What?

I am truly sorry.
I'm sorry that i put my boat in the water before you had your first cup of coffee.
I'm sorry that i revved my motor a little to vigorously when i pulled my trailer out of the water.
 I'm REALLY sorry that i floated past your picture window and seen your wife in her night gown!

 But What I'm not sorry about is that you chose your profession as a doctor,lawyer, drug dealer or whatever.
I'm not sorry that you built that sprawling house on a piece of river bank that used to be peaceful and beautiful
I'm not sorry that i chose my profession as a fishing guide.
Yes we fish all the time and were on the water all the time and you see us all the time and we say hi all the time and all you do is stair and say nothing. What? Did we interrupt you from chain sawing down some trees so you can see the water better?  Well Get over it, because here we come the salmon are close and it wont be long. Maybe even tomorrow

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Good to be back

Been a while, But things have been crazy here at the World Wide headquarters of Fishgazm. Big things are coming this year and i will make sure to keep you all informed. I just wrapped up my Beaver Island carp and Smallmouth season and like always It was another great season, plenty of carp. plenty of smallmouth. plenty of happy customers.
Now its a little family time maybe some camping, of course a lot of fishing and maybe a beer or two. Then its time for salmon fishing, I have heard a few rumors of a king sighting here and there so me and my boy might go look for a couple. since I've been home it has rained pretty steady so a trip to the river is in order, Mousing and river smallmouth are on the go so plenty of things to do and very little time to do them all.
Here are just a few highlights from this summer on Beaver

Adam from the Fiberglass manifesto outing 

Greg and a big freshwater drum

Michelle from Montana and her first carp

Big Lake Michigan Carp

Big Smally = Big Smile

The queen of flowers scores a big smally

Mike releasing a hog carp

Swamp donkey

Fishing jigs for trout and steelhead isn't a new tactic,this style of fishing has been around for a long time.floating brightly colored jigs under floats or dead drifting thru runs is a deadly presentation.
  Gabe hillbrand from Hillbrand tackle has taken jigs to a new level and his creativity and design of these works of art shows with the results after a day of fishing them.. I have been fishing with Gabes jigs for awhile now for carp,smallmouth ,King salmon and steelhead.  For the next few weeks we will dive in to different styles and concepts of fishing these jigs.

the Swamp donkey is without a doubt one of my favorites,i have caught salmon,Steelhead,carp,smallmouth and northern pike on this pattern so far. fishing this jig with erratic motion has been my best technique to date for steelhead but i have been back bouncing this jig on a straight downstream presentation and have gotten bit. for carp and smallmouth-dragging this along the bottom mimicking a goby or crayfish has been deadly for my non-fly fishing clients on Beaver Island.