Lamprey match the hatch

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With the official start of lamprey season (chestnut lamprey),  the biggest match the hatch we have here in Michigan for our streamer program.  Not that there is really a season for lamprey, but I just happened to notice they the crawled out of the mud this week. Some people have told me trout don’t eat lamprey.  Okay.  If they don’t eat them, I’m fine with that, but they sure don’t like them.  Pictured below is a trout we caught this weekend on an imitation lamprey streamer pattern.  This trout had 11 different lamprey attached to him and out of anger destroyed my simple fur and feather pattern.

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May Dry Fly Video

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Worked with Chuck Hawkins yesterday and taped a couple video’s that we just posted on our Hawkins Youtube channel.  Did work separating audio from video and inserting photo’s inside the video to display detail.  Working with audio is not an easy as it sounds, but enjoy the video and hope it helps bring to light how good May dry fly fishing can be.

Trout season has started

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IMG_6752A great way to start the trout season with a true yellow belly.  Jon B scores a great michigan trout, while streamer fishing on the Upper Manistee.  All indications point to a great trout season ahead of us.

 

Muskegon River – Film by Andy Maser

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Good friend Kevin Feenstra in a short video by Andy Maser about the Muskegon River. Great video very well done!

Michigan Hydropower Success Story from Andy Maser on Vimeo.

Last Fish of 2012, can’t wait for 2013

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Thank you to everybody that follows Mangled Fly Media blog, Happy New Year.  Have some exciting things that I plan to post, and show in 2013.  Thank you for a great year.  Picture below was caught yesterday and did not think about until just now, but this LRB was the last fish caught in 2012 by MFM.

Happy New Year!

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Cover Shot – A Tight Loop

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Cover shot of the October 2012 online magazine – A Tight Loop, check it out here

Picture of the Day – Underwater Lake Run Brown

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photo by Erik Rambo

Spent the day with Erik Rambo working on different angles for upcoming projects, thought I would share this picture of the day when we had a couple minutes  to make a few casts. Look what we found.  First lake-run brown of the season.

Alaskan Adventure – more to come soon

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Just getting back to MI, after spending the past week with Jeff Topp at Katmai Lodge in Alaska.  We had an amazing week of fishing, silvers, rainbows, dolly’s, chum, and pink salmon counting for the majority of our catch.  I have over a 1000 pictures, hours of video, and am hoping to put something special together in the coming weeks.  If you have not fished Alaska yet, or your looking for a new experience you owe it to yourself to fish with Mike Maher and Jeff Topp at the Katmai Lodge.

 

Black and White – Picture of the Night (Day)

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With the water giving us a slight reflection, a brown trout is being released back into the wild.

Bugs in a Tub

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Okay if you have fished with me, you understand that one of my strengths is not Latin terminology for aquatic insects.  I have a very simple approach to aquatic life.  Match the color and size.  But sometimes knowing a little bit more than they other guy, can give you an advantage.  Below is a video of a couple bugs in the tub.  Late May and early June the Manistee as both the Siphlonurus Nymph and Baetisca Nymph swimming around pretty regularly, in certain sections.  And yes I had to look those names up!

I have been using Ann Miller’s new Hatch Guide for Upper Midwest Streams.  I highly recommend this book, contact Ann at AnnRMiller@aol.com .  This is a great guide for on the stream and at the fly tying bench.  Thank you Ann.