It's that time of year.

Been getting reports and seeing these guys around for a while now.

Trico Spinner from Tightline Productions on Vimeo.

Cool steelhead video

I don't know if it's the heat or what but I keep thinking about cooler temps and fishing for steelhead.  I really wish I was headed to Idaho this fall to do some swinging but sadly I am not.  Here's too cooler temps and some tugs at the end of our lines.

DOOR COUNTY HERE I COME!

The little lady and I set aside a few days least week to head up to the cabin up in Door County for some much needed R&R.  I don't know about you but when I think about Door County I think carp and smallies!  There is one particular area which I consider my honey hole since I never see any other anglers there that I fish a lot but there is tons of water.  If you've never been up there all you need to do is find an access point and start walking the limestone flats.  Boat launches and parks serve well as an access point and I've found that most of the flats are on the lake side but there are some on the bay side.  I've found that I don't need to carry much gear.  I tend to carry a box of carp flies and two boxes of smallie flies when wading the flats.  Carp can be picky buggers but a good natural looking fly on some floro and presented well.  Smallies tend to like crawdad and baitfish patterns and of course top-water is always my preferred way to chase them.

 

 

 

 

BEEN A WHILE

Been a while since I've updated the blog so this is overdue.  Been working the day job a lot so my fishing time has been hurting and the high winds we've been having aren't helping as well.  I've been fishing the local lakes and rivers with some pretty good success.  One of my favorite places to fish just happens to be full of gar and I have them pretty well figured out and man do those buggers fight.  I've got some footage of some gar action but I want to compile a little bit more before I share it.   So far it's mostly me loosing some fish at the boat trying to land these beasts on my own.

Trout fishing around the state has been pretty good and fish have been taken on terrestrials already.  Fishing has been best early and late.  The usual suspects are also catching fish like pink squirrels and scuds.

Got a report from Peter and Jarred at the shop from a carp trip they took to door county last week and it seems like the carp on to post spawn conditions.  I'll be heading up there for 5 days in the beginning of July and hopefully I'll have plenty of footage from that trip as well.

ACT FAST!!!

For the next week I am going to offer a discount on my rates! For the first 10 trips booked between May 24th and May 31st  I am going to take off $75 any full day trip or $50 off any half day trip! 



To make sure I am clear here are the stipulations.  I am only going to offer this discount only to the first 10 trips booked.  There are no date restrictions for the trip so it can be for any time of the year, but the date must be put in my books between the time period stated.  Also there will be some limitations on location of the trip.  Unfortunately I cannot include Door County carp trips in this special.

Also please keep checking in as I am working out some details on package/multi day discounts as well. 

MORE MAY BASS FISHING!

I've been pretty swamped lately at my day job but I have been out fishing and guiding a little bit.  About a week back I had a day trip for smallmouth bass with a client.  The fishing was slow and the water a little high which made wading to some areas difficult and the bass were in a funky mood.  spotted some nice fish hanging out shallow but couldn't manage to make them eat anything.

The local small lake I like to fish has been fishing very well.  It gets a hatch every may and june of a species of Hex which gets the panfish and bass going crazy.  Also had the frustrating experience of having a very large bass literally watch me.  Any way I'll let my pictures do the rest of my talking for me. 

Here's one of the big mayflies.

And the very nice 5-7 lb largemouth just staring at me.  Had this guy swinging around my boat for a good hour.

And one of the hand sized bluegills I've been pulling out of the lake on dry flies.

BLUEGILLS!

After seeing some friends post some pictures of bluegills up I decided it was time to step away from the river and go to a small local lake and hunt for some bluegills this morning.   Man was it the right decision!  Bluegills and bass everywhere in the shallows.  Of course I couldn't target the bass which was killing me, especially when I saw some bruisers swimming around.  I did end up getting a few smaller bass eating the small nymphs I was throwing to the gills on the 4 weight which was a blast.  Looking forward to doing this some more and come saturday we can target the bass.  Unfortunately the storms forced me off the water a little earlier then I wanted but it was fun and gave me a taste of why I made the decision to stay home this season and guide here. Here are two I-phone shots of what I was getting as far as the gills are concerned.