TCR's were fast. I think the TCX was a great improvement. If you're stuck on Sage, check ebay for Sage VXP rods. There is both a 7100 & 896 from a Sage rep with warranty at prices too good to pass up on for a Sage with warranty. Although the VXP & TCR have little in common. A Sage Flight...

Here might be a good breakdown for you (from Rio's site so it suggest their products): Spey fishing almost exclusively with heavy sink tips and large flies – Skagit Max Short Fishing indicator rigs with nymph/egg patterns at distance– Switch line Fishing indicators rigs and sink tips, and...

Fatty with my switch rod in the pic and hares ear in jaw. Switch rod and long belly floating line is a nymph drifters dream Some nicely colored fish But mostly big bright chromers that weren't happy to be hooked flows still low, so some storms for ny state should really be for the better...

tompg brought up a pioneering idea in the 'what's wrong with people thread', might Ben have any insight?

Practice, mcfly, practice! I bet she gives one hell of a mustache ride

Some nice gear listed here! Clearly this forum is full of fly fisherman whose gear far exceeds their capabilities

I think there are a few different ways to consider a rod your favorite rod. To the content fisherman, the answer is simply the one I have in hand. To a gear junkie, it is the rod I buy next. To another, it is the one most suitable for the job, perhaps the one for the most frequent type of...

Can you honestly narrow it down to just one!?

No medical diagnoses here but it really helps me break down a section a section of water, as my fishing buddy puts it.

Kind of like a delayed harvest program for little children

My advice is to start drinking heavily. With a name like Mclancy, this might not be all too tall of an order.

I thought gorged because the lump was well ahead of its pelvic fins much closer to its pectoral fins. If I figured it were eggs, I'd have raked my boot cleats along the sides of the brown to get the eggs out before releasing it.

my simple camp A huge push of fresh chromers came through at around 10am. The AM fishing was slow so I took a walk and a hit from the pipe and returned to my spots filled with huge fish. Kinda cool. This was the only 1 I landed of the 7 I hooked that late morning. They were very graciously...

Slob brown trout taken out of a slow deeper run. Must have been gorging well as of late

Nope, no ebola on the airlines