Category: Get On The Bus

Holiday Special

Bent-Essays and Images by Jeff Mishler $39.99 plus shipping. Regularly $59.99 Available to our friends through December 15, 2021. Deliver in time for holidays inside the US. But you can get a signed book until December 31. 72 pages of images and words from writer/photographer/filmmaker Jeff Mishler. This quality coffee table book deserves a place […]

Skagitmaster 5 Update

It has been some time since my last post here on the Skagitmaster site. With a recent upgrade, the blog is a better way to communicate with the 2000 members of this page. To date, I have filmed on the Naknek, featuring my good friend Patricia Edel and her program pursuing HUGE rainbows using spey […]

Anchored With April Vokey

Nearly two years ago April interviewed me at my home for her podcast.  I’m very happy with how this turned out. After spending time on her site, I can see why she’s putting in the effort. Our oral history should not fall into a black hole.  Thanks for listening. http://www.aprilvokey.com/podcasts/   JM

SAGE X 990-4 REVIEW

SAGE X 990-4 A Cannon in the Hand by Jeff Mishler After winter steelhead season winds down, the months of May and June mean long hours spent casting shooting tapers into the wind hoping that, on at least one presentation, a spring chinook eats my fly. By the end of the day, a ten weight […]

The Decline of the Deschutes!

In an age when water quality is recognized as a limiting factor for successful/sustainable salmonid populations, it really is amazing how far this river has fallen.  The idea of creating pre-dam conditions and safe passage for sockeye to the historical spawning in the Metolius River was novel, but the implementation has left out serious aspect […]

SAGE 7130-4 MOD Review

SAGE 7130-4 MOD One spey rod. Choose just one….. That is a tall order. In fact, it might be easier to hypothetically design the perfect spey rod in your mind, then wiggle a bunch of commercially made sticks to find the one that conforms to your idea of perfect. Good luck with that. The absolute […]

Tyler Corke and His Funk

Pardon the misogyny.  It is, after all, a story about a couple of crittery steelheaders. And if you know one, you also know that the descriptive language they adopt after days of pounding the water can take on shades of…let’s just call it…questionable colors and tonality.   tyler-corke-chapter-6

Deschutes River Alliance is getting busy!

http://www.deschutesriveralliance.org   While its true that the recent management of the Lower Deschutes has produced higher water temps  earlier in the summer and lower water temps earlier in late summer and that has postponed the early returns of summer steelhead in the last few years,  the quality of the water coming from the mixing tower […]

Setting the hook

When and how is a great question, with no perfect answer.  I try to address this, in this clip. JM

Bent is selling and the comments are appreciated!

Thanks to all who have purchased the book.  I’m amazed at the interest. Here’s one comment from Robert Sheley: Hi Jeff, Just got my copy of Bent. Very clever double entendre for the title. It looks great – it’s the book that I’ve outlined in head for year, my dream project that work always seems […]

Bent is selling….First sales to ship on Friday the 26th

Wow, some of you were waiting with hovering fingers for that moment when the site went live.  BAM!  and the first books were sold.  Thanks for the interest.  I’m wondering how long it will take to sell the first printing of 500.  At this rate, not long.   JM  

Bent should be ready for delivery the week of Feb. 22

It’s been a very long process, but the books are on their way to the fulfillment company and I should have a live Point of Sale here at Skagitmaster.com by Monday….Tuesday at the latest.  Thanks for your patience.  I hope you like this work.  If you love the culture of fly fishing, this book contains […]

New clips for steelheaders

I posted a couple new clips for you to check out.  They might help you find fish and fix that casting flaw that might be nagging you.   JM

Casting Switch Rod in Tight Quarters

Most of the time, we are dealing with less than ideal casting conditions.  Here are some simple tips to deal with the brush.

Skagit Lines on Single Handers

I produced a short clip of Yours Truly showing how easy it is to incorporate a Skagit Line into your single hand rod fishing arsenal. For tight quarters, there’s really nothing better: I’m developing SM5 to cover this material, presented by expert anglers dedicated to using Skagit style lines on small rods.  The world of […]

A Reflection

March 2013 Winter Steelhead You know how it is: Winter creates unpredictable water conditions, but everyday family life hands you so many variables that planning a two day foray to the coast and being lucky enough to see perfect water conditions coincide with your hall pass is luckier than holding a winning Powerball ticket. This […]

Keep your friends close. And others? Well you decide.

The Clan by Jeff Mishler By keeping our steelheading clan small, we avoid tossing around the Tinted Window Treatment because we don’t really care if one of us knows where the other has been hiding out. What’s the tinted window treatment? Remember that time you were cruising down the freeway and noticed in your truck’s […]

If you care about the Lower Deschutes River….

My buddy Dave Moskowitz and the staff at DRA are working hard to make sure our wonderful treasure known as the Lower Deschutes River, is managed for the long haul. The Deschutes River Alliance was formed when concerned stakeholders noted that there was no long term management plan for the river while observing substantial changes in […]

Another Casting Flaw…D Loop Crashes On The Water

by Jeff Mishler I spent some time last week helping a new-to-the-sport angler/buddy work on his casting.  My initial intent was to find a fresh steelhead for him, but his casting flaws brought the line, leader and fly down from the sky in a heap, keeping his fly too close to his casting position for […]