> Just swing a knudson spider close to the
>bank or fish dry flies like you would for any old trout and you should
>catch fish.
You know, I did do that, as I've had good luck doing so in the past.
But perhaps because we were higher up on the system there just aren't
that many numbers up there yet. After a while it just felt futile
because of all the pinks, which often were in some of that same frog
water which usually holds the cutts. So I gave up and put on a humpy
fly the rest of the day.
bill
>It seems to me there are a lot of SRCs already in the system as I have not
>really been targeting them and catching good numbers. Am going to be
>floating then Stilly in a couple weeks for SRCs and am really looking
>forward to it.
>
>-sean
>
>On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Bill Kuper wrote:
>
>> > Got a chance to fish the Stilly just above the I-5 bridge for
>> >around three hours today. Non-stop action. It was by far the most
>> >fun I've had fishing in my short fly-fishing career. Six fish to
>> >hand and at least that many LR's. I'd like to see more flyfisherman
>> >on the river though! Get out there!
>> >
>> >Tight Lines
>>
>>
>>
>> Fished the N. Fork yesterday down to Arlington. Pretty good action
>> early, about half dozen pinks landed. Lockjaw set in as the
>> temperatures rose though.
>>
>> I've never seen so many fish in a river before, even when comparing
>> to some Alaska rivers I've been on (perhaps this is because the
>> Stilly is so low and clear right now). Pod after pod would swim
>> under our pontoons. We started about five or six river miles up from
>> Arlington.
>>
>> We wanted to fish for SRC, but with all the humpies around, there
>> didn't seem to be much of a chance. Can any SRC experts confirm this
>> basic suspicion? And if one really wants to target SRC will they
>> just have to wait until the humpy run is over?
>>
>>
>> regards,
>> bill
>>
>>
>>
