Fishing

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Paul Mugo, owner of the Kenya Tyeing Flies Company, has sent me yet another amazing collection of his handmade flies. If you haven’t seen his work before you should definitely check out the two previous galleries of his fantastic flies. I will be putting these flies to the test next weekend as I try to catch my first Brook Trout on the fly in Algonquin Park. Wish me luck! See more fantastic handmade flies from Kenya by Paul Mugo

I had the opportunity to float the Jordan River three consecutive days early in the week. The temps were pleasant,in the mid seventies. The water level was average, finally getting back to the normal flow after a rather wet and lengthy springtime monsoon. Water temps are still very chilly, especially on the Jordan and the headwaters of many small trout streams. Lower reaches were around 12 and 14 celsius and the preferred brookie water remains steady at 9 degrees Celsius. Even with a gentle warning from Scott at Jordan Valley Outfitter about a down cedar tangle, we ventured the lower half of the river from Webster Bridge to Rogers Road. The cedar proved to be a worthy opponent as it was now more than six inches above the water line. Perhaps the river levels the week prior would have made the passage much easier when the river was flowing a couple hundred cfs more. Looking forward to working that section more this season as there is sufficient LWD for many trout hotels to offer cover from overhead predators. My early floats last week saw only a few Hendricksons, as it got closer to the weekend, the first ‘big’ mayfly of the year began a steady pouring off the rivers. We saw fish splashing, and upon further investigation caught multiple rainbows all in the ’smelt’ size class. All in all, we caught over 40″ of fish, if you added all those little guys up. Feeder fish>We sat on one decent feeder, and apparently he was not ready to be exposed for any portraits. The early fish can be very easily spooked. I am looking forward to the first weeks of June to provide some drakes and the eager anticipation of the big ‘Fish Fly’. Full moon on Saturday of Memorial Weekend with some of the coolest late spring temperatures should prove beneficial for all the walleye guys. No matter what you do, you won’t know if the fish are biting if you are sitting on the couch watching re-runs. Hope to see you on the water. Tight Lines, TNT

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We’ve not exactly been swamped with guesses to our When Will Runoff End? contest. C’mon folks, don’t let RK take the salmonflies without a fight!

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While up in the Catskills last weekend I was able to spend some time on the water with Shawn Combs of Orvis on both the Beaverkill River and Delaware River. We had a great time both wading and drifting those rivers. As someone who grew up fly fishing spring mayfly hatches in northern Michigan, it was neat to do it from the Catskills perspective on this trip. A few things we learned (some the hard way) over the weekend were... 1. You don't always have to travel very far to find good water as we checked into The Rockland House, geared up, and walked to the river through the field from our room to find rising trout to a couple of different mayflies.2. Stay until after dark. Both nights we were out we were rewarded with dry fly rises long after we could see our flies dancing on the water.3. Lordville is a freaky little hamlet. Ghosts clearly live there.4. Don't take float route advise from people who only wade fish a river. Our Deleware River float was screwed up ten different ways but we still bumped a couple trout, and a surprise smallmouth as well, though we had to push through A LOT of dead water. In the rain.5. My casting with little dry flies and long leaders to picky fish clearly needs work. I need more practice. Special thanks to Shawn for making the trip over from Vermont and bringing his badass wooden drifter with him. Shawn is good people with a lot of interesting and innovative gear ideas that I think we'll see over the next couple years coming out of Orvis. Oh yeah...and we may or may not have fished most of the weekend with prototype fiberglass fly rods that he brought along from the shop. Hypothetically...if he did...they all cast very nice...especially the four weight.Subscribe in a reader