Believe you’re right on the origin, Mac. I met the guy years ago but cannot remember his name.
You may not see them in the open, but a lot of tournament redfish boats will have at least one stashed under the gunwales.
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I used to scoff at the freshwater trout anglers. I did my first river trout fishing in Cherokee NC in 2020 and thought it was fun. Caught about 10 rainbows on San Juan worms, euro nymphing, and some wet flies.
Went to Montana the year after and the passion for sweet water trout got buried deep. I have been out west every year since and absolutely love dry fly fishing. I was told the pinnacle is a 20 inch plus on a size 20 dry (I have gotten close, but not quite 20 inches yet).
Freshwater is easier and harder at the same time. Definitely more relaxing.
If I had to choose, I would probably choose to fish out west instead of FL…. Luckily we don’t have to.
If you get the chance, go. It is amazing, and trout Dont live in ugly places.
I bought land out west so one day I will summer in the Rockies and winter in FL.
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Jared, 22”, she ate at a #18 sulphur 7x tippet, on the Lamar, on a cutback flat area, there were two or three sipping. That’s a 5wt bamboo w a Hardy reel and a 444 classic line.
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Wow, that is a beautiful cuttie!
I love how honey colored it is.
My biggest came from Colorado- a cut-bow I never measured. It was on a streamer though.
But, right after landing my big cutbow, a massive brown started sipping gnats off the surface from the same eddy. I just couldn’t string up a size 20 onto the 8x so couldn’t get into the game.
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Rudy Grigar was always looking for better lures. He came up with a clear plactic bubble to put in front of a spoon or soft plastic as a noise attractor when the bite was slow. Rudy was a master fish hunter and came up with the plastic float in the 1970’s to replace the small natural cork noise attractor that other Texas lure wade fishers had been using for years. Before good quality saltwater surface lures were available. “The Plugger” is a good bio on Rudy Grigar.
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I have some of those clear bubble corks in my antique lures and fishing collection. The center had a silicone tube that you ran the line through and twisted the top and bottom of the bubble to constrict the line. I think you can still buy them from a different company.
does this mean I need to move 
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I my dad’s family is from Toccoa I spent a lot of time in that town visiting my 95 year old great granddad WW1 vet with a Purple Heart he got in France.
And I also spent a lot of time in that river chasing trout in my late teens early twenties. I hooked a monster wild brown with my dad one day. It was jumping like a tarpon. And he was running down stream with a net after it when it broke off. That fish still haunts me
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Update. In my unemployment free time, I think I just passed stage 2. I caught a LOT of trout this week in the tailwaters up in Blue Ridge so I am ready to move onto stage 3, big fish! Pretty fish:
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Good to see there’s still fish up there. Duke’s Creek used to have some big ones. The little native browns on a 20 zebra midge in the Hooch below Settles are fun on a 3 wt.
I’m dusting off my old 5wt, vest, waders, and buying new boots to fish the Guadalupe this fall. Hope my 20 year old waders don’t leak.
You should drive down to Atlanta for the Atlanta Fishing Club meetings. The guys wearing overalls make some good shine.
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