tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52427354596658043042024-03-12T22:36:35.223-07:00Flying Pig Fly Fishing Inc.Of Flying Pigs and Fly FishingLarry Damorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06236165729798732587noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242735459665804304.post-27314316622670510512012-03-24T13:26:00.001-07:002012-03-24T13:26:42.529-07:00Some Nice Words On our Logo From Our Sticker Maker<a href="http://diecutstickers.blogspot.com/2012/03/flying-pig-performance-fly-rods.html?spref=bl">DIECUTSTICKERS.COM | BLOG: Flying Pig Performance Fly Rods</a>: click image above when pigs fly 250 - Digital Die-cut Stickers at 3.25" The Flying Pig is a classic piece of artwork that will beco...Larry Damorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06236165729798732587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242735459665804304.post-16534085304986637352012-03-13T09:27:00.000-07:002012-03-13T09:27:55.643-07:00Midwest Fly Fishing Expo A Raging SuccessThe Midwest Fly Fishing Expo this weekend was our first foray into the show circuit. The show was a complete success. Flying Pig went over exceptionally well with the attendees. We are sure to be part of many fly fishing trade shows in the future!! Below Rob Thompson and Herb Rosin pose for a shot.<br />
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Saturday March 3rd, Temple Theater in Viroqua. Driftless Angler presents the premier of Third Year Fly Fisher's "Heart of the Driftless". Tickets are $5.00 and available through the Driftless Angler. This will be a double feature with "Heart of the Driftless" as well as "Reverb".<br />
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<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}">Get your advanced tickets here:</span><br />
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</div>Larry Damorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06236165729798732587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242735459665804304.post-83986717889416574552012-01-25T11:32:00.000-08:002012-01-25T11:32:14.975-08:00Finally Filled the Liquid Series 4,5,7,8wts now available.<a href="http://www.flyingpigflyrods.com/#!vstc0=liquid" target="_blank">Liquid Series Fly Rods</a>Larry Damorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06236165729798732587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242735459665804304.post-67110934169973120792012-01-13T11:17:00.000-08:002012-01-13T11:17:47.678-08:00Liquid Series Review<a href="http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/honest-angler/2012/01/review-flying-pig-liquid-series-fly-rod" target="_blank">http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/honest-angler/2012/01/review-flying-pig-liquid-series-fly-rod</a>Larry Damorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06236165729798732587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242735459665804304.post-39762913419235016902011-11-23T14:26:00.000-08:002011-11-23T14:26:39.427-08:00Available In Late December<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEnF6DqXUY8Q7SnNE4nlF5ZLZITCfaxkyQw_B8Bo6wGwea5bbH93hIDlikGGmVaFJmuPlHvyjzWgKUErsKqAfsAK80pXJGNVaU1fFHfK5Po6v0QN5epeD9p75_RGiJ6a1l5d0H9yL9mlW7/s1600/IMG_5596.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEnF6DqXUY8Q7SnNE4nlF5ZLZITCfaxkyQw_B8Bo6wGwea5bbH93hIDlikGGmVaFJmuPlHvyjzWgKUErsKqAfsAK80pXJGNVaU1fFHfK5Po6v0QN5epeD9p75_RGiJ6a1l5d0H9yL9mlW7/s320/IMG_5596.JPG" width="277" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #006633;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Shark Tales<span style="font-size: small;"> No More. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Live Sharks Caught in Minnehaha Creek</span></span></span></strong></div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shortly after <i>Jaws</i> opened in Minneapolis theatres back in the summer of 1975, the number of swimmers using our area lakes and pools plunged significantly. So, when a 10 year-old Minneapolis student approached Minnesota DNR biologist Dan Marais about three fossilized shark’s teeth she had found in Minnehaha Creek, he could only smile to himself. More shark tales, he thought. That is, until he actually saw the teeth.</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They did, in fact, come from sharks. However, two of the specimens were clearly not fossils, but teeth shed from a contemporary shark. Curious about the origins, Marais called a colleague at the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife to help identify the teeth and perhaps avoid falling victim to a hoax. What he learned made the small hairs on the back of his neck stand up.</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita last year, a report by Gulf marine scientists had warned that the enormous amount of pollution back-flushed into the Gulf of Mexico would cause many species of marine animals to either relocate or perish. That expected decimation of the food chain led to warnings of a possible migration of coastal sharks into rivers where a higher oxygen content would support more aquatic life. Specifically, they were watching for the common Bull Shark (<i>Carcharhinus leucas</i>). The stuff of legends, this aggressive shark was already known for its ability to live, feed, and even breed in extremely shallow fresh waters. Bull Sharks had previously been documented as </span><a href="http://www.in-fisherman.com/magazine/exclusives/if2105_IllinoisShark/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cccccc;">far north as the Ohio River</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">. They have also been attributed to </span><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/07/0719_050719_bullsharks.