Now Leland, explain to me the difference between Scott and Earl's
"inflatables" and your u-boat? What does your u-boat use for floatation -
styrofoam?
Just curious
Richard
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From: Leland Miyawaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Waflyfishers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, June 04, 2001 11:48 AM
Subject: Nunnally Report
>Three of us fished Nunnally from 10am to 6pm yesterday. We walked
>into the eastern end where we had it all to ouselves. The weather was
>bright and calm with an occassional little breeze to ruffle the
>waters until about three, when a full scale windstorm blew up.
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>The water was weed choked. The weeds were up to within a foot of the
>surface, which was fine for Scott and Earl (a fellow listmember) who
>both had inflatables, but not for me, in my u-boat - I had to kick my
>butt through the weeds when my feet weren't entangled.
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>The fishing was the best any of us had ever had at Nunnally. The fish
>were big and strong and were up on callibaetis almost all day. It was
>technically demanding, in that, we were fishing skinny water where
>the fish were extremely wary and in some places, a slow moving
>current moved over the weeds, making it necessary to fish it as you
>would a spring creek. The fish were cruising in circles and picking
>off duns with audible slurps while leaving the smallest of rings. And
>when hooked, you had to immediately hold the rod up high and let them
>take as little line as possible to keep their heads out of the weeds.
>We used 3x tippet, which held the fish, but was probably the reason
>we didn't hook more fish than we did.
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>Earl and I each had five to hand and Scott landed a dozen. We all had
>numerous breakoffs, lost fish to weeds, long releases, and
>rejections. Scott used a #10 weighted GRHE and caught good fish
>during the windstorm and Earl caught one on an adult damselfly (he
>also caught and released a turtle). Scott and I each landed a brown
>while the rest were rainbows. I don't think we caught any fish under
>three pounds and my largest was a whopping 25 inches.
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>Leland.
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