Jay, you know those are like unicorns, they don't exist

A video clip from the original Alaska Outdoors Television pilot episode fly fishing for salmon sharks.

Comments

[camO]

i want to see the fly.....

[Tom G.]

I guess some fish are not meant to be landed, and or fished for with a fly rod!..lol..

[professor]

Best comment of the video: "Hang on to him Tony, he's a big one."

No shit?

[Big shark]

Wow trolling for shark with a fly rod. Why not use regular gear? Is trolling with a fly rod still fly fishing?

[joker status]

i would have shoved a piece of chum into Tony's mouth if he was my client on my boat

[driftlessmachine]

was that nickelback playing in the intro?

[cseverin&2]

Very cool none the less. Need heavier gear obviously. There whole body is like sandpaper, pretty hard to land when they get twisted up like that.

[deathroe]

"They explode all over the place.."

[Tim Delarm]

I produced this video in 2005 as a pilot show for Alaska Saltwater ESPN2 - its current title is Alaska Outdoors Television. As a kid we often netted several of these salmon sharks in our salmon seines commercial fishing and since it has become a sport among the local Alaskans. I decided Jim Teeny and Tony Weaver (#6 licensed U.S. Master fly caster) would be the perfect match to battle these sharks on fly rods for our pilot program. Landing them on steel cables was a given and anyone could do that but for fair chase we choose 12 to 18wt rods and a few Pheasants as our tool to conquer on fly rods. The boat driver is a friend of ours and not our guide and too had fun. We had two on as you see and WX prevented us from any success the next day. We proved you could land these monsters on flies, getting them to the boat is a different story.

There was some trolling, and a ton of flinging flies the weight of a Pheasant. To have either one of these guys as client would give the best fly caster a run for his money hands down. I was lucky to have them on board.

Alaska Outdoors Television
Tim Delarm
www.alaskaoutdoorstelevision.com