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im such a shimano fan. every single one of the rods i have i care about are a shimano clarus. does anyone else use this rod?

i think god wants me to start to tie my own flies now. laugh but really, i wasnt gonna tie until i could afford the stuff. check it out, my friend gave me a vise and some tools, and a neighbor had some stuff in his garage for years that he gave me. had all need to start tying. and i have to...

i went out to the kern river with a friend of mine for the past two days. the first day was horrible. we got out there late, everyone was in the holes we wanted, and whats more, the wind was so bad, every time we tried to cast, somthing terrible happened. lost flies, fly got stuck in gary's...

I was invited to a flyfishers club picnic that took place yesterday out at big meadows trailhead in the seqoia national forest. i thought i wouldnt have any fun but oh man! lemme tell you all about it. when i got there, there was a lady from the usfs talking about a creek restoration project...

i went this past weekend to the sequoia national forest for a camping trip. did a little fishing. it was beautiful there. here are some pics of the scenerey, my rainbow caught on a 00 panther martin in silver and the lunker brookie i caught on a elk hair caddisfly with a spinning reel!

I found a new love. Fly Fishing. it is so amazing. i went out for the first time with a friend and we went to the kern river here in central california. i wasnt expecting to catch anything but man did we ever. i feel so blessed because my very first fly fishing fish, was also my very first...

i bought some of these in green pumpkin. i rigged it with a 1/16 oz jighead and put it up against my junebug sweet beaver. the sweet beaver won. infact the sabretail didnt catch any fish at all. it could be that i made the mistake of handing the rod to a novice fisherman to try it out. id...

these PETA folk and animal rights activists are getting out of hand you all. i just noticed how much a few minutes ago. i was watching "How to Eat Fried Worms" with the kiddo and at the end of the movie, they had to say "no worms were harmed in making this movie"! what the heck? worms for...

smoking. i dont wanna do it anymore. im givin it up. cold turkey. im tired of the bond we have. everywhere i go i have to have the smokes. and god forbid i forget them. its funny how somthing as small as a cigarette can have so much control over a big dude like me. but it wont be easy...

So was out fishing in a local lake, wasnt getting anything. i decided to go to my go to bait, the senko. i had 2 of jims worms left so i rigged one wacky. started whacking the snot out of them. here is one of them.

in case you all havent noticed, im a camera nut. i take pics of everything beautiful. however i need critiqued. if you all can tell me which ones you like best by number and why, it would be great. ps. sorry so many of them. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19...

they work. the worked when nothing else did. i mean nothing. yesterday was a tough day out on lake kaweah. it was raining, sunny, windy calm, cold hot. plus it was such a tough lake to fish anyways. scott here stuck to senkos made by jim (pictured) while i threw everything else trying to...

Just got my shipment of jims worms in today. looks like watermelon with black flake and baby bass with red flake. gonna give them a whirl tomorrow at lake hensley. since i am so sure these worms will catch fish, i will be posting some pics tomorrow.

went to bagby for the weekend. its up by mariposa in california. here are the people who went with us and some of the area pics. no fish pics. the only one i caught for the weekend, i didnt have a camera with me and he was too small to keep. my first smallie ever.

sorry guys, no pics but, this weekend i went camping at bagby and caught only one fish the whole weekend. tried fly fishing first day, dud, nothing, i think its cause i am not good at it, but today, i was working a watermelon/black flake yamamoto twin tail 3" grub on a 1/16 jig head and wham...

this past weekend, my wife and i were entered into a trout derby at lake mcswain in northern california. i was using a med. kastmaster, silver and blue first thing opening morning. i had a hit on the first cast, but lost him as i got him close to the bank. not two minutes later, my wife hit a...

just some pics of my local fishing spot. new here. many more pics to come.