As I look back the last post coincided nicely with vacation. Now things are settling down in the fishing department but that means getting things ready for next year, like working on the catalog. Writing this I am looking at the photography equipment set up in my office to photograph new products.
New products? There are a few and as always the manufacturers improve a little here and there as the years go by. This year SA brought out a new line of fly lines – Sharkskin – This line is touted to float higher, cast further with less effort, not give off bad reflections of light to alarm the fish, more durable – Well, I have only fished the seven weight line here on the river a few times and, though it is noisy going through the guides, I believe it has an edge on the old technology. This doesn’t mean trash your old lines or if you are just getting into fly fishing that you need to drop $99 (that’s right a fly line for $99) to be able to cast. In fact I would not recommend this line to a beginner because they will not be able to appreciate the line for what it is. Beginners – start with a good line that costs a little less (put the extra money in your rod) because you will abuse this line by doing things like stepping on it and casting beautiful knots in it as you work out the kinks, come to think of it, I still do some of those things on a regular basis.
I will elaborate more on new products later.
For now, we sure could use some rain to help the streams. They have been low for the past three months. There are still a few leaves hanging on in the lower elevations. The brook trout seemed to have had a good spawn with no great fluctuations in the water levels to mess things up.
We have been hitting the river bass fishing off and on over the last several weeks and we are still able to catch a few fish here and there. The river was 45 degrees this past weekend and even with the water levels being low, I still needed to go to a sink tip line in order to get my flies on the bottom.
We have a hosted trip scheduled to Alaska in June for King Salmon and Rainbows, space is limited to 4 anglers. Give Scott Sager with Drifting On The Fly (www.driftingonthefly.com) a call (907-382-6808) if you are interested.
For now, I will set up to take pictures of some new flies and work on the copy for them in the catalog.
