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"Opus--Mark H. Bowen" wrote in
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Why on God's green Earth would rw want to fish for such itty-bitty
fish as were pictured on the site you posted!

Good grief Scott, if I couldn't post a site with trout the size of an
Orca, I wouldn't have posted the site at all.

Op --I'm with rw. Eastern trout just can't compete with their
western cousins, in neither size nor personality!--



Yeah, Jay is a hell of a guide. Someday I'll have to book with him. You
can learn a bunch just talking with him, but I'm sure there's much more
to learn fishing with him.

He was actually in our first Dog Days fly swap, tying the Burned Wing
Olive at the bottom of http://www.gula.org/roffswaps/swap.php?page=DD2001
&id=4

I just took an all-day Spey Fly Workshop of his a few weeks ago, but I've
never booked him for a trip.

We've actually got quite a fishery in this part of the country, with a
ton of variety--everything from hundred perch days to trout, to walleye,
to small mouth and large mouth, to pike, pickerel, the works. I bet
Smiling Joe Verdone gets in almost 300 days on the water (or ice) on a
good year-- and that's all local.

The Salmon River is an amazing fishery, doable in a day trip, but that's
a long day trip. The whole damn town of Pulaski has a huge chunk of its
economy wrapped up in the fishery. You KNOW you're in a fishing town
when the sign on the diner door says "No Cleats" (and they will yell if
you wear cleats!). The Lake Ontario fishery has been changing over the
last decade, and the biggest Kings don't often reach thirty pounds
anymore, but somehow the trib fishermen seem to get by.

But, they're not "real" steelhead, though; just big migratory rainbows,
so I always feel a little funny. You know-- right at that moment when you
set the hook, and you know you're going to spend the next minute or three
trying to decide if the hook is set in a fish or stuck in a big log on
the bottom? That's when that empty feeling kicks in the hardest.

--
Scott
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Scott Seidman wrote:

Wanna drool?? Check out http://www.jaypeckguides.com/gallery/fall%2006/

(That's why you book LOCAL guides!!)

I see. They fish for spawners using eggs. Great sport, that. I can do
the same thing ten minutes from my cabin. I caught about 15 steelhead
(actual steelhead that came from the ocean) in one day that way about a
week ago. It was incredibly boring and I haven't been out since.

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Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

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Hey, could you please resent the email you sent the other day, as my
computer ate the first copy before I got a chance to read it :~^ (

Op


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"rw" wrote in message
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Scott Seidman wrote:

Wanna drool?? Check out http://www.jaypeckguides.com/gallery/fall%2006/

(That's why you book LOCAL guides!!)

I see. They fish for spawners using eggs. Great sport, that. I can do the
same thing ten minutes from my cabin. I caught about 15 steelhead (actual
steelhead that came from the ocean) in one day that way about a week ago.
It was incredibly boring and I haven't been out since.

I bet sometimes manly heroism is an awful burden, huh?

Wolfgang

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"rw" wrote in message
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Scott Seidman wrote:

Wanna drool?? Check out http://www.jaypeckguides.com/gallery/fall%2006/

(That's why you book LOCAL guides!!)

I see. They fish for spawners using eggs. Great sport, that. I can do the
same thing ten minutes from my cabin. I caught about 15 steelhead (actual
steelhead that came from the ocean) in one day that way about a week ago.
It was incredibly boring and I haven't been out since.

I bet sometimes manly heroism is an awful burden, huh?

Wolfgang

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"rw" wrote in message
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I see. They fish for spawners using eggs. Great sport, that. I can do the
same thing ten minutes from my cabin. I caught about 15 steelhead (actual
steelhead that came from the ocean) in one day that way about a week ago.
It was incredibly boring and I haven't been out since.


Well maybe you've matured in your outlook on steelhead fishing. You were
having none of it a few years ago when I told you that I couldn't understand
how people catching steelhead on or near the spawning beds ( as I could also
do 10 min from my house if I so desired) could find it enjoyable. I
guarantee that you wouldn't find it boring catching those same fish on or
near the surface, 6-7 mos. earlier than they arrive in the Stanley area,
when they are fresh from the ocean and haven't swum 400+ more miles over 6-8
dams without eating since they left the salt.

Bob Weinberger La Grande, OR

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rw wrote:

I see. They fish for spawners using eggs. Great sport, that. I can do
the same thing ten minutes from my cabin. I caught about 15 steelhead
(actual steelhead that came from the ocean) in one day that way about a
week ago. It was incredibly boring and I haven't been out since.

Yeah, that pretty well describes the only midwestern steelheading
I've ever done. Except the eggs, I didn't stoop so low as to use
glo bugs insisting instead on a stonefly nymph. Pretty much the
same thing though, sling a bunch of lead and a nymph through the
spawning bed and when the fish performs his housekeeping duties
(they don't actually eat anything) you set the hook. Midwestern
steelheading was a one and done fly fishing experience for me.

--
Ken Fortenberry

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"Opus--Mark H. Bowen" wrote in message
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Hey, could you please resent the email you sent the other day, as my
computer ate the first copy before I got a chance to read it :~^ (

Done.

I also resent to all the others on the list with a correction. Dates are
NOT May 17-20.....correct dates are May 17-27!

Wolfgang

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rw wrote in news:46159bf1$0$12090
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Scott Seidman wrote:

Wanna drool?? Check out http://www.jaypeckguides.com/gallery/fall%2006/

(That's why you book LOCAL guides!!)

I see. They fish for spawners using eggs. Great sport, that. I can do
the same thing ten minutes from my cabin. I caught about 15 steelhead
(actual steelhead that came from the ocean) in one day that way about a
week ago. It was incredibly boring and I haven't been out since.


Globugs and their ilk are certainly one approach. Usually, I'll start
swinging wets or drifting stones. If that's not working, I'll probably put
on a globug just to hook a fish or two, and then go back to other methods.

--
Scott
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Wolfgang wrote:

"Opus--Mark H. Bowen" wrote in message
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Hey, could you please resent the email you sent the other day, as my
computer ate the first copy before I got a chance to read it :~^ (


Done.

I also resent to all the others on the list with a correction. Dates are
NOT May 17-20.....correct dates are May 17-27!

Wolfgang


well...that makes more sense. the may 18-20 deal seemed much too short.
do you have time to travel to eastern nc?

jeff

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"jeff" wrote in message
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Wolfgang wrote:

"Opus--Mark H. Bowen" wrote in message
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Hey, could you please resent the email you sent the other day, as my
computer ate the first copy before I got a chance to read it :~^ (


Done.

I also resent to all the others on the list with a correction. Dates are
NOT May 17-20.....correct dates are May 17-27!

Wolfgang
well...that makes more sense. the may 18-20 deal seemed much too short.
do you have time to travel to eastern nc?

Sadly, no. I plan to head north around mid-week to visit a couple of folks.

Wolfgang