Idaho Steelhead Video

[fliesone]

Here is some video of a couple nice steelhead I caught up in Idaho and New York. Also, there is some local video I took this weekend. Click the link then click the camera Icon. It Streams so you do not need to download anything. Let me know what you think.

http://www.fliesandfins.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=282&mode=&order=0&thold=0

http://www.fliesandfins.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=255&mode=&order=0&thold=0

http://www.fliesandfins.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=252&mode=&order=0&thold=0

[jdubya]

you usually take your own personal netter and filmer everytime you go fishing? ahh, the solitude of flyfishing.......bubba, where is that live well??

[fliesone]

Sure, I have a whole group that follows me around taking pictures. Kidding, Actually, all that is done with less that fancy equipment. One 3"x4" digital camera, Windows XP Movie Maker and one fishing buddy (easily replaced by a twenty dollar tripod). Putting those together makes a nice references rather than a bunch of fading pictures that you can never find.

[steeliejack]

i usually just read these forums and don't participate much - but i finally registered because i wanted to tell you that what you do is so cool. probably just as much of an art as fly fishing. i would love to do that so i could have all my trips archived in video fomat and view them with my friends throughout the years. that is AWESOME! thanks for sharing.

[fliesone]

Thanks Steeliejack

[Cary]

THats pretty awesome. Tastefully done. Don't let JDub fool ya, he's makeing me follow him around with a video camara this sping in mexico so's I can record him farming fish after fish....

[John Bell]

Thanxz that was fun.

[FISHINWEAZ]

Totally awesome!!! I really enjoyed that alot. Almost put me in that comfort zone as if I were there myself. That music added alot to it also.
Is that through Power Point? Think my wife's gonna take that in her next class. If so I'm gonna have to study it w/ her.
Bad a#s, thanx again

[Trout4x]

Very nice, wish I was in the water in the video instead of watching it. Nice music gets the heart pumping.

Thanks for the clips.


Trout4x

[fliesone]

Making the videos is becoming as much fun as the fishing.... well, almost!

[fliesone]

Seems you all liked the others, so here are a couple my buddies made. They wrote and played the tunes. They caught some really nice fish. Again, click the link then the camera icon for streaming video (no download reguired). Enjoy!
1) http://www.fliesandfins.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=253&mode=&order=0&thold=0

2) http://www.fliesandfins.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=269&mode=&order=0&thold=0

[Grizz]

YES! One or Two of those a morning would be great! Keep 'em coming.

Looks like some serious fun.

peace

[Marty]

I went to flies and fins, registered and watched all the videos. Fun stuff, I got all kinds of excited when I saw a photo of a run on the Salmon. My last steelhead was landed right where the guy (could have been you) was fishing. You better be careful, you might get some of these trout guys thinking about steelheading. Lets talk flies

[inland]

As much fun as it looks, nymphing steelhead on the SF Clearwater is but one tiny microcosm of what really exists for fishing the Clearwater drainage. The opportunities of experiencing cliche-ist world class sport still exists. Fall fishing. But not the SF. It's a meat and numbers factory. Yes the mainstem is crowded with gear and fly fishers. Yes the river is stingy to those who haven't paid their dues. And even to those who have, she is can still be stingy. The guys who stick it out do so for a few main reasons: It's not popcorn like the Snake, Upper Salmon, and Ronde. (Bragging about a 6 fish day on these rivers is silly.) Each fish truly means something. As a side bonus they grow as big as they get in the lower 48. The Clearwater is a poor mans Thompson.

If I am looking for a quick trip, one that I don't have the time to drive to 'real' steelheading, the upper Salmon is THE option. However everytime I fish up there, it feels weird. There is something not quite right. The canyon below NF is beautiful. Wildlife abounds. It feels like trout fishing, much too close to the Rockies. Unfortunately the fish back this feeling up. They are tired. Real tired. The elevation gains they climb from Riggins to N. Fork seems to zap just about all the juice they have left after crossing 8 dams. I don't blame the fish, they are what they are. The recreation experience is what it is. Night and day difference between tired summer steelhead and those that exist several hundred miles downstream, coastal summer fish, and especially the native coastal winter fish.

William

[spotter]

Good medicine for a long midwestern winter!

SPotter