I'll sign up for your class Tony.
BC
----- Original Message -----
From: Anthony Gades <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 1:44 PM
Subject: RE: Deer Creek Fish (Regards to the Stilly)
>
> 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.
>
>
