Brad Bohen ties a Hang Time Musky Streamer at last night's presentation
OUR Huge thanks to Musky Country Outfitter’s Brad Bohen for adding a bunch more “frequent driver” miles to deliver a presentation on Wisconsin drift boat musky fishing last night.
Brad lit a fuse under the Journal a couple of years back on musky on a fly rod and it was pretty cool seeing him fire up a bunch of friends and customers with the same passion last night. Our hosted trip to Musky Country is definately ON! We have a prime week of dates picked out for some big musky, all we need to do is finalise some accomodation and then we can go live, so stay tuned.
Don't you want to see what eats this fly?
Brad is not one short of a word or a quotable quote, particularly when discussing his passion, and he had several, one being “become your fly, when discussing presentation and action, which will stay with me for a long time. He was also quick to pick up on the similarities in approach, single mindedness, and techniques between our trophy brown trout streamer fishing and musky hunting. “We are all after that one apex predator”.
The other seriously cool part of the trip was getting to introduce Brad and his travelling companion, the Graphite Samurai himself Jay Johnson, to Ozark fly fishing. JJ and his beard have something of a underground cult status particularly in the Pacific North-West steelhead culture. We share a bunch of mutual friends: nomad guides, travelling fly bums and filmmakers and photographers but apart from a brief introduction at a Denver fly show a few years back we hadn’t actually connected.
Funnily enough it was also Brad and my first meeting, we’d known each other through the interwebs for several years and yakked on the phone and in emails but this was the first time we had got to hang out. In fact our first “internet date” handshake was appropriately captured on digital “film”. If that makes it to print, JJ is going to have a lot to answer for.
Happily we did get some fishing in, JJ caught his first white Bass at Bull Shoals Lake, but we had to leave just as we started to scope some active feeders. The next morning we headed to Rim, which was pretty low, instead of the hoped for streamer conditions and nymphed by some caddis feeders. But once again the fishing picked up hard just when we head to head back to the ramp for the boys to head to Fort Smith.
But it was a hoot and we have a good foundation down for the trip to Hayward in September. Just sorting out accomodations etc and we’ll be able to offer up the package.
