These fierce predators gobble flies with gusto, providing anglers great fun catching lots of big fish think twenty pounds and up! Toothy Critters Love Flies: Fly-fishing for Pike and Musky. Toothy Critters Love Flies brings a new world to both the amateur and experienced fly-fisher. Toothy Critters gives neophyte and experienced fly-fishers the most complete information he needs to catch Toothy Critters on flies.
It also provides something new: Twenty years of experience taught the author some of what others espouse regarding tackle and flies might be flawed. He tells the reader why and describe what he believes are the best flies This book will provide all you need to be an expert in this exciting sport George started fishing at the age of ten, from their summer home at PawPaw Lake, Michigan.
Autumn is the best time of the year. It is not only the most beautiful part of the year but also the most productive for fly fishing!. I like this cold frequently changing weather a lot with its fast fading days. Cold hands during the day and a hot shower in the evening after a successful day. The time has come for the best dry fly fishing. Its a bit more challenging because the water temperatures highly influence the activity of the fish during the day but it is for me this the most rewarding fly fishing of the entire year.
This time I thought it might be worth to check out the 10 common mistakes you can do when fly fishing for pike. Fishing and catching fish is always a bit of luck but nonetheless here are my lessons learnt that made me a better and more effective fly fisherman. And of course they can be also applied in other fish species. I hope they will help you too. A year ago I got a new tool I was hoping that it will revolutionize my fly fishing. I will tell you later. The opposite of fly fishing for big fish in big rivers??? Ever heard about that fish?
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Its not a baby trout that has been born recently. One more epic fish. The reef is a place where a human being is just a wrongly placed intruder. Humans were not born to go there! So the ideal condition for a funny day fishing out there: I guess you are excited to see how the story continues?
Flat fishing on Anaa.
My fourth saltwater trip took me to French Polynesia respectively Anaa. I spent there 5 weeks with one week purely fishing on Anaa. It was my hardest fight I have ever had. And I mean this in many ways. South pacific is calling. Finally I got the fish I was waiting for.. I went out for fly fishing and found once more the pure beauty of fly fishing in spring.
A new season has begun! The day has come every fly fishing in Austria was waiting for. Two months of waiting are over. Austria is deep frozen! Snowzilla has reached the land of the alps. Fishing is entirely impossible. A land deep frozen. Welcome to my third pike fly collection. Fly fishing for pike. I was motivated to create me a new pattern that is big enough with a fairly good silhouette and easy to cast for longer distances. A year in a review. The season is ending and not because of the ending year. The last chance to catch some nice pikes. How would it be with catching fish?
Sooner or later you end up with the thoughts that there could be more. An epochal end of ! There is one thing that is the highlight of a fly fishing year. It is the late fall with all its colors, the dropping temperatures and the hungry pikes that want to feed up for winter. A year past and as every year it was time for some serious pike fly fishing.
Those guys should have been better gone fishing than killing people. The prime time is now! Is that the new book of books about pike fly fishing? Chances you have to use. And this weekend I had the chance to fish a completely new water. As bad as now it never was! The pike fishing is a drama. The days are getting shorter and the season change is approaching. The pike fishing is around the corner but first I decided to stick to the salmonids. Right now the time has come to fish on beautiful graylings. The gorge is my gym.
The summer is hot, the streams are cold and the fish are rising. The best comes at last. The key to a successful fishing trip!! But what if all got away?. What todo on thousands of islands. Is this the start of a new love? This is a shark on the fly story. All I wanted was to catch a big tarpon.
In fact the tarpons were it why I came to Los Roques. The Tackle What to bring to Los Roques? With my guideline you will be prepared for any kind of fishery in the summer months of Los Roques. Bonefish I guess it is one of the few fish out there that make you addicted with just one fish caught. That fish is everything else than boring. This is the experience every fly fisherman has to experience. There are many reasons to come to Los Roques! But for some reason I can remember only one. And that reason has fins. It started with an idea. Everything I wanted was to have a inexpensive vacation in combination with a superfine saltwater fishing.
After Aitutaki the bar was set very high. In the end it came all better than I ever dreamt. I had a good reason for being silent. When the grayling is king, the brown trout is emperor in Austrians crystal clear waters. There is something new, upcoming this spring. After my trip to Aitutaki last year it will be hard for every location to compete. Las Salines is the most lonely place on Cuba except maybe Guantanamo bay. But else than Guantanamo bay, Las Salinas is really a nature jewel. An untouched nature reserve forbidden to enter except maybe for fly fishing.
And here the story begins. What about DIY fishing.
Is this something that could be interesting for you? Apart from highly paid guides with years of experience? Going fishing on your own. Success or failure depends on you. What todo on the crocodile island. It was in when I thought a real boat is the only way of comfortably fly fishing on still water. Only a year later, I realized how wrong I was. Thanks to a good friend I made my first belly boat experience with an Outcast.
