AND he even did yard work in the morning.
> 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
>>
>>
>
>
