My Life My Way

Hunting For Pike, Surface Fly Retrieval    Flash forward now to March of 2014.  At this time I was just starting to tie my own flies under strict supervision of my father in law George. As I advanced so did my desire to make all types of flies and streamers.   While thinking about Pike fly patterns I had one of those "light bulb" moments. Why not use modern day resources to find out who is fishing for Pike on the fly. So I went hunting for videos on YouTube. What I came up with was a channel called flytying.eu, based out of Denmark. This site, combined with their YouTube channel, was my inspiration for the coming Pike season. My First Four Pike Flies   I did find one item a bit frustrating, the lack of materials available in my city to replicate the patterns I found on line. However, I did my best with what materials I could dig up and feel accomplished with the product I was able to produce in the end.   With having felt like I succeeded in the "Pike Fly&q

First Northern Pike On A Surface Fly   Every adventure we start in life begins with a conversation.  My conversation / adventure began in the winter of 2012. I guess you could say that I started the conversation about catching Walleye and Northern Pike on the fly.  I started grilling my fly fisherman father in law about the subject to which I was surprised he had limited knowledge on. Since he has over thirty years plus experience with the sport I surely thought he would have tapped into these fish at some point. So I put forth a challenge for the two of us, to make it our mission, starting spring of 2013 to land one of these beasts on the fly.  I was surprised to find out that this method of fishing, for these fish species, is pretty much and untapped market in Canada. So, throughout the winter I looked into what weight of fly rod I should start with, what flies people have used and a general technique & approach to fly fishing for these fish species.  The easy part was