That story is what I thought of when the thread on "Rod length for small
creek fishing" was going on. There are ( or were, one I know has been wiped
out by a clear cut ) simillar creeks in California and Oregon.
They were covered with brush and hard to get to. I think a lot of people
didn't think there were fish in them on not worth the trouble. A favorite
was a tributary of the north fork of the Tule in central Calfiornia. You
could not see it from the dirt road that crossed it. We found it because we
could just hear when walking down the road. I used a steel telescoping rod
that was 2' long when collasped. The best bait was cockroaches that we
caught from the water meter boxes in the alley. The limit in those days
was 10 fish. My brother and I would take 3 or 4 limits a year of a creek
that was like 3/4 of a mile of bathtubs.
"JR" wrote in message ...
...... 'cause it involves bait, a line not fly line, and a rod decidedly
not a fly rod.

Still, not entirely without interest, since the problem of fishing
really, really, really tight brush, where the only solution is to
stick the rod through there, practically stick the fly in the water,
and feed line out as the fly drifts downstream.

In any event, an interesting read, I thought ......

http://tinyurl.com/32ms2

JR