Name that Fish

Chuck Hawkins and I had a chance to fish some new water and found a mystery fish.  Can you name it?

michigan fly fishing

Northern Shrike

IMG_6489This little guy, about the size of a blue jay is pretty amazing.  Northern Shrikes usually site quietly, often in the top of a tree, before they swoop down after insects, mice, and small song birds.  Impaling it’s prey on a thorn or wedging it in a forked twig.

This is the first one I’ve had a chance to photograph.  Usually they sit so far away.

 

B&W Fly Underwater

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 

B&W Fly

BioLite CampStove

Amazing!

Hard time with words

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.

 

LOW & CLEAR Official Trailer from Finback Films on Vimeo.

New App Lets you Check Health of your Waterways in the USA

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.

A Tight Loop – January

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

Mother Nature still has mysteries for us to solve

photo courtesy of Outdoor Blog

Check out this mystery fish caught in Hawaii, say this post this morning and love it that Mother Nature still has fish underneath her sleeve that we have no idea what they are.

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/50584/
giant+headless+fish+at+center+of+intriguing+mystery+off+kona+hawaii/

Sandy wind map

With everything going on with Sandy hitting the East Coast found a new site, that gives you a different look at the wind.  Check out the site – http://hint.fm/wind/index.html

Absolutely Crazy Footage