2010 Opener

Well hit my local creek for opener once again as it has always produced for me in the past. I knew fishing conditions would be a bit tough with low water levels and clarity of water so I headed down early to my favourite hole and I rigged up at home with indicator but decided to switch it up after a few drifts in the dark to a sink tip and streamer.

So I put on the 5.6ips 7ft sink tip, line with 6lb ultra green with a green conehead zuddler and made a few casts than wham!!! With a furious hit almost taking my fly rod out of my hand I knew I had a steelie on. Taking line a few times and trying to get me into the rapids I finally landed a nice hen.
After that I decided to head closer to the dam and yeah lots of people but then my other favourite drift was available and on the first cast with this fly wham a nice buck leaped out of the air and the battle lasted well not very long as my leader snapped. I think I missed a fray or nick in the line but still was an awesome day on my home waters.

Here are the pics from opener:

Scouting the Rivers

Headed out today to scout some of the rivers I will be fishing for the up and coming opener in 7 days and seen some monster steelies spawning.A couple were close to the 15 pd range. Just an awesome sight to see and watch. Can't wait until I can get the fly rod out and hit the rivers.

The best part was watching these beasts, but overall was not seeing signs of fisherman on the banks at all. A great sign to make sure our fisheries stay healthy with runs of steelhead.

Here are some shots:





Here are the videos that I took just short ones so they upload quicker to the net.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EegmgmkqgBw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAKhI2-9moI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06v9nIap3w8

cheers,

MW

RIO MOW Skagit Tips

Rio has hit another standard coming up with these new skagit tips. They are based on a floating portion and with a sinking portion on each tip. Each varying in different lengths of float to sink.

I think this will be a great improvement for getting down quicker when your fly first hits the water. Here is a video showing all the tips.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsQyFjbCpjk

Tips will be available September of this year.

cheers,
MW

Randy's B-day on The Geen

Well what a day it was celebrating my good friends b-day fishing, with a bunch of friends, some stogies, cold ones and very tasty bbq burgers. I don't think there is any other way to do it than swinging on The Geen.

Even though the river was jammed packed with 200 ppl at least. Hence being on a good friday weekend. It was still a blast, plus the afternoon most anglers headed home early as it was a tough day of fishing. Lots of suckers being caught though, haha. But still great to feel that tug at the end of a swing.

Water temps in the river are above normal and the sun filled skies made the day a tough one that is for sure. But great friends, a beautiful river and a celebration made the day a great one.

Here are some pics from the day: