Absolutely!! You've hit on something big! I fished the South Fork of the
Snake this past weekend with my brother who came up from Logan Utah. We
floated it in my double, swivel seated, 10 ft pram and landed numerous
browns and cutthroat on pink cahills. At the end of the day a guide
commented that the boat was quite small. I said that it just makes you pay
a little bit more attention. One of my brother's many fishing stories was
the very similar experience that you had. He chunked up a dagwood sandwich
that he had, saw what happened and then was convinced that if he used some
white rabbit hair, chunked it up, and spread some mayonaisse on it, it would
float and do the trick. We had a front come through that made casting very
difficult at times. We got the wind, not much rain, but the Idaho/Montana
area received quite a bit of needed rain. The nice little town of Superior
Montana, where I often fish, had homes destroyed. They will probably
re-open the rivers at mid-week. Jere
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Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 6:11 AM
Subject: Fish adapting to their environment
> I observed some very interesting behaviour from some rainbows this weekend
> that I thought I would pass on.
>
> I took the kids to the ol Labor Day Weekend foodfest in Riverfront Park in
> Spokane. After we were done eating, they wanted to go feed the ducks some
> bread. Now these are very well fed ducks and get bread tossed at them
> non-stop. The ducks must have been full because they weren't very
interested
> in our offerings. As the bread floated down stream, I saw a fish rise up
to
> it and take a chunk out of it. I thought I was seeing things so I sat and
> watched for about 5 minutes. Fish after fish hit these chunks of bread on
> the surface and many were really hard strikes. Once they bread sank, they
> had no interest. Further downstream, I saw the same scenario and even one
> young man, who was using bread on his hook, land a small rainbow about 10
> inches long.
>
> It was quite evident that like the ducks, these fish had figured out a
> plentiful and easy food source. Guess I better start working on a chunk
of
> bread fly pattern!
>
> Mike W.
> Spangle, WA
>
>
