Having Fun With The Fairy Wand

  • chriswallace
    Andover, MN
    Posts: 275
    #1321352

    So I have since I have started working at Thorne Bros I give guys like Struif, Rolek and Olee crap about being “fairy wand wavers.” Anybody who pays $54 bucks for a tackle box the size of a Rose Creek box is nuts!

    So ended up having Rolek and struif set me up with a reel, rod some flies and sent me on the way. Since I tie my own jigs I figured tying poppers and streamers couldn’t be too terribly hard. And they weren’t. I think I’ve tied about 15 of each. Some look good, some have got fish some look butt [censored] ugly.

    Ive seen the move “A River Runs Through It” and will always remember Tom Skerrits scene with the boys in the field ten and two ten and two.

    I am not the prettiest at casting. I have only hooked myself once. Ask Charles.

    Last few times out I always wanted to get a few pictures of the smallies I have been catching. Them river fish are fun on “Gear” but they really test the fly rod! Especially when they have had enough head shaking and going airborne and turn and run downstream.

    Simply a gas if anyone ever wanted to get into fly fishing. DO IT! Its not as complicated and hard as it looks! Can not wait to learn and bug the fly boys more as I progress!

    Here’s a few fish of the smallies from this afternoon. Spent a few hours on the small river by home!

    And then it fell off. haha

    walleyefisher87
    Central MN/ SJU
    Posts: 183
    #888017

    Chris….great hitting the water again with you, and your casting abilities are only going to improve with practice…fyi my fly rod was in the back of my truck but i didnt want to show you up…..

    Charles Schmidtbauer

    chriswallace
    Andover, MN
    Posts: 275
    #888018

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    Chris….great hitting the water again with you, and your casting abilities are only going to improve with practice…fyi my fly rod was in the back of my truck but i didnt want to show you up…..

    Charles Schmidtbauer


    No way. I know it wasnt in back! I looked!

    Atleast we werent stuck out there today with the sirens going off like last trip!!!haha

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    #888020

    That’s an awesome looking smally Chris!

    There’s too many people that think fly fishing is only for the trout guys. When people in the know..know it’s the most fun a person can have standing up!

    chriswallace
    Andover, MN
    Posts: 275
    #888021

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    That’s an awesome looking smally Chris!

    There’s too many people that think fly fishing is only for the trout guys. When people in the know..know it’s the most fun a person can have standing up!


    No the most fun a guy can have is after catching a nice one and looking at your buddy when your half mile away from the trucks lightning all around saying, we should probably get going, its starting to get really dark and the lightning seems to be picking up.

    Yeah, well cast and take our time back, were already wet, we wont melt.

    Than hear the sirens go off and promptly have 70 mile an hour winds as your doggy paddling your butt off to make it to safety with rod in hand haha. Were gonna try not to do that one again.

    walleyefisher87
    Central MN/ SJU
    Posts: 183
    #888022

    No way. I know it wasnt in back! I looked!

    Atleast we werent stuck out there today with the sirens going off like last trip!!!haha


    hahaha toolbox son…and yes the storm on saturday night did get a little interesting…

    “Green sky sure is pretty…oh bleep we better get moving”
    chalk that up to just another day on the water not knowing when to throw in the towel

    bret_clark
    Sparta, WI
    Posts: 9362
    #888038

    When I seen the title I thought for sure this post was going to be about Gut

    Nice looking Smallies

    kdb
    Posts: 89
    #888071

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    Nice looking Smallies


    agreed…and beautiful photos of those fish. Well done!

    there’s an interesting thing about fly tackle…guys like Stu Apte, who use them for tarpon, talk about it…

    the fly line creates it’s own drag through the water, working on the fish…it’s not all rod bend…like we think about ‘regular’ rods…

    Jack Naylor
    Apple Valley, MN
    Posts: 5668
    #888130

    Chris,
    Nice Smallies, and great pics.
    thanks,
    Jack

    chriswallace
    Andover, MN
    Posts: 275
    #888226

    Thanks guys! Its been a lot of fun the wading the river has been a blast!

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