Absolutely! A story that I tell is the time that I hooked two steelhead on
two consecutive casts with no hook pt! There were steelhead laying below
the Fall City Bridge, in September, in very low water; you could see them
from the high bank. I ran home and got my wife to bring her car and the
cam-corder. With her elbows rested on the open window of the car, I waded
out from the beach below the bridge and just above the fish. In my haste, I
quickly false cast line as I waded out. The very first cast I made, a
steelhead surfaced and grabbed my waking fly; off he went only to throw the
hook. On the very next cast, instant replay, another good take and off he
went. After losing it on the first run, I stripped in and checked my hook.
Just enough steel to hold the feathers they were grabbing! I had ticked the
beach on one of those false casts. The fly, greatly excellerates as you
initiate the forward cast and few hook points can withstand rock contact.
By the way, we've had several days of front page coverage of the anticipated
steelhead season on the Salmon River here in Idaho. We are thawing now and
there is much anticipation of great fishing. Last year was the best return
to the Salmon in 10 years!!! With all the dams and distance for our fish to
go, how can we have record runs when the Puget Sound Rivers are down and
closed??
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 7:20 PM
Subject: RE: brittle hooks
> No hook will stand up to a beating against rocks. Tiemco hooks are as
high
> of quality as you can buy. The problem is your backcast, not the hook.
You
> need to stop at 1:00 or before with enough power to keep you backcast
high.
> One way to think of it is that the horizontal plane of your cast needs to
be
> tilted forward when you have a problem with rocks behind you. If the
> terrain behind you still limits your cast then a roll cast is called for.
>
> good luck,
>
> Keith Bell
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 7:53 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: brittle hooks
>
>
> Fished Whidbey intensive middle two weeks of February.
> Did well. One 20 inch SRC. However, lost many hook tips on
> backcasts during high tide. Used Tiemco salt water hooks for the first
> time. They seem to be aluminum. Not worth the price.
> Bruce Carpenter
> Clinton
>
>
>
