My first Steelhead

Got over to the island for 2 days to fish with Courtney, of Nile creek fly shop, and got to hit up a nice river in the back country in the two days i got the one steelhead, and he got 2, all beautiful fish. The weather was a little on the ugly side, but not to bad, the second day we were greeted by a fair bit of snow, i caught mine on a pink tubeolgy fly, and court got his on a black tube leach with an orange head
Heres the pics










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On the tube

Got out today for a bit on a local lake where the kokanee are spawning.
Caught one nice cutty of about three pounds, on a basic burgandy, red and purple rabbit strip and marabou tube fly(will do a vid of it later)
The sun was shinin and i had nothing to complain aboutTight lines
-tyler-

First Chum on the new rod

Finaly got out today to hit up some salmon,
got to the estuary at almost exactly low tide, and fished for a few hours, had a couple hook ups, and landed this one.

It fought well after it realized it was hooked, and im suprised i landed it with the one wind know i had in my leader, that i discovered after it

The fly used was a pink california neal, aka coho bugger.

Extended llama

body: Pearl mylar tubing
underwing: white llama
wing: olive llama
overwing: peacock angel hair
head: prismatic eyes covered with thin clear cure goo

Kokanee Time

Its that time again, the kokanee are starting to spawn, and soon the cutties should be feeding on them heavy, we walked a river between two lakes yesterday, saw lots of kokanee but not alot of trout yet, besides the two dead ones we pulled out, Cod? we have no clue, they looked like perfectly healthy fish to me. not a mark on them, from improper handeling or a predator, Im thinking it may have choked on a kokanee
Here's some pics of the dead one, and some vid of the kokanee
This one Measured in at 21.5 inches and guesstimated 3 pound, just a note, we found it laying in the river, but for pictures sake we hauled it out, The other one we saw was around 16" and it had looked like it had been there a while longer.

There's the vid on the kokanee getting ready to spawn
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Newest Build

So, not gunna lie, i was pretty happy with my first beulah, so it got me thinkin, i kinda could use a nice fast action rod for fishing the salt for coho, springs, and chum. After some thought debating between building there switch or surf rod, i went with the surf rod, and man, does it shoot line
Here are the pic, hope you enjoy, i sure know im going to. The 11' 8/9 weight rocket stick, i mean surf rod

Wulfin it

I got out for a bit on saturday and hit some pretty decent dry fly fishing at one of the local rivers, the fish were all over my royal wulff. The river was quite high so i couldnt wade it, so we had to tie to a log jam and i fished akwardly downstream to the fish, here's some video footage of the most acrobatic rise we got on film



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-tyler-

Sea Run Cutties

Well, its that time of year again, time to capitalize on the great sea run fishing
In total today i landed 4 fish, all in about the 1 pound range, and they were scrapy little fish.
The fish were taken all on the incoming tide, on a size 6 epoxy minnow substituting olive marabou for the mallard. Right when slack tide hit, the bite was off, and unfortunately i didn't get to fish the flood

Here's a few pics and a vid of today's outing The view Nice silver cutthroat

And a short shaky video clip of one of them

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-tyler-

My first build

hey folks,
here's my first build, built on a Beulah 8'6" 4wt guide series blank, and with the theme being gold.
Rod building is definitely gunna feed my fly fishing addiction, plus its more rods for me :P
here's the pics
Hope you all like, i just casted it in my back yard and boy do i
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Rough start

Well, today was one of those days that basically no matter what i did, i did it wrong. I did catch fish but it took me a solid hour before i even got my fly on the water. First off, some how my line pulled its self through the frame causing a giant loop that i couldn't get back in, so i had to take the spool off. Sounds easy eh? well not when your reel decides not cooperate. I ended up resorting to my teeth to bite on the lever hard enough that it would release, and just wait that's not it. As i pull off the spool alot of my line falls of the spool( and no not from the end of it, just in giant loops). So i start to try and untangle this godzilla rats nest, and after about 15 minutes i was about ready to throw that reel over the side of the boat. but i restrained myself from that and just decided to switch reels and use my 8wt full sink line on my 6wt( boy casting was sure interesting). After the rod was re threaded it was about an hour after we launched. But even after that i managed to catch fish, 5 to be exact, nothing huge, but a fish is a fish. So at the end of the day i have to say it was definitely more an exercise in patience than a good fishing session.
As we speak that reel sits in my basement, in a giant mess, and i can honestly say i don't plan on untangling it any time soon. Looks like ill be sticking to the floating line for the next while.

To come: The picture's of my soon to be completed fly rod. It is the first fly rod i've built and is on a beulah 8' 6'' 4wt guide series rod
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-tyler-

Cutthroat Flats

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh46VvkzSHs

So FINALLY i got into some good fishing, i've had minimal success so far this year but it looks like the fishings starting to heat up
this video is of a place i like to call the flats, that is in a lake that shall remain nameless for the sake of its fishy inhabitants
For some strange reason, no matter what we threw at them, whether it the deadly khartoum killer, or a small intruder, they would only take an olive wolly bugger, but not any plain old bugger, these ones were tied with a orangy-olive tail, leach yarn body, and a pretty heavily hackled body of olive grizzly hackle( not quite dry fly hackle, but pretty dam close), that gave it quite the silhouette
I hope you all enjoy this video, it shows my friend cory catching his first fish on the fly
sorry in advance for the shakiness of hand cause we didnt have the tripod with us
tight lines until next time
-tyler-