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gusstrand
11-02-2009, 09:54 AM
Lots of familiar faces here, some not so much. Post an introduction here! How did you find this place? Where are you in this world? You get the idea...

timaaron
11-02-2009, 02:01 PM
Hello - My name is Tim - I know some of you from grassart (which is how I ended up here) and am looking forward to meeting some others. Haven't posted much of anything yet - but I'm hoping to contribute. I'm an amateur bamboo rodmaker - working on rods 5 and 6 now - but I've spent so much of my free time in the shop lately I haven't had much time for fishing. Thats not so bad though - I'm actually starting to think I enjoy rod making as much as rod using (i.e fishing). Either way, thanks for inviting me aboard.

palewatery
11-02-2009, 03:05 PM
Great to see this place back up and running again.

To the members from old... Looking forward to catching up with you guys.
To the new... Hi, names Jim, live in Scotland, anything else thats worth knowing about me we've plenty time for later.

Thanks Gus for the resurrection. You are a good man.

Jim

Sean
11-02-2009, 03:13 PM
Name's Sean, most of you old timers already know me.

I live in WI and am in my final semester of persuing my BS in Fisheries and Ichthiology at UW Stevens Point. I've been working in a fly shop in Milwaukee for about 4 years now and am a part time guide. I'm buying a drift boat from a friend of mine soon and plan to go out west next summer and guide and generally be a bum.

Here's my rig. I'm big into JEEPs too.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/HansenRods/Fishing%202009/P9220021.jpg

gusstrand
11-02-2009, 03:18 PM
You're almost done with school? Geez. I seem to remember you wishing you the best as you started college...

Cool rig!

Sean
11-02-2009, 03:42 PM
You're almost done with school? Geez. I seem to remember you wishing you the best as you started college...

Cool rig!

I'm sure you did. I was active on these forums back in highschool. I've been in college going on four and a half years now. Took a little longer then 4 but not as bad as the 5 year plan like most are on.

mikeytwoshoes
11-02-2009, 04:38 PM
took twelve myself w/ an army stint thrown somewhere in there and a changed major.

going west is so passe for a midwestern pup graduating from college. go salty instead. bonefish beaches and babes in bikinis.

Cross Creek
11-02-2009, 05:07 PM
Cross Creek here, an old, fairly quiet member of the original Smallstreams, and a frequenter of Clark's, Fiberglass Fly Fishermen, and UL Fly Fishers, among others-recently, a new member of Grassart, as well (thanks for the invitation). My mundane name is Arthur, but Cross Creek is the original Scots name of my family's home township, and long the name of my rod making efforts, as well as the locus of my early fishing adventures. In local folklore, two tiny spring-fed creeks arising near my childhood home cross at a point just downstream of what is now our town library, each continuing on their way without having mixed with the other, as the legend is told. I was informed, as a child, that this mystery was tested at some unknown date in the past by the careful pouring of a unique liquid substance in each flow upstream of the crossing (some say whisky and rye--more likely 'shine and whatever cheap store-bought spirit was available). As the story goes, the water was scientifically tested (er, tasted) downstream on each side, and there was no mixing of the waters. If the experiment was ever actually conducted (which I seriously doubt), the participants were no doubt too inebriated to accurately assess the results. It's enough for me that the two magical little creeks (holding brilliantly-colored bluegills, redbreasts, and feisty little rock bass) cross at an oblique angle and continue, each on their wayward course, with virtually equal flows. This condition has continued since before the days of the Cape Fear Indians, and is remarkable mostly because this confluence regularly floods each storm season, yet the streams return to their diminutive banks pretty much unchanged, both flowing ultimately to the Cape Fear River, as they have for eons.

Thanks for reviving Smallstreams. It needed doing.
-CC

greendrake
11-02-2009, 07:55 PM
Hi guys,
My name is Will and like Tim I came here from Grassart.I missed out on the first go round of Smallstreams but glad to be here at the 2nd coming.I fish rivers, lakes and occassionally in the salt,but my favorite places to fish since I started fishing at age 5 has always been the small streams that harbor big surprises.I like what I have found here and have jumped in with both feet.To be able to share it with like minded guys from all over the world is sweet.I hope that I can add at least half as much to this place as I receive from it. :D

MakoML
11-03-2009, 01:30 AM
Hi, Marc here from the Tucson area (at this moment in time anyway). Was a member of the previous Small-streams forum and one day it went missing. Checked every now and then to see if it was alive again and BAM finally hit the jackpot.

