Chum's must not like fly rods. When the Sage SP's were first coming out Tom Darling had an 8 wt prototype to play with. He was fishing chums over at Hoodsport with it and flipped a loop over his rod while trying to net this one fish. The fish broke his prototype rod and shut down his testing.
That's one thing I watch for when fishing at Hoodsport... not getting a loop flipped over my rod tip. Those fish are so strong and I'd hate to have a tip broken or yanked off. Bill > ---------- > From: David Fliger[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 10:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Report > > Went to Chico creek again. After all the rain the water was moving > fast, chocolate brown and still full of salmon. Today I fished the high > tide and my normal luck returned. I was skunked. I figure this is the > first time i fished the full flood tide, in addition it was an > exceptionally high tide (11.3ft?) plus all the runoff, my guess is my fly > was not getting deep. There was fish everywhere and only about 30 > fishers. Everybody was decent and all had a lot of fun. I did witness > one heartbreaker, the gentleman had a chum on and was trying to unhook him > and the chum went for another run and snapped the tip (down two eyes) > right off. I think he said it was a homemade rod with a sage blank. The > sight made me cringe. > > Flig >
