Sept Pike

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.
Here is a small video on our day out with Kory catching a couple pike. I stuck with my fly rod and had 3 hits but just having one heck of a time hooking up with these toothy critters. He wanted to name this post as kicking dad's ass but being the owner of this blog I will stick to Sept. Pike.



 

Sept Pike from Just An Aging Steelheader on Vimeo.

Test Driving Vision Fly Rods Speckle trout Fishing

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

where you see rocks in the picture is actually a small island would be so the rapids are raging.

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).

Now I love my iPhone and with this cool app Brad found showing Topo Maps

 we headed out onto some back roads looking for some speckle trout using Brad's 8 weight 9 foot Vision rods. Well I couldn't rave more about these rods with the way they cast effortlessly. I Will put a small video in of me casting to show the ease and distance we were casting. Again with a cold front just moving through the fishing was tuff. Brad managed a 8 inch speck. I had one good hit but for some reason I could not get a hookup. But that's why they call it fishing and not catching. But with all the senic beauty around me of the far north I still enjoyed the trip to this wild country.

The morning drive was so cool with the morning dew burning off the hills.

 

 

 

 

 

 

What a scenic vision holding a vision rod

 

 

Brads thinking he is a mountain goat standing on top of the falls

 

 

Well here a quick video I promised of him and I casting vision rods

 

 

 

 

 

Vision Rods from Just An Aging Steelheader on Vimeo.

Kory's Algonquin Trip 2013

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.

After setting up camp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lindsey started the trip off with a giant creek chub

 

 

But then she settled down and finally hooked into a nice pike

 

 

With a tuff day fishing they decided to go back to camp for some relaxation. Reemy said to hell with the rest of them and went for a swim

 

 

 

 

day 2 was much better with a great days catch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kory and Taylor fighting over who going to clean the fish. Yea if you believe that, think Kory lost.

 

 

Kory snuck out last day while the rest slept and caught 2 nice pike

 

 

 and here are some other scenic pictures of the trip

 

 

 

 

 

 



Silv'ry Moon Muskie

here is a video of the last fish I caught on my trip to Silv'ry Moon lodge

Silv'ry Muskie from Just An Aging Steelheader on Vimeo.

Let The Pictures Tell the story

I wish I could put words to my thoughts as good as some (November Rain), so I will let the pictures tell the story





More Wild Situk steelies

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


 

Situk Alaska Wild Crome from Just An Aging Steelheader on Vimeo.

Just for the Halibut

We went halibut fishing on the second day and Brian tied into a 68lb fish

Just for the Halibut from Just An Aging Steelheader on Vimeo.