http://jimuflyfishing.com Fly Fishing Guide Service Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:03:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In order to provide more information available through this web page, I have added some additional links.  The new links include a very well done knot tutorial, a hook conversion chart for you tyers out there and some basic hand tied leader recipes for those of us who make up ... http://jimuflyfishing.com/2008/10/19/new-links/ The fair was great! Lots bamboo to see and cast. A large assortment of antique fly fishing equipment and collectibles were available for sale as well as a good assortment of fish art. The weather was very pleasant, clear skies and not too hot. Here ... http://jimuflyfishing.com/2008/07/24/camp-sherman-flyfishing-and-bamboo-rod-fair/ Got up to Diamond Lake last week for three days with my folks.  The fishing wasn't quite as fast and furious as it was the last couple of weeks.  Full moon?  Maybe.  Wednesday afternoon I trolled a wooly bugger, prospecting to locate fish, for a while with no action, not even a ... http://jimuflyfishing.com/2008/06/23/chironomids-at-diamond-lake/ This week started out with an encore of a previous 'Open Seat Monday' with Bob Shuck on the Upper Rogue.  Bob wasn't able to join us on the ;Salmon Fly Rondi' float, so I invited him to join me this Monday.  Dave Roberts came along in his boat with DJ MacDonald of ... http://jimuflyfishing.com/2008/06/14/this-weeks-cast-of-thousands/ Monday, the day afer the picnic at the Holy Water's Rivers Edge Park, we floaed the upper river looking for fish willing to take big stone fly imitations.  After an obligatory breakfast in Shady Cove we launched at the hatchery ramp.  With everybody casting bamboo and big dries we quickly got some action.   ... http://jimuflyfishing.com/2008/06/08/salmon-fly-float-trip/ Had a great time at the picnic Sunday. Lots of bamboo to cast, good food to eat and new friends to visit with. (click photos to enlarge) Thanks to Bob Shuck for organizing a fun day. Thanks to Dr. Cane, Umqua Beaver, Bruce Howell, Bill Walsh and Bamboo Addict for letting us play ... http://jimuflyfishing.com/2008/06/05/holy-water-salmon-fly-picnic/ Had an old friend and co-worker (when I worked) Ralph Bailey with me yesterday on the Upper for the last day of trout season until the end of May.  Ralph was my best source of motivation and knowledge of the steelhead fly fishing when we moved back to the Medford ... http://jimuflyfishing.com/2008/04/01/open-seat-monday-3/ Monday the Ospreys showed up on the Rogue and then Tuesday the Swallows were chasing bugs high in the air over the river.  Nothing says Spring to me like birds showing up for the season.  The Ospreys, I’m told, migrate to Mexico for the Winter and return to have youngins, sometimes ... http://jimuflyfishing.com/2008/03/31/there-baaaaaaaak/ I got to hang around at the new Southern Oregon Fly (SOFly) on Friday and Saturday.  DJ and Gena have done a great job setting up shop.  They have a very good selection of materials and equipment, with much more yet to be delivered and stocked.  It's also a very ... http://jimuflyfishing.com/2008/03/18/southern-oregon-fly-sofly/ Happy St. Patty's Day to you all.  Hope there are no bad hangovers out there.  You could be green two days in row. I spent the misty, rainy, cold, dark, numb fingered and dreary (I'm trying not to say miserable) afternoon on the upper looking for a hatch.  We waited a little longer ... http://jimuflyfishing.com/2008/03/18/top-of-the-morning-from-mcjimu/