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Originally Posted by BS2
Dream Trip:
Jurassic Lake Argentina!
Huge Rainbows, GREAT Food!
Caught a 24 pounder last Fall!
Do a search..........
Trip of a life time!


Laguna Verde was the lodge I stayed at... was very good, though we had incredible winds. Hard to fish in 100km winds.


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I have gotten some incredible fishing on remote waters all over Alaska. I also guided on Kodiak for years.


Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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Originally Posted by Sitka deer
Originally Posted by BS2
Dream Trip:
Jurassic Lake Argentina!
Huge Rainbows, GREAT Food!
Caught a 24 pounder last Fall!
Do a search..........
Trip of a life time!


Laguna Verde was the lodge I stayed at... was very good, though we had incredible winds. Hard to fish in 100km winds.


Yes, it does get windy!

That is where a fast action rod helps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afcg1H2MRN0

This is a good video.

This is where I stayed, just a short walk from fishing!

https://www.jurassiclake.com/

Last edited by BS2; 07/24/20.

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Originally Posted by BS2
Originally Posted by Sitka deer
Originally Posted by BS2
Dream Trip:
Jurassic Lake Argentina!
Huge Rainbows, GREAT Food!
Caught a 24 pounder last Fall!
Do a search..........
Trip of a life time!


Laguna Verde was the lodge I stayed at... was very good, though we had incredible winds. Hard to fish in 100km winds.


Yes, it does get windy!

That is where a fast action rod helps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afcg1H2MRN0

This is a good video.

This is where I stayed, just a short walk from fishing!

https://www.jurassiclake.com/


Did you fish right in the river mouth?


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Originally Posted by Sitka deer
Originally Posted by BS2
Originally Posted by Sitka deer
Originally Posted by BS2
Dream Trip:
Jurassic Lake Argentina!
Huge Rainbows, GREAT Food!
Caught a 24 pounder last Fall!
Do a search..........
Trip of a life time!


Laguna Verde was the lodge I stayed at... was very good, though we had incredible winds. Hard to fish in 100km winds.


Yes, it does get windy!

That is where a fast action rod helps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afcg1H2MRN0

This is a good video.

This is where I stayed, just a short walk from fishing!

https://www.jurassiclake.com/


Did you fish right in the river mouth?


You could if you wanted to.

There was a highway of fish waiting to go up the river. You could fish the left or the right side of them. So that you didn't fowl hook them. Or you could go up stream a bit and sight fish.

On the far right side, you could wade out a bit and fish parallel to the shore. One day, every cast was a hook up, OK, some times I had to make three casts to hook one. Amazing!!!

It was early and cold, the fish bit in streaks, but when they were biting, just WOW!

It was Halloween day that I caught the 24 pounder, great fight.

Richard [another guest] caught the most beautiful 20 pounder, what a gorgeous fish!

Last edited by BS2; 07/27/20. Reason: SP

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Originally Posted by LJBass
Anybody want to share your dream trips, and your reason?


I guided to pay for college. We fished flies for half pounders in the late summer and early fall, 13-15 inch juvenile steelhead for the most part with a few slightly larger, then switched to lures and bait for the adult winter steelhead. There was a summer run of adult fish but we never targeted them because there weren't enough to justify guiding and it was a busy time of year for gardening and preparation for the fall season which was our bread and butter. Though I have had customers catch big steelhead on flies, I've always been on the oars, not fishing.

Most of the flies I used guiding were flies my mom tied. She died in '92. I still have some of her flies.

I have many dreams but my "biggest" personal fly fishing dream is to catch my first big steelhead on a mom-tied "bug".

Tom


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Originally Posted by 1minute
For a dream trip if one knows what he's doing and also knows the water, DIY. If not, then a guide responding to a thousand of your questions is the way to go. When I moved to the PNW, steelheading was new to me and uneventful for two seasons. One trip with a long term guide, and I'll catch them if they're there.


Pretty much agree, especially of you are fishing a new species like steelhead.

I fish the eastern shore Lake Michigan tributaries for both steelhead & salmon, & timing is crucial, as is various types of rigging & access to enough water to find fish, so you really, really need a guide.

I fish pretty exclusively with flies & there's more than 1 way to rig & fish, depending on the water, & the only way you learn that is with time or someone showing you.

And you need to book a guide very early, 9-12 months is not at all unusual.

If you decide to fish GL steelhead in Michigan, let me know if I can give you any more info.

MM

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