On 2011-06-03 11:50:47 -0400, "Wayne Harrison" said:


"D. LaCourse" wrote
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Refreshed and well fed, I plan on hitting the river after this is written.
More to follow.

Dave

very enjoyable reportage, louie. please keep it up. if i show up, it
will be with large bottles of stolichnaya...

yfitons
wayno

They have confessed to drinking the clear stuff. Stoli would impress
them, I am sure. Portland air is only about an hour and half away.
What flight? And don't cry poverty. What are you going to do with it
when you are dead?

Finally went out today after lunch. The flow has dropped to 1000 cfs,
but it seems more like 1200. Anyway, good fishing up and down the
river. I was immediately into a couple of female brookies using a size
18 self-tied brassie. Stayed with it fishing all the seams coming from
the dam, and on a long cast with three stack mends, my line stopped. I
set the hook and though I had snagged a rock. Uhuh. It was a fish and
it could only be a big brookie. Fought him for 5 minutes before
landing him. Held him up with two hands so friends could see him. I
removed the hook and put him back in the net. I reached for my camera
inside my vest and just as I turned it on the fish jumped out of the
net and I dropped the camera into the net. Damn. Kirk, the dam
keeper's son, estimated it to be at least five pounds. It looked like
a Labrador brookie. It certainly made my week, counselor.

Have a bad case of diverticulitus all week, and it is especially bad
today. Think I'll have to see a doc before coming back on Monday.

Dave