MOLDY CHUM

How not to land a sailfish

Larry Zarella goes wet and wild and lands a sailfish the hard way. LINK

Greetings from Mongolia

 

Courtesy of our pal Andy Parkinson at Fish Mongolia.

 

Vintage Reef

 

It's been a while since we've swung with Ridings and Jackson.  Here's to them.

Catch Magazine Issue #3

The new issue of Catch is out as well as a new blog, welcome to the party boys. LINK

Tail End of the Year

We close out the 2008 fishing campaign with some OP trib steel. 

Minus 5 degrees on the 'horn

And Straub still manages to make me jealous.

We're Not Worthy

Rob Johnson posts up some serious dogs in his dispatch from the Fraser.  LINK (Via: This is Fly)

December Engagement Hole Goodness

Matty O and Blake gettin er done on what could pass for a summer day in metropolitan Wyoming.

A Steelhead 4-pack

While Rathbun was off on location in B.C. we took advantage of a break in the Pineapple Express to hit an OP trib with our old pal and Asheville native Lance Goodgion. Despite being a lifelong angler and Harker's Albie master, Lance had never fished for steelhead until our excursion last week.

Things did not look promising when we first arrived but the river was on the drop and we had our first steelhead to hand within 10 minutes. We went on to hook 7 or 8 more, landed four, including 2 for our rookie steelheader.

In between steelhead and Lance's 15 minute tussle with a fair hooked 20 plus pound King, we also landed a ton of beautiful Dollies

Nothing in the world quite like your first steelhead.

The Fishing Princess

The Princess sports some appropriate 2nd hand duds courtesy of the Tomine family.

Front Range Danglers

A couple of cell phone shots from our late afternoon session in Hygiene yesterday.

From 80 lb shock tippet to 6X in less than 24 hours

Forgot to post this dispatch from our fearless leader last week.

In the Week That Was. Today got the Grand Slam between the boy and me. Aidan started with a 25 lb permit at dawn on a 'live crab pattern' on a flat over in the backcountry south of Big pine,.then a pair of 90 lb tarpon a couple of hours later on the edge of Bow Channel. I got on the board with about an 80 lb fish then a four pound bone on a tan clouser. Aidan finished the day with a 60 lb poon and a real pig at about 120 pounds. Off to the Half Shell raw bar now for blackened grouper and key lime pie, and a nice margie. Tommorow we fish up the keys from the road at Missouri Key, Bahia Honda state park, and Lignumvitae, catch a 6 o clock flight to DIA and drive up to the Reef tomorrow night. Saturday float the Reef then rocket down to Delaney Butte for callis and chronis on Sunday. A fly fishing week of surf and turf....from 80 lb shock tippet to 6X in less than 24 hours. Excaliber!

The fishing on the Reef was a little weedy but the hatch was on at Delaney.

 

Feeding Time

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Island Hopper

Robert Meiswinkel releases another fat bonefish. Zapata Peninsula, Cuba. Photo: Chris Figenshau

Via:Patagonia

Thunder from Down Under

We just got a few pics of a future Reel Purist and had to share with the Chum nation.  Australia's Allistair McBurnie's shots are pretty ill to say the least.

Lord of the Flies

OC sent us this portrait of his Pan arsenal.

Welcome to Wooligans

A few choice shots I took of Apple on the Sauk this week.

Last Train to McMinnville

She flowed heavy this winter!

But was low and clear Sunday.  Too much so actually.

 

Not the Nehalem however.  Plenty of water.  And chrome.

Sauk it to me

Leatherman Tool sales mangler, David Haeberle NOT getting it done on this sweet Northwest flow.

Cast, mend, step.  Repeat.

Hello Dolly

A little bonus from the last Steelhead outing.

A Quality Fishing Area

Delaney Buttes was the destination for this year's post FFR fish fest. There are some more photos to come from the High Plains Drifter but here are a just few highlights from Sully's boat

I don't care if it rains or freezes
'Long as I got my plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my drift boat

Mikey flashes a North Lake brown.

Benecio Del Rainbow

OC slab of the month, hold of the year.

What can brown do for you.

I Finally Solved The OC Rubik's Cube!

This Is Fly - Chum Edition

Drake Take

Bennett scores big with this pic - Russian River bow (pigmy variety).

Another honey of a shot - a bit more rotund this time. 

Short film of the KP trip to be released soon.

Beam Me Up Spotty

Big Richie on the Bighorn

RJ gettin it done on the horn.

Wildwest Fly Fishng Photo Gallery

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Montage-a-google

Montage-a-google is a simple web-based app that uses Google's image search to generate a large gridded montage of images based on keywords (search terms) entered by the user. We tried it with keywords fly fishing and steelhead and got the montages above.  LINK

A Man's Best Friends

Via: Horribly Beautiful - The OC Life LINK

Goo Goo G'Joob

The OC Life - Holiday Edition

Mikey got some nice Eau De Toilet in his Christmas stocking.

The blizzard of 2006 is no match for the man truck.

The License Plates of TU

Now up to 6 galleries.  LINK

Nice shot from our favorite fly merchant

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Slablueicious

If Bluefish came as big as Stripers... They'd EAT your boat!

Remember the good old days of fly fishing?

The wicker creels, the cane rods, the topless women. 

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Photo Gallery of Macroinvertebrates of Northern California

Some tasty trout fare photos by Michelle Mahood

Up close and personal with trout fare including Caddis, Mayflies, Damselflies, Dragonflies, Stoneflies, Midges, and miscellaneous (scuds, leeches, water boatmen, and various other menu items of trout).

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