How big are the cohos running?
By the way, my virus is cured. I'm so happy.
We are going to Henry's Fork but will be hitting the Couer 'd Alene River
on the way over and back. And we will be pulling our new Starcraft travel
trailer, so we won't be sleeping in the bunk house. We would like to have
some meals with you guys though. How should we work this out? Advise on
financial arrangements and food we should bring. Thanks.
Les
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leland Miyawaki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 4:41 PM
Subject: Narrows Report, May 25, 26, 27 & 28
> On Friday, the 25th I fished a couple hours with nary a hit or a sighting.
>
> On both Saturday and Sunday, I found a very interesting and funny salmon
> behavior. On the outgoing tide running from 10.4' at 6:30 am to -2.6' at 2
> pm, I hit the beach at 9 am south of Doc's. At just about the time of the
> tide when you can see the kelp beds, I began tossing my popper out over
the
> kelp and let it swing into the beach. I didn't retrieve or put any action
> on the fly. I lifted the rod and made small downtide mends to increase the
> flyline belly and keep a smooth steady v-wake formed as the popper swung -
> just like waking a steelhead fly. The salmon hit somewhere between the
> middle of the swing and just before the fly straightened at the beach. The
> funny thing was in the rise to the popper. The salmon leaped high into the
> air and pounced on the fly. They looked just like the old Orvis painting
> with the brook trout leaping high into the air with the fisherman's fly in
> its mouth. I got five such pouncing hits and hooked one which I long
> released. It was on a circle hook which I have been trying with my
poppers.
> The circle hook sucks on the popper and is now history.
>
> On Sunday, I went back an hour later in the tide at 10am and had three
hits
> with one stuck, a nice searun. I ran into Wes Neuenschwander, Sean Ransom,
> Mike Santangelo, and Wes' nephew, Casey, and we all finished fishing the
> tide together. I'll let Sean and Wes do their own reports, but Casey, a
> student at OSU, who was up visiting ol' uncle Wes, took home a nice
silver.
>
>
> On Monday, Brian Lencho, Casey and I did it again, this time, with the
> addition of some heavy winds. Brian and I did ziltch but Casey caught and
> took home another nice silver. Boy, we just can't let these Oregon guys
> come to our water, outfish us and then have a barbecue with our fish!
>
> Leland.
>
>
>
