Waited for a minus tide in the early morning and took the fly rod to the beach, waded in to my waist and found a few takers.
These are Dolly Varden Trouts, great fighters on light gear.
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Tying your own fly patterns adds a little more satisfaction. What the heck? ;) ;)
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Sometimes when you see them splashing on the surface and they dont hit your offering, just change something, then Viola!
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Every day you go fishing is another day you got outdoors. Heaven and work can waite. :'( :'(
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Wow, I'm full of envy!
Beautiful pictures and congrats on the great catch!!
Quote from: gstours on April 17, 2018, 04:38:16 PM
These are Dolly Varden Trouts, great fighters on light gear.
Dolly Varden are members of the
Char family they are not Trout.
http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=dollyvarden.main
It is surprising to learn you know how to catch small fish too Gary :)
-steve
Gary - looks like heaven to me :)
Quote from: oc1 on April 17, 2018, 08:27:39 PM
It is surprising to learn you know how to catch small fish too Gary :)
-steve
Steve, the man is a fishing machine. :) Dominick
This looks amazing! Well done on the fish. I admire your well worn fly rod handle, it is clearly doing doing what it is supposed to be doing.
Thanks for the correction and kind words. The icing on the cake 🍰 is when your home made fly actually snickers a 🎣 fishee. When you get alone and collect your thoughts you learn something new about your self.
It's now considered self help. Therapy by the schooled w papers. Survival in a crazy world 🌍.👩⚕️
great fishes outhere amigo, thanks for the pics
Great fish! Who is Dolly Varden anyway?
https://news.orvis.com/fly-fishing/fish-facts-dolly-varden (https://news.orvis.com/fly-fishing/fish-facts-dolly-varden)
What's in a Name?
Most people know that the Dolly Varden is named for a Dickens character, but few know the whole story. One generally accepted account (there are others) is that, in the early 1870s, a group of anglers was looking at some large trout caught from California's McCloud River and known locally as "calico trout." Someone said that there should be a better name for the species, whereupon a young girl of 15 or 16 suggested "Dolly Varden" after a character who wore bright dresses in Dickens's Barnaby Rudge, which the girl had been reading. (A colorful woman's dress named for the character was also in fashion.) Here's the funny part: the fish the men were looking at were almost certainly bull trout and not the species we now call Dolly Varden, as the two were considered the same at the time.
Thanks mr Decker. We are still learning about a fish 🎣 that's very pretty in spots, pink hues, and sometimes plentiful. In my area they are considered trout, as they are a predator of salmon smolts they got a bad rap, maybe like how the bald eagles 🦅 were the reason ranchers were losing young calves or ewes.
We all need to eat. Even wild stock s. Char or trout these are good fighters, and good to eat.🎣
Dolly varden, Arctic char and Bull Trout are all closely related if memory serves me right. Salvelinus(Char)genus. So whats the common name diffrences about? Species?, sub-species?
Ok, hadda look it up. In N. America we got: Lake T., Dolly V. T., Bull T., Silver T., Artic C., Brook T. All diffrent species. Bull trout seem to be a more Southern species, and Artic char mostly in Alaska/Canada. The Silver trout are thought to be extinct and were in a couple of New Hampshire waterways 'till '39.
There's a whole buncha Salvelinus species around the world, esp. in N. Eroupe and Russia/Far East. They seem to be real environmentally sensitive, especially when it comes to temp. range and are the most northern freshwater fish.