I love fly fishing streams, rivers, and alpine lakes . As long as it has a view and is hard for the average schmuck to get there I'm game.

I build graphite fly rods as a hobby, and am designing a fly fishing kayak to build this winter if I have time.

Great to find this site alive again. The stories and pictorials are out of this world.

AndyBaird
11-03-2009, 05:43 AM
Hi,
I'm Andy Baird, living on the North coast of Co. Antrim, N. Ireland for the last ten or so years... I'm a short rod, light line, small fly enthusiast. I found smallstreams first time round when searching for small fly patterns and Roy Christie material.
There was always great small fly action here... and I hope there's more to come.
I fish small streams, burns and the tinyest of brooks for wild, brown trout. The landscape here is a vast matrix of small water, the trout are free-rising and there's miles of lightly fished streams if you get out and explore a little... the trout in these streams tend to average 6-12", I'll see a couple to 14" each season... there's bigger trout out there, but they can be tricky to tempt on a #24 paradun... :geek: The hatches can be sporadic, and lighter than most but this is a magical landscape to explore and fish, the trout are some of the most beautiful in the world and hard fighting.

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm207/VooDooBiology/trendyfishing.jpg

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm207/VooDooBiology/sl%20post/trouton24.jpg

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm207/VooDooBiology/fromabove.jpg

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm207/VooDooBiology/CIMG2789.jpg

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm207/VooDooBiology/smallstreams/CIMG3882.jpg

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm207/VooDooBiology/Streamlite2wt2.jpg

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm207/VooDooBiology/18-07-09%20on%20the%20burn/18072009164.jpg

I'm a big fan of the stream reports section here, so much amazing water and trout from across the globe.

Andy offline and out...

martin_b
11-03-2009, 08:35 AM
Hi everyone.
I was a member of the "old" forum and also posted a couple of reports from my corner of the world. I'm from Denmark, and recently moved to the main part of the country, close to the best trout streams in the country, and I have a couple of pictures and reports to post that I prepared during the down-time of the site.
Will be back soon, just this quick hello so that Gus won't delete my account due to zero post activity :)

It's great to have this community back!

Cheers
Martin

gusstrand
11-03-2009, 08:37 AM
No worries Martin!

jeepster
11-03-2009, 10:16 AM
Jeepster here. I’ve been around for awhile on various boards but I don’t post much. During the old smallstreams era I think I was the oldest registered member with the fewest posts. On our local fly fishing forum I have 0 posts in over 3 years so at least I am consistent.

I am primarily interested in fly fishing colorado, new mexico, and hopefully montana and a few places like that. Not much interest in what arizona has to offer so hopefully I will move from my present location of ten feet from hell to a more fishy place before I die.

Fishing has been a life long experience. I will never regret picking up a flyrod 19 years ago and forever giving up spin casting and bait chucking.

Besides fly fishing I was extremely active in 4wd’s and off roading. I have been wheeling for 39 years, owned jeeps for 29 years and currently have four 4wd’s. 3 jeeps and an F150 4x4. I built one jeep to travel to Colorado in for fly fishing and wheeling. Specifically built to wheel the passes of colo and I have been over every high mtn pass at least five times in the san juan mtns.

http://users.dakotacom.net/~jeepster/3011-1.jpg


http://users.dakotacom.net/~jeepster/0512-1.jpg


http://users.dakotacom.net/~jeepster/005-1.jpg

Ernest
11-03-2009, 12:33 PM
Ernest here, one of the old guys.

I'm living large in the Upper Midwest, with a house more than 20 miles from the 4 lane, and closer than that to my home waters of Catscratch, and Cripe-O-Mitey, and Little Prickerbush Creeks.

I hold an assistant lecturer position at the Jed Clampett School of Fly Tackle Manufacture, carving fly rods out of house siding, and hardware store dowels, and sticks I cut out of the maples and hickories on our land. I'm not a purist; I fish with bamboo sometimes, and occasionally plastic.

I'm down to tying 40-50 dozen flies a year, and enjoying it more than I did when I was pressed to tie for others.

I won't be contributing to some of the threads. Eats on the stream, with tablecloths and wine lists? Last week I went out for a day of fishing on the brook trout ponds in the county forest, and I forgot to bring a sandwich. I did have a 20 oz. Diet Mountain Dew back at the truck.

