NASA Sun & Space shared this footage of Sunday’s powerful solar flare in extreme ultraviolet light.
Our Sun-watching satellite captured this footage of Sunday’s powerful solar flare in extreme ultraviolet light: https://t.co/UMs3kDbLx2 pic.twitter.com/3eCBYruwid
— NASA Sun & Space (@NASASun) September 12, 2017
Same great line (with a few minor changes) but with a new name. SA launches the Freightliner Skagit, which is the same line from the past few years that we have been using. The blue line as we called it in the boat. The Intermediate Skagit gets a new name and a much requested cosmetic improvement , the rear loop will now have a black highlight to help you see the transition from the head to the running line.
New video from SA feature SA Ambassador Jeff Hickman.
Scientific Anglers Freightliner Skagit from Scientific Anglers on Vimeo.
We wanted to completely re-work our Spey offerings, and we started with our Skagit heads. Meet the Freightliner Skagit, an all-new design for Scientific Anglers. Featuring a textured, black marker at the rear of the head, and available in both floating and intermediate heads/kits, the Freightliner will become your next go-to Spey line. SA Ambassador Jeff Hickman dives into the details in this short video.
Had the opportunity to spend a few days at Katmai Lodge with good friend and great guide Jeff Topp. Spent a few days focused on rainbow trout. Thank you Katmai Lodge for a true Alaskan Experience, thank you Jeff Topp for showing us a small piece of Alaska, and sharing a part of the world you truly love.
Will be sharing more about this adventure in the next few days. Also have a dates for next year, if you would like to see this special place. Will share these dates and more trip information soon.
Have a mistake at the printer that will be a deal for you, one of a kind red/white trucker hat for $5. Have 18 of these hats in stock first come first serve. Same type of hat as our popular Dry Fly Hat we did in Grey/Black earlier this summer.
Photo by Erik Rambo of his campsite in Northern Michigan, Amazing image Erik! Thank you for sharing.
Enjoying a great day down the Pine River (one of the coldest trout streams in Michigan). August can be the dog days of summer but so many opportunities abound. Even though we didn’t connect with any monster trout, we had an action packed day floating down the Pine River.
Michigan Based Company , Scientific Anglers with an up coming video here is the Teaser. Lots of Michigan in this little video, even spotted a Mangled Fly Hoodie in a quick shot. Great video guys.
Scientific Anglers “Tiny Pieces of All of Us” Teaser from Scientific Anglers on Vimeo.
The Scientific Anglers team all shares one thing in common: we love to fish. This is a teaser for our upcoming brand video called “Tiny Pieces of All of Us,” which will be out soon.
Photo by Ed McCoy of a Michigan Brown Trout snacking on one of his new mouse patterns. Thanks for sharing the pic Ed. Nice work.
When you spend a lot of time on a river, you eventually learn some of the subtle changes that over the course of a season. These small changes can have a big impact on the fishing.
Through the late spring and early summer, I spend a lot of time fishing along rocky banks with crayfish patterns or poppers depending on the activity levels. This type of fishing becomes inconsistent in the middle of the summer on my home river, the Muskegon.
The target species in the summer is smallmouth bass and any other warm water fish that will bite. Smallmouth are built to eat crayfish, but they are glutonous fish, gorging on whatever is most available to them.
You would think that this would be obvious but it was not always clear to me–during the summer the slower edges of the river become weedy, and in many places smallmouth simply shift over to the weeds. They cruise these weedbeds in search of mature minnows that have become super abundant. Often these weedbeds are directly opposite of the rocky, classic smallmouth spots. On a large river, this makes such spots easy to overlook.
These baitfish are the shiny type minnows such as shiners, chubs, and daces. They permeate the water column. I do a bit of snorkeling in my free time. It is enjoyable and very educational. Typically the biggest species of baitfish are toward the bottom of the water column. They can be quite large and there are silly amounts of them in the tailwater rivers. It is not uncommon to see common shiners and chubs that are over 6-8 inches in length. Because of the large size of many of the baitfish, large attractor patterns can work very well around the weeds. Utilize colors such as yellow and white for best success.
Hornyhead Chubs are a classic example of a large baitfish living in the weeds
I used to be fixated on the bottom of the river when snorkeling, until one day I happened to look up agains the surface. There, in the top few inches of the water column, I was shocked to see a large number of colorful shiner minnows. These minnows move very quickly! I came to know these fish as rosy face shiners and they are a very abundant food source among the weedbeds. These small and quick fish are typically 2-4 inches in length, and this size is often preferred by smallies. A good imitation of these can be tied simply: bead chain eyes, wing of gray-olive craft fur, flashabou, and a head of cinnamon ice dub (or red foam if you want a sly and deadly popper). This fly should be fished stripped quickly with a pause.
Rosyface shiners are common along weeds in the upper part of the water column
If you are fishing rocky smallmouth habitat and have a hard time finding fish, don’t hesitate to fish a shiner pattern above the weeds or a big baitfish pattern a little deeper. A lot of times a change of fly selection and habitat is all it takes to find fish.
Grand Traverse Bay Smallmouth Bass