Report

[David Fliger]

Went to Chico creek again.  After all the rain the water was moving fast, chocolate brown and still full of salmon.  Today I fished the high tide and my normal luck returned.  I was skunked.  I figure this is the first time i fished the full flood tide, in addition it was an exceptionally high tide (11.3ft?) plus all the runoff,  my guess is my fly was not getting deep.  There was fish everywhere and only about 30 fishers.  Everybody was decent and all had a lot of fun.  I did witness one heartbreaker, the gentleman had a chum on and was trying to unhook him and the chum went for another run and snapped the tip (down two eyes) right off.  I think he said it was a homemade rod with a sage blank. The sight made me cringe.   Flig