| Winter Steelhead is going strong 2011-2012 | ||
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Nice winter buck took me 10 yards into backing, using a six wt. 14 ft spey rod, Hardy Marquis 1(made in England), 400 grain Rio Flight, with a copper and black intruder variate that is my favorite swinging fly. As you can tell from the photo it was a typical cold winter morning, had to keep putting the rod in the water to thaw the ice out of the guides! |  |
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A couple of my fellow fishermen's nice fish |
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| First Summer Fish, a nice bright 8-9 pound fish, with a single handed 7 wt rod fly rod. |
Winter Steelhead January2012 |
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 Thirteen pound, 33 inch buck. The biggest checked by biologist in this area! 13 ft. 7wt. Ross, Hardy Bougle IV, Skagit flight 500 gr, black and copper intruder variant tied by myself. |
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Fishing big water on the Columbia River below John Day Dam. |
 Twelve minutes later,nice hard fighting fish, 9 wt, 14'9" spey rod, Sagit Flight, 100-120 foot casts depending on wind damage Ha!, red intruder/variant tied by me. |
 Zac Gomez one of my high school students, wants to be a guide. |
 "Nice bend in the 7 wt" |
 Zac's buddy Tanner Markham |
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Hooked four landed two, six pound buck and this beautiful hen, 31 inches, 11 pounds! Caught on a red/purple, intruder/variant, tied by Ion Manteanu, picture also takend by Ion. |
The water was really high, I stepped in a hole up to my arm pits and got my camera and cell phone wet! I am standing knee deep in water where I usually park. |
 First fish of the new year! |
 30 inches, pushin' 11 pounds! |
 30+ inches, wild male!Caught by my friend, Ion Manteanu. |
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 Caught 12/24, on my new/old (pre 70) Hardy Marque Salmon 2, love that noise! |
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| April Steelheading, first fish Caught by our Spey casting mentor, Ion Munteanu. | ||
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| March steelhead fishing swinging flies with a spey rod! | ||
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| March steelhead fishing swinging flies with my Crazy fishing buddy, Jerry Fitzjerald | ||
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| February steelhead fishing swinging flies with a spey rod! | ||
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Pretty darned sweet, huh! Steelhead on 7 weight flyrod, Lahotan cut on a four wt. flyrod, one of 30+3-9 pounds.!August 2009, Klickatat steelhead I caught posing with my fishing buddy, Jerry Fitzjerald.
Tom Dolan with two steelhead and a Silver Salmon, Drano Lake, August 2009. I let Tom use my boat when I left, this is three of 10 he caught with the help and direction of Skip Fowler, Skip is a great guy and primer fisherman!
| Another day on the Klickitat, August 15, 2009 Jerry Fitzhjearld, his boat, Jerry Arlington |
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| I think I finally got the hang of it, this is four of over 30+ I hooked in two days (7 wt glooms, Hardy System 9 reel. My buddy Tom Dolan after Slip Flowler taught him how to bait fish. Three day limit with over 30+ fish hooked! |
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| Yep, I have it down. I boated 16, let my little buddy, Daniel Fitzjerald, land 7 more, and his dad landed 7-8 on my flies and instructions. I hooked at least 30 but Jerry F. said it was closer to 40 because I had a fish on every time he turned around! | |
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A nice, three person, winter limit of Rainbows and Browns from Rock Lake, for the smoke house! | |||
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| SOME NICE FISH | |
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There is a new fish in Washington lakes and Streams"The Tiger Trout". Cross between a Brook Trout and a German Brown Trout. The hybred is sterile and suppose to be more aggresive than either parent.A very good fighting fish. This one is a 20" fish. Maybe our fish and wildlife did something right for a change! All my fish are released unharmed after a quick picture!
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| These are a few of the trout and steelhead that my son, Craig, myself and some friends caught. | |
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This was Craig's first time flyfishing! What an experience he had this day. This is just one of the fine rainbows that Craig caught that day, a nice fat six pound plus fish! |
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My buddy retired Colonel Tommy Brown with a couple of nice steelhead. two of 9 we caught that day. Weather conditions were terrible but we all had fun! |
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