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cccccc;">most of the attacks on humans</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> worldwide.</span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lab technicians positively identified these two teeth as having come from a two-to-three year-old Bull Shark. However, it was a semi-classified document dated February 12, 2006 from the Wisconsin DNR that really set the wheels in motion. On that date, ice-diving biologists captured a nearly comatose five-foot Bull Shark in Lake Pepin, a widening of the Mississippi River. They were responding to reports from several startled salvage divers of a sleeping, “shark-like fish” in the open cab of a pickup truck that had gone through the ice a few weeks earlier. The Wisconsin divers located the truck in approximately 18' of water with the shark still inside, apparently hiding from the swift current. But the cold water had slowed its respiration and metabolism so much that it was barely alive. After an examination, the fish was tagged with a radio location device and released back into the river (Wisconsin regulations do not allow the keeping or transport of live, non-game fish). Sadly, marine biologists doubt the fish will survive until summer without the needed quantity of minerals and trace elements found in saltwater.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Worried about the negative effect on local recreation a man-eating shark might possibly cause, Minnesota officials ordered an immediate sweep of Minnehaha Creek. On Saturday, March 26, conservation officers began their search below the falls using ultrasonic stun devices to drive any fish downstream and into gill nets strung across the mouth of the creek. Despite catcalls and hoots from park patrons, the team worked downstream throughout the day and into the night. It was difficult work with shallow water and an unusual number of recently downed trees blocking the creek. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A little after midnight, two juvenile sharks were captured along with dozens of rough fish and several spawning Northern Pike. Both sharks were malnourished and docile, but in overall better health than the larger Lake Pepin specimen. The two fish are now in a special hospital tank at the Minnesota Zoo in Apple Valley, undergoing observation and a slow acclimatization back to salt water. The staff there have named them Lenny and Frankie, after two of the characters from the 2004 animated feature,<i> Shark Tale</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This summer, scientists plan to install experimental freshwater sonar devices to watch for sharks in the two-mile stretch of the Mississippi between the Ford Dam and its confluence with the Minnesota River at Fort Snelling State Park.<br />
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For the safety of its visitors, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board ordered signs prohibiting cliff diving or swimming in or below Minnehaha Falls until further notice.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what about those two teeth? Technicians dated them by comparing tannin stain penetration to known levels in the Creek. They judge that the teeth had been in the creek for 7-10 years. Long before Hurricane Katrina. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Laura Zimmerley, feeling vindicated nowadays, can be heard humming the theme song from <i>Jaws</i>... Dah duh, dah duh</span>Larry Damorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06236165729798732587noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242735459665804304.post-4868068524556511282011-06-14T21:48:00.000-07:002011-06-14T21:48:32.578-07:00Mayfly Emergence<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/XDTMFVHxXLk?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>Larry Damorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06236165729798732587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242735459665804304.post-61892939037395656432011-05-31T05:35:00.000-07:002011-05-31T05:46:47.508-07:00Liquid Series 4wts 25% Off Thru June<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvEz9LKeJ2HOGtNJoJ3SGBJoQbIG_fKmnHCKPJ4DuqjlKUhsSq1qHTb7BPctt2lT-VlmGm4ET7N1JoHjIswTdFVNYcGMg01CjyxqxphFJKuTuRLThwwTBRG_ZgN-RwA29agGPxvdWJVRDr/s1600/100_2405.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvEz9LKeJ2HOGtNJoJ3SGBJoQbIG_fKmnHCKPJ4DuqjlKUhsSq1qHTb7BPctt2lT-VlmGm4ET7N1JoHjIswTdFVNYcGMg01CjyxqxphFJKuTuRLThwwTBRG_ZgN-RwA29agGPxvdWJVRDr/s320/100_2405.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>We have finally received some of our liquid series 4 weights!!! While we wait for the rest of the Liquid line of fly rods due in August we will be offering 25% off on all of our 4 weights. The cost will be $134.99 right thru June. These rods have been described as effortless to cast, and weigh in at an amazing 3.0 oz. We cant wait to get them into peoples hands!! Just follow the link and take a look!!!<br />
