Kevin Morlock

I spend last Wednesday with friends Paul Drewry and Jim Schramm fishing for steelhead in the Scottville area on the PM River.  Paul picked up one fish first thing in the morning and we didn’t have another bite until late afternoon.  Perfect weather, great companionship but though fishing.

Many people into fly fishing know Jim and his wife Dorothy, Jim is president of the Great Lakes Council of the Federation of Fly Fishers and Dorothy founded Flygirls.  It was special for me to spend a day fishing with Jim, for decades both Dorothy and Jim have dedicated themselves to protecting and enhancing the sport of fly fishing!

We got the steelhead on an experimental streamer… I have been incorporating concepts from Dr. Colin Kageyama’s book What Fish See:  Understanding optic and color shifts for designing lures and flies.  More on this after I spend more time tying and field testing.

Indigo guide Steve Martinez and I had the pleasure of fishing with Matt Dunn form the Fishbeer.com fly fishing blog.  I had meet Matt some time ago and had invited him to come up and fish whenever.  Matt came up over the weekend for some fall steelheading.  We fished Thursday through Sunday and had a great time, though Matt was not able to land a steelhead in the three days.  Sunday was a total blank, not a fish touched by anyone.  Friday and Saturday Matt was able to make contact with several steelhead but again, non ended up in the net.  For all three days Matt swung and stripped large "Kelly Galloup" style streamers, most of these were in the four inch plus range.  These large streamers may lead to a poor hook-up ratio, my landing ratio seems better when I stay in the three inch range for steelhead streamers.

Matt also manages the fly shop at JL Waters in Bloomington, Indiana.  If you get down to Bloomington stop in and check out the shop and say hi to Matt.

Matt’s latest post on Fishbeer.com "the size of the moon" is about his Michigan steelhead trip… you can get his side of the story…