You're not likely to see photos from me. I stopped taking them on fishing trips. I have a lot of old pictures of trout and trees and creeks. I don't need any more of them.

Sometimes I tell stories.

Sean
11-03-2009, 12:52 PM
sometimes tells stories? Ernest you've got some of the best I've ever read.

gusstrand
11-03-2009, 12:59 PM
To each their own, as long as we're civil.

Eats? Like I posted, it's granola/energy bars for me. Others have different ideas, not better or worse.

I fish bamboo, plastic and fiberglass, but the thing that matters is that I fish.

I live a mile from my home stream, which runs dead smack through the middle of town. It is unfished and overlooked, as remote as many I've been at miles from pavement... My home pond is a block away... with more panfish and bass than most.

Since I left Oregon, the only salmonids within eight hours of me are planted in an artificial tailwater.

We are all small streams of information...

adam
11-03-2009, 03:32 PM
To each their own, as long as we're civil.

Agreed.

Ernest writes excellent stories, I wish that was all he did here.

trout-nut
11-03-2009, 09:29 PM
My name is Fred. I'm from northern Colorado. I fish small streams , Big Thompson alot, Frying pan and others. I visited the other small streams site frequently but I never posted, not real computor savy.( but learning ) I've learned alot from you guys over the years. I found this web site thru other links here and there. I'm starting to get interested in bamboo rods. I actually just ordered a blank tonight a 8' 5wt. garrison taper. Looking foward to building the handle and reel seat and finishing the rod and fishing this winter yet or come spring.

Hortoncreek
11-03-2009, 09:39 PM
I have participated in SS.com since it was essentially an AZ fishing log/chatroom back in the 1990's. I was a member of Desert Fly Casters and was really getting into fly fishing the AZ white Mtns and Mogollon Rim. Adam and his cronies posts of "slayed em in Unmentionable Creek below the Rim" got me jacked up to go do my own exploring. I lived in Az for almost 5 years and (due to no children and an outdoorsy understanding wife) fished well over 200 days in AZ, NM, and CO. Then had kids, moved back to Midwest (Ohio) and fish less but more effectively than when I was a young punk. I did re-start the Central Ohio Fly Fishers club which is doing quite well and allows about 50 of us to get together and tell lies, swap stories, make new friends, and raise money for Casting for recovery.

I am now addicted to bamboo fly rods but fortunately have become rationale and do no collect them but am in process of having 8 rods made (one for each member of family). 3 are done and being fished regularly, 1 is done and drying and about ready to ship. 2 are being built this winter and the rest i am thinking about.

I enjoy grassart becasue I learn about rod making.

I like to take pics and post a few pictorials per year.

I try to fish and take pics at different locales

from high mtn cutts:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/HortonCreek/Summer20082BeachAshleyB-dayColor-4.jpg

to the salt
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/HortonCreek/2009MarcoIsFLABeachRod.jpg

Gratuitous pic

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/HortonCreek/moving.jpg

mikeytwoshoes
11-03-2009, 10:05 PM
my word! those things are huge - bigger than her head even!

gusstrand
11-03-2009, 11:01 PM
Good example of old vs. New smallstreams.com.

Gratuitous fish pics and related are perfect. Chicks, pinups and the like are a waste of bandwidth. There are plenty of sites out there to visit to get your fix of skin and fantasy women (or men, if that's your preference...)

smallstreams.com is not one of them.

The image in the previous post is the only one that won't disappear, as an example...

Oh, and for the record, I believe anything worth saying can be said without profanity... So I might as well put that out there in plain view.

No foul for testing the waters.

-G



I have participated in SS.com since it was essentially an AZ fishing log/chatroom back in the 1990's. I was a member of Desert Fly Casters and was really getting into fly fishing the AZ white Mtns and Mogollon Rim. Adam and his cronies posts of "slayed em in Unmentionable Creek below the Rim" got me jacked up to go do my own exploring. I lived in Az for almost 5 years and (due to no children and an outdoorsy understanding wife) fished well over 200 days in AZ, NM, and CO. Then had kids, moved back to Midwest (Ohio) and fish less but more effectively than when I was a young punk. I did re-start the Central Ohio Fly Fishers club which is doing quite well and allows about 50 of us to get together and tell lies, swap stories, make new friends, and raise money for Casting for recovery.

I am now addicted to bamboo fly rods but fortunately have become rationale and do no collect them but am in process of having 8 rods made (one for each member of family). 3 are done and being fished regularly, 1 is done and drying and about ready to ship. 2 are being built this winter and the rest i am thinking about.

