NOOKSLAYER NOT ON A FLYROD….banging steel. It’s beautiful like a song bird in the morning at camp. Or something like that…..you can see it chroming out on film. Great job on the filming by BB….
8 steelhead weekend
I raced out of the office at 2pm sharp on Friday and shot across town to my house where Team Salmon was already waiting. A mad scramble to pack a bag (for some reason getting up at 3:45 every day isn’t conducive to schedule in packing time..) and we were a two car caravan down the road. Sal Monidae and Big Burge would accompany me on this evening fish….with a nice early start planned for Saturday.
With the water so high everywhere, there were hardly any people out on the rivers. Either day. It was great. This fish were pretty much right where you knew they’d be with record high flows for the date in question on many rivers and streams: At the bank. I did end up hooking two fish in the middle of a run…but that’s because I knew there was a gravel bar that fingered up….otherwise the three others I got into were at my feet. Here’s a picture below of the fish that was small enough for me to land in that high flow; four others were not. Big Burge went 1 for 1 with a nice little Native released as well. That kid has four steelhead and salmon in the last six weeks. Kudos.
Here’s me on Friday night with a nice little native…
That night we had another TS member roll into our camps motel. This was most excellent that he made the drive after a long week and even with his wife’s blessings. You guys know who you are! Thanks for encouraging Nook to make the trip. Nook and I were up until midnight tying rigs and rigging rods while Big Burge pre-threaded plastics on the comforter of the bed. At 4am the next morning, the curtain’s over the window looked something like this:
Float rods o’plenty….
The three of us lost Sal the night before to a forthcoming Saturday morning meeting he could not miss….but ICE made the solo run and filled his spot. Four rods in the water, for the most part, yielded us 8 fish hooked in the two day trip. Now enjoy the real fruits of our labor with this week’s ALLAROUNDANGLER VIDEO DIARY. This is where the real story is:
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another classic Heller. Money
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Way to go Nookslayer! I like the nymph fishing with a bait caster and bobber. Not quite the high quality of a fish on the fly but pretty good anyway. It looked like a dandy fish.
Sal
Yeah, I was a bit rusty on the rod but I’m pretty sure I didn’t have a very good hook set hense the long line release. It was a blast to fight though. Need to go get some more metal before I start chasing trout over on the D.
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