I appreciate your concern but have no use for your lecture. I take personal
offense at your incredibly rude email. You have no idea of what kind of
fisher I am (or anyone on this list is) or my experience. If you want to
get even the faintest idea of this have a look at:
http://faculty.washington.edu/tgades/
I've been fishing the Stilly for a long time and am well-aware of the deer
creek fish, their history and their current status. I don't need to be told
by someone to go fish that zoo-of-a-fishery around Fortson. If you knew
anything of the river and were even slightly considerate you'd suggest
fishing above mud slide at mermaid - as I did in my email response to the
query about the fishing conditions on the stilly.
Further, given the number of beautiful wild steelhead I caught and released
last year alone, I resent the accusation that I do not know how to do so. I
would state with some certainty that I know more, have more experience and
do a better job at this than the overwhelming majority of fishers.
My running one of my newly tied foam-bodied waking flies through the tailout
below deer creek did not and would not harm anything.
-tony
-----Original Message-----
From: Angela Sienkiewich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 10:23
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Deer Creek Fish (Regards to the Stilly)
Please leave the Deer Creek Steelhead alone.
Since a mud slide nearly wiped them out, and someone correct me if I'm
wrong, only 500 return now a year from 50, instead of the healthy run of
5,000 back in the 60s, it is not a good thing to be targeting them. They
are a very aggressive little summer run that use to have the reputation of
being one of the fiestiest fish to catch on a dry fly but since their
numbers have been decimated to near extinction, due to bad logging
practices (Surprise Surprise). Fishing by the mouth of Deer Creek is not a
good thing. This only applies to their return months of June & July.
Please consult your Steelhead Book about the history of Deer Creek.
They are very fragile and anyone accidentally tiring them out and
exhausting them to death is doing a bad bad thing. Their numbers can't
take a bad C&R.
The Deer Creek fish thank you.
Go fish below Fortson.