I enjoy grassart becasue I learn about rod making.

I like to take pics and post a few pictorials per year.

I try to fish and take pics at different locales

from high mtn cutts:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/HortonCreek/Summer20082BeachAshleyB-dayColor-4.jpg

to the salt
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/HortonCreek/2009MarcoIsFLABeachRod.jpg

Gratuitous pic

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/HortonCreek/moving.jpg

adam
11-04-2009, 12:20 AM
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=71 (http://smallstreams.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=71)

Gus, I did it first (http://smallstreams.com/download/file.php?id=24), sorry...

Let his picture remain (for any reason of your choosing) please, how about for the lesson like they give the 6 grade kids in gym class?

Nevermind, I'm just teasing.

Jeff, he is right. Let's get back to making this place as good as we can.

I curse, I know it's wrong, when I am in someone's house that I know they tolerate it, I refrain from it and I actually feel better. I used to look at girly magazines but I meet a woman who takes good care of that and I don't need to look at magazines and or the Internet for that crap. Truth!

So we help Gus keep the quality up, and the quality is up and sets a pretty high standard.

Imagine that. That's what you have to do.

I don't want this place like any other (insert any interzine you want) I would like it to be an escape,,, like a small stream, not the busy small stream by the side of the road where you walk up on the nudies having a private lunch (been there, done that) or some crowded river where there are huge trout caught so many times, their lips have sores.

I can live with a place that has just good fly fishing, good waters and words.

That will work.

:D

All good Jeff.

...and Gus, that was good of you to write it that way, nicely done.

ofuros
11-04-2009, 05:03 AM
Hi fella's. Marc from Brisbane, Australia here.
With the nearest trout stream being a good 5hrs drive away,and with work being work & family coming first, I'm lucky to fish 3-5 outings a season. Doesn't mean the itch isn't any less though.
You guys help scratch that boyhood,adventurous,whats around the next corner itch, with your words, & those oh so beautiful trout & stremside pics. I'll do my best to contribute too.
Like a pheonix from the ashes, Gus has kickstarted this forum again...Cheers big ears....

john
11-04-2009, 12:30 PM
John Bone from almost heaven...WV. Glad to see smallstreams back. It has been sorely missed.

greendrake
11-04-2009, 12:39 PM
my word! those things are huge - bigger than her head even!


yeah but 20 years (if it takes that long) after that picture was taken and gravity has taken over they won't look quite so inviting :crazy: :lol: :shock: :o :crazy:
Will

adam
11-04-2009, 12:52 PM
John Bone from almost heaven...WV. Glad to see smallstreams back. It has been sorely missed.

If I am not mistaken, Mr. John Bone won one of the bamboo fly rod contests here at smallstreams.com

Welcome back, I remember you.

rayfound
11-04-2009, 01:21 PM
I was about to give up on smallstreams.com, I'm so glad this place is back alive!

I'm Ray from Southern California and I fish small creeks for trout of all kinds.

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o162/Rayfound/cf771e76.jpg
OK, that's an actual river, but that's the oddity, way in the back-country, and I pretended it was a small creek when I fished it.

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o162/Rayfound/9ba09241.jpg

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o162/Rayfound/36666069.jpg

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o162/Rayfound/9881d2db.jpg

john
11-04-2009, 01:51 PM
Thanks for the welcome Adam. Yes, long ago and far far away...I did win the contest. Still fly-fishing small streams here. Not as much as I would like (one son in college, two sons driving=$$$$$$$$$ out). Too much work and sometimes life gets in the way of piscatorial pursuits. But I am still here.

adam
11-04-2009, 02:42 PM
http://i367.photobucket.com/albums/oo115/barbwiresb970/brownspray.jpg

Very cool picture eric.

I'm thinking you are probably one of Matt's posse I've been hearing about from Mikeytwoshoes?

Or not.

I don't remember reading your posts so you must be relatively new to smallstreams.com

3 years < smallstreams.com

mikeytwoshoes
11-04-2009, 04:25 PM
actually I refer to it as the colorado bamboo (and rod breaking) posse, not "matt's per se...and that guy sure looks happy and I can't say I blame him, that thing is a slob.

oneofthesedaze maybe I'll type up an intro, but most of y'all know me from the broken site or grassart.

mikeytwoshoes
11-04-2009, 04:28 PM
you haven't broken one yet? maybe yer overdue.

adam
11-04-2009, 05:26 PM
Cool.

