Entries by Jon Ray

Crying the Blues – by Jerome Seid

Jerome shares his fishing adventure from the summer, thank you Jerome. If anybody in the Mangled Fly community would like to share there fishing adventures just let me know. Crying the Blues? Singing the Blues! Had the opportunity to book a half-day trip during my vacation, with Captain Ken Rafferty out of East Hampton yesterday. […]

Fly Tying – Flymen Blog Post

Great write up by Gunnar Brammer on the Flymen Blog Post about fly tying and the 3 different ways that you can use articulation in your fly design for stripping streamers.  Flymen products have exploded onto the scene the last few years.  Flymen products are a staple of my fly tying room.  Articulated Shanks for steelhead, […]

New Aquaz Bootfoot Waders

I’ll be doing a more in-depth product review of the New Rogue Aquaz Waders in the coming weeks, but happy to see them arrive in the mail this week, just in time for the cold weather steelhead season.  One of the secrets to finding steelhead is being able to make the cast to them.  Nobody […]

Great New Website

Highly recommend that you add Kevin Feenstra’s new website to your favorite list, his photography is amazing and his new site shows off his talents for sure.  Also a great way to keep up to date with how the Muskegon River is doing.  Nice new site Kevin! http://feenstraoutdoors.com Make sure to check out the Featured […]

8 Questions and Answers with the DNR

Check out the questions and answers that the DNR gives about the 75% decrease in Salmon. Link   If you have read this post already sorry for the repost, lost a few post to a bad back-up system.  Thank you for your continued patience

Abel Reels – Pic of the Day

Abel Reels Instagram Account posts an image of Sean’s biggest Muskie to date. Nice work Sean. Sean Hickey with 2 big handfuls of Muskie caught on his Super 9/10N Muskie finish reel. Sean enjoyed watching this fish follow, and then grab the fly, but in keeping with his locally learned etiquette we could only pry […]

Sun Shirt in WY

Dan Challa sent in this great pic of himself sporting the Mangled Fly Performance Shirt and a beautiful cutthroat from his recent trip to WY.  Thanks for sharing Dan looks like a great trip.