Savery Creek, Wyoming

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It’s been a busy summer so I haven’t posted for a while.  Mary Ann and I recently took a 3 week trip to Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho for some fantastic fly fishing.  I’ll share some photos from Savery Creek, Wyoming in this post.  Savery Creek is a very large working cattle ranch in central Southern Wyoming.  They have 18 miles of private trout water on their ranch.  And, they put strong limitations on the numbers of guests staying at the lodge so the water doesn’t get overfished.  First, Savery Creek is a very small tail water, populated with big rainbows, a few browns, and a few tiger trout.  Most of our fish were between 14″ and 20″.  All their fishing is guided, and our guides, Bryce and Matt, did a fantastic job.  We fished 4 days on the ranch, and never put on a subsurface fly….everything was dry fly fishing, mostly with cicadas, hoppers, ants, and some smaller mayflies and caddis.  Mary Ann and I both fished 5 wt bamboo fly rods. Fishing was great, the lodge was great, and the meals were great.  All in all, we had a fantastic time and are hoping to get back there next year.  Here are a few photos:

Getting to the Lodge…crossing Savery Creek.

Savery Creek, Wyoming

Inside the Lodge at Savery Creek.

Searching for a fish.

A typical Savery Creek Rainbow.

A beautiful Rainbow.

A nice Savery Creek Trophy.

 

 

Fishing Hat Creek, CA

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I met up with my fishing buddies from California last week and spent 4 days fishing Hat Creek near Redding.  I’ve been fishing with these guys for over 30 years so it’s always great to get together with them on our “Guys Fishing Trip” once a year.  The creek was in great shape.  It proved to be pretty challenging fishing during the day but much better each evening.  Lots of Salmonflies, Golden Stoneflies, Yellow Sallies, and Caddis were out.  For all my fishing, I used my 9′  0″  4 wt Euronymphing rod.  It did great during the day throwing all sorts of nymphs, and then switching over to a dry line during the evenings for the hatch.  Here are a few photos of my trip.

Hat Creek, CA

Salmon Fly

Salmon Fly

Hat Creek Rainbow that took a Yellow Sally.

This guy took a golden stonefly.

 

 

The Middle Deschutes River Browns

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I got out on the middle Deschutes River recently with my good friend and bamboo rod builder, Olivia Elia to try out a couple of bamboo rods.  I chose my 9′  0″  3 wt Euronymphing Bamboo Rod and Olivia took out her 7′  9″  4 wt bamboo rod.  Well, the student outfished the teacher.  Here is one of the very nice browns that Olivia found in this stretch of the river.

A beautiful Brown that took a #8 stonefly nymph.

Great Brown Trout Colors

A nice release…

A couple of rods finished this week….

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I put the finishing touches on two bamboo fly rods this past week.  Both are the same taper…an 8′  0″  5 wt medium progressive action rod from my Spring Creek series of rods.  One rod will be going to the Seattle area to a regular customer who wanted to add a 5 wt. rod to his collection.  The second rod will be mine…I get to build a rod for me once-in-a-while!!!  Here they are:

A nice 8′ 0″ 5 wt rod.

Article about Olivia Elia

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Our good friend and bamboo fly rod builder, Olivia Elia, was just profiled in the latest Journal of The Italian Bamboo Rodmakers Association.  IBRA is one of the most prestigeous bamboo rod organizations in the world, and they just published a wonderful article on Olivia’s journey that took her to becoming a gifted bamboo rod maker.  I’m proud to have contributed to her journey and to have her in my workshop as she builds her custom bamboo fly rods.  Her article appears in the April edition of IBRA, and can be found at:  Documento senza titolo (rodmakers.eu).  Let’s all celebrate Olivia’s accomplishments by raising a glass.

Celebrating Olivia’s Article in IBRA