Entries by Jon Ray

Picture of the Day- Playing with Saturation

I’m not one that plays too often with photoshop to distort or alter my pictures too often.  But playing with the Saturation of a photo taking out or highlighting colors is another form of art.  Here is Dan C. with his first steelhead caught on a streamer.  In Lightroom I zapped out all the colors […]

Streamers still rocking in December

Still have a whole bunch of confidence for the big ugly flies to work in the cold weather, as the season progresses the cold water will so down the response to the swung fly, but currently things are still rocking.  As I was witness to a fish “almost” taking one of my spey outfits.  Thank […]

Steelhead transition – Pic of the Day

With the start of December we are starting to get into the big bad winter bucks.  The time of year where we have a chance at some of the biggest steelhead of the year.  Winter bucks will start to display red checks and strips, and with hopefully some winter back drop.  Photo’s can just jump […]

Underwater Steelhead – Pic of the Day

Erik Rambo shot a video of a cool release shot of a steelhead swimming away along the sand in the lower river.  This video was shot this week in the high sun so we had good light and low clear water provides for a perfect effect. Took the video and converted it to a jpeg […]

Exciting new things for Musky in Michigan

Was just sent this article about the future of Musky in Michigan.  Have my fingers crossed that some new regulations and different tactics by the DNR will lead to exciting new fishing in our inland lakes. Article by the DNR about what they have been up too regarding Musky!

First of the year (for me)

                                                       Day off Streamer Joy! Getting an October day off, in the tail end of Sandy as the wind has started to die down gave me a chance to […]

Sandy wind map

With everything going on with Sandy hitting the East Coast found a new site, that gives you a different look at the wind.  Check out the site – http://hint.fm/wind/index.html