And on the same day I called my fly fishing dealer to order my own one. An Outcast Super Fat Cat. The tackle Do you want to be perfectly equipped for Cuba? This chapter will explain the main thoughts behind the gear I have used for all kind of fly fishing in Las Salinas and Rio Hatiguanico.
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A bare-knuckle fight with one of the strongest fish to hunt with a fly rod. Cuba Special Hola Amigos!!!! This story tells about my very first saltwater fly fishing experience back in Welcome to my second pike fly collection. The pattern you see below is not completely new but they are all variants of my all time best working flies. Yesterday was the last fishing day for this season before all kind of predatory fish are protected for recreation and spawning.
It was my last change for pike before a 3 months fishing break. The first days in January went by in the hurry of work and even more work. A calm day out for fishing brought back the silence and concentration out in the nature, me, my fly rod and a irresistible fly. No compromise is my motto when it comes for fly fishing. That was long time a dream of my and it came true! What is better than a day out for fishing? Hangover fishing after Christmas.
After more than enough Christmas here, and Christmas there it was time to head out for a peaceful days in the wild, fishing, alone!!! A day, just me and my finny pals. Sunday morning and I woke up with the sound of raindrops on my window board. Old habits die hard! Hungry for fly fishing I returned back to a water I explored last winter: This is the story about trying something new. Last week I tried out fishing a complete new location. A branch of a river that is know to its healthy population of northern pikes.
I heard from this water already a few months ago but never had time to find try it it out. It is an exclusive piece of nature.
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Even you have to register to a queue when fishing a single day. Its name… Stempfelbach I was really excited whether it was worth the effort. Wading through 4 feet of freezing cold water, stuck knee deep in mud, blistering cold fingers and constantly blowing wind,… fly fishing for northern pikes. The mission for our last day, catching pikes as we never did ever before!
Back to the forbidden! A spot, where just the way to get there let your heartbeat raising. The most important thing when fishing there. The time has come to offer a fishing more exciting than ever before. The story tells about a group pikes that were after a swarm of baitfish. There are days that offer a superb fishing, a great experience. Within this chapter I want to tell you what are the real musts and what can be skipped. And in case you likes what I have showed so far and you are ready to start into your own adventure let me explain what you should bring along with you.
Day 2 of our trip and we wanted to do the ultimate fishing day on a spot that is well known but unexplored because,…. Can you imagine wading a quarter mile out from shore, sand to muddy ground with a lot of water plants. You wade through deep water till it you reach a drop off, the place to fish for northern pike. Nothing for the faint hearted. The sun rises over the endless reed beds that are softly blowing in the slight morning breeze. The water is calm and crystal clear. Some small baitfish are swimming around your feed when you wade slowly through the water.
Everything seems to be peaceful. But appearance are deceptive……. There is something in the water with bad intention. This is the moment when you focus your attention to just on one thing. Strip line off your reel, lift the rod and cast the your fly. All your senses told you where to cast, you can feel it. You start stripping, 1, 2, 3, 4, a jerk in your line….
It had to happen and has happened!! The last two years were a hell of a fun with a partially unbelievable good fishery. With the cooling water temperature the big pikes migrate from the open Baltic sea into the archipelago. They can now be found in the deeper water areas and wholes. The journey begins…… now.. Saturday, … and we had different things in mind. Actually we planned explore something completely new, fish the weekend in hungary on the lake Theiss. Thanks god its Friday!. After a hard week at work I thought the time came to use the last hour daylight for some after work pikes.
Now with the early sunset the fishery has to become very effective. There is no time for some experiments. But not too long ago I went with my mate Stefan for some serious trout fishing on a warmer authum day. What should I say. Pure dry fly heaven follows, now! Sunday, again out for fishing on our recently discovered lake. This time together with my mate Mario.
Although he is more addicted to spin fishing we tried our luck with the fly rod. The fly fishing on that lake has its up and downs. Recently more downs but the hope never dies. This Saturday once more it attracted me for some pike fishing in the hope to continue with the excellent fishing I had the last two weeks. When I saw the sun raising in the morning and the first sunbeams shining into my face then nothing could stopped me.
Now in spring the chance is high to draw them out. Now see what happened. Synthetics are in some situations unbeatable and especially big ones offer a great shape under the water and also create lot of pressure under the water that can be recognized by the pikes lateral organ even in the murkiest water conditions. And never forget the visual imprint! Fishing with two buddies, nice weather, a lot of pikes, and a real big fish. The rest was just pure fly fishing fun for pikes. Need a fly reel for pike fly fishing? More a must have then a need to have.
Seriously you need a fly reel and I will tell you which one is the right one. Last Sunday, beautiful weather and I went out for fly fishing. Since a the last weeks the weather calmed down and the sun came out. This will be my day. The idea was to fish the whole day from sunrise to sunset. And with the nice weather hopefully the pikes will be in good mood. Work, work and again work.
