January and february in Indiana is cold as a witches titty. The weather is very unpredictable. Some years we get no snow, and some years we get puked on. Lake effect snow and ice has been piling up this year shutting down roads and rivers but also giving me a chance to tie and regroup for the next day when […]
Mid Winter Warm ups
Indiana Jones Chronicles- Post Spawn Browns
Sometimes i get sick of swingin and indicating for chromers. it usually happens about mid way through the winter when the fish start goin through their change. I just dont like catchin colored up steelhead. it doesnt float my boat at all. when i do catch them its usually a bycatch while strippin some of my favorite spring creeks […]
Winter Steel
Four buddies and I traveled north to Pulaski for some true winter steelheading in typical Great Lakes conditions. The temperature was low and over the course of two days, it rarely stopped snowing. Each morning we awoke to 6-8 inches of snow that added onto the few inches received throughout the day. The temperature and wind resulted in frozen […]
Serenity Now
The last day of our excursion north to the Salmon River came fast, leaving us contemplating a return home to friends, family, and that “W” word fly fishermen don’t like.
The Pursuit of Happiness 2
We slept the sleep of fisherman who had spent the previous day staving off hypothermia. The waders dripped in the shower, the heat on full blast, our faces and hands red, stomachs full. We awoke to a fresh 20″ of snow covering the world.
The Pursuit of Happiness
You would think a fishless five months would alter your perspectives towards some aspects of the pursuit of fish with a fly rod. If it did for me, those alterations occurred in how I daydreamed about it.
Steelhead & Frozen Feet
A long, hard, and cold week had me looking for an emergency escape hatch around every corner. Not finding one, I sent Adam a text with a semi-desperate plea for him to stop thinking about carp, and instead think about accompanying me on a trip north for some steelhead. It had been two months since our last hellish trip. […]
Runners
A picture gallery of king salmon beginning their upstream journey to spawn and die on the Salmon River, NY. These shots were taken in the first hundred yards of river as pod after pod of fish began moving through some really skinny water.
The Run
Salmon season is winding down in the Great Lakes region but the last two weeks have been utterly insane in terms of the amount of fish pushing through. Despite a drought and a summer of high temperatures, the fish came and they seemed to not want to stop. For the first time, we caught the main portion of the run […]