OK! Now that, thats over with and you got fish sweat all over you. Take the plastic off the cork and start taken pictures with the rod in you teeth!!

I save that moment for 10#, 15# striper. haha.

You've come a long way from catching catfish out of Rex's swimming pool Moon, LOL!!!

I know. I think RexW is proud of me now.

Very nice Moon. Thanks for sharing
Mike

Thanks Mike. I do learn a lot from you. Will continue to learn. Hope one day I can be half as good as you in regard of tying.

Ur hooked.

Now go hit broken bow.

I will, for sure. Thinking November if I was not down the coast. Or Spring time. I would be in your tournament next year if you had one again.

Great job! I've been fly fishing for years and years and only caught my first small mouth last year and have never caught a drum on fly. How do you like your new lines? That's one part of my set up I never try and save money on. I generally buy the best line possible for the job.

Thanks very much.

I just started fly fishing in March, I don't know what's the best line for my rod, so I called TFO, talked to their tech rep, and took their recommendation. Actually, I called Rio first, asking their rep for advice, was told that I need two types of lines: cold water and warm water. I asked the rep to send me an email with his recommendation, but he never did. When I talked to TFO tech rep, he told me to buy tropical line, instead buying cold water and warm water to save me money, which makes lots sense. He also suggested just using floating. If I want the fly to sink, just add some weight to the fly, and make it sink. But I did buy F/I line, because some times, I do need my fly to sink slowly, and big heavy fly is really hard to turn when casting.
So after fishing with this line, I can truly say that I like it, I like it a lot. I can cast 50 feet, 60 feet very easily. The line does make some noise when landing on the water, which may be good, or bad depending what kind of fish I am fishing for.
I can buy these line on eBay cheaper than at retail stores.

I forgot to ask what line do you use, what do you recommend? thanks again.

Awesome Moon! Looked like a blast, great photos. Thanks for sharing.

Moon, you bought on that equipment. Where is your fancy fly fishing hat, clothes, boots and vest?, LOL!!

this is probably one oy most important pieces of fly fishing gear. Note the subdued color so as to not spook the fish: