Did all the bugs arrive yet?

Favorite time out West!

Bring them over here, Dusty. We're expecting temps in the 80s through the weekend. And it's not often we get to brag about how warm it is in WI.

I'd agree with you, Eric. I was hoping to get in some fishing this weekend but it's going to be 90 degrees. I'll wait until next weekend when it's 65.

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Here's the catch from fishing today just before dark. These were caught with 3 wts, a CGR and a Native Custom. Hopper still in pristine condition.

The hooking capability is note able also: I have yet to lose a fish once hooked.
And another feature: the top being orange and the bottom a contrasting black makes the fly more easily removed from a blue gill's mouth; the direction the hook needs to be moved is easily discerned.

Thanks for the hoppers! I got them out on a local smallmouth river yesterday. Fished a Fenwick FF75 6 weight...it handled the flies well, even in the high wind that got up later in the day. In places the river is lined with tall grass filled with hoppers. Somehow the little buggers seem to avoid the water though...I saw no naturals blown into the stream, and the bass were slow to take the flies....hardly any surface bite at all....but I did get a couple. I could have caught as many "suckers" as I wanted...but not many bass.
(Actually, both the bass, and the walleye, were hungry for crawfish, so I got distracted from the hoppers for quite a while).

Nice pictures TrouterBass!
What's the fish above the bass called?

I thought it would be a chub but wasn't sure.
Here's one I caught in Austria last summer.

I used to catch a lot of chubs up in northern MN fishing brookies but never on the surface. I had a little trick an old timer taught me on catching the biggest brookies in a pool but could never talk about here on a fly fishing forum. Let's just say if the flies that were tied to imitate a brookies fin or his tail worked on them, well imagine...

Remember this was years and years ago and brookies, walleyes, bass, northerns, steelhead and salmon were a big part of our diet up there.

Thanks Newfydog. The tape is adhesive tape and just keeps the rings from slipping. In the last couple of weeks I've had the reel fall off, once in the mud (not too bad) but another time in the canal and I had to yo yo it out of the water.

Now that you've brought up the topic, I've thought how nice it would be to have the newer model of the CGR 4/5 and 4 with the up-locking seats; but, I am wondering if the added weight of the different seat might affect the rods behaviour, which I really like.

Sorry to get off topic here.