Thanks for the report, Mark,
Brent
--- Mark Steudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Had my best day yet on the yak. Fished the canyon
> all day long, got on the
> water about 9:30. Found a spot that looked like it
> had been in the sun for a
> while. Fish were already rising on midges or small
> bwo. I started off with a
> bh hares ear, picked up a small rainbow and a larger
> white fish. Added a
> pheasent tail, missed a few strikes and then broke
> the whole thing off on a
> log.
>
> I was looking in my box wondering what to put on
> next and I spied a saun
> jaun worm. I thought why not. Tied it on with no
> dropper as I figured I'd be
> taking it off soon. First cast BAM! 12" Rainbow.
> Second cast, BAM, this one
> was bigger, it starts taking line out from me.
> Sunddenly the line went
> slack. Shoot. I cast it out again, indicator goes
> down, I set the hook ...
> log. Crapo, the only sj worm I had was now keepin
> company with my other
> nymphs. I tied on a large copper john and a red
> chronomid. Fished around
> some more, few bumps but nothing solid.
>
> It was about lunch time, so I decided to drive back
> towards one the fly
> shops and pick up some more sj worms. I stepped into
> the shop waders and
> boots still wet and muddy, and I asked one of the
> guys if they carried sj
> worms. He says "sure over here". I pick out a couple
> and then he looks at me
> and says, "You're not planning on sticking those in
> the river are you?" I
> told him that I had been doing great on the one I
> had. He calls out to the
> other guy in the shop, "He's planning on fishing
> those in the river." the
> other guy looks over and says seriously, "Oh yeah,
> those can be deadly." I
> paid for my flies and take off to the river.
>
> I tied on one sj worm, which had I ended up with it
> at the end of the day I
> would've bronzed it and put it on the wall. Long
> story a bit shorter, at the
> end of the day I totalled 12 trout, 5 of which were
> around 15 - 18 inches
> the rest being somwhere between 10 - 12 inches. 10
> of which were all on the
> sj worm. I had numerous of hits and fish that I
> never landed. I could do no
> wrong with this fly. At one point I was wading up a
> run with my sj worm
> trailing behind me and wham, fish. I turned around
> again and started wading
> again, wham, another fish. So then facing down
> stream, I quartered
> downstream like I was steelheading, and swung the
> worm, bam fish on. If I
> saw a rise and I could cast to it, I could get the
> fish to take it. If I got
> a bump I could re do the drift and get the fish to
> take it again. I don't
> know if it was the weather or the fly, but it was
> "just one of those days".
>
> Mark
>
>
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