It’s still
dark thirty with our waters already on, we pull into the parking lot only to
find the lot just about completely full. There is just maybe enough room to
park Doctor Dave’s small car.
The three of
us have our headlamps ready, to assemble our rods, it only takes a afew short
moments to be ready to walk down the dark hillside through the brush and into
the River, across we go, the water level is low and really the only thing one could
see is the movement of other headlamps.
As we get to
the south side of Miller’s Crossing all we can see is the flicker of headlamps
moving along the rocky shore on the other side.
Dave, Gary
and I stop just before the second groups of rocks. This looks like a good spot
between a set of lights from the other side. I set my sling down, string up my
Winston Spey with my Nautilus. It has a Skagit 410 gr. head on it, I leave it
for now put a 12’ long leader on another 2ft of tippit, and yup I tye a Disco
Dolly Parton on Just to show Gary that even the Metalheads like it.
Gary take a
reading of water temp 46 a bit cold to skate a fly. I think, but I’ve got to do
it skating is the ultimate rush for me,
We hear a
splash either someone has fallen into the river or a fish jumped. It looks like
a prison break with headlights all of a sudden scanning the surface of the
water. Just a FISH.
Dave heads
out into the water about 20 feet below me and starts casting his single hander. It’s still too dark for me. Then the splash in the water again. Another fish
but this time someone has it hooked. Someone yells FISH ON. And you can tell
everybody is heading closer to the edge on the rocks across river, and the
splashing of the ones on the south side heading out into the water, the waders.
I gave it
just a few more minutes to get just a bit lighter so at least I could see the
tip of my rod. Move my way out into the water, strip out the shooting head and
maybe 40 feet of running line with a roll cast. I have to step out a bit
farther so that my line is out past Dave for my retrieval, I take 5 or 6 steps
out recast send the line and bug back out nice straight cast mid swing the
tickle the tug and the lift of the rod and fish on.
Fifteen
minutes later the sky is lite up and I can see clearly now, First SH of the
year a Buck, No adipose fin, Hatchery, Keeper. Maybe 7 lbs. Bonked and
recorded, hook and line checked, bac out into the water.
I was maybe
20 minutes later my next fish Wild, then another Wild. A hatchery my fourth.
(but it got away while I was removing the hook, I really didn’t want to stop
fishing. It’s not even 8 o’clock yet.) Then I lost a couple of fish, Don’t know
what went wrong they were on one for just a short time the other almost completely
in and bang gone.
My day 9
Steelhead hooked, 2 lost, that I never saw, 5 Wild. 1 Hatchery I keep, and the
hatchery that got away.
Gary had a
great day fishing above the pipe catching, landing more then 10 wild fish and
two keeper. Dave also did good don’t know his numbers but I saw him with at
least 5 and he had one to bring home.
We were back
in the car heading home by shortly after 10 and I was home by 11:15. Gary needed to be home no later them 1 he had a game to officiate, and fish to take care of.
Thanks Guys let do it again some time during the week, Dark thirty again, is fine with me.
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