Tough Fishin' at Lincoln Park

[T. Lang]

Windy, though at least it was from the left.  It was an afternoon of 
fighting my equipment: bird's nests in my line on every other cast, seaweed 
everywhere, operator irregularities (or in my case, they may be 
regularities) resulting in collapsing  and/or tailing loops.  Argh.  Best 
moment was a snap-snap-snap follow to the rod tip.  Fish came out of the 
water as it turned away, I quickly (amazingly without much trouble) flipped 
my fly out again and got some noisy splashing as a result, but hardly felt 
the fish at all.  Worst moment was trying to remove about a pound of seaweed 
from my line (which had tumbled out of my stripping pan) to see a nice 
salmon porpoise right in front of me, right in casting distance.

I'll be there tomorrow night.

Leland, I've been using the smallest popper body.  It what situations would 
you go bigger?

Tom

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