Muskie on the Fly-how did Mr. Pike sneak in

 I was able to spend a hot mid June summer day drifting on a local stream looking for muskie with my son Kory. I was using fly gear and my boy was using conventional spin casting gear. He was casting a plug when out of nowhere he got a rise from what  we thought was a muskie. We both continued to cast to the area we got the rise in hope of getting a hook up. I got the fish to swing at my fly but a miss. Strike 2. Being persistent and not having the fish touch either bait we keep casting to the area we saw it last. Finally the 3 cast and WAM! fish on. The cool part, I caught the take on the cam. Here are a couple pictures of the fish and a video of our trip. We were able to entice one more fish to show and this one was a muskie going 10+ but true to muskie form it only followed my fly bumping the it but never taking in. Finally at the boat he sank to the dark depths of the river. Kory tried the figure 8 method to try to get a take at the boat but this big guy just wasn't interested. All in all was a great day spent with my son on the river.

Mr Pike or Alais Hammer Head

Attack of the Wild Pheasants

Soo North Guided Tour

so my boy just finished his co-op and had a few day before back to school, so i called my good friend Brad from the Soo asked any steelies in the Rapids and coming up for a couple days. Well as always Brad put us onto some steelies in the rapids and then did a day trip north of the Soo and checked out some new spots for Specs. My boys enjoyed the Specs more then me but could be because he caught 1 had 3 on and i  got skunked. here is a video of some of our fishing.

 

Soo Steelie Brute

Was up at the Soo with my boy and a good friend and owner of the Soo North fly shop, Brad Hodkinson. Brad put us on to some fish so here is a short video of a steelie that was so smart he keep trying to get my off by getting in behind some rocks. The total time it took to fight the fish was over 5 mins but i shortened the video to 3. Hopefully I will have another post of the trip with some brock trout fishing included.

 

Soo Steelie Brute from Red Maxfield on Vimeo.

Casting the Maitland Again

With the river low, all the fish upstream restricted season in force guess just another day casting on the Maitland. I did catch two sucker but got told they were not picture worthy so here some nature pictures.

As you can see in this picture low and clear.  So all we can do is wait for some rain to get the fish moving and hope to catch one on its way out.

Weekend Worrier

Well for 34 years worked shift work had lots of time to fish but now I am a 9 to 5er and if I want to fish guess i have to be a weekend worrier. Fishing was tough on the Maitland today because of our restricted trout season with  limited river access , plus extremely warm March. The fish should get their spawning job done before the season opens with lots of protected water .The river was in beautiful shape but only a couple fish caught considering the amount of guys fishing

So basically you can say I was out practising my casting. Here is a short video using my head cam. I need to learn to slow my head movement down but hope next time there is a fish on when filming

I would ask you to rate my casting but afraid how low of grade I would get.

With the lack of fish I ended up playing around the shore line and saw a lot of stone flies on a rock.

I switched over to a stone fly as a dropper but to no luck. It was just one of those days where you just got to enjoy the fresh air, exercise and great summer like weather for March.