Entries by Jon Ray

Sipping Dries

Had a great email back and forth session with Simon today, check out one of his videos. Working on getting this type of footage and working on getting this good in the editing room. Thanks for sharing Simon! Nice work! Sipping Dry trailer from Sharptail Media on Vimeo.

Picture of the Day Feb 13th, 2012

Feb 13th Picture of the Day An unidentified  clinging mayfly.  More than likely a cahill or sulphur.  Did a little macro work on a small creek near the house.  Just needed to get out and stretch the legs.  Click on picture to make it bigger.

Picture of the Day Feb 9th, 2012

Going to try and do this more often.  Publish pictures from the days on the water. Feb 9th 2012 was a bright blue bird sunny day, and hunting any type of wildlife or fish was a little more difficult.  Did have two red-shoulder hawks flying near by but just out of 400mm.  But here is […]

Rag Style Clown Egg

I would say about 10 years ago a good friend and fellow fly-fishing guide at the time Fred Stueber showed me my first clown egg.  He also showed me a popular way how to tie an egg, popular that is out west, and the rag style clown has been a staple in my fly box […]

Toys from 2011

One of the things that kinda bugs me about the new reviews that come out this time of year , are the listing of items at are “new”, and they write a review about them.  Stating how cool they are, how well they work, and how they changed the game.  Really how do they know? […]

Muskie on the Fly, a bucket-list fish

Guest Writer : Jerome Seid Writing about his Musky Adventure that we took this September. Enjoy. Getting the Muskie Off My Back Not that I needed to drive so far to find the damned fish. But it seemed like a great way to put myself in a position to accomplish that which I had been […]

See Spot Swim

Question of the day, why do some steelhead have more freckles than other steelhead?  This buck at last count has a couple hundred.  There is really no answer to this question, but I thought this was a good shot of a great migratory michigan rainbow, catching his breath before release back into the Manistee River.