"Tom Nakashima" wrote


Still water or river?
You're pretty good Larry.
You got to be using a full flex fly-rod?


Silver Creek, a slow flowing, weedy, spring creek

no, I wish I was pretty good, but I'm a common angler, at best

8.5 ft 4 wt Sage XP


.................

fish that go to weed are nearly impossible to land ( but I managed with one
by burying my arm up to the shoulder in water and weed and pulling him and
38 pounds of greenery out together ;-),...... regardless of tippet size,
so I lost quite a few, too


Silver Creek fish ( especially at the end of a stressful year ) aren't all
that strong, on average ... they have a cushy life, lots of bugs, slow
flows, plenty of places to rest without using any energy I'd try many
other avenues to success before dropping to 7X for 20 inch HFork fish, for
instance, .... one of them will often damn near spool you. IF you can
keep a SC fish in open water for a bit, are willing to go to him, rather
than try to haul him to you, and know how to use a net on a relatively fresh
fish, you can land them without a lot of hoopla. I only had one fish, a
19 inch Brown, that fought long and hard enough that reviving him was a
fairly long process. Even then I only noticed it took a while because it
was cold and my hands were numb by the time he shot off to be caught again.