Good to have you here.

I know a place in Paonia that you can get it like that.

But that is some trout, yikes!

garethl
11-05-2009, 07:33 AM
Hi Guys,

Member of the old forum and man did I miss this place when it was down!

I love fishing small streams for brown trout, and when in season, I pretty much live up on the head waters of my local stream, no further than a few miles from home. When out of trout season I tend to migrate lower in the catchment to fish for grayling.

I'm also a recent a convert to fishing bamboo, and I'm in love with the stuff!

So glad this board is back up and running, and I'm already enjoying the new posts, photos and banter that's going on.

:D :D :D

Mostyn
11-06-2009, 06:59 AM
Hi All,
My name Is "MOSTYN" I was a contributor on the old "Small Stream Forum" and I'm so pleased your back! You've been missed!

Just as many of you; I love being out in the fresh air, admiring the the beautiful countryside and fishing on the smallest of streams and rivers! All my fishing (catching) is C&R I like to think of myself as a conservationist and " One who sees Mother Nature through the eye's of someone who loves Her" It's a wonderful world; let's take good care of it! Or at least keep trying!

Best Regards to everyone!

Mostyn

Doctor
11-07-2009, 10:11 AM
Doctor here , known as ACW on UK forums,been looking in on SS since my first steam powered comptutor some 10 or so years ago ,just turned 59 and eyes not what they were #32 indeed#22 flys I cant be bothered to strain my eyes with any more.
Most of my small streaming these days is done on wee chalkstream carriers near Hungerford in Berkshire,I guess my catholic tastes for salmon ,float tubing, drifty boats as well as my garden mean I am a bit of a fraud as a smallstream guy ,but hey ,Gareth knows I will be up on the Hondhu next spring !
Oh well back to work ,now where did I put that lump hammer??

scotfly
11-14-2009, 09:08 PM
Another member from the old board.
Hello again to those who know me, to those that don't...
Call me scotfly or Dennis. Scottish born and bred and where I'll die. (not too soon though!) Living, working (just) and fishing in chalkstream country in the south of England.

Roy
11-15-2009, 03:34 PM
Hi, guys,
I'm Roy Christie,
good to see you all again, welcome back

Roy

Jax
11-15-2009, 03:46 PM
Hi All; Jack Murray from way down in New Zealand.

It is really grand to see all the Old and New Members here and ready to Play and have fun. :bigthumb: :sunny: Jax

Roy
11-15-2009, 05:37 PM
Hi, Jax, good to see you here at the watering hole,
all the best mate,
Roy

Kollman
11-16-2009, 10:17 AM
Hi from Lawrence, KS. I am Martin Kollman and a buddy here at the University of Kansas introduced me to this site after we got to discussing small streams in Missouri and various message boards where we found new spots. Most of my fishing is warmwater, but do travel to the cold and salty waters a few times a year for a change of scenery.

skyphix
11-16-2009, 10:30 AM
Already posted a few reports but I should probably introduce myself.


My name is Eric, I live about 5 minutes from the eastern edge of the Adirondacks and close to Vermont as well. I fish small streams for brookies but also Smallmouth and Rock bass, and Walleye. I hate to pigeonhole myself but my specialty is warm water and I've just this year started small stream trout fishing.

I mostly catch fish like this

http://personal.skyphix.com/gallery/d/1096-1/imgp1077.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2647/3849710530_b55cfc0817_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2512/3848918417_a19d032337_o.jpg

Out of streams like this

http://personal.skyphix.com/gallery/d/971-1/IMGP1105.JPG

but also this occasionally these

http://personal.skyphix.com/gallery/d/2016-1/IMGP1473.JPG


I was a member during the Nick era and am glad to have this resource back.

Satoshi
11-23-2009, 09:07 AM
Satoshi, from Japan.
I had joined the old forum for just a several months, posted a few and then, it's gone... and I was really dissapointed.
So, I'm still a kind of new here and I'm truely happy this great forum is back again now.
I took many photos on fishing trips in the last season, so I will post some of them during winter when they are ready.

palewatery
11-23-2009, 11:19 AM
Great to see you back Satoshi. I was really looking forward to following a season's fishing in Japan before the old board went offline.

Glad we'll all get the chance to catch up with it now. :bigthumb:

Jim

Sean
11-23-2009, 11:35 AM
it's pretty amazing at how quickly just about everyone returned to the site.

