19". The third brownie got picky until I fed him a #20 olive. None would touch the caddis. Breeze obscured the larger trout in the shallows, but a nice illustration of camouflage.

[hoppy]

Walt Carpenter Browntone 8’ 3/2 #5 and 3” Saracione MK II, Waiting on my stool for Hendrickson hatch. Big wind , high water, no hatch.