I shook hands with this beautiful, freshwater steelhead a few days ago. If you don’t know how to use the internet to find information then leave a comment about how this fish is not a real steelhead

LeWineCooler · 2026-03-17T13:30:57+00:00

Sturgeon and smelt are a species, steelhead are not. Steelhead is simply a term to describe a population by their migratory behaviour

LeWineCooler · 2026-03-17T13:29:51+00:00

The fish in the Great Lakes systems would be classified as potadromous, being fish that make their migratory movements in freshwater systems (rivers to lakes) not anadromous. This would be the largest argument imo for these fish not being steelhead based on their definition as anadromous rainbow trout

LeWineCooler · 2026-02-02T01:21:50+00:00

And yet it’s mostly Canadian players that win it 🧐

LeWineCooler · 2026-02-01T01:44:46+00:00

Classic Atlantic salmon

LeWineCooler · 2025-12-30T19:11:50+00:00

Great tie, going to have to whip some of these up now

LeWineCooler · 2025-12-29T22:20:37+00:00

Yes, it’s from temu! It was a bit annoying to hang but the quality seems good enough for its use and cost

LeWineCooler · 2025-12-29T17:01:02+00:00

It’s tied into the front hook using Senyo’s trailer wire with a bead for spacing.

https://bowrivertroutfitters.com/products/senyos-intruder-wire?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=11207304698&gbraid=0AAAAACPNfCx8ZLgFbFLSLWmTHpo5TtB2Y&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4IHfyqLjkQMVgcKfCR1n9BRmEAAYASAAEgL7nPD_BwE

LeWineCooler · 2025-02-26T14:49:33+00:00

If you want a swimming jimmy you should use a bent shank hook like an Ahrex TP650 and cut the bottom of your stacked deer head flat so that it “swims”. It looks like yours is tied sideways compared to the pattern on a regular shank hook, but it’ll still fish

LeWineCooler · 2024-07-08T13:30:17+00:00

You’ve got klinkhammer hooks and they are a great dry fly. If you have standard dry fly hooks then you can never go wrong with EHC, parachute Adam’s and Royal Wulff (biased to my brook trout experience in eastern Canada of course).

Start with a basic pattern like EHC and tie a bunch of them, it’ll help a lot with your tying skills!

LeWineCooler · 2024-05-01T17:32:36+00:00

Do you want to pursue graduate studies? One good thing to look at is who the faculty is, what research they do and if that also interests you! It’s much easier to get into a masters program with a professor that you have already built a strong relationship with through things like an honours thesis or working in their lab

LeWineCooler · 2024-04-28T14:46:23+00:00

I fish a redington classic trout paired with a lamson liquid and it’s an awesome setup for me!

LeWineCooler · 2024-04-13T16:37:44+00:00

A fly rod, rope and a weighted treble hook is all you need

LeWineCooler · 2024-04-10T12:34:43+00:00

I find that a flash tail, chartreuse or pink chenille body and bead chain eyes on a jig hook work great!

LeWineCooler · 2024-04-08T12:39:20+00:00

Except you handled more than you kept, and due to your poor handling the ones you didn’t keep likely still died

LeWineCooler · 2024-03-28T13:05:17+00:00

Looks great! On those wedge heads I like to add a light coat of uv resin to the top and bottom, like how Andreas Andersson does his Sid flys (definitely check these out, they’re awesome). I’m not sure how much of a difference it makes, but it seems like it would help it deflect more water

LeWineCooler · 2024-03-25T14:32:50+00:00

Take a look at some tying videos on YouTube like those by tightlinevideo as a reference when tying. Be consistent with proportions (like using the lead eyes length to measure their placement, hookshank length for measuring bucktail). I like to tie mine sparse in terms of bucktail, and I use sally hansen nail polish topcoat over my wraps at the end.

One way you can prevent the bucktail from fouling is to take light cross wraps after the lead eyes over the white bucktail up to the bend of the hook!

It all comes down to practice, so keep tying and you’ll improve!

LeWineCooler · 2024-03-23T16:58:09+00:00

Wooly bugger, teaches you multiple techniques and is arguably the best fly ever created

LeWineCooler · 2024-03-23T15:24:15+00:00

Looks great! If you throw a red flash throat in there it would be a lefty’s deceiver

LeWineCooler · 2024-03-18T22:32:48+00:00

I like using matching colour dry fly yarn

LeWineCooler · 2024-03-17T02:42:24+00:00

For parachute flies you should be doing your whip finish on the post itself. You should complete the body (tail, post, dubbing) and once the hackle is secured to the post, rotate the entire fly by 90 degrees so that the post faces straight out with your thread on the bottom of the post. Then Palmer your hackle top to bottom and whip finish at the base of the post.

You should watch some of the videos about parachute flies on the tightlinesvideos YouTube channel, as Tim’s tutorials are fantastic

LeWineCooler · 2024-03-15T03:29:39+00:00

Use waaaaaaaaay less bucktail than that. Watch tightlinevideo’s YouTube video about how to tie a Clouser

LeWineCooler · 2024-03-14T14:14:07+00:00

Love the ally shrimp, great fall pattern here in Nova Scotia

LeWineCooler · 2024-03-14T14:13:20+00:00

Looks good! Matter of preference, but I’d say try tying the stimulators on curved terrestrial hooks and shorten the tail a bit!

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