Dornblaser
11-23-2009, 12:22 PM
Hi Guys,

David Dornblaser from the Chicago-area here. Glad to see this site back up. I have a split personality, I swing two-handed rods for steelhead in the Upper Midwest and the PNW and I fish the spring creeks and streams in WI & MN, mostly in the Driftless Area. Although I am becoming more of small stream lover as the years pass. I love to read trip reports and see pics of others home waters, particularly non-North American water. The British chalk streams are on my bucket list.

- David

fisheye
11-23-2009, 02:30 PM
An intro I just added to my website pretty much explains it all:

I arrived in Colorado via Atlanta. While in Atlanta I apprenticed under Gary Lacey for several years. Still do, in fact. Our friendship started when I sent him an old Granger to be fixed up, we started talking and eventually I did a short documentary on his rodbuilding abilities. It was then that I started working with him and building blanks for his L.L. Bean and Granger rod series.

[youtube:jqo6h9yw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDZsfRUN_34[/youtube:jqo6h9yw]

Time passed, as it usually does, and my life changed with the usual obligations. I gladly moved out West when the opportunity arose and have never regretted it. I still build blanks for Gary, but I have started selling my own rods as well. I like to build what I feel are tried and true classic tapers; FE Thomas, Granger, Leonards, and Paynes, . . . but I also like to add my own interpretations when possible. Sometimes a swelled but or a slightly heavier tip can make all the difference! I routinely wrap in antique gold with scarlet tipping, but custom rods are custom made, so I like to leave it up to the clients. I also make most of my own components, tip tops, inserts, cap and ring hardware, and hand sewn rod bags.


I enjoy rod building immensely. Its therapy for me as well. Gary and I used to joke that building rods was like mental bubble gum. "I'm gonna build the best rod possible, or I'm just not gonna build 'em", he would also say. Good advice, I think I'll do that.

matsoberg
11-23-2009, 02:45 PM
Hi Smallstreamers;

I don´t have a video to go with my presentation (great stuff Mr. Morrow!) but I´ll throw in a photo to go with it instead.

I´m Mats from Stockholm and Adam tricked me into joining here from Grassart. Naa, just kidding.. I´m actually very honored to be invited... :D I make fly rods for friends on a hobbyist basis. Working elevators when I´m not fishing or planing bamboo. I know a few of you guys already and I´m looking forward to get to know you other guys also. You seem to have got this place going quite a bit already and it looks fun.

I´m 52 by now and been fishing since I was a little kid. Found that the fishing/cathing thing has come to be a little bit secondary nowadays, to just to be able to be on the water, preferably with friends and the love ones.

Hope to be able to contribute some here but I know it won´t be that frequently due to lots of other stuff to attend to.

Mats

Highlander
12-18-2009, 03:29 PM
I'm Highlander and I'm a small stream addict. Don't get me wrong, if it's wet I'll cast a fly or two to see whats home, but small intimate waters are what I crave.

I missed Smallstreams. I kept the link in my favorites and checked it periodically. Happily it's (we're) back. I don't post often, but I probably check daily (unless I'm off on a fishing trip). I'm lucky because my job takes me all over Canada, and it would be just plain dumb if a rod or two didn't come along with me.

Looking forward to posting a few photos of some upcoming trips.

greendrake
12-18-2009, 06:14 PM
Highlander,
We'll look forward to seeing those pics :bigthumb:
Will

Sean
12-19-2009, 01:58 AM
here is a good recent pic of me................................................ ................no i do not know how to smile


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/HansenRods/Fishing%202009/PB130003.jpg

rbaileydav
12-23-2009, 09:45 AM
hey......... I think i know some of ya'll.......

I live in Georgia and fish when i can....... and dream of fishin when i can't

http://inlinethumb42.webshots.com/45417/2946137260038253715S500x500Q85.jpg

DD

adam
12-23-2009, 12:46 PM
That dude can tell a story...

Harps
12-24-2009, 01:24 PM
I've been here before, and I'm glad it is here again for me to visit once more. I can be found on a number of internet forums, but I'm online a lot less than I used to be.
I was never a big poster here, but I enjoyed reading the stories and dreaming of fishing new waters.

Right now the rivers where I live look like this:
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jm9BjeelZTw/SzJpivjH_iI/AAAAAAAAEro/x6cb4ycFh0c/s512/IMGP0188.JPG
While the rivers are fishable, -7 degrees (19F) is not the most enjoyable weather... but much better than the -40deg weather from the previous week.

