tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27176377696748870092024-03-13T10:33:06.842-07:00Just an Aging SteelheaderA fun way to document my fishing experiance and journeysSteeliemaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697579745963098520noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2717637769674887009.post-66117318117407507822015-01-03T11:11:00.000-08:002015-01-03T11:11:21.278-08:002014 Fall Steelie Season<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Well of the 28 years I've been fishing steelhead will have to put the fall of 2014 as one of my toughest. Now that I am a 9 to 5 worker makes it even tougher were I have to use that 28 years of knowledge and pick the days with perfect river conditions to maximize the the days that are going to be most productive. Well I hit some great days on the the river as far as water conditions that should of brought fish in but it really didn't happen as compare to the past. Plus I had to take the month of Dec off to fix a an old fishing injury. Yes broke a leg on the river 1999 and the knee had to be fixed up .<br />
There is a few theory's out there to why it was a tough year for all but that's fishing and if you think every year is going to be a banner year well are you going to get a rude awaking. One theory is because of such a late spring this year and there were a lot of fish that spawned late are still out in the lake to try to rebuild the fat for 2015 spawn. Another is we could of had a bad spawning survival rate back 3 to 4 years ago.<br />
I was still able to get a few fish so here is a few pictures of my fall 2014 all put into one blog.<br />
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Santa finally has arrived with the trophies for the 2014 Maxfield Family Fishing Derby.<br />
This year we started with the Trout trophy which was a fish caught by my brother Cricket during the Sarina derby and pulled off a 3rd place prize and earned it the title "money fish"<br />
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The next Trophy awarded was for the largest Salmon, again my big brother Cricket took the glory with a 10 lb Chinook salmon. I made the mistake of hooking into a big coho and forgot to weigh the brute, I could given Cricket's 10lber a run for it's money but this was my mistake (Dumb A**).</div>
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Cricket was in the running for what we call the triple crown only to have been achieved by my mother Ardis Maxfield. He was well on his way to winning the bass derby with a 4 pound 14 ounce bass caught in lake Huron. Kory was still determined to claim the bass trophy for his own which he shared with Cricket last year, this was the 1st time we have had a dual winner on the Maxfield bass trophy. Kory and I headed out to a local reservoir on beautiful mid October day where he landed a 5 pound 1 ounce monster large mouth to spoil Crickets run for the triple crown.<br />
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Last but certainly not least we awarded the Miscellaneous Trophy which consists of the biggest fish caught any where in the world. Well there was a real dog fight with it this year, my daughter set the bar high early in the season with a 90 pound shark which she caught on a vacation in Mexico. My nephew Joe tied hard to bump her off the podium but couldn't quite do it. He landed a quality 50 pound halibut which fell short and Laura ended up winning with her monster shark. This award was special because she is the 1st girl other then Ardis to win any of the Maxfield fishing trophies. She sparked a great interest with the rest of the girls becoming more competitive and looking to knock the guys off and win one of the prestigious Maxfield Fishing Trophies.<br />
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Here are a few of the other fish that didn't quite make the cut.<br />
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At the end of September a friend at work invited me out to join him and his cousin in a fishing outing on Lake St. Clair. What a beautiful day it turned out to be. Phil and Steve set out the planner boards and loaded both sides of the boat with four rods. Once the boys had the boat organized we set off on our adventure. Ready, set, fish!<br />
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About a hour into the day and I had the honors of hooking the 1st fish. The pressure was on, I couldn't afford to loose the 1st fish . My 5 minutes struggle produced a nice muskie.</div>
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Next up was Phil and now the pressure was on him. A hour later and he was on to the next fish .</div>
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The day turned out to be a very successful one. We caught 11 fish in 6 hours. My biggest measured out 46 inches just edging Phil's personal best of 45 inches.</div>
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the rapids at 2 pm. The Soo rapids are the head water from
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Brad and I fished my favourite pool using strike indicator working the drift like a float rodder would. This hole is deep slow and a natural drift is how you want to attack it. Nick and Jay fished the run above look for a spawning fish then while not disturbing the hen they fished the 5 or 6 fish waiting behind her to gobble up any spawn or bugs that she kicked up while digging her bed up and that drifted away from her . The worst thing you can do is disturb the female. One reason is she need to complete her job to relpenish the resource and second she why the five or six fish are sitting behind her which are usally drop backs or males trying to stage to be the dominate fish.</div>
