Fishing Magician Weekly Report - Dave Graybill

Friday, October 26

I had a spectacular day of fly fishing on the Methow River last week. I was invited by my fishing buddy Jim Passage to join him for a day on the river with guide Jeff Brazda, and this was only my second time fly fishing the river in recent years.

We used indicators with two flies below it, and tossed them into holes that Brazda pointed to as we floated down the river.

He knew a lot of spots, and we were busy. We missed a bunch of fish, but both Jim and I managed to hook some.

We lost a couple, but at the end of the day we had a nice stringer of hatchery steelhead to take home. It is a very exciting way to fish.

Brazda would control the boat so that we got long drifts out of our casts. He made very few changes in our flies during the day. He knew what they wanted.

He did make constant adjustments to the distance from the indicator to the flies as the depth changed, much like what we do when fishing a bobber and jig.

The last fish I got I had to chase down stream about 100 yards. What fun!

Monday, October 29

I will be adding an exciting new feature to the FishingMagician.com web site beginning in November.

Both the Fishing TV and Cooking TV Shows will be available through the web site and viewers may watch each episode at any time.

Starting with the shows in November, it will be possible to open the Fishing or Cooking TV pages, see the shows available for the month and simply click on the "Watch Now" tag next to the episode that you want to watch.

The viewing window will allow you to pause and fast forward like a normal video.

I think you will be impressed with the quality of shows that are currently being scheduled, and I am creating new shows all the time High Definition format.

These will be added as we enter the seasons for which they are relevant.

I have a large audience viewing the shows via streaming on a local cable network, but they have to be viewed at the time the shows were being broadcast. Now you can watch the shows at times that are convenient for you; anytime and anywhere that you have a connection.

It is my hope that this will greatly expand the access to these entertaining and educational programs - the only ones dedicated to our region and locally produced.

Wednesday, October 31

My wife Eileen and I took our last trip in my Jetcraft Discovery 1925 last week.

A good friend of mine has decided to buy it, and we wanted one more day to enjoy this great boat.

It's steelhead season and she loves to fish at Bridgeport, so off we went. We started off casting bobbers and jigs at the hole near the outflow of the Colville Tribal Hatchery.

The first fish I got was a small king, but after a few more casts I got a nice hatchery steelhead for the cooler.

We fished the shoreline below here and then ran up to the bridge. This hole can be difficult as there is often quite a bit of current and there are some very large boulders under the surface that are real jig grabbers.

I was about to give up on it, but had noticed some fish rolling in a seam at the very bottom end.

I thought that they might be kings, but there was at least one steelhead there. It grabbed my jig and gave me a great battle.

It was a big wild fish that I released. We got a couple more kings and a triploid, and it was a great goodbye trip.

My new Kingfisher is on its way from the factory in Vernon, B.C. I'll tell you all about it when it gets here.