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4/0 Bugs

not for the faint hearted...these are not your grandfather's bugs...4/0 hair bugs...6-7 inches long...for the Bug Chucker that drinks the Tiger's Blood....Mustad salt hook....Clear Cure Goo on the collar and belly....can you say durable...

Salmon...again

Took another trip on Monday...This time I brought first timers, my dad, my sis and my brother in law....Awesome trip...this time of year there are salmon bombs lining the river banks, so careful stepping is required. A lot of dark fish in the river...We were able to get into some fresher fish later in the day...Everyone hooked up, everyone landed some...The first salmon for all of them...Congrats...A good successful outing.

I swung streamers all day with great success...I think the days of chucking lead and eggs are done for me. I'm beginning to understand the fishery more and more. I am still a warm water guy at heart, but I do enjoy this resource tremendously.

Here's the porn....

Soon the salmon will be gone...then the real angling begins...my personal winter favorite...Steelhead....

10-23-11

Hit the river hard today...swinging streamers and nymphs....hooked into some beasts...

My first of the day swinging a black leech through a great little riffle..
that's right..a sucker to get the skunk out

To the real battle...

My biggest landed of the day...

Dustin getting into some tow truck lovin'...

Steve getting his fair share as well...

Unfortunetly the fellas did not land any of their fish today...the day was bright, fishy, a little smelly...no one was injured, no one was wet...flies were lost...I had a treble hook sunk into my shoe....a few near horrific hookings of each others faces...a jolly good time...not bad for the first time these two guys have fished for salmon....

Hell Yeah Grammite

My hellgrammite pattern off to make it's debut in Colorado....Good luck carp and smallies....haha....

And it begins

Let's start with this...I am not a purist...not by any means...let me explain...I love to catch fish...in the mouth....fairly...play them quickly, take a photo and let them go on their disturbed but merry way. I like to swing streamers when the conditions are right to do so...I also dead drift nymphs...If the fish are devouring size 12 stones then why would I not follow suit. What I do not do is throw so much weight on my line that I drag bottom and cast my fly line as if it were a spin rod...

I began my winter fishing routine this last weekend. It was an event that doesn't happen often enough. I got to fish with my brother. We had a great time. Unfortunetly we did not get on many fish..in fact we actually only hooked into two all day. Such is life..It was a blast watching the salmon run upriver, jumping and smashing into our legs. Of course this time of year brings out the not so sportsman sportsman. When I bring someone with me I teach them to fish for salmon...No lifting, snagging or lining. We fish the lower river usually where they are still aggressive.

We stood witness to some of the most appalling behavior I have witnessed. These guys stood on the bank, in a narrow channel and literally lifting every salmon out that swam through. By lifting I mean, so much weight you can't cast it, dragging it on the bottom until a fish swims past you and snapping the rod up frantically to snag a fish in the face or belly. They would play the fish and go home with it acting puffy chested as if it were a success. I find this behavior disgusting. These people should have their right to fish stripped from them and their gear auctioned to support the advancement of the fisheries.

I brought my switch rod to the event...Put a healthy bend in it with a monster king on the end of the line. I fought this fish back and forth for about 10 minutes before the hook pulled...It made my day even though there was no landing...

A nice Coho that snuck up behind my feet and chilled while I fought the King...

My weekends from this point on will consist of salmon, steels and browns...Stay tuned for lots of fish porn action....

Custom order Up

Articulated Double Deceivers...these flies are about 7 inches long, tied with Mustad hooks and Clear Cure Goo Fleck on the heads....off to Michigan for some monster Brown hunting...

Baby Brown

Baby Bow

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CCG Baitfish

A new experimental pattern that so far has produced...and produced well at that...Bucktail, peacock herl, flash and a body made of Clear Cure Goo and tubing...realistic profile...fish killer...it needs to be honed and cleaned up a bit...but expect to see more of this one....

Bass, Crappie and a Pickerel

All of these fish will consume the same exact flies or lures when presented at different locations in the water column...Here is the proof...

I caught this crappie off of the bottom utilizing the same fly that I took this Largemouth with in the weeds...

Phil, utilizing custom made jigs and a spin rod...Jigs that I tied as an experiment for him...Caught bass, pickerel and crappie utilizing similar colors presented in different locations to catch all of these species...

I'm normally a meat and potatoes bug chucker...big flies for big fish...but there are times when keying into a specific size and colored baitfish will catch everything in the water....This was one of those times...

10-8-11....

It was a beautiful day...a family spent day...A day that does not happen often enough...but it did require a few moments at least to be spent on the water...My brother Chris, Phil and I snuck out for an hour outing to chuck some goodies at carp. It was a bit tough going at first but we persevered and all managed to hook up. Chris recently involved himself in fly tying. He used the flies that came from his own vice of his own creation and caught his first fish using them..A moment in time that every fly tyer remembers well...Congrats...

Then Phil...not having much luck hooking carp with spin gear, starts pulling smallies out of thin air. I have never seen a bass in these waters, but he found them...and slammed them....Nice work...a new smallie jaunt has been found...

My fish for the day....He devoured a black bead head stone like it was the last bug on earth....

The water is cooling...take advantage of these next few beautiful days and hit the last of the warm water species...before too long it will be frozen over and I for one will be standing in near freezing streams chasing steel...

Success

Another happy customer...This is his first Pike on the fly ever...hooked by the Fleeing Bucktail...nice job mate...

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Stacked, packed, trimmed and shipped

Some new stuff out the door....

To Michigan....

To Washington.....

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