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Now Jay coming from a spin casting background, had never caught a steelhead on the fly rod ever. First cast he ties into his first ever steelie on the fly. Well being a virgin on the fly rod the fish kicked his ass and wave at him with its tail as he dove for more secure dephs. But 3 fish later Jay was able to master the fly rod and landed his 1st steelie on the fly. By the end of the trip Jay had improved so much it was like he had been fishing steelhead on the fly his whole life. He got the technic of nymphing down to a art as if he was a pro. Now the sickness of steelie fishing had grasped Jay's inner sole and when Nick was ready to leave he couldnt get Jay off the water, "One last cast" I keep hearing.</div>
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Jay was so impressed with Brad's teachings of the finner art of fly fishing he sent this letter to the much appricated Brad </div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Just wanted to shoot you a quick email to say thanks buddy! I have done a bunch of fishing over the years but this was EXTREMELY memorable! You taught me how to Spey cast in 5 mins and maybe 15 mins after that, I had a nice Speck! You did a great job putting us on to fish the whole trip! I have NEVER seen such a big run of huge steelies! I cant wait to come back! I have dreamed of it nightly! It will be sooner than you think 😉</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Too think...I had hooked, and played, a WAY bigger fish than the one below! I thought I hooked a f*#king TUNA!!!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">P.s say thanks to the Red Dragon for me, It was great to watch him fish. I learned a lot watching.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;">Oh the Red Dragon came from me biting into a hot saugage just off the gril and the steam that came out of my mouth look like a fire breathing Dragon. The boys were impressed lol.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Well-being a very unproductive spring for me in Southwestern
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The fishing was slow but Brad managed a couple bumps using his silver and cult vision rod with a sinking line. I used a GT four vision rod with a floating line which was silent for this lake making it a nice kayak ride for me.</div>
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The boys finally arrived set up camp and we decided to head off to the Agawa river to try for some steelhead. Brad had been up to this river a week earlier hitting it in its prime with a good catch and release of fish. The river had warmed up and dropped a couple feet from the previous week on our arrival. By the end of the night Nic caught and land a nice steelie by nymphing and Jay caught about a 1 1/2 pound speckle trout using the same Technic</div>
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The next morning we decided to try some rivers an the northern side of Superior Provincial park for some steelies and speckle trout. The night before we got a lot of rain and finding a river that had not been effected was tuff. Brad and I decided to hit a small lake again for Specks and Jay and Ncck went off to try to find a river fishable. Brad and I fished Rabbit lake and being the nice guy Brad is he asked which rod I wanted to use. I decided go the silver and cult vision rod with sinking line which turn to be a good choice. I had a few fish on but ony landed the one.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Well the weekend plans were set to get the deck painted and
a few chore around the house. Kory came home for the weekend to get out of the
big city of Toronto and he wanted to get into some fishing. Mom informed him if he helps out
and gets most of the chores done he could borrow me for the morning to do some
Kayak fishing. Six am Sunday morning came quicker than we thought (Kory being
a young guy was out at a stag and Doe until one in the morning) we loaded the
Kayaks up to head out to a local stream we knew had an abundance of hammerheads
(small Pike) in this water system. Before I could get the Kayaks unloaded Kory
was already out casting his favorite spoon for pike called Cyclops. 1<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup>
fricken cast he has one on, I hadn't even unloaded the camera gear yet. Well that
was the prelude to a good fishing ahead of us.</span><br />
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Steeliemaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697579745963098520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2717637769674887009.post-37641639138758201212014-05-13T05:05:00.000-07:002014-05-13T05:05:33.259-07:00Pike Opener On the Kayak<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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we were informed because of the hard winter there was a little bit of a kill this
year on this lake. To add insult to the wound they also told us they keeping everything
they caught. Now on a 6 acre lake doesn’t take long to desecrate the population
on a small lake like that. This lake in the past usually we are lucky to see 1
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Steeliemaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697579745963098520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2717637769674887009.post-52726997655803918672014-05-01T04:25:00.000-07:002014-05-01T05:21:17.482-07:00Skunk Finally out of the Kayak<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This has to been one of the toughest springs in years, thought I get out and get some good spring fishing but that went south fast in April. Two weekends with weddings Easter weekend taking up the 3rd then the 4th weekend the river to high as shown in the picture below</div>
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To be honest it was a slow day fishing but finally I pulled a nice walleye out of the river. Being out of season in Ontario I had to release it back to the river but was so cool to get my 1st fish fishing out of a Kayak.<span style="text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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Well with most of the great lakes frozen over its been a long quiet winter for me, but thinking spring is just around the corner, so starting to plan some great fishing adventures this up and coming year. I am getting into kayak fishing this year and hope to get some good videos for the blog.<br />
