Sk8man

Going to have to spring for a bigger net Anthony. Your buddy looks like Mikey from American Choppers

Their servicing is second to none and is the way things used to get done in this wonderful country of ours.

They look great Dustin

There is no really right or wrong way just differences. The A option tends to fan the strands backward and can make the fly appear smaller and more compact. The B option fans the strands outward making the fly appear larger and more "spidery" in appearance. Cohos often like things a bit smaller in size e.g. attractors and flies as well so there may be a difference in how they react to the flies. I don't think the kings seem to be fussy about it

You'll get better results with option B as Whaler indicated.

Many of our problems start with man....and his tries to manipulate nature. A good recent example is over in Tasmania. They were worried about facial tumors appearing on the animal called Tasmanian Devils so they transported a bunch of them to supposedly "protect" them to an uninhabited island where there were only birds and they ate every single penguin and other birds on that island. Now they are scratching their heads wondering why they did it. Everywhere you look there are examples of man's attempt to intervene in nature and nearly always it ends in disaster.

Nice going Johnnie. looks like a familiar rod in the background

Wow ! thanks JJ 75 years old right out of my dinosaur era

By the way Stan I have never seen one of those rods before. Someone must have stayed up all night thinking that one up

Most of them.

Love those knobs Bob

The Twin Minnow is meant to resemble the Freshwater Sculpin (Stonecat) and has a little different shape and action than the Flatfish

This is what Twin Minnows look like. They originally cam with a small treble which was too light and often snagged up on bottom so it helped to change the hooks to single stainless siwash hooks positioned upright with the point facing upward to help minimize snags on bottom The black back white bottom one with the red lip was always a top performer. There was also a slightly larger version of the Twin Minnow that was jointed.

Good going Stan

Foam from zebra activity?

Yes Ray globilization, cheap labor in China and other places and the Kmarts and Walmarts and Runnings and so on did a job on all those great tackle places and here in Canandaigua Fishing Tackle where I bought everything from sinkers to my first downriggers. Now even the big stores are struggling against Amazon and the online enterprises. What the lampreys have done to Seneca and the trout these behemoths have done the same to the mom and pop enterprises; sucked the life blood out of them. It is a shame.

Hop's dad taught him many trolling ins and outs and Hop shared some of them with me back in the late 70's and eighties and it was instrumental in us developing our own techniques and I haven't forgotten it. Many good times on the water together.

For folks not familiar with this stuff here are a couple of the old standard reels used for Seth Green fishing. I still use several Penn 309's as my rig fishing reels. The Penn 49 M (Super Mariner) on the left and the Penn 309 with power handle on the right. The 309 came with thj level wind guide but I always took mine off because the stranded wire chewed them up and then guided the wire on by hand

And the A and S automatic reel