Have some exciting things in the works with Snap T Pictures again. As Erik Rambo and I contiunue to combine forces on projects. We have been bouncing around in the dark, and are excited about the latest project that should be done this fall after all the editing. Stay tuned to see what night vision camera’s saw in the dark.
Sorry for the delay in postings. Had a little IT trouble, but promise to make up for lost time with more images and more videos. Thank you for your patience.
With the end of the Hex Hatch starts the beginning of Hopper Time. No more up-wing parachutes or layout spinners. Yes we will still have BWO’s, Trico’s and the occasional Iyso. But July, August and September trout fishing for me, during the day light hours is match the Terrestrial. Time to run the foam and rubber legs.
Matching the Terrestrial, just like Matching the Hatch, can change day to day. For whatever reason trout can change focus from hoppers, to ants, to damsels, to crickets. I really thinks it more of matching size and color. Again just like matching the mayfly hatch, you need to figure out what fish want on a particular day.
With more free time in July than we have in June, have some goals for fly tying and photography work. Hope to share more patterns and fish technique. Again these are goals for the next couple months, so check back and we will see what I’ve come up with.
But in the mean time also wanted to share that ran a new rod just recently that is a new favorite for Terrestrial fishing the Scott G2 886. With rods I truly believe that you need to cast or feel one before you buy. But if your in your local fly shop pick this rod up, it has true hidden power and can turn over big foam, but in the same sense protect you when you need to drop down a tippet size. A pleasure to cast and to fish with all day. Check it out. For those that enjoy the hopper dropper and need to turn over foam, but fish 5x on the dropper.
I have had a chance to hear them, I’ve found a shuck before, but I have never had a chance to photograph one. Floating down the Manistee River yesterday I just happened to look down and saw this little bugger resting on a limb. I like the new foam flies that I will be developing now. Live and die by the big dry fly!
Photo is clickable to my new Smug Mug page. Working on having images for sale on this site. New to smug mug so bear with me. But have had printing done through there labs and it’s pretty amazing stuff.
Not all cool things happen during the night in June. Day time glory caught on film. Have more filming of what happened here. This is only a screen shot. But some really cool daytime things are happening that we are going to expand upon.
Why do they wiggle, why do the squirm, why can’t they just sit still for a quick pic. It happens more than I want to admit, the jumping out of the hands brown trout during the photo session. A way that I protect the trout, is to have the net underneath the trout during the photo session. As you can notice here the trout is flying and it was saved by the net waiting underneath. We all want photo’s of the nice ones we catch, now we need to protect them when we do bring out the camera. Use this little net trick if your stuck in the boat taking photo’s.
It is the season of the big bug, with Hex grabbing so much of the attention anglers really do over look the early June season. As Iyso’s, stones, and now the “new” Manistee river Gray Drake. As I was talking to Ed McCoy last night, when do you ever remember seeing so many Gray Drakes? Will be fun to watch over the next couple years, how this hatch and spinner fall effects our June fishing. Especially the early season, it has been a day saver some nights this year. Not that we didn’t have Gray’s before, but we do not remember in our short guide careers having this many, and for this long. I’m so glad that I had McCoy’s Gray Drake Spinner from Orvis this year. It is still undefeated haven’t been refused by a fish yet.
Kean O. below with a stonefly eating michigan brown trout.
Grand Traverse Bay Smallmouth Bass
