For John Scott, SlughFoot, Mike Thomas , Jeff Hamm

[flyfishfairwx]

Got out fishing today with my friend, Andy, and the three amigo's
Fischer, Thor, and Bruno..

I have no idea what type he is but he is (was) a nice size.




Somebody's oopsssss


that last step is a doosy


Andy's first winter fly fishing fish, he also caught his second a nice CutBow. Of course the inspectors had to check it out.Fischer was out collecting Firewood again


My two fish of the day




No flowers to take pictures of so this will have to do!

Note: that is the way I like to handle fish in the winter, Don't take them out of the water any more then to get the hook out, not on rocks,logs,ice shelves etc.. I don't think I have seen bad fishing handling on this BB.
I will be posting this on other BBs that I have seen this happen, not a good way to treat the resource..

[rookie]

It sure does resemble the head of a snake fish but I don't think they can sustain that cold of a temperature. Very nice photos.

[JohnScott]

Ray -

That is some gnarly thing. Wonder how ugly it was when it was ALIVE ??

Great pics of the doggies and the fishies. Open water with trouts that eat flies in January in Alberta !! Nicely done.

John

[flyfishfairwx]

Ray -

That is some gnarly thing. Wonder how ugly it was when it was ALIVE ??

Great pics of the doggies and the fishies. Open water with trouts that eat flies in January in Alberta !! Nicely done.

John

thought you might like that.. threw the PSC for a while but they wanted something a bit bigger, greedy bow.. caught a nice Bull trout just up stream from there last time...

[JohnScott]

thought you might like that.. threw the PSC for a while but they wanted something a bit bigger, greedy bow.. caught a nice Bull trout just up stream from there last time...

Yeah - I checked, best I could, and concluded that that was not a PSC playing with your fishies. But thanks for the thought.

[JeffHamm]

That first one looks like it needs to put on condition! Nice looking catches through the ice.

- Jeff

[stcroixguy]

Love your C&R technique. I prefur they shake themselves off the hook right at my feet and zip away.

The pics some post on here, fingers through the gill plate, blood running down the fish's sides, or clubbed over the head in the bottom of a boat realy turn me off.

SCG

[JeffHamm]

Hi flyfishfairwx,

"Through the ice" was a poor choice of words on my part. Do you find streamers are the most productive patterns for the winter fish? I would think most insect activity would be nil, apart from midges. Any luck with things like Butchers, or Alexandrias?

- Jeff

[flyfishfairwx]

Hi flyfishfairwx,

"Through the ice" was a poor choice of words on my part. Do you find streamers are the most productive patterns for the winter fish? I would think most insect activity would be nil, apart from midges. Any luck with things like Butchers, or Alexandrias?

- Jeff

Hi Jeff.

Ok I thought that after I posted... maybe through the ice was not the intention of the words..

Midges, chronies, caddise, and stoneflys, and some small mayflies, think Copperjohns..

But and there is always a but, it depends on the area and type of river, the area where we were fishing has more bigger fish, and lots of Goose ****, and Didimo so I figured that insect activity would be next to nil.. so went with Slump busters, and whooly buggers, Zonkers and some secret ones..

The other open river in the area , you do better on the Midges, chronies, caddise, and stoneflys, and some small mayflies, think Copperjohns.. and BAW...Big *** Worm, = SJW..

[two]

That skeleton and head looks to me like a ling. We used to catch them in the Yellowstone below Reedpoint, Mt. Fished them at night and when is was younger we would fish them by a campfire. We used to call it Lingdrinking. Good eats!