Posts tagged 'Arctic Grayling'

One sublime sunny afternoon a few years back I was fishing a classic northern Alberta grayling stream that tumbled over ...

The Dahlberg Diver landed with a plop a couple of feet from the edge of a large promising weed bed. The first strip of line made the fly do exactly what it was supposed to, submerge with an audible ""GLORP"" and then resurface.

Two of the top commandments of the modern dry fly code is to present an ...

If there is one thing stream fishing does, it has made me pare down all my gear to the absolute essentials. There’s something about trekking many kilometres through the bush along stream banks and such that screams for the need to ...

Beauty is a highly subjective notion, yet ironically, one that all of us deem ourselves qualified to state authoritatively on. Over time I’ve come to believe that the Arctic grayling personifies all that I consider beautiful in a fish, though I find great difficulty in articulating a defense of this assessment when challenged by those who view it as little more than a whitefish that showed up overdressed to daily roll call. The piscatorial list of traits that typically contribute to a fish ascending to the throne of elegance and desire are, by and large, absent in grayling when evaluated by even the most biased of anglers. 

I am an avid ice fisher and I’ll chase everything that swims through the hard stuff. I’ve caught browns, rainbows, brookies, lakers, walleye, whitefish, pike, perch, burbot, and even arctic grayling. I’ve found a lot of things work, but one of the least utilized; yet more effective presentations is the setline.