New logo for FFW

Hey anglers, I hope you guys like the new logo I designed for this blog. I will most likely have stickers within the upcoming weeks/months. Have a great 2014 everyone! -john

Merry Christmas and have a great New Year!

Yellowstone Brown...Whoa!

Cool fly fishing catch

Growing up I always had an silver arowana in one of my aquariums. Ended up having the same one for over 8 years! I always wanted a jardini arowana but never got around to it.  I found this picture online that a fly angler caught one and thought it was pretty cool.  Great catch of an awesome fish!

Great watch

Nice video to watch if you have some free time!

the Surprise Salmon: PBS

http://video.pbs.org/video/2324276959/

LMAO

You gotta watch this video for a good laugh!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohvSdfunoA0

Refusal

Novembeard

Florida Fly Fishing

Hey anglers,

I am back my Florida trip.  The fishing was pretty awesome down there.  I def am not a great saltwater water angler.  I did have a ton of fun out there and def will be doing more saltwater fly fishing in the future.

I did manage to hook into lots and lots of nice fish.  Landing them was another story......  I started off using 2x tippet in search for bonefish.  No luck here.  I spent a total of 4 hours searching the flats for bonefish but didn't even see one. 

 I did hook into a lot of fish when I was fly fishing off the side of a bridge directly into the ocean.  The 2x tippet didn't work out at all down there, everything that hit a fly on this tippet size would just break off.  I really wish i brought down some 20 and 30 pound flouro with me.  Def needed it.  I changed my tippet to 12 pound flouro which seemed to help get some fish to hand but would still snap.  

Species of fish caught were mutton snapper, yellowtail snapper, spanish mackerels, and small barracudas. All the fish that were brought to hand were fairly small.  Anything larger seemed to snap the line.  Def had a huge problem with break offs. Next time I hit the ocean I will only use 20-30 pound flouro as a leader and tippet.  I lost a fairly large barracuda which would of made a great picture. 

Unfortunately, my camera broke on this trip.  Not 100% sure what happened but the camera would keep turning itself off before any pictures would be taken.  So I wasn't able to get any cool pictures.

I hooked into at least 2 dozen of the fish in the picture below.  Leatherjacks.  They were very fast to hit pretty much any fly though. Hand hurt when the fin stabbed me, i had no idea they had venom in there dorsal fin!  Lesson learned.

Personal best local brown on the fly

I landed a personal best local EB brown on the fly today.  What a beast of a hen brown.  It measured in at a 23.5" and guess weight would between 6-7 pounds.  This brown was thick with a nice fat belly. This is one to remember!

I put in a lot of time fishing today and was having zero success.  I was just about packing it in then this monster blasted my streamer. It came out about 2 feet straight up out of the water!  It was like something out of shark week.  It took me around 20-25 minutes to land this beauty on 4x tippet.  It hit a size 12 black streamer.  The rod that handled this fish was a 5wt helios 2 and the reel was a hardy 3000 DD.

I just wish i was able to take more pictures of it. My camera died right after this picture and my cell phone was in the car. This picture really doesn't do the brown any justice, it was an outstanding specimen.  Might be the second biggest brown ive personally caught. It was a blast landing this fish and seeing it released in perfect shape to spread those big brown genes.

Warrior Status

New fly rod

Link: http://www.sintef.no/home/Press-Room/Research-News/Physics-Give-Rise-to-a-New-Fly-Rod/

This is Fly: Patagonia giveaway contest

Link to enter contest: http://www.thisisfly.com/issue43_6.html?startPage=108&