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To: pezz who wrote (528)	11/1/2000 9:37:03 AM
From: Angler	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1412

To lighten your day: We remarked that the Steelhead and Salmon travel over 100 miles to reach their spawning grounds - a marvelous trek running the gauntlet. The King Salmon Chinooks peculiar to our region are in a heavy run this season with fish commonly caught up to 45 lb. on the big rivers trolling. To see a fish held at the chest level with tail dragging the ground is spectacular to say the least. My neighbor and I decided to try the upper reaches of the Feather yesterday as the water is quite low. As expected carcasses of dead salmon lined the banks and the smell of rotten cheese was everywhere. I always use flies, have for 60 years; he was using an orange flatfish. Spawners were digging retts and dropping eggs in small riffles near the shore with great activity and splashing. Knowing that Steelhead were in the habit of lurking and laying back below these blockbusters looking for their tasty roe, I had begun casting over them my 8 1/2 ft. 4oz. old Fenwick using a floating dry line with a medium sinking tip. The 9 ft.leader was tapered (my knots)to 5 lb.test at the tip and the streamer was a size 6 3X long Wooly Worm I construct out of orange chenille overwrapped Palmer style with grey chicken hackle giving it a real buggy look. The 60 ft. of line I was casting was pushed around a lot by moving giants while it coursed along but managed to complete an arc. Checking my watch, I noticed it was 4PM and the sun was topping the trees when suddenly I got a heavy strike. Not a snag again. No. The line began to move strongly out into the 100 ft. main wide riffle. This fish turned out to be a fresh Chinook as he went to the air 3X. Once he came into the shallows. I could see the BB shot above the water line. As it turned out that was my only chance without a net or someone else along with me. From that point on it was back and forth as he chose to run up stream and down in a narrow holding range. Finally, he turned and headed down into the fast run dragging off 150 ft. of linen backing burning my snubbing finger. I held him there unwilling to chase after him over the rocks. The fly pulled loose and came back to me intact. It was 5PM and turning dusk, but he was mine for an hour. The only way to land this fish was to tire him out and keep down below him so the current worked against him or skid him in quickly when he first turned close to the shallow shore. Hindsight. I knew when he hit the run going down it was bye bye. Angler

To: pezz who wrote (528)	5/23/2001 12:11:29 PM
From: pezz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1412

Well, here I am in a catskill library checkin my stocks...........Again it's been raining since the day after I got here!#%@##&. Oh well fishin in the rain in the Catskills is better than talkin about it in LA. The first day here I got a resident 17 inch brownie onna Hopper outa Calcune Creek. Took almost five minutes to bring'em in without a net and 5x. Been runnun family errands for the last few days but gonna spend some time on the Delaware and Beaverkill no matter what the water conditions...Just for the hellovit I'll keep the thread posted.