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!
Had the chance to work with Rick Kustich and have a couple images in his new book, Advanced Fly Fishing for Great Lakes Steelhead. The book includes Tactics for Great Lakes steelhead, including new two-handed and switch rod techniques and Spey and Tube flies. Specifics on key rivers and streams in each of the Great Lake states, including the Big Manistee! Understanding steelhead behavior, choosing where to fish, and reading the water.
Check out Rick’s website for additional information and visit your local fly shop and purchase yourself a copy. I highly recommend it!
Good friend Kevin Feenstra in a short video by Andy Maser about the Muskegon River. Great video very well done!
This video shows what is so hard to describe sometimes. How it feels, and what you need to do! Having a blog and working on being a better videographer, some of the hardest emotions to portray are fishing emotions. Here is a video clip that makes even more confusing, and I love it.
What does one do when it’s single digits out? Well let’s break out the camera and start working with a new fly rod. As I mentioned in previous post, I have a new 1108 T3H Scott and it needed to get wet. Can’t share the video yet, need a couple more hours behind the lens with Erik, but a jpeg below shows the created juices have started to flow, not a video below!
Just found a new site that let’s you check the health of your lakes and rivers. http://watersgeo.epa.gov/mywaterway/ , is the link and I found out that a lake near my house was deemed polluted with mercery, good information to know. Check out your local area to make sure that your stream or lake are clean.
New rod just arrived and can’t wait to go play. Had the chance to fish the 12’8″ 8wt T3H for a couple weeks and all I had to say was WOW! So went to www.scottflyrods.com to see what other rods they made in the same graphite, and found myself a new switch rod, 1108 T3H. As winter transitions into spring, I love to start swing smaller minnow patterns and I think this rod is going to be perfect . Rod matches up with about 440 grains, perfect grain weight for throwing small 1-2″ salmon parr that steelhead love to gorge on in early spring time. If you have not wiggled the new T3H, you need to find your local dealer and check these great new rods from Scott Fly Rods. They are pretty sweet. A little personal catch phrase for this rod is, “just add water” it will catch fish. Certain rods when you pick them up you know will just cast they just feel fishy, they feel right. This rod makes you shake with that feeling.
With a little more free time than I like, going to photo and video up some cool stuff with this stick, so come back soon to see what we have come up with. Or give me a call and join me and be part of the footage.
Handcrafted in the USA – Built from beginning to end in Montrose, Colorado.
Have a couple pictures on page 127, did some work with Jon “Chewy” Stefanciw for a ice fly fishing article for the online magazine A Tight Loop. Some new step-by-step fly patterns and some interesting other stuff to read, other than Jon’s article. Check it out
Great work by Third Year Fly Fisher with his film about brothers that love to fish, and love to chase trout with big streamers. Film will be on tour in the Fly Fish Film Tour, coming to a town near you. Here is a sneak peak of the trailer. Good job guys!
The Brothers Brown trailer from RT on Vimeo.
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