VFB'ers... Went camping and fishing Fri. & Sat. couldn't get anyone to go with... wife had to work a concession stand at the baseball field. Glad she didn't try to recruit me, although I offered. She knew I wanted to go fishing... so off I went. Got to the upper north fork of the quinault fri. eve. and set up camp at a primitive campground. Went on a quick half hour fish. Caught a couple of small rainbows, not big but sure liked to tail dance. Missed a couple of heavy strikes. Darn! Then I headed back to camp to get some sleep. Got up early to hit the holes... things seemed a little slow... hiked up stream about 2 miles with little luck. Started noticing some people about. The water is between a campground & a ranger station. Hmm... maybe too much pressure. I packed it in and went downstream from the campground and things started to get a little better. Although I hadn't got too much of any size. I found a black bunny leach kind of thing on the gravel bar next to a deep run and though hmm... maybe. I was just about to try the fly I had found when Wham! My real was screaming. After quite a few runs and into the backing on my 5wt. I landed a nice Dolly. What a rush. I landed him just long enough to get some photo's and back he went. Splashing me with his tail as he darted off as if to say "take that! you lousy food faker. After that I tried the bunny leach for a while (another FF said that is what he uses in the quinault). After no success I switched back to my Angel Hair Muddler and started getting hits again... Well that is about it.
I'll post photo's later if you all want to see a very, very pretty fish all dressed up in polka dots. BP