I really dream of returning to my small streams when the season opens.
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jm9BjeelZTw/RTfXD4CIABI/AAAAAAAAABk/k1YSlGH_IdI/s640/Unknown%20small%20stream.JPG

Merry Christmas,

adam
12-24-2009, 05:56 PM
Merry Christmas Harps, I remember you.

Do you know Will Gadd?

He is a friend and an awesome Canadian sportsman.

Brett
12-24-2009, 06:46 PM
Hi all,

I'm Brett and I am originally from Hawaii. I currently am in Philadelphia, PA attending school at the University of Pennsylvania. I grew up using UL spin gear to fish the small streams of Hawaii for smallmouth bass and the surrounding ocean for anything that i could fool. I also dabbled in fly fishing as a youngster, but only with an 8 wt in the salty stuff. In the last two years I have picked up UL fly fishing for trout in some of the beautiful and legendary trout streams of PA. I currently only fish a Sage SPL 181-3 and a St. Croix Imperial 602.2, but I am in the process of wrapping my first cane rod, a 6' 1 piece 2wt based on the Orvis Flea taper. I look forward to learning a lot from all of the knowledgeable people on this board.

Aloha,

Brett

adam
12-24-2009, 07:06 PM
Brett, I have a picture for you, give me a few days.

You are in a good spot.

ulf_hagstrom
12-27-2009, 12:14 PM
Hi everyone, I am Ulf, I am from Sweden and I am a flytying / flyfishing addict.
I live by the baltic sea just south of Stockholm far from any good trout or grayling stream, but I still prefer fishing the running waters, especially the small ones, far up north in Sweden. I do confess to fish a lot with flies for pike in my home waters in the baltic also, which is a nice contrast to the light stream fishing.

Flytying is my thing, and I like to add that little realistic touch to my flies and I have been fortunate to be invited to a few shows around the world to come and show my flies and my way of tying them.

I help out my friends at http://www.elmerfishing.com as much as I can with articles and other stuff, these are my close buddies of fishermen who I go on trips with 3-4 times per year. I also have a little gallery together with my friend Leif Örtenholm at http://www.artonhook.com last and least I run a little blog thing at http://ulfhagstrom.blogspot.com.

I also have two sons; Kristoffer who is five and Wilmer who is soon to be one year old!

Warm greetings
Ulf

Brett
12-27-2009, 04:17 PM
Ulf,

I just looked at some of your flies and they are amazing! How do you get such realistic detail?


Brett

palewatery
12-27-2009, 07:47 PM
Welcome Ulf, glad you found your way here.

Jim

ulf_hagstrom
12-28-2009, 01:30 PM
Brett, thank you very much. My fiancee tells me I have "inhuman patience" and it is probably the key. Not having inhuman patience, but to have a little more patience than for your usual flies. The semi-realistic fishing flies I like to play around with take a little longer to tie than a "normal" fly but are not in my opinion harder to tie than any other.

Jim, nice seeing you here, and thanks for the welcome!!! I browsed trough the topics and saw a few other names I recognized aswell, looka like a good mix of people here.

Cheers
Ulf

soupmix
12-29-2009, 09:42 AM
Awesome... this place is alive! My name is Ryan and I was a member of the first Smallstreams. I am from Michigan. Glad this place is alive and well. Seriously, this made my day!

Theo
12-30-2009, 01:27 PM
After some time away, it's great to come back to this place and find it thriving again - with quite a few familiar faces.

To all those whom I haven't yet met, either in reality (whatever that is) or cyberspace... just click on my signature links for all the background you could possibly want (and which I won't bore you with now!)

Greetings to all from across the Pond...

Theo

springwell
12-31-2009, 08:16 AM
I'm back, :wave:

Lost you all for a few months and recognise quite a few names on here second time around.

Living in West Wales I have the Towy, Teifi and all the other great salmon and sewin (sea trout) rivers on my doorstep. However I much prefer venturing just that little bit further to fish for my favourite "Wild Welsh Brownies". Some think I'm mad neglecting whats a mile from my door, but thats just the way I like it :)

All the best and a Happy New Year.

Bill :)

lawrenceh_w
01-04-2010, 10:08 AM
Hi,

My name's Lawrence. I live in England and regularly fish a couple of small rivers local to me. I'm new to fly fishing but have been fishing for 20 years.