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Planning a trip to Algonquian for 5 days fishing for bass and walleye. I will be experimenting on fly fishing for walleye hoping to be able to consistently catch them on the fly.</div>
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Last spring Brad teamed up with Visions Fly Company. Brad called me looking for someone to test drive their rods and give him feedback. He wondered if I was up for a challenge. I agreed to temporarily put my float rod aside in order to give the Vision rods a legitimate trial.<br />
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The Vision Siks is a 6 piece rod measuring 13' 4" in length that breaks down to 74 cm which is useful for travel. This rod would have been beneficial when I went steelhead fishing in Alaska. Instead, I was stuck lugging around a very large and heavy rod case, seen in the picture below. Two rods broken down in cases like this Vision rod would have been all I needed. <br />
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The guides are high quality Pacific Bay Portuguese cork rings made<em> </em>of wood and it has aluminum reel seats. This rod is classified as medium fast.<br />
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It's amazing how the six pieces melt into one. The rod feels like my 3 piece, 13' float rod and it has the back bone to lean on the fish if needed, feeling every head shake similar to a noodle rod.<br />
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Well here we are again with the annual Christmas Maxfield fishing derby awards. This year was exceptional with maybe one of the best years for big fish. So I might as well start with the bass category. It was an amazing year with at least 4 bass over 4lbs and 2 of the winning fish caught a day apart weighing in at 5lbs 1 oz. so the shared award went to my son Kory and my brother Cricket.<br />
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The boys were late getting off the lake and Bill was in such a hurry, had a prior appointment that they forgot to take a picture of Crickets big bad ass bass.</div>
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Here is Kory and Cricket receiving the Bass Award from brother Bill.</div>
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Kory and Wade all ready planning for next year to try to take this trophy on their own </div>
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The next category is the trout trophy which I destroyed with a 12lb 8 ounce trout that I caught on the Alaskan Situk river.<br />
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Just to add a little insurance and get the trophy within my grasp I caught this Manistee giant that we figured was at least 14 pounds.</div>
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The salmon award went to my nephew Joe Steward with a 24 pound west coast salmon.</div>
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My dad and two brothers Bill and Cricket fished hard this year trying to repeat last years success winning the Sarnia Salmon Derby. They came close with Cricket landing this 18 lbs salmon securing them with third place with another great team effort.</div>
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Kory and I went out on our local honey hole landing two huge bucket mouths, I landed a 4 pounder and Kory landed this bucket that tipped the scales at 5lbs.<br />
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After a long day of work couldn't wait for the day to end fast enough to head north west to try to figure the secrets the Manistee has hidden away. Didn't get away as early as we like and getting to cottage very late at night it was a slow start in the morning to get to the river, but that's what nice having the boat never the pressure of rushing to find a place on the bank to fish. We launched the boat and decided to fish downstream of Tippy <br />
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the rest of the day was slow with the bet tied and the sun getting low in the sky thought we head up to the dam and if not too crowded try just off the coffer. Well good call on Brian's part and wasn't more then 20 minutes later I tied into what turned out to be my personal best. The fish hit my roe bag like a locomotive and decided to make 3 leaps just to scare the pants off me. Brian quickly pulled the anchor up and as the fish screamed down the river with a one way ticket back to lake Michigan we finally caught up to it to get control of this fish, I work it back towards the boat . With the lost of day light Brian took a stab in the dark at the fish just as it decided to take a dive below the boat . Great net job by Brian to help land a personal best. After couple quick pictures we return her back to river to carry her genetics for future generations.</div>
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I get a call form my good friend Brad from the Soo to let me know he was coming to Goderich late Oct and to do some fishing. With a busy work schedule I told him I was good for the 31st and to meet me at Timmy's with a large black to go. Well like old times Brad being a punctual guy was already waiting with coffee in hand and his GT Four Vision Spey rod in the other. We've been friends and fishing for over 25 years now and back in the day it was a float rods wow have times changed. We headed out to our old fishing holes with Spey rods cocked locked and ready to rock looking for some great lake steelies.<br />
