Category: Get On The Bus

New Skagit Master 4 clip on Youtube

Check out this new clip Tom Larimer and his good buddy Dave Pinczkowski hit their favorite rivers in the fall hoping to connect with a few steelhead. Tom talks about water temps and presentations.  

Check your $%#&!

by Jeff Mishler In the dinner tent of one of our Russian steelhead expeditions, Pete Soverel proclaimed to the weary clan of weather beaten anglers, “If you loose the fish because the terminal gear fails, that’s operator error”.  Interpretation: You failed the process of landing the fish if the leader parted, because you didn’t check […]

New Running Lines for Cold Water Steelheading

I love to fish mono behind my shooting heads.  It’s effortless to jack casts of any length and have total control over the swing because mono, being so light, is easy to manipulate when the line is laid out on the water.  But if you fish mono a lot, you know that winter steelheading with […]

New Water Media, LLC begins development of “Headwind”.

A documentary featuring some amazing women in fly fishing. Thanks to Patagonia for getting on board.  I’m looking for others to help produce this documentary intended for festival audiences: “Headwind” (working title) A Documentary Film (in development) Format:  HD Video Length: 60 minutes Produced by:  New Water Media, LLC Jeff Mishler—Owner   “Headwind”(working title)  Portraits […]

Trouble Shoot Your Spey Casting Flaws

July 18, 2013 Casting Issue: Your fly nearly takes your hat off on the forward stroke. This is common when these things happen: 1) You place the anchor too far away from your casting position while thinking, “If I just move it farther away, I’m safer”. The tendency then, is to put too much power […]

Introducing Dave Pinczkowski!

If you haven’t seen SM4, please check out Tom Larimer’s introduction of the man who has led many down the path of life with a two handed rod. The video is here   JM

Amazing, slow sinking, best casting still water line I have ever used!

This goes against the grain of this site, but I do love to cast a single hander long distances and make long slow retrieves for anything that swims. Thanks to Simon Gawesworth, I’ve been jacking those casts with this line: http://www.rioproducts.com/fly-lines/saltwater/coldwater/outbound-short/ The WF/10/SI overloads a 9 foot 10 weight perfectly.  The bullet taper turns over […]

Skagit Master 4 Teaser—pass it around

  I’m busy with the edit.  Hope to have it finished and out the door by April 1.  No guarantees.   Tom did a great job as did all the anglers in the show.  The Midwest is a cold place in winter, I’ll tell you that much.   JM

Skagit Master 4 Filming in the Midwest

After two weeks of chasing Midwest steelhead, I’m quite happy with how Tom Larimer and his band of steelhead buddies pulled through.  We suffered through the lowest water conditions since 1944.  That’s steelheading.  Fortunately, we caught some fish.  Swung flies through some excellent water using the latest Airflo Lines and Sage ONE Rods.  The WaterMasters […]

Skagit Master Affiliate Network! Make $ from your site!

The great thing about Affiliate Networks is that you don’t have to do anything to make some $$$ other than post the link on your page in a place where people easily see it.   The more Skagit Master DVD sales you generate, the more you make.   12% on $39.99 is about $5.  I’ll […]

The Water Master

  http://www.bigskyinflatables.com/ I’m a boat guy.  The problem with boats is that one craft cannot do it all.  My myriad of pursuits require specific capabilites.  But since this site deals primarily with all things steelhead, if I had to chose one watercraft to use twelve months a year here near my homewaters, it would be […]

Pre Order Skagit Master Volume 3 Now!

By 11 pm Pacific time 6-6-12, you may pre order “Skagit Master 3—Steelhead Flies, Beyond the Books” by selecting the correct button above.  It will direct you to the point of sale site. You must understand that by pre ordering now: 1)  The DVDs will not ship until after the 15th of June, when they […]

Pebble Mine is a Bad Idea!

But we knew that didn’t we? Here is the latest report to hammer a nail in the coffin of this crazy notion that creating short term revenues and long term environmental impacts at the expense of salmon and people who depend on them, is a good idea. http://www.wildsalmoncenter.org/programs/north_america/pebblemine.php JM

Tom Larimer keeps us in the loop!

http://oregonflyfishingreport.blogspot.com/2011/12/making-of-skagit-master-three.html Tweaking the light

Back From BC

Spent the week shooting Hannah Belford for SM3. Catching up on stuff. The new membership site is on its way. Yeah, yeah, yeah you say. No really it is. Stay tuned.

Time to fix your $%& Before Winter Steelhead Arrive

DECAY by Jeff Mishler Decay—an imperceptible naturally progressive slumping of inanimate material that happens while you’re focused on something entirely more important, like fishing.

Tis the season for a little Elk Hunting and State Forest Discovery

Rounded a bend in the road near the big cut I posted a couple years ago and what did I find? A big, nasty landslide directly above a tributary of one the most productive winter steelhead and fall chinook rivers in our state. I can hear ODF’s line already, “Our Geo Tech checked that site […]