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Good friend and fellow muskie chaser Eli Berant spent some time with SVS Fishing if your interested and learning more about Eli and why he started streamer fishing check out this podcast. I personally buy a few dozen flies from Eli each year, make sure to check out Eli’s site as well if you want a few flies for predator fish. Eli’s interview starts around the 7 min mark.
A couple impressive fish from a few Mangled Fly customers. First is Bob H. who was fishing with world famous Muskie Guide Blane Chocklett and scores a dandy muskie on the fly. Nice work Bob! Bob wearing one of the old school Digital Camo Hats with the old hook logo. Great to see the hat is doing you well!
Kean also sent in this impressive trout pic from his latest journey to Chile. Kean who has always been a believer in the power of the Digital Camo Hat scores another impressive trout while wearing his lucky charm. Great fish Kean! Fish was caught on a circus peanut we tied for Kean, with a special blend of southern hemisphere colors.
Really enjoyed this short video because of the honest truth of it all. I get the opportunity to guide and fish for muskie a few weeks a year. This video really does capture most of the days, it’s a Grind. But the belief that you need to have as angler that the next cast could be the one, is what I really do enjoy.
Congrats to Ed McCoy and his client Antoine on a very special steelhead. A brute of a fish caught on the swing, 17 pounds of double strip Manistee River Steelhead.
Check out the latest This Is Fly, great photography and some interesting stories.
Its been a year of big water and big steelhead. This pic of the day symbolizes some of the size that we have been encountering. This year has been tough for me to judge the weight of some of these giants. As I’m not a fan of the boga grip to determine weight, for a variety of reasons. Even hanging the fish in the net and then weighting the net and fish doesn’t feel very accurate. I usually go be lenght of the fish to determine the weight. As from my previous experiences a 30 inch fish was about 10 pounds, and every inch after that added a pound. But this year the fish are dimensionally / proportionally different. Seeing girth’s on these fish that I have not seen before. They are “thick” as we call it.
As a few fish that we caught yesterday suggest. With length’s of 32 inches and girths of 17.5 inches. With the help of the a little math. We figured we had fish in the 14 pound range. Doing some research looks like there are App’s available http://www.fishweight.net , that you don’t even need a tape measure. I might spend the $5 and try this app, and do a product review. More to come later. In the mean time, I’m using this app currently to help do the math – also has a feature to choose your fish species. As weight has to be different based on species? I would think. But I’m trying to learn all this, as fish this year are special, and with the colder temps, we are staring to land a few more of the giants now.
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Kean Oh shared this picture of his Louisiana Redfish that he caught with Capt. Allen of Sight Fish NC .
Kean wearing his lucky Digital Camo hat on this trip. Thanks for sharing the pic Kean, great looking Redfish.
Grand Traverse Bay Smallmouth Bass