Larry L wrote:
Silver Creek's "S-Turns"

Cool story. I haven't been over to Silver Creek
in 2-3 years now. I'll have to remember to keep
telling everybody how bad the fishing is over there
these days.

This story reminds me of the bonefish on Linder Cay,
where big bones follow the tide up into an endless
Brer Rabbit tangle of mangroves in shallow water.
You can hook them there, but catching them
is no easy trick.

I hooked a big one there once, and gave him a slack line
as he threaded his way 2-300 yards through the mangroves.
I threaded the rod through the root loops almost all the
way up to the resting fish, but he spooked one more
time, just as I got close again, and snapped a 0x
flourocarbon tippet like a bottle rocket.

On the outside of the tidal creek, at the mouth of
the bight, at the edge of the deep blue water, you can
sometimes see late evening bonefish well over
ten pounds. I've never even succeeded in a sniff.
All I've ever done is spook them off at 300 mph.
But I sure as hell have seen them there.
Those 3 foot monsters don't eat Crazy Charlies,
I don't think. Fish that size need something more
like an 8" Roadkill Streamer.

Reminds me of the stories I've heard about
late fall double digit Silver Creek browns--
chasing chub flies.

Larry, maybe you should consider telling
that story about the Teton River, or the Bechler
or the Big Lost, or that spring creek over on the Shoshone
Indian Reservation........anything other than
what's the real dea.