Hi,
My name is Allan and I've just joined GFF.
I live in the Pocono Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania and fish, primarily, small freestrone streams for native Brookies and some stocked Rainbows and Browns. My favorite fishing day is one in which I'm hiking up into a small local headwater, armed with a 7'6" 3 wt., in search of some undiscovered and undistubed squaretails. Here's a pic of Stoney Run, one of the tributaries of Broadhead Creek. Walk about 1/2 mile upstream from here and you'll find some very nice Brookie fishing.
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I do, also, enjoy an occasional Striper or two on the Kennebec up in Maine.
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I started fly fishing when I was 11, but had a 48 year hiatus shortly after that. I still have and routinely fish my first rod, which was a 1959 Montgomery Ward 7'1" Hawthorne 2-piece, solid glass 6 wt. Fitted with a Pflueger 1495; loaded with 144 pieces of #2 shot, it's actually a pretty balanced rig and although bringing a noodle-like, short and heavy rod under full control during casting is always challenging (but pleasantly so), I still enjoy fishing it. It's not going to win any beauty contests, but from a sentimental standpoint, if I could only have one rod, this would be the one:
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I started tying flies almost 2 years ago and have enjoyed it immensely. Recently, I've been drawn to streamer flies; particluarly the classic patterns of the Rangeley style; and now, more and more to Atlantic Salmon fly patterns. I recently picked up a new copy of an old book by Pryce-Tannatt; "How to Dress Salmon Flies; A Handbook for Amateurs", and have found it to be one of the best written, easily understandable and logically progressive books on fly tying that I've ever read. Here's an example of a Rangeley style streamer; my tie of Carrie Steven's "Witch" pattern. I know that it won't pass muster with the tyers in this forum, but I'm continuing to work on my technique:
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I've been particularly impressed by the articles in this Forum on classic wet flies, Ray Bergman hairwing conversions and mini-streamers (which I think is a fantastic idea and one that I plan to spend some time working on so that my Spring fly box will be populated with a few of those patterns that I can try on my local fish).
I look forward to learning from this forum and to contributing whatever I can to it.
Best,
Pocono
