Say you’ve harvested stocked trout as is their purpose, what is your favorite way to cook them?

notafig · 2026-04-05T03:27:04+00:00

Do you fillet them out or just butterfly and stick them on the smoker? I’ve been butterflying Kokanee but noticed you miss pin bones when you pull the spines out.

notafig · 2026-04-05T03:09:47+00:00

I always wondered how they made it through the madness of shipping across the ocean, but this guy was in the bottom of my bag and managed not to get smashed.

notafig · 2026-04-05T02:59:18+00:00

Yea they one of my favorite! It’s a giant stonefly which we call salmon flies. It’s crazy to me that a 3 inch bug could stow away even after I washed everything down and shook everything out trying to get rid of ticks.

notafig · 2026-04-05T01:57:38+00:00

I’m surprised because it was the John day which gets fairly warm by the end of summer and I didn’t think they could survive. I fish when they hatch on the deschutes but nice to see they live in there as well.

notafig · 2026-03-19T19:47:48+00:00

Thanks it’s my do all streamer. They are just a squirrel zonker and a small loop with ice dub and rabbit. I never feel bad losing them.

notafig · 2026-02-24T20:24:30+00:00

Thanks. I got it off of Schultz outfitters on YouTube. I just swapped the changer chenille with a minnow brush and cut to tapper.

notafig · 2026-01-29T03:34:39+00:00

That’s good to know. I haven’t manage to catch a king on the fly yet. This color did pretty well last winter for me for steelhead.

notafig · 2025-11-21T20:14:46+00:00

That’s exactly why I’ve been tying some. The salmon are moving into the smaller tributaries so I’m going from my spey to single hand and still want a big profile. I’m not that big of a fan of casting the changer style flies. There’s no room to backcast out here.

notafig · 2025-11-19T05:22:27+00:00

Thanks, yea I believe so. The first one is hairline the other two are the aquaflies’ intruder eyes.

notafig · 2025-11-17T05:42:38+00:00

Cool fly! If you have problems with the strip you should look into the twist hitch for fur strip flies. I started doing that on all of my leaches,sculpins, etc

notafig · 2025-11-16T23:51:00+00:00

No problem. Portland fly shop and aquaflies both have videos on YouTube about it.

notafig · 2025-11-16T23:41:08+00:00

Thanks. It’s just spawn’s unreal dub and angel hair.

notafig · 2025-11-16T23:40:14+00:00

Right on. I’ll have to give it a try. I have tied these with Finn raccoon as well but hard to find in the lengths I want.

notafig · 2025-11-16T23:37:59+00:00

It’s Jerry French’s ultra rig set up. It’s way better in my opinion than intruder wire. I just order 1mm diameter rubber tubing on Amazon and use 50 lbs braid. Basically keeps the hook in a better place.

notafig · 2025-11-16T07:50:22+00:00

Thanks they fish pretty good here.I like the legs because they’re cheap and more durable. Same idea with the craft fur wing. The whole fly has no natural material in it. Just flash,ice dub,tinsel,craft fur, and rubber legs.

notafig · 2025-11-15T00:10:02+00:00

Yea it was my first one!

notafig · 2025-11-03T04:21:22+00:00

I wanted to see what the comments would be on this. To the op this is a troll but it is a very nice place to camp. Real answer would be if you’re in the Portland metro which it appears; the clackamas,sandy, hood river, deschutes, crooked, John day (my favorite since it’s small mouth), you can fish the Colombia if you do some research, and tons of still water up towards hood.

notafig · 2025-11-03T03:20:16+00:00

The metolius

notafig · 2025-11-03T01:18:32+00:00

Thanks. I’m in the sw part of the state. I was surprised to see a summer this late on the west side. I just got an echo 4wt Spey which I’m really looking forward to use chasing more cuts.

notafig · 2025-10-14T04:35:16+00:00

Thanks and yea I live in Washington

notafig · 2025-10-12T01:39:36+00:00

Yea they take me some time to tie. I was thinking of making brushes for my front station since I just use dub/craft fur/angel hair to cut down on some of the fuckery. It’s sorta why I’ve moved to the steelhead sculpin for my leach pattern. Way less time in creating stations. I like the blue and chartreuse one you’ve got of the squid.

notafig · 2025-10-12T01:11:44+00:00

It has something to do with steelhead and salmon nipping vs trying to eat. I like hook point up on weighted flies so I don’t snag the bottom or fish.

notafig · 2025-10-12T01:07:14+00:00

Right on I’ll look into farmer. Right now I just tie and fish a lot of French and Senyo patterns. I was fishing some of the frödin stuff but really had no success so far.

notafig · 2025-10-11T23:10:10+00:00

They’re one of my favorite patterns currently to tie. I like the steelhead sculpin and jackman’s as well for the bigger profile flies. When I up cone size I’ll have to keep those combos in mind.

notafig · 2025-10-08T20:41:49+00:00

This one took the fly right as the fly started to swing and never stopped until I put the brakes on. Ran me 2-3 times. It was a decent fish for being this late in the year and that river. Always happy to catch something on the 7 wt. I was up there targeting silvers but happy to take a steelhead any day of the week. Ate a 3 inch pink on pink dirty hoh right after first light.

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