Entries by Jon Ray

8 Questions and Answers with the DNR

Check out the questions and answers that the DNR gives about the 75% decrease in Salmon. Link   If you have read this post already sorry for the repost, lost a few post to a bad back-up system.  Thank you for your continued patience

Abel Reels – Pic of the Day

Abel Reels Instagram Account posts an image of Sean’s biggest Muskie to date. Nice work Sean. Sean Hickey with 2 big handfuls of Muskie caught on his Super 9/10N Muskie finish reel. Sean enjoyed watching this fish follow, and then grab the fly, but in keeping with his locally learned etiquette we could only pry […]

Sun Shirt in WY

Dan Challa sent in this great pic of himself sporting the Mangled Fly Performance Shirt and a beautiful cutthroat from his recent trip to WY.  Thanks for sharing Dan looks like a great trip.    

Clean your waders and boots

This was sent to me by the DNR and wanted to share as more and more invasive species enter our water systems, it’s becoming very important to clean our waders and wading boots.  The .PDF  is an 11 page document discussing wader & boot cleaning. Hi Jon,   I was recently passed a note from […]

ESPN 30 for 30

Good Friend Jeremy Turner shared this with me, if you can find this episode make sure to check it out.  Mangled Fly has worked with Jeremy before and his music talents are first class. – www.hearjt.com   This Friday, September 11th, ESPN will premiere a new 30 for 30 film after the national moment of […]

Help stop the spread

The DEQ has announced that it has found two new invasive species in Michigan rivers. The Pere Marquette River near Ludington has New Zealand mud snails and the St Mary’s river has didymo (rock snot). Read the announcement here, by the DEQ.  Both of these species are very harmful  to our rivers and the fish we pursue. To […]

Erik Rambo with a great pic

Amazing image by @erik.rambo ・・・ Decided to get up at 3 am to hike in 3miles to shoot a sun rise of The loch. The good light and glow fizzled out with over cast skies. Still amazing. #rmnp #nps #wow #100years #colorado A photo posted by Mangledfly (@mangledfly) on Sep 3, 2015 at 7:21am PDT