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Garfish

Do you eat those Garfish or do you just kill them? I didn't know if they were a trash fish or a bad fish of some kind. You Europeans seem to take home a lot more fish than us in The States. Of course most of our fish are poisonous to eat from the mercury.

It has really been an

It has really been an explosive day - garfish would not stop eating for a minute. The water was "boiling", garfish all around the place...just could not believed it.

I tried to contact K

I tried to contact Ken at Sirrus.com and by phone, but could not get either.
any sugestions?

KentP

KentP
Here on the East Coast (South Jersey)USA, the TFO is a very popular fly rod. I really haven't hard anything bad about them. I have to assume the blanks are just as good as the finished rod. I use an 8 wgt rod for salt water, and I have fished it out in the Western Pacific during a couple of visits to Guam. The wind was a pain in the butt. I would think the 10 wgt would be a good choice fished with an intermediate sinking line. Unless you're going for really large fish the 12 wgt would be overkill. If I were building two rods, I'd go with the 8 wgt and 10 wgt.

Really enjoying your

Really enjoying your growing series on fishing photography. I always bring the camera along - recently have moved up to a DSLR which I reckon is the perfect one for fishing - an Olympus E-1 - relatively compact, but the biggest plus is it is *splash-proof* and the only comparable DSLRs (canon EOS 1 or Nikon D2 ) cost two or three times the price. Rain and saltwater are no problem , just rinse off under the tap at home!

looks nice, and 100%

looks nice, and 100% chaches fish :D

they are good fun on

they are good fun on light tackle, go down to a #4 and you have some real fun, just hope a mackerel wont hit it, lol
they didnt really bent my 5/6, but as a sidecatch they were fun.

an old trick to find garfish is to throw a few pieces of wood/dead branches on the water, for some reason garfish will jump it

a few thoughts, if you do C&R, do NOT touch the fish, it WILL die, they are a fragile fish, if u intend to eat it, plz do, its a good tasting fish, dont be scared of the green bones, when filetting, its not been near a waste dump, its supposed to be like this

Enjoyed the article

Enjoyed the article on grades of jungle cock. I will have to pull my old materials out and look to see what grade they are. They should be very high quality since the materials go back to the late 20's.

Sweden has a military?

[quote:ddb94e8166="Esox"]Sweden has a military?

Bob Abrams[/quote:ddb94e8166]

yepp! They are small and totaly meningless but the swedish army do exist. And apparently im going to, against my will, be a part of it.

anyways, im on if the meeting goes of in june

nice!

Sounds like an unforgetable day, beautiful fish! Is that considered a "grandslam ",haha, a rainbow, brown, and grayling.

kirk o.

Thanks, pretty crazy weather

Thanks, pretty crazy weather eh? fortunately for me that Sunday it warmed up and calmed down quite a bit (well as you can see in the pictures). Spring here has been unseasonably warm as well, spare that weekend. Now it's already back into the 70's (°F). Pretty crazy...

I'll have to check out that podcast. I can only dream of hooking into a 30" trout!

Oh yeah, one more thing I was wondering, has anyone else out here gotten tennis elbow from casting? I've got it pretty bad a week ago. I woke up in the middle of the night in stifling pain and had to make a trip to the hospital, they diagnosed it as "tennis elbow" (yeah.. really manly) gave me some pain killers and sent me on my way. The doc figured it could be casting and possibly Frisbee since I don't play tennis. I'm just wondering so if no one has I can just blame Frisbee. Either way It's a bummer, but I don't think it will stop me from fishing, Maybe I'll just take that vicadin before I go next time. lol

Well I'm out.. Tight lines,

Kirk o

Kirk,

Kirk,

Great pictures! Thanks for posting. Too bad about the wind and the cold weather. Don't we all just hate that?

Here the spring has really come. Actually it's more like summer. We went directly from late winter to early summer. But fishing sure has become a lot better. No more skunked trips right now it seems.

Martin

Sunday and i'm in ve

Sunday and i'm in very thankful for all who share. the bench is great and I will give it a try.

:shock: Yikes! Have seen a

:shock: Yikes! Have seen a few hairs on my head curl and shrivel, but no skin damage....

CD

My only complaints would be

[quote:b235730bed="streamertyer"]My only complaints would be that it can get a bit hot[/quote:b235730bed]

Chris,

I actually have a very good friend who for a while had a burn mark on his forehead... yep, created by a MacKenzie lamp ;-)

The do get VERY hot!

Martin

First day out...

I know exactly what you mean...
What happened to Spring?

A few days ago I went to a favourite small stream in southern Jutland, Denmark with a friend and had an amazing day with the dry and czech nymph.
All being told - Rainbow hit double figures...
Brown trout...Two spectacular brownies over 40cm and several "accidental grayling" released carefully - three of them over 38cm.

20'c, a light warm wind, dry fly action, swallows gliding between the river banks...What a day.

Ripley "of the yard".

NEED INFO ON SOME RO

NEED INFO ON SOME RODS MY GRAND DAD GAVE ME LONG TIME AGO ALL THEY SAY IS THOMAS AND THOMAS

I have a Mackenzie, and it is

I have a Mackenzie, and it is a convenient light to have attached to your vise. My only complaints would be that it can get a bit hot, and that the light source is a fine point, which can create some sharp glare when tying tinsel bodied streamers & the like.

I also have an Ott light, but not the regular folding model you see most use. While convenient to travel with, it doesn't have a good height IMO for illuminating over top of the fly. Some kind of platform to raise it might help. I ended up getting the model called a DeskPro at Staples, which is is about 6" taller. I like it.

Marcin,

I stand c

Marcin,

I stand corrected! You are right. This is probably an alder fly (Sialis lutaria). I have edited the text to reflect this fact.

Martin

I think this is not

I think this is not a caddis fly but an alder fly.

awesome article,than

awesome article,thanks for the info it helped me design a leader for exactly what i needed.

Salwater rod

Hi, one friend of mine is excellent rod builder and in his hands my favourite fly rod Sage Xi2 was built. It is four piece rod for line #8 in 9 feets and I am very satisfied with this rod. I have used it for pike saltwater fishing, for sea trout fishing in Sweden and Denmark with different flies and no problems have occured so far.
It is very fat rod with tip action so a lot of flyfishermen like it and a lot of flyfishermen hate it. So If I were you I would try this rod wtih line and fly.
According to Sage company and experienced flyfsihermen this rod has been made especially for saltwater fishing and especially in tropic waters such as Belize, Cuba, Florida etc.
Last thing I would like to mentioned - there are a lot of perfect rods on the planet. It depends only on you. Just choose your rod according to your preferences, wallet or feelings. Your hands are different from mine, your attitude to fishing can be different. So it depends on taste of each comrade:-)

Very good and instru

Very good and instructive article!
Nice, action packed photos.

it was very informat

it was very informative but i had a problem deciding if it was fresh or sea water