"rw" wrote in message
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bruiser wrote:
Tom Nakashima wrote:


Please don't tell me Willi landed that 24" rainbow without a fight. ;-)
-tom


Oh, yeah Tom, he played it a little, but just long enough for me to
get my camera ready : -) It was the best fish of the trip. bruce h

He was using an 8-weight, and probably about 15lb tippet. :-)

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Yes, the rainbow has nice colors and looked very healthy from the photo.
8wt and 15lb tippet?

I want to go back next year. We also have mapped out on both a topo and
GPS, but rivers do change.
On the third day before we finished the trip, a good size fly landed on my
leg. I caught it and stored it in my fly box. When I got back to the lodge,
I spoke with the dry fly local and showed him the fly. It was one of the dry
flies we talked about before I headed off to the river, but only through
description. He took one look and said; "That's the Fly Tom, where did you
get it? When I got home, I went through my fly books and a lot of fly
tying books at the bookstores and once at the library trying to match the
hatch, close but no stogies. I email Gerard the expert fly-tier, who told
me he loves to match hatches. I'll be mailing the fly to him very shortly.
I know this sounds crazy, but I want to go back to the river in Alaska and
try this dry-fly pattern strictly for the big bows.
fwiw,
tom