Latest Trip

Over the last few weeks it has been difficult to get out fishing but last Friday it happened. Thank you to Kris for letting me go! I met up with my Uncle Jim and we headed down to a place not to far from home that normally holds 8-11 inch trout. This was not the case for Friday. We got to the stream, rigged up and started down to the water. In the first hole I hooked and landed a 16" Bow and Jim landed another right after me. The next hour was a similar frenzy landing 14-18 inch Bows and Browns. It was nice to spend some time with Jim and it will not be the last time I fish this area this year!

Connect

Confluence Films is at it again. Enjoy!

Somewhere in Idaho

While driving through Idaho during LOTOJA, I snapped a quick picture. We were traveling 45 mph down a dirt road at the time so I am surprised it came out as well as it did.Kris gets all of the credit for the edit!

Tamdem Bikes

Yesterday I hooked up a Trail a Bike to my niner so that Lo and I could ride bikes together. Well, as most of you know he has the bike blood running in his little body and he was very excited. Mom pulled Linc in the trailer and Lo and I took the "Tamdem" bike (as Lo calls it) to Maceys for some Ice Cream for FHE. It was a blast. The best part was while putting Lo to bed, after giving hugs and kisses he says, "I had fun riding the Tamdem with you today Daddy." Perfect ending to the day!

These Guys are Crazy

These guys are crazy but so is the fishing! Enjoy! I know I did.

Nordic Fly Fishing Tales - episode 1 - moose and trout from Rolf Nylinder on Vimeo.

Fishing with Daniel

Since Daniel has moved to SLC, it has been hard to get together and fish. Last Tuesday morning we meet super early and went to Hobble Creek to do some fishing before work. It was a great morning. The fish were biting on dries and droppers and we got a couple of very nice fish to net. Both of us were fishing our bamboo rods. Fishing the bamboo was the best part about the day (aside from being with my brother). There is just something special about fishing with a bamboo rod that connects you more to the fish and allows you to feel the fish better. I don't think I will ever sell my first 2 graphite rods because of the history I have with them, but they wont being seeing as much fishing as they normally do each season.

A nice Brown.Walking upstream to the next hole.Robber fly.

100th post "Logans Rod"

Well I have been meaning to past these pictures for some time. I have had them sitting on my desk top and have just not had the time to do it.

Logan has asked me for a long time to take him fishing. I don't even think that he knew at the time what fishing was but he wanted to go because "Dad is going!" I wanted to be able to give him a rod that he could cast and would be able to fish for the rest of his life as well as pass down to his own children. Well I got to looking at rod tapers and components and decided that a 1 piece rod would fit the bill nicely. There are no 1 piece rod tapers as short as I wanted so I ended up tinkering with the numbers on a 2 piece rod and making my own design. Here are the particulars:

Rod taken from a 4'4" Payne Banty rod design.
Now a 1 piece 4'4"
Blonde cane
Cottonwood bark grip collected from the Provo River
Spanish cedar reel seat with Nickel Silver hardware
The Wraps are purple tipped in black. I asked Lo what color he wanted on his rod and over a 1 month period consistently answered "Purple and black."

Lo can handle his rod just fine. He gets a little crazy with it but that's OK. When he caught his first fish (cutthroat) he didn't like it too much because the fish was too "Wobbly". Now that he has caught some Bluegill on it he likes those just fine because they are not so "Wobbly". Man I am so glad that this kid loves to fish.

Getting some instructional help.

Trying it out on his own.A little more instruction.

Practicing how to reel.

Checking for trees on the backcast.