I'm equally happy chucking a fly, spinner, plug or bait after any species of fish.

Trucha
01-04-2010, 04:27 PM
Trucha here,

Nice to see the place back up again. Maybe heading up to the San Juan in a couple of weeks with a budding of mine. It's been a long time since I have been on the water. Saludos desde Albuquerque.

adam
01-12-2010, 07:17 PM
Our man S.Brooks is back, we are complete!

Chef, Gerard, Me, now Brooks. Ivan is MIA, Gus took over for Ted.

So we are now back as much as we can be.

We have a bamboo contest going and have grown totally by word of mouth. We are working to retain the feel of the old site and so far we are on it.

S.Brooks, welcome back brother.

pfitz
01-17-2010, 10:03 PM
Hi,

Lurked on the old site and glad to see it's back up.

I'm from Derbyshire/Cheshire UK and love those small streams.

Will try to post some words and pictures when I get a minute.

Regards

Paul

Chef
01-18-2010, 09:54 AM
Welcome mate! :thumbup:

Brooktrout
01-25-2010, 01:00 PM
hey, thx very much for the greeting adam. good to be back as well bro. i have really missed this site. always great pics, good stories, good advice, and a wealth of info too, not to mention quality people like mikeytwo shoes, chef, gerard, rbailydav and the jeepster.

my name is Brooks Bedwell, or S. Brooks Bedwell. i currently live in NM and for the past few seasons have fished almost exclusively up on the conejos drainage in south-cental CO. i learned to fly-fish from a friend in awesome MT.

i like small to mid-sized wild, native trout streams but have a soft spot for high mountain lakes. i was a member of the old smallstreams.com and am looking forward to hopefully meeting and fishing with some of you at chef's christmas tree lake trip that is planned for this june. :cool:

wrknapp
01-30-2010, 12:10 AM
I use to post occasionally on the old site also but sort of drifted away because I was fishing larger waters and joined a fly club ln Seattle that drew me away. I retired from the Seattle Fire Department in June after a little more than 29 years. My wife and I moved across country to Warm Springs, VA. We wanted to be near our aging parents. Liz's mother and stepfather live in Frederick, MD and mine live in Virginia Beach, VA. Her birth father lives outside of Orlando. We both have siblings in nearby states now so we have been traveling often. We have put 30,000 miles on our Toyota Highlander since moving in July. We have a log cabin on a couple of acres within 10 minutes of the Hidden Valley special reg waters of the Jackson River and there are many, many small streams nearby. Some of them are cool enough for trout year around and others also have sunfish and smallmouth bass. I will always get an annual Maryland and Virginia license for both fresh and saltwater. I have bought and fished and sold many kinds of fishing tackle. I have a few glass and graphite rods left along with some old Pflueger Medalist reels but have sold all my expensive stuff including my custom and name brand bamboo rods. I am turning 64 in March and just applied for early social security. I've done and seen a lot and now just want to keep things simple. I guess that's why I have been so readily drawn to Tenkara fishing and its cousin, pole fishing. I use to fish a cane pole in North Carolina and Virginia and Texas as a kid and I'm drawn back to the simplicity 'though Tenkara is much more than just a cane pole, bobber, and worm. I will still fish for anything anywhere and I'm not any kind of purist. I mostly tie my own flies but I usually end up buying a few here and there when I wander into a fly shop or see something really inexpensive but practical on eBay. I think I'm going to enjoy sharing back and forth on this site. Hopefully I'll meet and fish with some of you in my retirement travels.

Randy

adam
01-31-2010, 07:27 PM
Randy, that is so cool.

I hope we meet one day.

Thanks for your story.

erics beetle
02-02-2010, 04:39 PM
Was on the old site for a while glad to see it up and running again. I am getting pretty desperate for the season to start again so I can continue to enjoy my local streams. Towards the end of last year I got pretty hooked on a stretch of the Yorkshire Dove that I hadnt really discovered before . Its a lovely gentle stream

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u212/andy535/YORKSHIREDOVE.jpg

It has delightful twists and turns

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u212/andy535/nicedove.jpg

And nice chunky browns and some crunching grayling...

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u212/andy535/dovebrownie.jpg

Only a couple of months to wait. The only bright thing at the moment is that I starting to get the letters from the fishing clubs im in asking for this years subscriptions... Meanwhile I will have to make do with seeing the places you guys fish...