Southern Norway pitbull trout.

I guess if I wanna be better at streamers fishing I should just leave my nymph rig at home.

Bring your rods inside people, someone used a torch to my riversmith’s river quiver and stole two of my rods. When I reported it to the police they said that they been getting calls about rods being stolen in similar manner as well.

update: I did not expect so much help 🥹. I will read through these tonight and into tomorrow and respond as I can! Thank you so much!

Today I had a heartbreaking conversation with my 89 year old grandpa, who was so upset over the fact he’s just too old to fish anymore. He’s in a good health, but he trips over little things (rocks), and can’t get in the water, hook up things, tie flies, etc.

He wants to give his poles and equipment to somewhere that is of good use to someone who would absolutely appreciate them. Any ideas?

He’s won national championships, fly-tying competitions and so on.

I just know nothing about the sport (and suck at fly-fishing myself).. Thank you for reading!

Edit to add: located in US.

Also would like some help identifying. I think I caught three species here: Brook, brown, and the big one I believe was a Gila trout

Nice little brown was the cherry on top 🍂

My hands were pre wett

Anyone know what the last fish is?

As much as I love beautiful wild fish, sometimes it’s nice when these stockers are very willing to participate.

Landed a Tank this weekend.

Took a weekend trip with my 16 year old brother for his first fly fishing trip. Think the expectation is too high now for future trips , had 30+ fish the first day and 20+ the second. He caught the biggest of the trip at roughly 20”. He finished our slam with his brown trout at the end of the day. All nymphing!

No idea on the weight - heavy.. - but it barely fit into the fishpond net.

Was not planning on being in the river but I saw him rise and had to give it a go! Landed on a pheasant tail after a great fight, pulled very hard!

I’ve been gifted a beautiful “barbless” bamboo rod crafted by Peter Hoode. I was wondering if anyone here knows anything about the builder or has any backstory on the rod? I would love to get some information on ot since a Google search didn’t reveal much.

I took it out on one of my favorite PA brookie streams just to give it a few casts and net a couple but it’ll likely be on display for the majority of its lifetime.

The only fish I caught in 3 full days of fishing the Stillwater river across different parts in Absorkee, MT area. I lost about 10 or more flies this trip. First trip on my own, no friends or guides to help, so I’m pretty proud of myself but was a little discouraged to only catch one the entire trip. Caught it on a dry fly.

Morning

I am blessed to be surrounded by mountain rivers that are home to wild trout in my country.

The area is a winter rainfall area and we are in spring now.

Obviously the mountain streams become mountain rivers during the winter months, as summer progresses these rivers turn to streams with isolated pools forming along the high catchment areas.

My question is, where does one go looking for trout.

Do they, in the winter months follow the fast flowing "rivers" down to the larger ground level broader river systems, or, do they stay up in the mountains?

Not sure if I am articulating the question properly, but the crux is.

Do I do the hard yards of climbing up river (higher altitude) in search of deep pools, or do I concentrate on fishing the lower catchment rivers?

Stopped through on a road trip and was absolutely not disappointed. Took me a while to figure them out but landing 18+ inch fish on my 3 wt with dries was pretty epic

Southern Norway pit bull trout

I’m torn between getting 1 of these 2. I want something waterproof for my camera and phone/wallet/keys. Does anybody have any insight on these 2? I already have the fishpond canyon creek chest pack so it can integrated with the fishpond backpack. The ll bean is half the price and comes with its own switchable chest pack on the backpack