Had a fun day with a fly angler from Dallas yesterday on the Snoqualmie.
Kings are dying, thinning out and Steelhead have moved back onto the drifts.
A silver slab came out of the water as we passed through the David Powell
run that lots of bank anglers frequent. The fellow that fished with me
chose to fish the upper run rather than my SCR haunt because of the
asthetics of the upper river and he said that he could lay out line fairly
well. As it were, his loops were a little bit too open and the fly would
land with slack. Too make the story shorter, he just couldn't quite get the
"swing of it" and after an hour or so, he handed me the rod and said that he
needed a rest. Yep! Not to embarrass the customer, the first cast I made
and the big swirl and off he went...two, three jumps and then as big a
steelhead as I've had on in awhile headed up river and never stopped. I
handed the rod to the customer, pulled the anchor and headed for the beach,
but the hook straightened out. I have to say, I was as excited and shaken
as any rookie could ever be.
My client caught a number of sea-runs, but no more steelhead. We did spot
quite a few fish throughout the river. On Tues., I had a client land a very
large SRC and then break off another beauty after we saw it rise behind a
brush pile. I pushed the boat in behind the snags, he laid out a good cast
next to the stickup, the water exploded and his fly parted. Jere
