Keith,
I have some fresh hatchery steelhead roe for your winter haunts if you are
interested.
pgp
----- Original Message -----
From: Keith Ayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 11:27 AM
Subject: Re(2): Steelhead Saturday
> Did anyone catch any steelies in any holes besides Fortson?
> I drove down below and went shopping Saturday with my family(since our
> power was out all day) and saw there were a ton of fisherman at Hazel.
> Took last Thurs. off from work and floated the Skagit with my brother. We
> did Swift Creek to Fabers. First stop was Swift Creek bar and my brother
> hooks a Chum on his first cast. He was floating a peach colored jig under
> a bobber. I waded out with my 8 weight and managed to hook several fish...
> all totally kicked my ass and I landed none of them. We had the Swift
> Creek bar all to ourselves till about 9:30am when a couple other guys
> showed up.
> My brother basically couldn't keep the Chums off his peach jig. We worked
> our way downstream targeting Chums that looked aggressive. I found a
> couple nice schools of Coho in some slower water and was able to get 3 of
> them to bite some small flies. One didn't fight at all and the other 2
> gave me about all my 5wt. could handle. I hooked some more Chum on another
> drift and they all smoked me way into my backing before I finally lost
> them.
> All in all it was a very fun day. In addition to the eagles and herons we
> saw 2 beavers cruising around. My brother even got a couple shots off with
> his shotgun at some mallards.
> The chums were by no means thick except at Swift Creek .
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Keith
>
