Went up this am and put about 50.....

too funny slayer.. I put about 50 tops into the fire pit this weekend myself.. lol..

nice lacrosse, maribou's are awesome... nothing like that first head shake on the fly rod...sounds like youre obviously hooked... let us know when you succede...

tight lines

thats is perfect advice from wader boy... i'll second that...i i commonly leave around 10 feet of slack in the chamber on average... also, why are you annoyed by retrieval rate? one pointer, when it is necessary to retrieve line faster than you can reel, just do simple strips while pinching the line with your rod hand... just carefully let the slack down stream from you and you can either reel it up when the fish is stabilized or let him take it back out when he turns to run again...

Thanks,
Most of it is tongue in cheek... I have been fishing eggs and spinning gear for years...
A good friend gave me a fly stick, reel and a box of flies.
He is coming up for 3 weeks in October and I have to get the hang of this...
I have been practicing/learning all summer, lots of bass and pickerel
It's very different with the fly rod, I felt total newbe with the salmon today, which can be motivation in and of itself.
I really like the idea of the slack line in hand, thanks for he advise

WB is dead on----drop the loop!

Greaselining below the Altmar bridge before it became the unemployment pool(used to be called either the bubbles or the monkey water) for steelhead.
Giant freakin swirl, rod bent to the butt and then either just gone or a 22 like crack in the days before before I could force myself to drop the loop.
Every fiber in your being says hit him HIT HIM but ya got ta lets um turn and sweep to conect solid most of the time.
I'm a slow learner but a learner none the less.