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<a href="http://www.flyingpigflyrods.com/#!__fly-rods">http://www.flyingpigflyrods.com/#!__fly-rods</a>Larry Damorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06236165729798732587noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242735459665804304.post-43852822107158417492011-04-27T06:07:00.000-07:002011-04-27T06:09:35.390-07:00Prettiest Brown Trout in Driftless Area WisconsinWe finally got in our first trip to the driftless area this week and might add we did very well. We tried a new stream this time which we found to be loaded with brown trout and fished it for a full 6 hour stretch. The thing I noticed on this stream was that these were some of the most beautiful brown I have ever seen in the driftless. As well as being very bright in color, one of the characteristics that made a great number of them stand out was the bright "blood red" accents that ran the entire length of the top and bottom of the tail fin. I have never seen this so much in the Wisconsin browns? Is this a specific strain quality, or most likely a stream specific trait? Sorry didn't get any pictures to post.Larry Damorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06236165729798732587noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242735459665804304.post-15923742971696737912011-04-14T10:51:00.000-07:002011-04-14T10:51:13.449-07:00Fly Fishing From a Kayak ?I'm not quite sure I get the allure of fly fishing from a kayak. I will make it a point to toss some flies from my sisters this year. With all I've read on it lately it must be the best thing since sliced bread. We will see. Like I said.....I don't get it.<br />
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<h6>Fishing Report</h6>Fishing on the Root River was pretty good this past week. Over the mid-week anglers had some nice trips and were able to land some nice spawning steelhead. Over the weekend, fishing remained pretty fair. Saturday morning and Sunday late afternoon were especially productive. Unfortunately the incidental catches of suckers rose greatly. <br />
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<strong>Lincoln Park</strong> had the most fishing effort. Anglers were stacked close to the weir's downstream refuge and all the way down to the upper river segments of Island Park. The most successful anglers were drifting wet flies or casting small spinners. Many anglers reported success on white and chartreuse colors. Catches rates varied but the majority of harvested steelhead ranged from 4.5-6.5 pounds. <br />
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In <strong>Quarry Lake Park</strong> anglers had mixed success. While fishing for many anglers was slow at times a few anglers were able to land some nice steelhead. Fly fishing was the preferred method but some anglers were also casting spinners or drifting spawn sacs. Location not bait seemed to the biggest factor for success. The middle river segments were slower then the upper segments near the Horlick dam. Further downstream in the middle of the golf course were some very productive holes were the steelhead were holding. <br />
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At the <strong>Horlick dam</strong>, while fishing was a little slower on Saturday, it picked up on Sunday afternoon as the air pressure began to drop. Steelhead were very active at the foot of the dam and a lot were visibly seen jumping into the dam. Only a couple fisherman were out at the time and they had some nice catch rates. The harvested steelhead ranged greatly from 2-8 pounds. While the weir's upper caudal fin clip was found a some the majority were unmarked. This indicates a good amount of steelhead are past the weir and more should make their way upstream this week.Larry Damorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06236165729798732587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242735459665804304.post-64904600242621523492011-04-12T06:50:00.000-07:002011-04-12T06:56:55.062-07:00Rock & Rollers =Trout Bums More Than You ThinkHerb Rosen (back) bass player of the infamous chicago based "The Beer Nuts". Crazy? Or crazy for fly fishing? From The Florida keys to the midwest spring creeks we've tossed many a fly together.<br />
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On Saturday, May 21st, 2011 there will be a Driftless Area Banquet & Fundraiser including a pig & lamb! roast at the West Fork Sportsman's Club. We will also be holding a fundraiser which will include, among other things, both graphite and cane rods to benefit TUDARE, Driftless Area projects; and, the West Fork Sportsman's Club. On that Saturday night we will be honoring Dave Vetrano for all of his years of outstanding and leading edge stream and habitat improvement. It's fitting that we hold this event at the WFSC as it is Grandfather of stream improvement efforts not only in the Driftless Area but nationally as well. TUDARE (Trout Unlimited Driftless Area Restoration Effort) IS the standard for stream and habitat work nationally thanks to the efforts and support of the residents of the Driftless Area, local TU chapters, Jeff Hastings; and, the resources provided by individuals and groups outside of that area. We invite anyone who can read this to join us on May 21st, 2011. We will be inviting all of the MN, IA, WI & IL TU chapters to join us as well. If your chapter or friends are thinking of a spring outing in the Driftless Areas, and why wouldn't you be?, why not schedule it on the week-end of May 20 - 22nd to coincide with our banquet? We will be having free casting lessons, mentoring on the spring creeks, steam side conservation presentations, etc. If you group would like to join us in activities outside of the banquet, please contact me. More updates will be posted here; and, a new site specifically for this event <a class="postlink" href="http://www.springcreekangler.com/">http://www.springcreekangler.com</a>, which will be updated shortly. The Driftless Area is filled with relaxing and wonderful activities for non-anglers as well. From canoe trips down the Kickapoo, winery visits, Amish tours, etc., to just kicking up your heels and relaxing, the Driftless Area is a very special part of the world.Larry Damorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06236165729798732587noreply@blogger.com0