By taking two kids of single digit age with you, and they participated in
the fly fishing AND actually caught fish, your posting has just moved into
the top spot for the Posting of the Year. :-) Might as well hand you the
trophy now!
I bet you earned some serious kitchen passes with that move on Saturday.
Attaboy!
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Willy Gevers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 1:05 PM
Subject: RE: stilly pinks lost, SRC found!
> I took two of my children to the Stilly Saturday afternoon, after a
morning
> of obligatory yard work. We launched at Boe Road and rowed downstream
> towards the tidewater. The pinks had an extreme case of lockjaw, the bite
> apparently had been poor in that section all afternoon and we were having
no
> success. My 8 year old son spotted some fish activity along the far bank,
> and we rowed over to check it out.
>
> To our delight we found sea run cutts rising eagerly tight to the bank,
and
> as far downstream as the eye could see. The insect of choice was a large
> burnt orange (cranefly?) that were vulnerable to the trout as they were
> oviposting. My son had brought his 5 weight, and we found one lonely
yellow
> rubber leg stimulator in my salmon fly box - and with that the action was
> on!
>
> With Dad on the oars we drifted downstream, my little boy casting like a
> champion sending cast after cast next to streamside logs and under
> overhanging branches. Even better than his developing casting prowess, he
> rose and hooked tons of fish, often 3 or 4 in a row. His little 5 year old
> sister, who is not yet old enough to cast, watched from the bow of the
boat
> and squealed with glee at every fish. I felt like we were living a scene
> from a Roderick Haig-Brown novel or perhaps a Norman Rockwell portrait.
>
> The SRC were pretty good size - we must have stumbled on a fresh pod, and
> had one of those special days of being in the right place at the right
time.
>
>
> God bless America!
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Kuper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 8:45 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: stilly pinks
>
>
> >Bill,
> >Kinda' hard to get to the cutts with so many humpies in the river. On
> >Monday we were able to find some in the North Fork, but only by fishing
> >where the humpies weren't. After the humpie sget on the redds, the cutts
> >will be back into their more normal lies (as well as below the redds
> >scooping up the eggs that wash out during the spawning).
> >Preston
>
> Sounds good Preston. WHen do you think that generally happens--end
> of this month/early October? Want to plan the next outing you know...
>
>
> cheers,
> bill
>
>
