Another trip pics

[Drifter 851]

Spent the past few days with my fishing buddy Mark and I trekking around the upper reaches of the Au Sable fishing for wild brookies and browns. Was nice to explore a bit and fish some waters other than the traditional ones, staying at different places each night, eating at different small town restaurants, and basically just bouncing from place to place looking for trout.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[BO7H B4RRELS 2,453]

Great pictures, Steve.  For someone who has been fishing their entire life, but has never fly fished, how difficult is it to get started? 

[Drifter 851]

Fly fishing can be as easy or as difficult as you want to make it. To get started you can learn a lot from fly casting and beginner videos on youtube these days. Things which I didn't have the luxury of back when I started 25 yrs ago

 

Best thing to do is to watch some casting videos and then pick up a cheap rod/reel/line and start practicing on the lawn. Then when you can get at least 25ft of line out then hit a local pond/lake with a small dry or popper and start catching some bluegills. Once you get the hang of that then you can start reading up more on things like all the various flies and leaders and when to use what etc etc and then start chasing some trout or other more difficult species to fool.

[deterioration 443]

Great shots. Is the arrow pointing to a monkey or porcupine?

Been meaning to ask if you watch River Monsters? I saw an episode the other day where my man JW caught an Arapaima using a fly rod/reel. He's caught other huge fish with a fly fish set up. I didn't think the rods could hold up to that much abuse but he proved me wrong.

[Drifter 851]

Yep that was a porcupine that was tryin to hide in a tree next to the trail on the way out of the river Monday night.

 

LOVE River Monsters, my fav show on TV. Jeremy is the kind of guy I would get along with well. Fly rods come in weights from 0wt all the way to 14wt so there are fly rods that can handle very large species.

[tronic44 3,642]

Part of me was hoping you'd found bigfoot 

 

Awesome photos dude!

 

I love River Monsters, catching some crazy ass fish with next to nothing. Great show!