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General RegionThe Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Specific Locationthe yoop
Fish CaughtA lil of everything

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Pryal74November 30th, 2012, 2:37 pm
Escanaba, MI

Posts: 168		Here are our reports... I'm not posting this to advertise... just to show everyone what we have been up to since 2011 until now
http://www.intothewildflyfishing.com/Upper-Peninsula-Michigan-Fly-Fishing-Reports-1.html
-James Pryal
Into The Wild Fly Fishing
DUBBNNovember 30th, 2012, 2:51 pm
Colorado

Posts: 47		You look like you have been busy. Very nice website.
It's OK to disagree with me. I can not force you to be right.
Kschaefer3November 30th, 2012, 4:39 pm
St. Paul, MN

Posts: 376		I've been waiting for these for awhile, Jim. Very nice! I think you caught more fish in the last year than I have my whole life. No doubt I will be making my way up there this spring.
MartinlfDecember 3rd, 2012, 8:45 pm
Moderator
Palmyra PA

Posts: 3233		Nice fish, Jim. Are your steelies and lake run browns from fingering plantings? How about the salmon?
"He spread them a yard and a half. 'And every one that got away is this big.'"

--Fred Chappell
Pryal74December 6th, 2012, 12:56 pm
Escanaba, MI

Posts: 168		@ Kyle... thanks. Glad you had the experience of what fishing is like up here.

@ Martinlf. Some of the browns are from plants, but their are natural reproduction. You can usually tell by the pectoral fins. The planted trout seem to have underdeveloped fins, while the wild trout have fuller and more developed fins.

The Steelhead fall into the same category in some places. However, quite a lot of them are in fact wild.

The salmon all vary depending on what river system we fish.
-James Pryal
Into The Wild Fly Fishing
JesseDecember 6th, 2012, 4:56 pm
Posts: 378		James they are some great photos man i really enjoy seeing beautiful fish like that. Im fortunate to have the opportunity to fish for some lake runners myself, brown trout that is, but nothing of that magnitude. The creeks and lakes around me are very small, and getting a nice laker to take is very tricky. I wish i could say i have the opportunity to swing meat at them or egg for them throughout the day, but its more or less that if your not after them in the worst of conditions they are tough shit. Plus, it would be nice to hook into a beautiful coho or chromer while trying to catch a brown. Good stuff man one day i will make it up to you and we could get something together. How old are you man?
Most of us fish our whole lives..not knowing its not the fish that we are after.
http://www.filingoflyfishing.com
Pryal74December 7th, 2012, 5:19 pm
Escanaba, MI

Posts: 168		@ Jesse. Unfortunately I am 36 as a few days ago. Haha. I kid, I kid. I feel like I am really spoiled here living where I do and getting the opportunity to hook up with some absolute beasts. Lake run fish can be finicky, but proper presentation is the absolute key. You have to find what they are eating and present it as naturally as possible. I'm sure you will do fine man.
-James Pryal
Into The Wild Fly Fishing

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