Well, good for him. I hadn't seen him around and just wanted to make sure he's OK.
A friend and I floated the Lower Sac yesterday with a guide. We were flyfishing for big rainbows. The river was full of spent or nearly spent salmon. The rainbows line up behind those salmon and gorge themselves with roe. If you catch the river just right you can bounce / drag plastic eggs and catch epic numbers of fish of epic size. Yesterday was one of those days.
Egg fishing is a shoot and run type fishing. Find the redds, slow down and fish, move to new redds, slow down and fish, etc. We were fishing with 2X tippet and #2 Gamagatsu barbledss (flyfishing...don'tchaknow) hooks. Yesterday's float was only about three miles long. We started fishing at 7:00 and got to the take out about 1:00. We loaded the boat on the trailer, and drove back to the put in where we started and did it all again. Got off the river about 5:00.
We didn't count the number of fish we caught and got to the boat, but we estimated about 35. We got a couple small fish, but the vast majority of the fish were over 20". The biggest fish probably went over six pounds with many in the four pound range. All of the fish were native rainbows. We probably lost 15- 20 fish. All the fish were released alive and well.
I've been fishing that river for a number of years and I've probably caught more fish on occasion, but never the quality of fish as was yesterday. Truly an EPIC day.
(I've never claimed to be smart. I'm going to try to get some pictures posted on the gallery. If you don't see them here, I'd appreciate if one of you would transfer them to this post. Thanks.)
