What are you fishing this week?

[driftless angler]

Nice Drossi! What length and weight is your 99?

[Drossi]

Nice Drossi! What length and weight is your 99?

The 99 is an 8 footer. I fish it with a DT 5,

[creakycane]

8’ 4 wt 2/2 Blackburn with. h&H DT5 on a Robichaud 4.
7’9” 5 wt Maurer Old Philosopher XD with same reel.
Weighted mud bug #8 fly of the week. Not pretty fishing, but the better browns like them.

[MattZilliox]

Top is Munsey Wheby 8ft 5wt
Schroeder 8ft 5wt
Elder 7ft6 4wt


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We have similar tastes in reels. Thanks for sharing. I hopefully, will get out soon.

Cheers,
Joe

It's hard to go wrong with these reels! I hope you get out soon too!

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[teter]

An 8'6 Weber Mastercraft (top of their line, equivalent to the Heddon 35), and a Thompson 100 reel, with a nice rainbow that took a #14 caddis on top.

[driftless angler]

Nice setup Teter! What part of the country are you already seeing caddis?!??

[teter]

That was in California last week. A last-resort fly after a tough day.

[driftless angler]

An EHC is always a good Hail Mary!

[sodbank]

I fished a 7ft. 3pc. 4wt, hollow rod that I finished out from a Dennis Stone blank on a small western NC stream.
Small Pheasant Tail nymphs were the ticket to fool several small wild browns and rainbows.

[driftless angler]

Beautiful rod, fish, and water Sodbank!

[Godfroy]

Summers 735, Hardy JLH Ultralite reel and Barrio "Smallstream" WF5 line. The rod was made in 1998. I have owned the reel much longer than the rod but I suspect that they were both made about the same time.

[teter]

Nice setup. I like the look of the water, too.

[Godfroy]

Thank you! Cod Beck is a fine little mixed trout and grayling river. Downstream there are chub and dace, both those species are also fun to catch on a fly. It can be quite constricted in places (below is a summertime picture) so a rod which is good at roll-casting (like the Summers 735) is helpful.

[nativebrownie]

#18 blue quills are out in the Middle Atlantic hollows - natives are looking up... Milder nights means better water temps...
Dennis Stone #39 Catskill clone, 8', 3/2 - the perfect 2-3 weight in the eastern forests...

[tapermaker]

glad to hear that the rod I made for you is being appreciated still . best regards Dennis

[driftless angler]

I was up in Northern Wisconsin this weekend. Conditions were much different than back home - 6 inches of snow on the ground with a lot of melting, making for cold water. Off to the headwaters then! Midges were hatching like crazy in the warm sun and the brookies were busy chasing them down. It made for some great fishing. The Orvis 7/3 was perfect for this!

[Squaw Bend]

A 5 weight I built. It’s perfect for the small rivers and pretty little trout that inhabit them.

[GerardH]

I was up in Northern Wisconsin this weekend. Conditions were much different than back home - 6 inches of snow on the ground with a lot of melting, making for cold water. Off to the headwaters then! Midges were hatching like crazy in the warm sun and the brookies were busy chasing them down. It made for some great fishing. The Orvis 7/3 was perfect for this!

d.a., beautiful specs! Hoping to head back home to my boyhood brookie waters on Saturday, will be bringing the PJ Julius Midge and 7'0" Hoffhines in case I encounter some dry fly action.

[driftless angler]

Good luck Gerard! Send me a report, please. I have to image the snow is all gone and hopefully the rivers are back down. Should be beautiful weather!

[prairieschooner]

RL Winston Brackett-era 7'6" 4wt and a few bass