Fly Tying/Fishing Thread

[220yotekiller]

I tied these crappie/bass bugs up the other day, they worked really well on the large mouth.

 

[R.K.]

Last month I had one of the most ill-fated hunting/fishing trips of my life, which is saying a lot, because last fall my truck brakes blew up coming down a mountain in BFE, WY.

Long story short, Sun Country Airlines lost my luggage that contained all my fishing gear and a Glock 20 on my flight to Spokane, WA. They kept saying they would get it to me the next day, until day 5 of a 7 day trip I told them to stop and just keep it in Minneapolis and I'd pick it up when I flew home. It was some mickey mouse club level incompetency, just doing things like forgetting to bring it to the FedEx pick-up multiple days in a row.

I ended up having to buy new underwear and socks every day, buy all new flies and fishing gear, rain gear etc. The folks at Northwest Outfitters in CDA took pity on me and let me use a pair of shop waders for a week for free. Can't say enough good things about that fly shop. The real positive that came out of this was I was able to get Sun Country to pay for a new Hardy fly rod, reel and line, so I'll give them credit for that. Fishing was pretty good overall! Since I only had one rod, I had to commit to the dry fly. There was very little relaxing about this trip and I think I went home more stressed than when I left, but overall it was a good time.
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Let’s be honest- it was probably time for new underwear and socks.

 

[300stw]

fish , fish, fish, its on my brain all the time lately

 

[300stw]

biggest of the morning,, 25in long and heavy, into the backing 2x, addicting,,

 

[Rack Daniels]

Some pigs @300stw
Beautiful fish!

 

[300stw]

more fish,,,

 

[Rack Daniels]

more fish,,,
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Tracking on electronics or doing it the ol fashion way??? Keep em coming I’m jealous!

 

[300stw]

Tracking on electronics or doing it the ol fashion way??? Keep em coming I’m jealous!

just a depth finder, that shows more weeds then anything, 1st time owning one

 

[LopeHunter]

Yup, picked it up from their baggage claim when I flew home. It was such a fiasco. They had to send people thru conveyor systems at Spokane and MSP to look for it cause it was supposed to be on another flight but it was sitting in their baggage claim office the whole time.

I had to call every morning and ask why it hadn’t been delivered yet. I asked if I should notify law enforcement of a potentially stolen firearm and man that got a nervous laugh out the Sun Country supervisor haha

I put Apple AirTags in every bag/case I hand to an airline. Is worth every penny spent on those tags to be sitting on the tarmac for take-off and get pings from each showing they are 30 feet away rather than 200 yards away.

 

[mdunc8]

Working on a few more boxes…