Good day out.......besides the eagle

Got out yesterday for a little bit and i got into some fairly decent action,
hooked into the one fish around three pounds, and i had it within about 4ft of the boat when i heard a swooping noise and then a flash of brown and white, that was followed by a zinging reel and a few choice words, i will say it was a freaking strong run

After that i hooked into one more fish that was arounde 5 lbs(even after a long fight it made a fast recovery), caught it on a olive clouser minnow, and the first fish on a stickle back,

pics:

fish #1 and eagle (i had to crop so thats why the pic quality sucks)


the fish


close up




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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










tight lines
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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
tight lines

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