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Steeliemaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697579745963098520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2717637769674887009.post-37784043393361211652013-09-21T14:23:00.000-07:002013-09-21T15:23:46.238-07:00Early Fall Season Steelie<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Last night I went to bed early with the intention of sleeping in on my day off, being that the rivers are a little low for fishing. But being a creature of habit and an early riser for work, as usual I was automatically wide awake at 5 a.m. Lying there, I thought, what the hell, I am up, I might as well head out and test the new Vision fly rod my friend Brad from Soo North fly shop sent me.<br />
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That ended up being the right decision. I had a good test on the rod landing about a 5 pound steelhead. I have to say that my initial impression of this rod, very positive. When I get a few more pictures and more run time, I'll do a complete review, but its looking good.<br />
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Not being quite as organized this morning I had to dig into my waiters to retrieve my Go Pro and managed to get some footage of the fish. Here is a small video of me landing my 1st fall fish.</div>
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Steeliemaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697579745963098520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2717637769674887009.post-21434621040744931472013-09-15T13:08:00.000-07:002013-09-15T13:08:51.381-07:00Fall Morning Fun<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Well its 1030 Saturday night, just got back from the local theater and I get a text message from my son . "Dad I forgot my IPhone charger at your place, bring the charger and I will meet you half way. Bring the canoe we can do some fall fishing at a nearby lake. Oh yea could you grab my lures and rods ". Well like a good dad I pack all his fishing gear got the canoe and headed out next morning to meet him to get him his charger. Thank God he forgot it wow what a day.<br />
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I was so unorganized that I didn't even have the GoPro out for my fish caught with the fly rod. Here is a small video of our morning outing.</div>
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Steeliemaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697579745963098520noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2717637769674887009.post-48757027176595931562013-09-09T17:11:00.000-07:002013-09-09T17:11:04.144-07:00Sept Pike<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My son gave me a hard time about getting out fishing with him one more time before the salmon/steelhead season start. So I kidded him back with being soft and not coming out for some extreme fishing in the fall.<br />
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Steeliemaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697579745963098520noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2717637769674887009.post-76679436086325498942013-08-17T17:37:00.000-07:002013-08-20T05:22:41.322-07:00Test Driving Vision Fly Rods Speckle trout Fishing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I had a weeks vacation with not a lot to do when my good buddy Brad from The Soo North Fly Shop call and said come on up and we well do some Atlantic fish off the out flow of the power station there and some speckle trout fishing above the Soo. Because Lake Superior is up 14 cm they have 6 of the gates open to the rapids making it to dangerous to fish<br />
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So off to the out flow off the power station we go and back troll for some Atlantics. The problem there instead of having all the turbines running they only got one. Well wish Brads great guiding skills we still managed a couple hook ups with me loosing a good fish and getting a 2 pounder to the net to only have the net guy miss the fish (Actually I lowered the rod when the fish was heading to the net and caused Brad to miss loosing the fish, but we wont tell him that and let him believe he lost it).<br />
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Steeliemaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697579745963098520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2717637769674887009.post-71167144186399025752013-08-10T10:40:00.000-07:002013-08-10T10:40:08.992-07:00Kory's Algonquin Trip 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I need to get my son onto the blogosphere but he is not there yet and ask me to place his trip on my blog. Here are some pictures of their 3 day stay fishing for Bass and Pike He didn't catch any 5 pound bass this trip, but as long as he is still leading in the family derby (4lb 6oz. smallie) he may go back on labour day.<br />
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Well I took 2 head cams and 2 cameras for this tip making sure I could document all the fish caught. Lucky for me because by the end of the trip I was down to 1 head cam and 1 camera. I tried to load some of the earlier video but the files were corrupt. Not sure if its a bad card or the camera, still working on figuring which it is. So here is the rest of the video I was able to retrieve, hope you enjoy wild sea run steelhead on the Situk river Yalutat Alaska<br />
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Steeliemaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697579745963098520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2717637769674887009.post-75410346444911408272013-05-07T17:38:00.001-07:002013-05-07T17:38:30.632-07:00Just for the Halibut<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We went halibut fishing on the second day and Brian tied into a 68lb fish<br />
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These sea run fish are so different from our great lakes fish. They just never quit as you will see in this video. Just when I think I have it landed guess again.<br />
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