resolutions

Resolutions: a commitment that a person makes to one or more lasting personal goals, projects, or the reforming of a habit. With every year that passes, people all around the world make resolutions for change. It’s almost a call to action to set out and make this next year better then the past. I have never been a big fan of these “new year’s resolutions”. I have always thought if there’s something...

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black prince

Noted as one of the worlds oldest steelhead flies, originating from the Umpqua River System. thread- black tail- red hackle rib- tinsel body-    rear- 1/3 yellow wool    front- 2/3 black wool wing- black bear hackle- black...

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a cool salmon sketch

turned this photo into a sketch I think I could have cleaned the edges up a little better but I think you get the point... Here's the youtube video I followed- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cODco0Ew...

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early winter harbor trout

early winter milwaukee harbor steelhead It’s a pretty simple equation, the longer we go without cold enough weather to create any ice, the longer we can take advantage of the open water harbor fishing opportunities. Some anglers like Damien have been hanging around Southeast Wisconsin’s harbors all fall. On a bad day you might not get a single bite or maybe just a few. On a good day harbor fishing...

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estaz egg

It is a super simple tie for anyone and its deadly. This is our go to egg pattern, works especially well in stained or cloudy water. hook- size 8 mustad egg hook body- med chenille in pink, chartreuse, or orange are most popular tail- few strands of yarn ...

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an icy milwaukee river

Made it out to the Milwaukee River this weekend. Flows were perfect but the ice and slush being washed down the river certainly made fly fishing tough. The good pools were covered in slush and completely unfishable. The faster runs kept the water churned up enough to not collect the slush like the big pools. My fly always seemed to get caught on a piece of ice and never could make it down to bottom....

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a mid november recap

salmon bones - all that is left from the run I don't find myself having to play catch up here on my blog very often, well actually ever. This past November was of course filled with lots of hard work at the office, time with friends and family, Thanksgiving, black Friday shopping, launching a new website, and of course fishing. Despite all the things that go on in my sheltered little corner of...

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brown trout watercolor

Neal and I fished the Root River this weekend. It was cold and wet the entire day but we did manage to capitalize on our only bite. Neal was flinging some spawn on his fly rod in Lincoln Park, just barely bouncing bottom when this fish decided to take him for a ride. brown trout watercolor  I did my photo editing with gimp following this tutorial-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG5abY2NRKo I...

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Root River Brown Trout

This was some footage from last weekends fishing outing. We found a pod of fish sitting in a very tough pool to get a fly into. Two very nice males were moving in and out of the pool with on giant female holding down the gravel. We must have lost about 15 flies to the branches that over hung that pool. Neal actually hooked this male from upstream just floating the fly repeatedly back into the pool. So did we end up hooking that female? Sure did, after 3 hours of working her. She...

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