Jere,
How far is good (when casting) enough to go with you on your trips? How much do you
charge for a steelhead trip?
Justin
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 08:44:52 -0700 jcrosby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>Had a fun day with a fly angler from Dallas yesterday on the Snoqualmie.
>Kings are dying, thinning out and Steelhead have moved back onto the drifts.
>A silver slab came out of the water as we passed through the David Powell
>run that lots of bank anglers frequent. The fellow that fished with me
>chose to fish the upper run rather than my SCR haunt because of the
>asthetics of the upper river and he said that he could lay out line fairly
>well. As it were, his loops were a little bit too open and the fly would
>land with slack. Too make the story shorter, he just couldn't quite get the
>"swing of it" and after an hour or so, he handed me the rod and said that he
>needed a rest. Yep! Not to embarrass the customer, the first cast I made
>and the big swirl and off he went...two, three jumps and then as big a
>steelhead as I've had on in awhile headed up river and never stopped. I
>handed the rod to the customer, pulled the anchor and headed for the beach,
>but the hook straightened out. I have to say, I was as excited and shaken
>as any rookie could ever be.
>My client caught a number of sea-runs, but no more steelhead. We did spot
>quite a few fish throughout the river. On Tues., I had a client land a very
>large SRC and then break off another beauty after we saw it rise behind a
>brush pile. I pushed the boat in behind the snags, he laid out a good cast
>next to the stickup, the water exploded and his fly parted. Jere
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