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If you're on Facebook, here's a link to a decent video. Geared towards fly fishing but am sure the info is useful for conventional gear as well: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=832633800929483.

Thx!

Care to share a pic of the green and gold?

Thinking of doing the same (building a dry fly rod). Can I ask what blank you chose?

One heckuva deal! Wishing this were a Medium. Would have been sold at your original asking price.

I will take the LST and the line. PM me to arrange a pickup time. Thx. Darin

Sent you a PM

Sent you a PM regarding the sulphur crackleback.

Sweet little small stream rod for sale. Redington Butter Stick 5'9" 3pc. 1wt. The rod is in very good used condition. Light soiling of the cork and one small dent in the cork which is pictured. Was fished just a few times. Will come with the original compartmented tube. $150 includes shipping. Have a couple of very lightly used lines I can include for extra $$$, a 1 and 2 RIO Trout. I liked it best with the 2. CONUS only. Paypal only. PM with any questions or interest to buy. Not interested in trades.

i'd be interested in those places where I can find huge sunfish. I'll shoot you a PM.

Airflo polyleaders work well. come in various sizes and sink rates from floating to extra fast sink. Have used them with great success at Bennett with cracklebacks and leech/woolly patterns. quick change out if you want to throw a dry or terrestial too. just like taking off a standard leader.

Thinking of heading down for the last day of catch and release tomorrow but don't want to play bumper cars. What are the roads like.

Fly-tying? I use Wapsi's Z-ment. Brush applicator. Was a Zap A Gap guy but get much better control with the Z-ment.

Sweet Full-flexing 2wt. Orvis Ultrafine 7'9" 2 piece 2wt. Rod is in excellent condition. Has the original sock and tube. My poor photo skills don't do justice to this rod. Price is $185 shipped and insured to the lower 48 only. PM here with any questions. 3 day inspection. First "I'll take it" gets it. Can arrange a face to face at Bennett for a trial run if interested.

any pale yellow thread will work. i use veevus 10. great taneycomo fly. under an indicator or dropper off of a big dry or larger nymph. i coat the entire fly in loon flow or sally hansens to protect the flashabou overbody

Bunch of great suggestions. I love to catch trout on dries and little midges but for me at least, I find I need to break out the old sink tip line and strip something to catch fish regularly at Bennett. The crackleback in all the tried and true colors. Chartreuse works well sometimes and so does copper or orange. griffiths gnat stripped on the sink tip. Can never go wrong with a brown woolly. One of the best days I ever had during catch and release was with a white river demon (bugger variation). Here's a link: http://www.swedneckflyfishing.com/wr_demon.htm. i use bright orange thread but I am sure red works well too. When wet, the thread underbody kind of glows through the pearl midge braid overwrap. looks pretty cool. Another bugger variation I do well with on occasion is called the Oklahoma bugger (don't know why). size 10 or 12. gold bead Yellowish olive marabou tail. yellowish grizzly hackle and a peacock herl body. The flash is tied in a little differently. take four or five strands of olive or root beer krystal flash and tie it in behind the bead on top of the body before you palmer the hackle. then palmer the hackle up. trim the flash even with the tail. forms a "crackleback" of flash instead of the peacock herl. has been deadly at times.

"Bennett Blue" cracklebacks and brown woollies.

disregard. read a post a couple of threads down that answered this question,

been itching to head down to taney and watching the generations schedules religiously. the last several days have shown 40 (megawatts) as the output for several hours. is this wadeable?

John, sent you a pm. also, these older eyes are getting weaker by the minute. that closeup of the midge a couple of posts up-the body looks grayish to these tired eyes?

rod has been traded. reel and line are still available for &60 shipped to lower 48.

up for sale a great smallmouth combo. Rod is a custom (not factory) 9', 2 piece Sage RPL in very good used condition paired with a Sage 106M reel spooled with RIO 6WF smallmouth line. reel and line are also in good used condition. Not sure of the components on the rod as I bought it used myself. Does NOT have a fighting butt. Can take and send pics to interested parties. also comes with a white river rod on reel case for 2 piece rods. $220 shipped to the lower 48. paypal only. PM here with questions.

sent you a p.m.

sounds like a great trip. mind sharing your go-to?

sent you a p.m. lots of good choices.