'How's the Bow Fishing"?

In the shop today after being on the river the last 7 days, and had a few customers ask how the Bow was fishing.

To put it simply, the world is not ending, and the Bow is fishing as good in the past 3 days as it had been in the 'core' of the season. The clarity had been improving to the clearest we've seen all summer (before the big storm on Friday night), and fish are to be found in their normal spots for this time of year.

Yes, they're eating on top.

The streamer fishing has been quite good, and there are a ton of rising fish if you spend some time looking! This is certainly the first year that I can claim that I've caught fish on PMD's in August...

Time to get out on the river!


Brent

Dry Fly Eat Of The Year

In keeping with our philosophy of "We Like It On Top", this image turns our crank.

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Bugs, Browns, and Big Eats

Replay of video done last summer by Caitlin.....

End of season reruns cause I'm fishing!

Bugs, Browns and Big Eats from Mike Gifford on Vimeo.

I Love It When They Do This....

Fish Rise from Mike Gifford on Vimeo.

Brown Trout On A Beetle

Another short video from Chile. Fishing the banks of a lake with lots of sunken wood and overhanging vegetation. Maureen makes a cast right up on the bank, twitches the big dry fly, the fish comes at the bug once, refuses, and then eats the bug like they often do with the big beetles, with a big pop!

Fish On A Beetle In Chile from Mike Gifford on Vimeo.

Floating Line Streamer Fishing In Chile

Fishing at Desierto Azul, the headwaters of the Rio Paloma in Chile. One of us fishing the big beetle, the other a floating line streamer.

If you watch close, a nice Brown eats a beetle on the surface as I cast the Party Boy at the bank.

It eats the streamer but I don't come tight. Then I spend the next 20 seconds going from telling myself the fish missed it to realizing I stuck him and pooched it!!

At least I didn't do the tip strike thing!!! Finding new ways to screw up all over the planet....

Rising Fish Eats A streamer from Mike Gifford on Vimeo.