The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

I landed my first fish (juvenile steelhead) on on 3wt bamboo rod that I had made for my birthday. Fly Away Frank built the rod. It is a sweet 8' 3wt bamboo fly rod with dry fly action. I have caught fish on it before but never landed one. You will see the bamboo rod in Dawn's pictures of me on the Mad River trip. What fun !

I caught lots of 3" fish that I wondered how they got their mouths on my size 18 dry fly. I caught my 1st steelheads using a red copper john. Lots of hits by the smaller fish who couldn't get the fly in their mouths. Then, there were the flying steelhead. They were so small that you didn't even know that you caught them until youbegan your backcast and wondered why does the rod feel different. Then you saw them and your mouth dropped opened.

Lots of fun were had by all.

I'd love to see a closeup pic of your new rod, Loretta, if you have one!


Buzz

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Happy Birthday, Loretta!

Her birthday is July 16th. I think we're all at the age where one birthday a year is more than enough.

-Greg

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Dawn

Hey GM,

I see there are some photo issues that we need to address.

--no camera icon? Maybe we can add it to the topic icon at the top

--apparently there are limits to the size of pics which can be posted, but it isn't clear what those limits are. If you post something too big, it comes up no message or with no pic.

--no way to preview how pics look in the post. Preview doesn't show the pics.

--only very small pictures can be posted. If it is linked off an image to the web, the board will shrink the picture to the small size.

--it appears that only using the "bracket Img bracket" works for HTML inside the post.

Some stuff to add to the list.

Dawn

You can edit your post and try the photo again. How big is the picture?

-Greg

Medium size on flickr.

I think it is the html issue. I will edit/delete the posts as soon as I get it figured out. I just wanted to leave them for now as a placeholder.

Dawn

Dawn

At this rate, though, you are going to be the #1 ranked poster!


Buzz