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

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



tight lines
-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

Tight lines
-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
-tyler-