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[grayer]

Hey guys, It's been a while. Thought I'd post some updates from my first couple outings of the year. Been on the fly for about 2.5 years and loving it! Really starting to understand how to use many different techniques and its been very rewarding. Still having some issues in tight spots, but thats where the fun is I guess, lol. Here are some pictures from the last couple days, I've mostly been using dry flies over the past couple years and its by far my favourite way to get into trout. Not a big fan of using nymphs as it has never been productive for me, maybe I'm just not doing it right. Definitely room for improvement!  

 

Hope to see some of you guys out there!

Cheers. 

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[Berg]

Nice update and nice fish. Sounds like we took up fly fishing around the same time. You're having a lot more success than I am haha. 

 

Agreed, nymphing is hard. Do you use an indicator?

[tombo]

Pretty fish! Thanx for the pics.

[cork]

Nice fish, I love the first photo

[Will]

Beauty browns! And to each their own. But I find that if anything, nymphing tends to be far more forgiving than dry fly fishing, as far as the "perfect, drag-free drift" goes. Tie on a size 14/16 hare's ear nymph sometime and just let it tumble through a riffle. A few drifts should be all you need to know if there are some active little guys in there, because they'll hit it fast. It's just those first few fish that you need to gain confidence and start to use nymphs more frequently and other situations where a bit more patience is required.