Greetings! Here is a quick bulletin with a short video about the coming end of our Camp Victory March Trade-In. The sale lasts until this Sunday, March 31st, at the close of business. To get 20% off any rod, line, reel or outfit, just trade in a kid's closed-face spinning rod and reel and you get a 20% discount on any Orvis outfit, or rod, or reel, or line. The second is the special on the Digi Camo Orvis line of packs (sling pac, guide pac, vertical chest pack, etc.) - with the purchase of any Orvis Digi pack you get a double-sided $16.95 waterproof fly box free. And the last part of the bulletin (along with the video of the flies on the surface at the old campground) is about the Brown Trout Club. Memberships and pins available now...Help support those who support our sport. Memberships are $10 for a yellow membership and club pin and $20 for a gold membership and pin. We'll be stocking German trout two days - next Wednesday and Thursday - there will be many great trout stocked those two days and we plan to have videos of the stocking and trout in the next newsletter. Help out by joining the Brown Trout Club, get your tag today!
Camp Victory Trade-In Sale
Bring in a spinning rod, reel, and/or line and get a 20% discount on any Orvis fly rod, reel, and/or line - can be a whole outfit at 20%! Sale ends March 31st! Save 20% today!
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What's working...
The largest numbers of flies are still the black stone, brown stone, and brown caddis in medium brown and a ginger brown. We've seen a few Quill Gordons, some Hendricksons, red quills, and March Browns - these hatches are still very light. The blue quill is present and seems to have been more abundant on Slate and Cedar. An angler was in the shop today who caught a small brownie on the surface with a black caddis (probably taken for a black stone fly). Light and dark midges are also abundant. Best activity is middle to late afternoon. And, the flies appear to be a larger size again this year.
DIGI CAMO SALE SPECIAL
We are having the special Orvis Digi Camo sale.
Buy any Safe Passage digi camo product and get a medium waterproof doubleside fly box ($16.95 value) FREE!
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 We'll be stocking German trout two days, next Wednesday and Thursday - there will be many great trout stocked those two days and we plan to have videos of the stocking and trout in the next newsletter. Help out by joining the Brown Trout Club, get your pin today! Memberships are $10 and $20.
Final Casts... At the top of this bulletin, the video shows Bill Bridges catching a brown trout on the old campground pool. He is 15 years old and fishes a nymph like he's done it for years. Bill drifted his imitation close in and slowly moved the presentation farther from shore, prospecting. It wasn't long before his Slate Drake indicator was pulled under and the Micro Stone Fly was solidly fastened to the lip of the day's first brown trout. I couldn't be more impressed as the young man patiently played the trout with his reel. Juli netted the fish for him, and Bill carefully unhooked the fish, posed for the necessary picture, and watched the trout swim back to the depths. It doesn't get much better than that. Young people like Bill are certainly the future not only of fly fishing, but of our clean water resources and conservation as well.
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Thanks for reading our bulletin. We'll be back next week with a full-sized newsletter and videos, mostly about the German Brown Trout stocking.
Please call us or drop us an email to let us know what is on your mind - or call to find up-to-the-minute details on stream conditions and what is happening on the water. Also, send us your fishing pictures for the gallery! Please, stay in touch with Pine, Slate, and Cedar by going to our website slaterun.com.
Thanks again for being with us! Sincerely, The Tackle Shop Team Tom & Deb Finkbiner - Proprietors, etc.
Jed Grove - Sales Manager, etc. Dave Wonderlich - Website, Newsletter, etc. |
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Black stone flies heads down on a stream side branch in the same camoflaging position as the buds...
Black female stone fly with white ripening egg sac, again, head down.
 Stream side branches with swollen white buds
- Position and white color the same as the stone flies, great camo for the stones!
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Shop closeout sale
continues until products are gone...
Pro Guide Stockingfoot Wader reg. $395, now $225; Wading boots with closeout deals include: River Guard Ultralight Boot with Eco Trax soles reg. $198, now $179; River Guard Easy-On Brogue Boot with Eco Trax soles $198, now $148. Also on sale are Orvis Trout Bum Shirts in burnt red, light blue, and olive reg. $65, now $43; very limited numbers of the Under Wader Fleece Suit reg. $129, now $99.
Helios2
Helios2 rods are in!
Come and give the latest advance in rod design a cast - it may be hard to leave without one!
lighter...
more powerful!
Silver Sonic Waders are in!
$259
Convert to waist high without removing suspenders - fully waterproof double-airlock interior pocket - new gravel guard makes on/off even easier - anatomically shaped feet - flexible - comfortable -breatheable - a pleasure to wear!
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