guidoStow

Good weather, great fishing. Pick one.

49 degrees this morning, the ice is melting. Soon we'll be out there...

I got another 6" of snow last night into this morning. Weird weather indeed...

This cold snap has been no joy for open water fans...

One more...

More fun with homemade shanks and bucktail brushes

Ah. Thanks!

Did you happen to check Wequaquet lake? Was that locked up too? Thanks!

Time to tie flies...

My new kayak is motorized as well but I keep a paddle clipped in a holder in reserve. Plus it has a ruler marked on the shaft so I can measure fish on it, so I don't need a bump board. One less thing to bring...

This fall I cast a tungsten cone head through the tip of a rod stowed on deck of my old Native Kayak. Broke it off quite cleanly. Fortunately TFO still had spare parts for it still available... An expensive lesson. And the final thing that convinced me to get a new kayak. It is hard to Belgium cast from a seated position!

I got 4 Rainbow Trout in the 16-18" range yesterday morning. 44 degrees at 8:30am got up to 48. Rain off and on and just enough wind to be raw. Cold feet and fingers cut off the trip at about 3.5 hours.

I caught a 14" Rainbow Trout today at Walden Pond. Also had a huge crawdad grab/hold my flyline while I was retrieving. Thing would have just missed the lobster short measurement...

These are the folks I use the most: https://www.jsflyfishing.com/ https://www.feather-craft.com/ https://www.bearsden.com/

Thanks! First pass at a Buford using bucktail brushes I spun up a la Erik Johnson www.weightsandmeasures.co

Those past three evening low temps of 19, 15, 23 degrees starting to have an effect...

I fished the Concord today. Water was 33 degrees at the start and rose to 34.5 by 3:00pm Very slow going...

Thanks for your kind words! I do both, but the strung fuzzy fiber sinks faster and deeper than the head tied with the bucktail butts of a normal bulkhead so it can be used more effectively in certain situations. They both definitely have their place in the box... I also tie a variation with big fly fiber in the tail for an all synthetic variant. These guys split the difference... @flyfisher I can't see your linked image. Please re-post!

Spent the day on the Sudbury dodging rainstorms and finished in a remarkably warm wind. I had thought with the approaching front I would have finally hit the Northern bite but it was not to be. A 21" Chained Pickerel kept me company which was really nice. The pike of massachusetts still elude me... The water was dammed cold... We have a nice week ahead more chances to come...

Hybrid Bulkhead. Bucktail, saddle and Krystal flash with a strung fuzzy fiber head.

I use the fat tire Suspenz cart. The big tires are really great on uneven surfaces. The downside is that because they float it is harder to load the boat onto the cart when the boat is still in the water. If you don't do that they are perfect. HTH