Lincoln Park Revisited

[Leland Miyawaki]

I hit the beach in the dark at 5:30am. This morning was totally 
different than yesterday's. I wanted to fish the incoming tide in the 
dark and would have if only the wind were either not blowing or at 
least coming over my left shoulder instead of my right.  No way was I 
going to let that #2 Gamakatsu get near my head - so I sat down and 
lit a cigar and waited in the rainy dark until I could at least see 
my fly to duck as it flew by.

Sure enough, the rain lessened and the wind died as the sun 
continiued to rise. Once again, there were no signs of fish. I blind 
cast over and over as I worked the beach hoping that my popper would 
attract any hungry coho in the vicinity. It wasn't long before a 
small school moved through and in quick succession, I hooked a fish 
and fellow listmember, Brian Lencho, had a big boil on his popper. My 
fish was about 4-5 pounds and simply wallowed and twisted at the 
beach. It never took out any line and I slid it onto the beach after 
about 30 seconds. I released it thinking I would get my dinner fish a 
bit later. Brian thought I should have removed from the gene pool.

Pretty soon Tim Harris showed up with his buddy and we all flogged 
the water into a froth. I had two more follows and hung around until 
11am when I caught one of 2-3 pounds.

Leland.