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 […]
Indiana Jones Chronicles- Post Spawn Browns
Save the Steelhead
If you have a minute, check out this video my buddy made out in CA. He did an awesome job.
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 […]