Its the time of year to get some events going on at the shop here and we figured with the influx of anglers swinging flies and going to switch rods it was a good starting point. Sat February 25th we are pleased to have Will "Castmaster" Turek at the shop to do a presentation on fishing switch rods and swinging streamers for great lakes steelhead and also fly tying expert Greg Senyo will be showing us some great new patterns to swing on those rods. Covering terminology, casting, and actual fishing scenarios Will's program will be a great introduction to those just beginning the process of casting and fishing switch rods while being a good refresher course for those of us that have been at it for a while and begins at 10am. Greg will begin tying around noon and has some great new patterns that trigger that predatory response which induce strikes from steelhead that is key when swinging flies. There will also be some great deals on gear, new fly tying materials and more. Hope to see everyone here as it will be a great program.

The tying instructions for this one can be found in the fly tying blog, have fun, its a good fish catcher and pretty easy to tie.

Greg snapped this pick off me just as i set the hook on a Grand River boulder. I decided to put it in here however because as a photographer it was great timing and anticipation on his part.

Here i am swinging on the Grand but to no avail, i came up empty in this run.

However it was good for some anglers.

Greg displays a fine winter steelhead that took a swung fly very aggressively.

Another Grand river fish pretty fresh from the lake that took a swung fly.

And another one, this angry buck was more than happy to slam a streamer he thought was invading his space.

Kilby has been all fired up lately, he has been walloping the trout at Punderson and is even talking of doing some steelheading.