Posted in Fishing Trips, tagged Click Pawl, Clicker Reels, Fly Fishing, Hardy Marquis Salmon #2, Hardy Reels, Modern Reels, Sealed Drag, spey casting, Spey fishing, Spey Rods, Vintage Reels on November 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
With winter comes yet another drastic change. It’s only November and the temperature outside reads 4 degrees above zero. Now is the perfect time to regroup and reflect on this and past fly fishing seasons.
A good friend, RP (The Big Pull), introduced me to spey fishing a few years back along with an initial warning about its addictive nature. At the [...]
Posted in Fishing Trips, tagged 6126, 7110, cataraft, char, dolly vardon, Father & son fishing, float, Fly Fishing, pop-up camper, Rainbow Trout, Sockeye Salmon, Spey fishing, spey rod, switch rod on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our annual July float trip is in the books and it was grins all around. We ate like kings, swung spey and switch rods for 2 days and enjoyed stretching out in B’s new camper. The fishing was tough with abnormally high water from glacier melt-off. Fortunately, the dollies made up for the absence of trout.
The fishing felt like fall [...]
Posted in Fishing Trips, tagged Atlantic salmon, Fly Fishing, Kola Peninsula, Russia, spey casting, Spey fishing, The Big Pull, Yokanga River on July 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am headed for an adventure myself this weekend of which I will post next week. Until then, here is a snippet from RP’s latest and to-date the greatest blog post ever. Read the full post below:
…I got off my rock and gave chase as quickly as I could, which was not quick. The fish was [...]
Posted in Fishing Trips, tagged Atlantic salmon, Kola Peninsula, Ponoi River, Russia, Salmonoids, skated dries, skating dry flies, Spey fishing, The Big Pull, The Fly Shop on July 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Check out Ryan P’s latest posts fishing for Atlantic Salmon bankside on the Ponoi, Kola Peninsula:
Amid a stark, powerful riverscape, we casted and caught many fresh summer run Ponoi Atlantic salmon. After catching and releasing two small bright fish on consecutive casts, I made a third cast that swung a double-hooked Cascade through the same [...]
Posted in Fishing Trips, TSPEY'S FAVES, tagged Alaska, Anglo American, Bristol Bay, Dry fly fishing, Fly Fishing, Northern Dynasty, Open Pit Mining, Pebble Mine, Pebble Partnership, Rainbow Trout, small river, Sockeye Salmon on June 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The re-opener was an epic display of old-time Alaska. Thousands of black-gray backs of schooled salmon in packs of 30 to 50 as far as the next bend. Fortunately, there were still trout to be had via the properly waked dry in-between the intermittent upstream rushes of first run sockeye.
The salmon run is the earliest and by [...]
Posted in Fishing Trips, TSPEY'S FAVES, tagged Alaska trout, favorite stream, Fly Fishing, home water, rainbow trout fishing on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Every year, the culmination leading up to the yearly trout re-opener is a flashback to my childhood and its ’are we there yet’ days of family fishing trips. My family went fishing every year for as far back as I can remember. Fittingly, my July birthday was celebrated each year in either a tent or camper next to the [...]
Posted in Fishing Trips, tagged Anchorage, chinook salmon, Urban king salmon fishing on June 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
With another small creek spring season under our wading belts our gears shift from miniatures to monsters. The jump from 5-12″ creek trout to Alaskan king salmon sounds like a rediculous transition but this is where D and I found ourselves last Friday with heavier spey rods in hand.
This local flow sits in the heart of downtown Anchorage and gets [...]
Posted in Fishing Trips, TSPEY'S FAVES, tagged Creek fishing, small streams on May 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The month of May for many Alaska fly-fishers is a difficult one. The main local flows are closed due to the spring rainbow trout spawn. Patiently waiting for 6 months of winter to pass takes it toll on normal folk. Just think of the effect that this forced hibernation has on obsessed fly-fishers. Sure, we tie flies and re-watch fly-fishing and [...]
Posted in Fishing Trips, TSPEY'S FAVES, tagged bears, Coyote, Fly Fishing, Hand tied flies, Lynx, Moose, Perry poke, Skagit casting, Snowshoe hare, spey casting, Spey fishing, Spring, trumpeter swans on May 6, 2009 | 4 Comments »
It’s spring in Alaska. Just like that, the snow is gone on the lowlands. As seasons go, spring and fall are short windows that disappear as soon as they reveal their offerings. This spring however has started off early and remarkably well. The multiple temps in the 60’s match last summer’s warmest few days.
As with [...]
