Funny I fished the N. Fork and had two SRC's on, landed one and I was after the chums and silvers that I didn't see. I stopped at my regular spot, Silvana by I-5 and only saw two fisherman and continued up to 127th and fished there for a couple of hours and got the two SRC. Went to Cicero bridge and saw one other fly fisherman and he hadn't done much. Went to Grant creek and walked through all the dead fish to get down to the river and fished there for an hour or so and went home.Tight lines my friends,
Charlie
From: "Vincent Pons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 19:37:34 -0800
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Subject: Stilly report, holding a fish, new year's resolution
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If you want to avoid chum and silver, don't fish the Stilly, it is full of fish. However, I haven't seen any SRC and dollies in the NF.
I fished with regular nymphs (but heavier than what you buy) and caught a few chum, one silver and missed or lost several fish.
Lot of people out there, it was a beautiful day even though the morning was windy.
I also read something interesting on the bulletin board of flyshop.com. Someone was upset because a lot of fishermen don't know how to hold a fish and release it. I totally agree, I have seen too many fishers (flyfishers and other) taking a fish by the gills and throwing it back in the water several feet away.
Before you learn to fish, you should learn how to release a fish. That should be the first thing that someone learns and not how to catch a fish.
Sometimes, I don't even touch the fish, I just want to fool them, I don't have to take the fish in my hands to show it to every single fisher around, I don't care and they don't care.
My new year's resolution is going to be no more strike indicator at all. This year, I used a strike indicator every time that I fished the Snoqualimie and I'm still ashamed of it. I don't use them when I fish for salmon, steelhead, SRC... why should I still use them when I fish smaller fish?? No reason, bye bye indicators (by indicator I mean a dry fly or something else on the leader).
Vincent