I wish I could go more for fishing. Its Tuesday and somehow I was able to made it for a quick hour fishing to my new lake. This are the hours that can change a hectic business day to a successful and enjoyable fishing day. Back for some pike fly fishing with my buddy Mario. And the competition was on, who will catch the most pikes?.
The spin fishing guy or me with fly fishing. Last Sunday afternoon I went with a friend, Mario, out for trying out a new lake in the surroundings of Vienna. It says, the pure paradise for pike fly fishing. Nobody there is fishing for pike, just a few carp fisherman. Virgin pikes that have never seen a fly before. Some new tasty pike flies for toothy pikes out there. This one has been tied with a bunch of natural materials like ostrich hearl, icelandic sheep, marabou feathers and given a mix of flashabou fibre for some attraction in the water.
The trick of this fly is ….. What is the perfect fly rod for pike fly fishing? Do you thing there is an all satisfying answer on this? Asking this question to 10 different people you can be sure to get some different answers. I rarely came across somebody who recommended differently. Once more I tried my luck, very early in the morning. The water, a real jewel in the middle of a metropolitan city.
It offers so much to me. Recreation, Regeneration, and fun. And it holds the biggest pikes you can imagine. Pikes above the Inch class. Every year many of those big giant pikes are caught. In this sense, Philipp and me went out, last Saturday, for some pike fishing in the hope that with the rising autumn the bigger pikes get hungry, leaving behind the pikes kindergarten. With the first sunbeams we were on the water. The water and the atmosphere looked so promising. But did left the pike babies behind us? Since long time I made it yesterday to the water for some pike fishing. Although I blogged the last couple of months about dreamy saltwater fishery, I still love my pikes.
It is a different fishery but still fascinating. Just made it for 2 hours to the water to a lake directly in the city, shutting down from stressful working day. You might know the situation that you have to get your fly down very fast. The fish is swimming deep, you fight against current or the there is no time to wait till an intermediate line sinks. This is the metier of the RIO Leviathan 26ft sinking fly lines. They are designed to close the gap where intermediate fly lines are too slow sinking essential when you want to fish deeper waters.
They already saved my Cuban trip when I fished there for Tarpon in the river Rio Hatiguanico and on Aitutaki I used them for smaller trevallies in the partially milky lagoon water. A fly line that is made for ultra long casts. A line that loads modern super fast fly rods easily. A line that cast exceptionally easy even at the strongest wind.
The line of your choice if you want to cut through the wind like the hot knife cuts through the butter. On Aitutaki I was phased exactly this situation. The water was deeper than on the usual flats. Fishing with floating lines would have been much more difficult getting the fly down fast and keeping it down. At least those on Aitutaki were very sensitive on too much fly movement. Big dumbbell eyes would also work but they also make a big signal when they hit the water.
It must be powerful to transport big bulky flies easily out, preferably up to the horizon. And it should have a strong core that gives you a reserve to land the fish even if he tries to cut you off on a coral. The conclusion What should I say now. I hope, with all my pictures I was able to convey you the beauty and the fascination of the south pacific.
It is truly an unbelievable beautiful place on great planet earth and I am really proud to have visited it in my life. All the money I have spent for it, all the worries I survived, all the troubles lay behind, what is left is the memory of the journey of a lifetime. You have to see it before you believe it. What you have seen is just a snapshot of it. The last day We are now at the end of my Aitutaki fishing journey. It says you should finish when it is the best so I wanted this feeling when leaving Aitutaki. I had this already once at Cuba, fishing for Tarpon.
So I went for it and caught an even bigger Tarpon on the extra day. A big fish on the last day makes a trip totally perfect. So see what happened on Day 8 at Aitutaki. Day 7 The day I was waiting for the whole trip. The day started as usually with a call from Itu what and where to fish. Itu said something like that the conditions were rough but possible to went outside of the reef.
We agreed to went outside of the reef to fish for tuna and mahi mahi. Screaming reel and fresh sushi with soy sauce were already in my mind but it came completely different. Blue Water Fishing There is another very interesting kind of fishing you can do at Aitutaki.
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Far aside of the blue lagoon, outside of the reef Aitutaki offers a paradise for blue water fishery for a big variety of fish. If you want to fish for yellowfin tuna, no problem. Caught fish are regularly reported. Day 6 We are coming to the sixth guided fishing day.
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Else than the more or less poor last day, this day should be again like Day 4 with a lot of big fish. Not because I thought Itu is better than Rua. OK, now it starts. They were pretty hectic because they have seen something…. For DIY fishing Aitutaki offers a big spectrum of possibilities depending where you stay. I can fully recommend Ootu Beach, close to the Airport. The advantage there is that you have 3 very good flats directly infront of your house and the reef directly in the back.