Halibut on the Fly!

Hooked up!

Nick Jackson with a Tennis Racket on the Clouser

Catch and Release

One Clouser tied on a 4/0 hook and fished on a type 7 sinking head kept up with the jigs in 70 ft of water. The 10wt picked up 7 Halibut and some Cod that afternoon in Halo Bay, Alaska.

Calypso

I was fortunate to go to Halo Bay and do some Halibut fishing on my day off. Capt. Justin Harris put us on the fish less then 5 minutes from where we keep our boats. This was also the location of Grizzly Man Tim Treadwell's demise, who was killed by an Alaskan Brown Bear a few years back.

I tried fly fishing with my 10 wt. and a type 7 sinking head but was foiled by the 60-80 ft depths we were fishing in. I was able to throw at a couple of rolling Kings but they were never concentrated on bait so it made their whereabouts a mystery. Jigging splittails and Salmon bellies proved to be the ticket.

We caught a variety of species and saw numerous bears. I only wished we could have been fishing in a more shallow area because the fly rod and a clouser would have reigned supreme. I had a gear rod go flying out of my hands on a small ling cod shortly after lunch. Later on we made another drift and ended up hooking the rod with the fish still attached! I should have bought a lottery ticket that afternoon.

Newhalen River, AK

Work On Upper Talarik - Fishing Smolt patterns for Lake Iliamna Rainbows

After Work - Fishing Streamers on the Newhalen untill 12 am

May = East Coast Stripers + Summer Steelhead(z)

Summer Steelhead 2010

West End Bahamas

Tracy with a toad Black fin Tuna. We hammered Blackfins' in the late afternoons slow trolling cedar plugs and squid hoochies. This was also a chance to get a shot at fish with baitfish patterns on a 10 or 12 wt.


Black Fin Tuna - caught on a 10wt fly rod




Cubera Snapper caught on my steelhead Rod.

Jacks

Horse Eye Jack

A Bull Shark that dumped 300+ yards of braid off, a Saragosa 1800 in one run. This was caught on a live Blue Runner, free-lined into the darkness of night, and fished on a burly 6' spinning rod. Blue Runner's are a good fight on a 6wt and are an even better live bait for large predatory species.

Jesse caught this Cero Mackeral on a Scott S4S 10wt. and a bent back deciever with Airflo's Quick Max line. These things smoke!

Swimming with Los Delphines

Who Say's Winter Steelheading is over?

Rogue Canyon in March

Spring Trout in Eugene