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Fly Tying Classes
Looking for a great way to spend a winters Saturday morning on January 24th 2015 & February 7th 2015? Join me for a few hours starting at 10am at The Northern Angler in Traverse City, MI....
View ArticleCircus Peanut Trailer – with Russ Maddin
Circus Peanut Trailer with Russ Maddin from Mangled Fly Media on Vimeo. Circus Peanut has been a staple in the Russ Maddin fly box for years. The Circus Peanut orginated in Northern Michigan and is...
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Lake Run Browns-A Bright Spot in a Cold Winter
This winter is not an easy one from a steelhead fishing perspective. However, there is a strange phenomenon that seems to happen on the Muskegon River: when we have an off year with the steelhead, we...
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MDNR Report for Central MI
Michigan DNR report about the activities that took place in 2014 in Central Michigan, interesting stuff happening on a small creek that feeds the Manistee River. Milton Creek is pumping cold water...
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It Clicks
It all started innocently enough – this click-pawl reel obsession. For me, it clicks. Both literally and figuratively. I’ve fished steelhead on a centerpin (don’t judge – no spawn bags, flies only and...
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Early Spring Trout Foods
Here are a few late winter/early spring trout food shots taken in the last few weeks: This one is an orange scud. In the late winter, the trout and even some steelhead like to feed on these crustaceans...
View ArticleTestify| A visual Poem of Trout Fishing – Travel Marquette
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Correct Sunglass Lens Can Make A Difference
One of the things that dawned on me the other day while streamer fishing for trout, is that sunglass lens color is such a vital part of success when streamer fishing. Especially trout streamer...
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Orange Fish Food
A month and a half ago, some steelhead were spawning in a small creek. The juvenile steelhead now are hatching in this creek. Newborn steelhead have an almost glowing orange color. It is easy to spot...
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Summer’s Choice
Do you find yourself sitting on the bank or in the boat, sipping a adult beverage, waiting for the bugs? Need something refreshing from the great Mitten State? The answer is Coppercraft Citrus Vodka....
View ArticlePic of the Day – Daytime Hopper bite continues
Down and dirty during the day. Keep that tip low and pull. When twitching hoppers run the rope. #underfoot #hoppers #flyfish #dryfly #browntrout #puremichigan A photo posted by Mangledfly...
View ArticleSharkwave
It’s May 8th and dry fly trout season has been off to a slower than normal start, but the limited days of dry fly fishing that I have in the Sharkwave Trout GPX has been in my boat and customers are...
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Pic of the Day – Loving the Blues
Cool blues on the cheek of this dry fly eating Michigan Brown Trout. Put down the streamer rods and broke out the Scott G2 once again to capture this resectable 16″+ Hendrickson sipper. Also every...
View ArticleSo true about Trout fishing
“Only an extraordinary person would purposely risk being outsmarted by a creature often less than twelve inches long, over and over again.” ~ Janna Bialek
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Rivers of Sand by Josh Greenberg
I was just giving a copy of a new book called “Rivers of Sand” by Josh Greenberg. And I can’t wait to start reading this. Pick up your copy at your Local Fly Shop. If your local fly shop doesn’t...
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Great Speckled Olive caught in a Web
Siphloplecton basale Spinner other wise known for me as the Great Speckled Olive caught in a spiders web. When you see this guy you know Sulhur’s are on the menu in a day or two. Hatches are moving...
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Patagonia Great Divider III – Product Review
Patagonia Great Divider III Time for a new boat bag and the Patagonia Great Divider was my choice after looking at the many options out there, it was a few simple things that sold me on the Patagonia...
View ArticleBrook trout or a Great White?
The aggressive nature of a brook trout reminds me of a Great White Shark sometimes, now the size and teeth on the other hand. Just a different view of a brook trout coming to the boat on a soft hackle...
View ArticleBrown Trout – Pic of the Day
I enjoy the challenge of big brown trout during the day of the summer months. This nice brown trout starts off my July just right.
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