broken-fish.net

Came across this doing some random surfing. It is the Giant Taimen, the largest of all the salmonids …apparently these fish can reach well over 100 lbs. Amazing!

Read some more about these huge fish!

It was out of need, but still

My Scientific Angler fly boxes are full…but I didn’t really feel like spending $30 -$40 on a new fly box.

So, one night a buddy and I are heading home from another friends place, and he pulls out a tin of mints…”Altoids” to be exact. The tin would fit perfect in almost any one of my fishing vest pockets.

The next time I was at Safeway, I spotted them at the checkout, so I picked up a couple cans. Now, a couple weeks later, I finally finished them off (with the help of co-workers and kids).

I found an old mouse pad, traced the base of the Altoids tin onto the mouse pad with a Sharpie, then cut out the piece with scissors.

The mouse pad I used was about 3/16″ thick, which I thought was a little thin for the tin. 2 layers of the mousepad material worked perfect though. I then cut slits, 1/4″ or so apart, across the width of the piece, for the full length, into the back of one piece. Just had to be careful not to cut through the cloth top surface of the mousepad. There were about 8-10 slits in all, and fit this piece into the tin last, with the back facing out. Then just tuck your flies into the slits.

Another idea, for the lid, is to to get some of that adhesive backed, magnetic sheet, and stick that to the underside of the lid, to maximize the storage capacity of these handy little boxes.

I put together a page about making your own strike indicators…they’re a cinch to make yourself!

– UPDATE –
Well, it wasn’t a fast action day by any stretch, but I did manage to land a really nice rainbow…put up a real good fight, and was around 18+ inches, and between 2 and 3 pounds.

Unfortunately, this was the only catch of the day between the two of us…
I did have one hook up, and Shan had one on as well, and the ‘bow was pretty close to the same size as the one I later landed. It also put up a great fight, but with all the head shakes, it managed to get off the hook just as I was bring the fish up to the boat. And stupid me forgot my camera in the tube, inside the truck, back on shore….

The weather was overcast most of the afternoon… (we got onto the lake a little past noon), with some really light rain. The wind picked up and cooled things off a little, but then, just as we were planning on going back to shore to get into our float tubes, it started clearing.

Once we got the boat back on the trailer, and kicking out in the tubes, the weather was totally sunny, and made for an awesome evening. It was really too bad that the fish weren’t cooperating.

May 6, 2005
Well, finally!
Tomorrow, rain or shine, its off to Star Lake to do some fishing for the day. Going with a freind, and we’re bringing his boat, and our tubes… if it rains, it’s much nicer in the tube!

Will report back how things were…and hopefully have a few pictures!

Well, my photos of the fly’s that I’ve tied basically suck…so I started poking around to get some ideas together on a rig to set up for taking better quality digital images of them.

Here are some links that I came across:

• Fly Fish Alberta Forum – Digital fly pictures (I like this setup)
• Fly Studio – Use and Construction
• From Feathers to Bits
• Photographer’s Fly Tying Bench – (and this one too)