Entries by Jon Ray

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.

Great Week for the Streamer

With water temps, river level, and an abnormal amount of big fish around.  Streamer fishing for steelhead has been really good.  While not the “how many” method of steelhead fishing, streamer fishing for them gives you honestly the best opportunity at targeting the big boys.  While just like brown trout fishing, when you throw the […]

1st day hunting chrome and I forgot one thing

A short video from my first couple hours swinging flies for 2011.  Did make a mental note to next time trim my tags a little tighter on the custom sinktips.  Oh well.  Win some and today I lost one! Video can also be seen at Mangled Fly’s You-Tube page