>Jeez, Leland, I thought the method you describe is how a person is supposed >to fish euphausids/amphipods to porpoising fish moving upcurrent. I didn't >realize there was another alternative method (stripping them in? like >baitfish?) > >Richard > >-----Original Message----- >From: Leland Miyawaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Monday, January 22, 2001 9:09 AM >Subject: Re: The Narrows > > >>>It was old home day at the Narrows yesterday among the 13 or so fly >anglers >>>there were 5 of us from the list. Leland, Bill, John, Tom, and myself and >>>maybe more we didn't meet. Buy we were out in full force. Report same as >>>usual, everybody caught fish but me so you'll have to ask them for the >>>details. >>> >>>Tight lines my friends, >>> Charlie >> >>Here's a few details. There have been silvers at Doc's since early >>December. It has been a late afternoon/evening fishery with about a 30 >>minute bite. The fish are both marked and unmarked and have been running >>between 12 and 16 inches. I had been catching them on tiny, one inch, >>sparse candlefish clousers tied on #10 hooks. I say had been, because on >>saturday, the ball game changed a bit and it was reinforced sunday evening. >> >> >>I had been switching between the candle clouser and a #10 pearl and white >>crazy charlie with a krystal flash tail for the last month on the theory >>that there wasn't a whole lot of any one feed in the water. Saturday >>evening, I got over a dozen hits and landed four on the pearl and white >>crazy charlie. I believe the other guys were using clousers. John Abbott >>switched to a pink shrimpy-like fly and picked up a fish immediately. Last >>evening, there were seven flyfishers at Doc's and I believe I was the only >>one who picked up any fish. I caught them all on a pink and white charlie. >> >>Last evening, there were more fish rising than I have seen before. >>Forgetting the happy jumpers, the riseforms of the feeding fish are >>predominately small dimples and slow purposeful porpoising which indicate >>euphasids and/or amphipod feeding. Besides the fun of fishing small little >>nothing flies for salmon, Rick Bell and I have been working on another >>technique. You might want to try this if the fish are doing their porpoise >>thing, which is always in the current seams a tournament distance cast >>away. Use a dryline and a long (at least 10 feet) leader to 3x and your >>favorite small krill pattern weighted with beadchain eyes. Pick a spot with >>walking speed current (think steelhead holding water), that is UPTIDE of >>the feeding salmon, wade up to your elbows, cast the bejeezus out of your >>line, quartering downtide, make an immediate uptide mend to slow down the >>drift, and let your fly swing SLOWLY into the pods. Do not strip as you do >>with clousers. Think (?) and act like krill and simply drift with the >>current to the fish. You might twitch every so often to maintain contact >>with your fly. This technique worked for me last March at the Narrows under >>the same conditions and seems to be paying off again this year. >> >>Leland. >> >> > >
