New Video,Fly Fishing for Great Lakes Salmon

I am asked all the time do Salmon really eat flies. The answer is yes! The video shows two different methods of fishing for them. The first method is a nontraditional method using a fly rod and reel spun up with level mono/flourcarbon line.I use a clown egg(http://bestbugz.com/) with a small spilt shot depending on flow.Casting down stream and letting it drift. The second is more traditional.I use a Blue Sky Furled Leader Drifter Series leader (http://www.blueskyfly.com/) and a egg sucking leech.Casting up stream and watching the ball indicator move.

Hopefully the video helps
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A End To Epic Salmon Season

Well as you can tell by the title of the post The mass migration of the King Salmon are in the final days.There are a few fresh fish around but for the most part the river looks like a battle ground.Dead or dying fish floating and laying around the river not to mention the poor shape of the river it's self.The banks have been trampled down and litter lay around like a football stadium after a game. Sad real sad!Report from around the lake all agree this has been one of the best runs in 10 years.The size and number of fish where above average. There also has been a return of Coho Salmon this year after a 3 year delay. Brown Trout will still come in November, but nothing like the number we have seen this fall from the Kings.Well hope everyone has had a great season,it is always nice to catch up with the same guys every year and meet new ones.

Cheers to a great season!!

Nathan

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The Good,The Bad and The Ugly

The Good news is we are getting some rain as I type this. We have been without rain for awhile now and most of the rivers need some water to bring a fresh batch of fish in. The King Salmon run has already peaked and now we are on the down hill slide.We may get one more push of fresh fish next week then it will wind down to nothing by the end of the month.A few Coho and Steelhead are around as well.

The Bad news is there are dead stinky fish floating all around the river. The trash that people leave is unbelievable as well as the lack of sportsmanship.I know there are some that depend on those fish for meals,but most don't.

The Ugly, I had a run in with one of the not so sportsman today. I hooked a nice female this morning and as she made her run up river she knew right where the tree in the water was. I gave her some slack hoping she would turn back towards me. But as she got cozy under the tree I knew there would be no getting her out without tearing up my line so I straighting out the line and broke her off.My net guy walked over and confirmed she was hooked in the corner of the mouth  and was laying there recovering.Then out of no where a older guy with the silver spider (treble hook) walk over to her lying there and reached over the tree and hooked her under the belly and then put her on his stringer. I told him if he did leave the river I call the DNR warden.

Although I have seen many violations on the river, I see allot of guys doing it right. I fish with a a group of great sportsman that are very polite,good fisherman and helpfully to one anther.There will always be the ugly but I just choose to fish with the good.

George Abbott Landing First Salmon

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Great Reel for Great Lakes Salmon

Here is the fly reel I have been using this year. Can pick up line very quickly and bullet proof 3:1 gears.

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Martin Multiplier Reel

Tenkara, Japense Fly Fishing

Here a link to a day of Tenkara fishing I enjoyed with my friend Jim Hauer

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