Pike on the fly in the yukon

Blogs on the rise

Here's some farely recent additions to the blogging world I thought you might like to keep an eye out for.

Third coast fly which is maintained by the crew from "Indigo guide service" & especially Matt Dunn.They fish primarily the rivers in west Michigan and the flats around Beaver Island, but they're also known to get out west, down south, up north, and back east.

Colorado experiment run by Austin Clayton

"The African fly angler" run by Morne out of the western Cape in South Africa

"This river is wild" isn't such a new addition but is still a top read and is run by Mark, Matt & AHope...These boys can tie a mean fly.

circle of life

Pike´s Couchhunting HD (Weissensee) from Joachim T. on Vimeo.

Another great underwater clip showcasing small fry, perch and snotrocket mike!

The Dubbing brush fly

Here's a great example using dubbing brushes to produce wicked looking flies.

Readers fish porn

Rickard over at "Team Dalkars" blog who has recently started visiting PikeFFArticle's shores sent me these images from an early spring session he'd had with a couple of mates over in Sweden. As per usual these kind of fish generally come towards the end of a session and was tempted with an extremely slow retrieve with the odd stop in between. 11.27 kg and 110cm in length. Well done brother and thanks for these.

Click the link to see more images from his session.

Fly Candy

More fur n flash to temp them with. Started with a length of brown raccoon zonker. Then added an assortment of gold/red/brown tinsel flash.

Then added a collar of olive raccoon and then added a couple of clumps of mustard arctic fox in front. Cherry red arctic fox was added underneath for gill rakers.

Surprisingly light to cast and has some movement under the water I can tell yeh!

Tough times

Its been a tough old season here on Replot regarding pike on the fly.Yes I've bagged a good head of fish but nothing like last year. Coming out of the coldest winter in 70 yrs to having the hottest summer in 40 yrs with 3 of the hottest days in recorded history its played havoc I'm sure with mike the pikes metabolism. Average water temps are up 3 degrees higher than the previous 14 years here around the island, which has driven even the average jack snotrocket into cooler waters.

Jani & I have fished some truly fantastic snotrocket waters over the last month with not much to show for our efforts. Waters you'd put top dollar down at the bookies that you'd pull fish out of......waters that fished exceptionally well last season & yet you can only fish an area to the best of your abilities which we've certainly done. All manner of different rigs,spinner blades, lines,retrieves & flies have been used to tempt them.

What's been very effective the last month has been an extremely fast retrieve. Roly poly style with the odd stop in between. Now I've very rarely used this method with pike but it seems to be working at the mo. This Jack followed my fly on numerous occassions with a normal stop start slow/medium retrieve. As soon as I cast out and placed the rod under my arm and roly polied back, the 1st pause I took,the distinctive silvery olive flash appeared as it shot out from behind the rock like an exocet missile and my line went taught. That short lived rush of adrenaline made my night. It was unhooked quickly but I have to admit I held onto its tail a lot longer than I generally do in the water just to prolong the moment.