Kaitlin Glines Barnhart

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The Year of the Dry-Dropper Science Experiment

Hopper-dropper in early Spring, late Fall, and wait, even Winter? I became serious about the dry-dropper set up, outside of grasshopper season, after starting my journey with tight line nymphing. I was quickly addicted to jig-hooks, tungsten bead nymphs, landing big fish on a 3 wt 12ft rod, with 6 or 7x tippet size, and learning a new way to drift that is so effective. I realized one day in late winter, that despite my rod length, I couldn’t reach out to the sections of water that looked sup

9/2/2020Kaitlin Glines Barnhart

The Lesson

I preach the value of learning for a living, but I am not always comfortable as a novice. The first time I fished the Owyhee River with my friend Kaitlin about four years ago, I was skunked. I was a typical beginner—I’d fly fished a few times before, but never really learned the craft. I was practicing a basic cast with a hand-me-down rod and eight-year-old fly line, somehow drawn to this pointless activity of catch-and-release fly fishing. I couldn’t, like Kaitlin, shoot the line a straight 25

7/20/2018Meagan Newberry

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The Year of the Dry-Dropper Science Experiment

The Lesson