Women On The Waters Photo
Annie Kubicka with a stunning wild Hoh river hen Steelhead. Annie was fishing with Brazda’s Fly Fishing, and being guided by Tyler Barrus.
I think that fish is one of the prettiest Steelhead I have even seen! Thanks for sharing the photo with us Annie. 
Save Our Sharks
*WARNING: This film contains some graphic images of sharks being killed and finned.*
Sharks are being killed at alarming rates around the world mostly to supply the demands for shark fin soup in the East. If this situation doesn’t change quickly we risk losing any chance we still have of saving our sharks before they’re gone forever. This short film won a Panda award at the Wildscreen Film Festival 2010.
David Yarema – Artist
I wanted to share these wonderful pieces of art, sent in from David Yarema.
SIMON Says
Written by fellow angler and friend Diana Rudolph.
And people listen. Not only is Simon an ace with a spey rod, but he can also cast a single hander a country mile. He was a UK casting champion and has instructed thousands of fly fishing students. Simon is the marketing manager for RIO Products, and when he is not behind his desk, he is traveling the globe fishing new and exotic destinations. He is the North American pied piper of spey casting and is one of the world’s most well respected instructors.
Four years ago, Simon gave me my first spey casting lesson. I still hear myself mumbling the words “bloody L” every time I make a sub par cast. He is genuine and charming, the real deal. Here’s what he has to say.
A half dozen questions with Simon Gawesworth:
1). What is your most memorable catch?
It’s probably a seatrout, actually, one I caught in Devon. I have a little piece of a river I own called the Bray, and the Bray is a brown trout river which towards the back end of the season gets a run of salmon and seatrout. I was teaching on that river one day and saw a shoal of seatrout lying in this particularly good pool. None of the fish were interested in any of the flies my clients cast at them, and nobody could catch them during the day. They were pretty dogged down there on the bottom. It’s a clear river, so you could see the fish, and you could tell that they weren’t really active or interested. So, I went home with the students and came back in the evening on my own, thinking, “I’m going to try to catch one of these things”. I put on a little size 16 nymph and cast out to this shoal. I cast to the head fish, which is usually the largest in seatrout circles, and for some reason he seemed to like my fly. That is, after about a half an hour of persevering, he liked my fly.
What was most interesting to me was the reason he took the fly. I was watching the fish and he was constantly ignoring the fly – they were all lying on the bottom, ignoring the fly for ages and ages. Then something happened and that big fish darted upstream, turned around and came back to his lie again. I made a cast and immediately, he took the nymph. So, something got his adrenaline pumping again. What was cool about it was it was a little tiny stream about 25 feet wide and the fish was over five pounds. I caught it on this tiny nymph with a 6 pound leader, and the fish eventually ran straight upstream to a small, natural weir. I knew if he went downstream with that light leader, he’d snap me off. So, when he started to charge downstream, I ran out to the middle of the river splashing and jumping around and made like a seal to scare it upstream again. I eventually landed it and it was the biggest seatrout I’d landed in the UK. Actually, it still is the biggest seatrout I’ve landed in the UK.
That was a very memorable fish for me for two reasons: A.) it was a wonderful fish and B.) it was very interesting to see how its reaction changed after what ever it was spooked it. I believe that when anadromous fish get excited by something, they can turn on after they’ve been off for so long. I’ve seen that a few times when salmon fishing and it’s been dead and a kayak or a shoal of kayaks goes past. You fish behind them and suddenly you catch a fish in a pool you didn’t catch a fish before.
There’s an old poaching lore in the UK that involves swimming your dog through the pool to spook fish, or throwing rocks at salmon to get them to move. The fish get excited and then get on the grab. I’ve done neither, of course! These are traditional lores which have evolved and are designed to upset the fish. Their heart starts beating, adrenaline starts pumping and the fish gets active.
View full article – Via: Fly Fisherman
Indiana On The Fly Show
Scheduled for Saturday, January 7, 2012 at the Indiana State Fairground from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
- Key Note Speaker: Beau Beasley
- Smallmouth Expert: Tim Holschlag
- Upland Huntress: Georgia Pellegrini
10:00-10:30
Dustan Harley – The St. Joseph River; Indiana’s Dream Stream
10:30 11:00
Josh Lantz – Fly Fishing For Largemouth Bass
11:00-12:00
Beau Beasley – “Fishing the Best Waters of the Mid-Atlantic: A quest from Brown Trout to Stripers and Nearly Everything in Between.”
12:00 – 12:30
Dave Barron – Casting Lessons
12:30-1:30
Tim Holschlag – “Hop, Pop and Twitch” The Three Top Techniques for Smallmouth
1:30-2:30
Georgia Pellegrini – “From Field to Table”: Pheasant Cooking Demonstration
2:30 – 3:30
Hoosier Boys Kennel – Puppy Training 101
2012 IF4 Teaser
The International Fly Fishing Film Festival 2012 is here! For trailers, film makers, a full screening schedule and tickets – visit flyfilmfest.com
Jenny Grossenbacher on the Yellowstone
Jenny is an avid angler and makes her living in Montana as a renowned fly fishing guide. She’s authored a book on the subject, Fly Fishing Montana, with her husband and has guided Oprah on national TV. On the river, under the big sky, she finds solitude in the wilderness. A place where she can escape from the rush and bustle of everyday life and reconnect with the natural lifecycle.
Click here to find more Montana stories and explore Jenny’s favorite Montana places.
New Work From Mark Chuck
Just in time for the holidays, Mark Chuck has yet again created some new and inspirational pieces he showcases on his Etsy storefront.
One of my personal favorites is the sushi dish shown above. If you are looking for a one of a kind gift for the angler in your life, all of Mark’s items are handmade with pride and can be shipped internationally.
Rise Fishing Holiday Giveaway
Rise Holiday Giveaway is here!
To enter for a chance to win all you have to do is (and you must do all 3 to enter):
1. “Like” our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/risefishing.
2. Click “Like” under the picture of the Balance Series fly rod on our Facebook page.
3. And comment with “I’m in” under the photo.
Good luck everyone!
Fish Art – A Fly on the Wall
Scott Hale of Art Creel and his A Fish Art Painting in Two Minutes.