Salty bull

Bull trout fly fishing
Bull trout fly fishing
Nice bull caught while targeting SRC.

Some pleasant bycatch while out chasing Searun Cutties.

Hatchery resident coho on the fly
Resident Coho on the fly

Salty Bull Sometimes the bycatch is just as much fun as the target.

 

 

 

Montana fish porn – ‘bow

Montana bow - Promont Outdoors and DRYFT Waders

What cha looking at son? @promontoutdoors homey Weston rocking the DRYFT Adrenalines with a nice Montana ‘bow in hand.

Montana bow - Promont Outdoors and DRYFT Waders

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Coho season

Just a few pics of a small, but bright fish from the middle of coho season here on the westside of the country. IMG_1081 facebook IMG_1088 facebook IMG_1089

Musky fishing – 5 Steps to Addiction

musky fly fishing eastern washington

Musky fishing  agenda, Step 1: learn how to cast the size huge flies needed to successfully catch a musky. Outcome: Fail.

musky fly fishing eastern washington
Paying the price in blood.

Step 2: After paying the price in blood, this low 30″ fish came out to play. Small for a musky, but still a big mean looking fish. Keep your hands away from those jaws. Outcome: Great Success! Big thanks to the Warmwater Rambler guide service for putting us on the fish.

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Small by Musky standards, bit by most anything else.
Don't bite me.
Don’t bite me

Step 3: Lose a monsterous beast with a gaping maw like an alligator. This is what the angler and the guide look like after losing a possibly 50″ fish. How was it lost? The beast bit straight through 80 pound flourocarbon. Sounds hard to believe, but it happened.

I just lost a 50 inch musky face
I just lost a 50 inch musky face

Step 4: Finally figure out how to cast without hooking your friend.

Rainstorm casting
Rainstorm casting

Step 5: On day 2, get on the water at 5:30am and touch nary a fish all day. That’s Musky fishing.  Musky fishing is hard. There is no other way to put it. And now we see how the addiction begins – always looking for that bigger, better fish.

5am
5am
Look at those teeth.
Look at those teeth. Dave, the “Warmwater Rambler” is the man.
Dixie Cup musky popper
Dixie Cup musky popper
DRYFT sticker
Getting ready.

Start of the week fish porn – big bull

Well, you have to start the week of some way. And what better way than looking at these fish porn photos of this fat bull trout that was caught and released over the weekend.

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Bull trout (dolly) fly fishing fun – Fish Porn

Winter is such a fun time to get out on the river and chase bull trout (dolly varden) and steelhead. With massive amounts of spawning, dead and dying salmon in the rivers anything resembling an egg will get slammed by the hyper aggressive and hungry bull trout, cutts, rainbows, and steelhead in the river. Our favorite way to fish this is stripping and swinging flies through likely looking holding spots – behind spawning salmon, little hiding holes, etc.

Strip, strip, strip, WHAM!

beautiful colors on late fall bull trout

bull trout snout fly fishing
Big bull trout fly fishing