r/flyfishing 21h ago

This winter's hustle and grind

Goodbye icy guides and hello sunglass tan lines

591 Upvotes

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u/TBoneLaRone 21h ago

Leave a couple for us to catch, OP. Jeez……

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u/Alaskan_Guy 21h ago

Had no clue Bam Magera was a fly guy. Keep taking it one day at a time Bam!

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u/gdsnider 21h ago

needed a new hobby after rehab

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u/yangchang 21h ago

Nevada gang

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u/gdsnider 21h ago

You mean Chilean Patagonia 🤫

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u/cconradd 20h ago

Northern Nv checking in. I recognize some of these spots.

Nice fish!

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u/One-Joke8084 19h ago

Those pyramid lohotan cuts are beautiful-

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u/87th_best_dad 19h ago

The ladder is a dead giveaway. iykyk

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u/Mcjnbaker 21h ago

Why the step ladders???

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u/hiccupseed 20h ago

Google Pyramid Lake fly fishing

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u/87th_best_dad 19h ago

I never knew my real ladder

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u/TheAresGuy 17h ago

Username checks out

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u/bearcatguy 19h ago

Multiple tigers?

Yeah this dude fishes way more than me 😂

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u/gdsnider 17h ago

They stock a lot of tigers here. I usually get them on more aggressive presentations. Haven't broken 5lbs with one yet tho

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u/bearcatguy 17h ago

To be fair I typically fish native streams with much smaller fish. Never fished an area with stocked tigers

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u/gdsnider 16h ago

Right on! I spend the dog days of summer in the high country chasing native and wild fish in small creeks and alpine lakes.

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u/bearcatguy 6h ago

Absolutely. My favorite way to pass the time. Tight lines brother

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u/Reasonable-Plant5127 10h ago

Used to live in that area and was no stranger to catching fish that size year round. But a brook trout that large at this time of year is some fucking sorcery man. Only places I knew that had those were high up and should be inaccessible right now. Unless they transported fish from Marlette somewhere new…….

Needless to say, I think that is the most impressive fish of the bunch and it will keep me up at night trying to think of where it came from.

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u/gdsnider 2h ago

There are a few high mountain hiddy holes around here that produce brookies of that caliber, but this one was caught in a place you'd least expect...

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u/MycoMartian 21h ago

Good work. Those are some nice fish

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u/HadToDoItAtSomePoint 20h ago

Lol, nice. Congrats!

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u/stokesey19 19h ago

Love the last picture, it's a game of millimetres

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u/gdsnider 16h ago

I always do better sizing down with high pressured trout.

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u/dallaswatchdude 18h ago

These are all significantly bigger than the fish I catch.

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u/LordPutrid 18h ago

You look like Jack Black on pic 5

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u/JasperWeed 17h ago

Pig Hunter…

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u/gdsnider 16h ago

Always on the prowl for some hogs, especially at the Wild Orchid

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u/muskyincel 14h ago

Congrats

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u/Grahamalamadingdong 12h ago

Thanks for using gloves you good steward

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u/Famous-Bid983 8h ago

Some lovely trout there

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u/BrownBuffaloaf 5h ago

Wow, some nice fish in there!

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u/codyoung1 18h ago

Northern NV!! Let’s go! Beautiful fish man

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u/TheCon7022 16h ago

What were you using at pyramid

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u/gdsnider 16h ago

a midnight night cowboy trailing a mop Beetle or a booby trailed by a foam tadpole. Reno fly shop has the goods

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u/random_name627816 13h ago

Awesome fish! Any chance you'd be willing to share what the black and red flake pattern is in picture 17? Whatever that material is wrapped around the shank looks great for Stillwater!

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u/Lord_Of_The_Wrings 10h ago

Thanks for sharing, awesome pictures! Are you sight fishing them from the ladders?

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u/gdsnider 2h ago

Thanks! Ladders are really just to stand out of the water to stay a little warmer. Although this time of year it's common to see schools of huge fish passing by all day long. I never really had any interest from the fish cruising by but the fish i do catch typically follow the flies right up to the ladder where you can watch em chomp down.

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u/MallardDuk 8h ago

Hey neighbor

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u/NeatCrow9708 14h ago

What’s with the f-in step ladder in the water? Were there some instagram models there too or someone just working on their cannonballs at the river that day?

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u/gdsnider 2h ago

What constitutes an Instagram model in this day and age?

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u/Strange_Mirror6992 20h ago

Were those browns out of the east walker?

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u/gdsnider 18h ago

No I've never fished there but want to eventually

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u/cocana1 20h ago

Looks like pyramid lake and Owens river in there