As more and more migratory birds show up again, a common merganser here is one of our most frequently seen birds along the Manistee River. Did see my first Michigan state bird yesterday, Mr. Robin. Spring is here and so are steelhead and early streamer fishing for trout, still have some prime dates open.
Follow this link for more information about public meetings in your area for the NEW regulations regarding pike and muskie for 2013. Public meetings will be held in March and April.
From the same project that shows the B&W Fly swimming, here is a screen shot from the video shot of my Scott T3H ripping up the water on the Manistee River. I bought a Scott 1288 T3H and it’s an absolute gun. Fell in love with this rod as soon as I first got it wet this fall. Can handle any situation that I throw at it. Big heavy flies or longer bellies and lighter bugs. Rod just matches my casting style and everything Michigan big river fishing has to offer.
Working on a project had the camera out yesterday, did a little taping here is a snippet. Might take a few minutes to load, as I’m still figuring out the WP format for hosted videos.
Video was shot with the New GoPro3 Black
This is based out west, but reminds me of the same struggles our lake-run rainbows face in our natural reproducing streams and creeks. A bigger picture view point needs to be taken, the hatchery truck is not always the answer, even for us here in the midwest. With less and less dollars going around in the state. Things need to change.
Mangled Fly T-shirt spotted in Chile with Kean. Also Kean with a very impressive brown trout! Thanks Kean and love the story about the brown trout! Thanks for sharing.
Amazing!
With some fresh snow and the reflection of the sky bouncing off of the Manistee River, took two seconds during a steelhead trip to take this photo. Thought the black and white gave it the look I was wanting.
Ed McCoy sent Mangled Fly Media it’s first international appearance. Ed sporting the Mangled Fly Brown Trout t-shirt , on his trip to Argentina. We are working on the shopping cart but do have a new color for the Mangled Fly T-shirt in white. This is a limited time opportunity if you want one before they are gone let me know, feel free to shoot me an email – jray@mangledfly.com . Hope to have new shopping cart and updated T-shirt colors available online soon. Thanks for the pic Ed!
Grand Traverse Bay Smallmouth Bass