On Feb 23, 6:09*am, JR wrote:
DaveS wrote:
.....the basics:

One 18-20+ inch wild steelhead released on a #14 green beadhead (from
fly exchange). *One at least 24-28" wild steelhead released on a #8,
mottled green brass conehead bugger, (fought for 25 plus minutes
before I could release it), and another steelhead hooked/broke off on
same conehead bugger pattern. Finally, one very fat Brown (about 18")
released, on a size 8, mottled green conehead bugger. All taken late
afternoon/early evening. How truely strong and wonderful these wild
fish are.

Look forward to the report. *You nymphing the beadhead *and swinging the
bugger?

- JR

Yes, per the beadhead nymph, but that take was after I had run the
nymph thru the pool and out to the tailout where i let it hang for a
bit.

The bugger I was swinging, then in the end of the swing letting it
bounce along the bottom in a circling eddy where the bottom is deep
but the edge is an abrupt root wad that I climb up into.

Dave