OKAY OKAY ALREADY... i am eating my heart out... sheesh! and good for you!
Happy New Year! dan --- Leland Miyawaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Sauk River was in beautiful shape - Preston called the shade - > steelhead green. The weather was overcast with just a touch of a > breeze that carried the chill of the fresh Cascade snows just to our > east. I fished my 6wt. two-hander and on my second cast, I hooked a > solid 24" Dollie Varden that came unbuttoned just as I was preparing > to beach her for Preston to photograph. "2002 is going to be a good > year," I thought. A few minutes later, I landed a second fish of > about 18" with beautiful pink spots on a slate gray body. > > We drove upriver, crossed a bridge, traveled through a clearcut, > turned left onto a logging road under the powerlines, parked, walked > down a goat trail and following a stream down to the river, where we > turned up and walked another half mile to the bend below the rapids > to one of Prestons secret spots. I hooked four more dollies and > landed a couple more 18" females before it began to rain. Preston > picked up a good fish in the middle of the river near a submerged > tree. As he stepped out of the water, he told me that there should be > another fish just below the root wad. I placed a cast upstream of the > broken water and sure enough, there she was. Hello dollie! Preston is > definitely the ace dollie guide. We broke for lunch followed by a > couple fortifying nips of Yukon Jack from Prestons flask - or did > lunch follow the nips? Anyway, after lunch, we drove downstream to > another spot where I proceeded to land the last fish of the day, a > real beaut - a big male dollie with a mouth big enough to swallow a > softball. Yessir, 2002 is going to be quite a year. > > Leland. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com
