Steve@BBT
08-16-2006, 12:35 PM
Hey Guys, I'm very, very sorry about the lack of reports these past few weeks, it's just that I've been real busy with one thing or another and unfortunately for the "reports" sake, most of that hasn't had a whole lot to do with fishing. First off, I had 14 of my immediate family members up from the 28th of July thru the 5th of August and had a wonderful time with them. After that I've simply been very busy around the shop and Motel BBT getting things ready for the fall season.
The Family!
http://bbt.steelcity.net/08-04-06-1.jpg
My niece Faith just found out that this is her Grandmother's ashes.
http://bbt.steelcity.net/08-04-06-2.jpg
Between getting the Motel fixed up, putting in fall orders to stock up the shop for all of you ;^) as well as many other projects I'm ashamed to say I've only been on the water twice since the family left. Once I did an instructional type trip with Bob and while we covered a lot of ground from indicator fishing, to C&D, to dry flies, streamers, entomology, etc... We had a great time, but didn't catch much other than a few small fish.
A night or so prior to that John, Carl and I went in to a certain spot we know to be holding a few kings and tried to get them to go, but no hookups other than one nice rock that Carl got! John went back a couple of times afterward however during the day and did get a few good biters along with a couple of foul hookups, but none were landed. We're talking about fixing that sometime very soon...
Carl with a nice catch!
http://bbt.steelcity.net/08-04-06-3.jpg
The water is currently very low and clear with a temp in the mid to high 60s. Word has it that a "few" of the normal early holding spots for the initial early runners have enough Kings in 'em to get a few hook ups, but it'll probably be a few more days yet or even a week before the first good waves hit the lower river. The past couple of years it's been around the 19th when we strike it decent down around Scottville and Custer, but we'll just have to wait and see if that holds true again this year.
Also, from what I understand, night fishing for Browns remains a good way to go for the really big boys, terrestrials during the day with a small nymph dropper can keep the rod bent a fair amount along with the occasional large fish and there are some white flies yet in the evening, BWOs when conditions are right and tricos early morning.
We still have our hands full of projects around here, but the Motel is up and running now (The office/check in is at the shop, but the phone number is 1-231-745-4779), most of our shop stuff is done and we are ready to start fishing again in a big way! Both John and I will be getting out a fair amount from here on out and we WILL start updating our reports at least a couple times a week from here on out with first hand information. Again, I apologize for the serious lack of attention to that recently, I haven't even hardly looked at a computer screen until today...
FYI: We are offering half day trips from now thru the end of the month for hardware and/or fly early King scouting in the lower river as well as our normal full day trips for Kings or Trout. The calendar is fairly open for both of us until the end of the month and then the openings are "currently" Steve: September 1st, 5th, & 6th October 6th, 9th, 11th and then more... John: September 4th, 5th, 6th, 17th, 18th & 28th October 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, 12th and then more... Come join us for an enjoyable time on the water and don't forget, we can lodge you too!
I'm going to cut this off now and get back to a few of those projects, but I will be updating very soon again with more detailed info. John's report page can be found by clicking here (http://www.fishbaldwin.com/Reports/reports.cfm?author=John) and he'll be updating that very soon.
Tight lines all,
Steve
The Family!
http://bbt.steelcity.net/08-04-06-1.jpg
My niece Faith just found out that this is her Grandmother's ashes.
http://bbt.steelcity.net/08-04-06-2.jpg
Between getting the Motel fixed up, putting in fall orders to stock up the shop for all of you ;^) as well as many other projects I'm ashamed to say I've only been on the water twice since the family left. Once I did an instructional type trip with Bob and while we covered a lot of ground from indicator fishing, to C&D, to dry flies, streamers, entomology, etc... We had a great time, but didn't catch much other than a few small fish.
A night or so prior to that John, Carl and I went in to a certain spot we know to be holding a few kings and tried to get them to go, but no hookups other than one nice rock that Carl got! John went back a couple of times afterward however during the day and did get a few good biters along with a couple of foul hookups, but none were landed. We're talking about fixing that sometime very soon...
Carl with a nice catch!
http://bbt.steelcity.net/08-04-06-3.jpg
The water is currently very low and clear with a temp in the mid to high 60s. Word has it that a "few" of the normal early holding spots for the initial early runners have enough Kings in 'em to get a few hook ups, but it'll probably be a few more days yet or even a week before the first good waves hit the lower river. The past couple of years it's been around the 19th when we strike it decent down around Scottville and Custer, but we'll just have to wait and see if that holds true again this year.
Also, from what I understand, night fishing for Browns remains a good way to go for the really big boys, terrestrials during the day with a small nymph dropper can keep the rod bent a fair amount along with the occasional large fish and there are some white flies yet in the evening, BWOs when conditions are right and tricos early morning.
We still have our hands full of projects around here, but the Motel is up and running now (The office/check in is at the shop, but the phone number is 1-231-745-4779), most of our shop stuff is done and we are ready to start fishing again in a big way! Both John and I will be getting out a fair amount from here on out and we WILL start updating our reports at least a couple times a week from here on out with first hand information. Again, I apologize for the serious lack of attention to that recently, I haven't even hardly looked at a computer screen until today...
FYI: We are offering half day trips from now thru the end of the month for hardware and/or fly early King scouting in the lower river as well as our normal full day trips for Kings or Trout. The calendar is fairly open for both of us until the end of the month and then the openings are "currently" Steve: September 1st, 5th, & 6th October 6th, 9th, 11th and then more... John: September 4th, 5th, 6th, 17th, 18th & 28th October 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, 12th and then more... Come join us for an enjoyable time on the water and don't forget, we can lodge you too!
I'm going to cut this off now and get back to a few of those projects, but I will be updating very soon again with more detailed info. John's report page can be found by clicking here (http://www.fishbaldwin.com/Reports/reports.cfm?author=John) and he'll be updating that very soon.
Tight lines all,
Steve