Ok, Willy, since when do your fingers need to be cold to have loss of motor control AND break off hook points on backcasts? :-)
Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Willy Gevers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 4:36 PM Subject: RE: Salt Action? > I had my best day ever in the salt, in numbers, on New Year's Day a few > years ago down in the South Sound. There was snow on the ground and the air > temps were in the low 20's, but just as Leland so aptly described, there > were pods of small resident silvers smutting on the surface in great > abandon. > > I was literally hooking fish on every cast for a time, some right at my > waders. The story does not have a completely happy ending - I forgot my > gloves and after a while, my hands were so numb I started losing motor > control. I started snapping off points on my hook on my backcast, and my > fingers were so useless I struggled to even tie a new fly on. You can't > believe the level of frustration when you are in the middle of an absolutely > awesome feeding frenzy of fish and you are so cold that you can't even tie > on a new fly! > > Leland, have you developed a floating amphipod or euphasid yet? I wonder if > a little pink popper in a size 16 would work? :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Leland Miyawaki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 4:12 PM > To: Waflyfishers > Subject: Re: Salt Action? > > > Cutts have been at the South Sound beaches bulking up prior to > heading up for their yearly river bacchanel and schools of resident > silvers have been reported along the Narrows porpoising for euphasids > and amphipods. > > I've been out some, but not much, and have been doing good, not great. > > Leland. > >
