Product Shots — Homewater Rod Series

We’re very excited to introduce our Homewater rods featuring Fetha Styx exclusive blank designs made by Gary Loomis and North Fork Composites. Currently the series is composed of a Salmon/Steelhead line, a Freshwater line and a Bass line. Manufactured in the USA and featuring counterbalanced Fuji Alconite guides and high-end Fuji or cork reel seats; portions of proceeds will go towards the Fetha Styx Foundation, which supports waterway conservation. Watch Derek show World Fishing Network the Homewater rods here.

Product Shots — NASCAR Rod Series

Check out the new NASCAR rods up close!

Fetha Styx NASCAR series features five different drivers: Mark Martin #5, Danica Patrick #7, Jeff Gordon #24, Jimmie Johnson #48 and Dale Earnhardt Jr #88.

Gina and Derek Introduce Our Niche Market Rods and New Homewater Series

The World Fishing Network crew graciously stopped by the Fetha Styx booth to talk about our niche market rods for firefighters, police officers (True Hero series), conservation charities (CCA series) and NASCAR fans, as well as our new Homewater series. Read more »

Fetha Styx at ICAST 2010! — UPDATED

Here are some photos of our ICAST booth setup, including our new NASCAR rod series, our True Hero series and our CCA series. Read more »

Team Fetha Styx at 2010 Washington Governor’s Cup Walleye Tournament

The Washington State Governor’s Cup was held at Kettle Falls on the beautiful Lake
Roosevelt on June 26th and 27th. There were 89 teams that competed in this year’s
tournament. Out of a possible 1068 fish that could be weighed in, the 89 teams brought
in 1047 fish to the scales. Many teams reported catching 30 to 40 fish per day. There are
a lot of walleye in Lake Roosevelt and the number of fish that were brought to the scales
over this two day tournament is a testament to how incredible and healthy this fishery is.

Team Fetha Styx had a good game plan going into this year’s Governor’s Cup based upon
our pre-fishing results, but as with any tournament, conditions do change and we found
this to be true on Saturday. After day one, we were sitting in 32nd place with a total
weight of 8.42 lbs. The leaders were at 15.78 lbs and we were almost 2 lbs behind 10th
place so Jeff and I knew we had to adapt our fishing if we wanted to have a chance at a
top 10 finish.

When Sunday morning came, we decided to focus on fishing deeper water current
breaks and points that were closer to the main channel and oh did it pay off. We were
immediately rewarded with better quality fish up to 20”. After catching and sorting
through around 30 fish we were able to weigh in 6 fish for 11.66 lbs. Our two day total
of 20.08 lbs was good enough for a 7th place finish.

The next tournament for Team Fetha Styx is July 25th and 26th. The Spokane Walleye
Club presents the Washington State’s Walleye Championship back at Kettle Falls and the
winner is guaranteed a top prize of $10,000. Team Fetha Styx is currently in 3rd place in
the Angler of the Year standings and this will prove to be an exciting finish to this year’s
Washington State Walleye Circuit.

Rod Hewitt
Jeff Dickinson

Current WSWC Standings

DON GHRAMM
470.86

GREG OSBORNE
432.34

ROD HEWITT
425.54

STAN ROMIG
425.47

JIM STACK
406.08

KEVIN STACK
406.08

JIM STACK
406.08

STEVE ROMIG
397.38

RICK SUTHERLAND
395.24

TOM MORROW
395.24

The Latest and Greatest Fishing Report with Bonner Daniels

Summer . . . well I think it’s summer, but I’m still not sure. Actually the weather from a fisherman’s point of view has been excellent. Read more »

Hawg Quest catching HUGE salmon in Kodiak Island, Alaska

After traveling to the far reaches of salmon travel in Kodiak Island, Alaska to the famed Keani river — we were filming for an upcoming episode of Hawg Quest trying to catch that elusive 100lb king salmon — we realized that the best fishing is really right here on the Snohomish river system. As hard as that is to believe, we struggled to get fish in some of the the best salmon waters in the world.  All the while Bonner is sending me pix of steelhead and king limits almost everyday right here in Washington. We will be right here on the Snohomish system for the next month or so with the fishing only going to get better and better. If you want to go after some truly special fishing, give me a call and don’t miss out.

Tall Tails Guide Service

The Latest and Greatest Fishing Report with Bonner Daniels

The Skykomish River opening day fishing report. The water WAS a beautiful, deep green in the upper river, and little more colored up the lower you went, with the color coming from the Wallace and Sultan rivers and the river was running 6,900 CFS and 49 degrees. Read more »

60-pound King Salmon Caught in Kodiak, Alaska

Glenn Hall caught this 60lb king salmon a week ago in Kodiak, AK on Fetha Styx new downrigger rod, the FS-DRP 934-2 which is 9ft 3in and rated 8-18lbs. Read more »

Trophy Bass on Potholes Reservoir with Bonner Daniels

I was over fishing on the Potholes Reservoir last weekend. Tyson Ahina, Bob Jorgensen and I were catching large and smallmouth bass between two and six pounds on soft plastics, along with jerk baits. The bass were both in spawn and pre-spawn mode. The weather was great. The fish are all in great condition and very scrappy. We catch and release ALL of our trophy bass.

When we are looking for table fare, we catch walleye.

This year has been great with limits being the norm for my boat. We mainly troll spinners and crankbaits for the fish we target. We also release the trophy walleye we catch, but all the rest are headed for the deep fryer

If you’re looking for a nice change of pace, the Eastside has some truly wonderful warm water fisheries. Give me a call and let’s go catch some fish.

Sincerely,

Bonner Daniels
Bonnerfishon.com
425-281-8772