Got out again -- lovely day, started out overcast but brightened and
warmed up.

The best hole is on the far side of the channel but there's another
hole mid way out so best to fish it first. About ten minutes in,
there's a grab on the line -- nothing much but a definite grab. OK,
let's see if he still wants to play, put cast in to the same area,
then another, then another -- nothing. One more try only this time, I
lead with the rod tip so that the fly runs a bit higher and a bit
closer.

Tug . . . . TUG . . . . BANG!!! Huge head shake and fishy gone.
Haul up the line and the fly is gone as well. The bugger broke me off
with a single head shake. Not a small fishy. Biggest whack from a
steelhead yet. Would've liked to have seen it. BTW, dummy me had the
line in a death grip, that's why it busted off.

Cross to the far hole and swing, swiing, swing. Nada.

Damn bottom, nope the bottom is moving. Small one. This little
steelie, probably like the 18 incher I caught last week, is ripping
back and forth, making a lot of fuss for a little guy. I'm playing
him casually with the tip high and the bugger runs at me. Ooops too
slow picking up the slack, bye, bye fishy number 2.

So goes hour number one. Two, three, and four follow with only a
single tug to mar their passing.

Julien flags me down from his van and we head off to the dam to see if
Rick is having any lucky -- lucky bugger's gone two for two. -- but
he's drifting an egg sack on a spinning rod so they don't COUNT!!!

Rick is Loomis Pro staff and he has the new Deveron 15' - 9/10 -- very
sweet. I'm popping out some casts and Rick motions toward the black
mark on the line at the rod tip. Rick marks his lines off at
intervals so he knows the distance at which he is fishing. He tells
me I just hit a 100 footer with the last cast. The rod made it easy.
Start counting the pennies . . .

Oh Jo honey, sweetie . . . .

Peter

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