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Warning, pics spam from France & Japan:

Love small mountain streams & lakes. No monsters like you guys get in AK, all little guys, but it is all about the journey.

Japan:

Can you spot the Iwana (guess the equivalent name in NA would be the arctic char)?


There it is:


Have a poor eyesight? ok, full zoom:


Now surely you can see this one, white fin edge gives it away.


Lil Raimbow on dry


Lil Iwana to the net


Bit of a fighter


Nice Robe


I see ya!


Off you go


Golden Iwana, this one ended up on some friends' dinner plate


Sometime you encounter some other "wildlife":





France:

Access can sometimes be a challenge


But all worth it in the end




Back in the streams







Life's a stream

Trout fishing from Japan! RAD!

The results of a 1/2 hours work on Memorial Day...



not really much into fishin, but I sure love catchin and eatin!!!

Japn has it all Rico, the snow & the fish
holly smokes D, all these huge ones in 30 mins...That's unbelievable. I think the fish must have suicidal tendencies over there, or they've got the hots for you!

hey guys, im looking for a 3-4 weight 7-8ft pack rod, for backpacking.
not looking to throw to much $$$ at it because it wont be my everyday rod just used once in a while in the backcountry.

any suggestions or anyone have something they want to get rid of?

just a few pics from the last couple weeks on the south coast of vancouver island.

one from the other day

Combat fishing?.. anyone?



I believe the bear will win myself

been back on my home waters of the Henry's Fork for a few days and they were epic. Insane amounts of bugs and fishing eating them on top.

Me







The Killer



Darin

anyone got any beta on fishing in the PNW? i'm pretty much a rookie at fly fishing, and i just moved to seattle a couple months ago, so i barely know the area at all. but my dad is coming out for a visit from vermont, and he's a pretty seasoned fly fisher, so i'd like to take him out somewhere cool. i assume most of the western rivers are still pretty high right now... are the eastern ones looking better? thanks for any advice!

I hiked into a pretty remote canyon last Saturday. Tiny creek, and small but beautiful stream bred rainbows.
This fish was alone in this pool. I managed to sneak up without spooking him. He proceeded to reject 5 patterns in 45 minutes before I landed him with a tiny pheasant tail.



Every fish was brightly colored, probably the most beautiful rainbows I've seen anywhere.



And one more from a great day

great lookin' stream Rico & good effort on the approach + right fly! Beautiful robes for these raimbows. Always amazed at the diversity of the coloratiions/patterns.

Also enjoyed the pic above that of fly-fishing+bear! classic

did some fishing in the last few days, limited out on pink a few days ago and went out today and got me a 15lbs hatchery spring and 3 more pinks to limit out.