willie - if you end up fishing the upper Kenai for 'bows, leave the stooopid fly gear at home. Treat them like a steelhead (hey wait..they are!) wink and you'll outfish everyone on the river - guaranteed. Just drift fish the flesh or egg flies.

The Kid and I started to hit fish when we figured that out. The 1082 spinning rod rigged for steelhead outfished any and all fly rod attempts. Fish steelhead water and they will bite!

Man, if I could only do that float again. I'd put the hurt to those big fat steelhead...er...'bows! wink

The one thing I've learned about AK, is that no one up there (Ok, most I ran in to) really knows how to drift fish for steelhead. A good NW steelhead drift fisher will just put the hurt to the Kenai reds and 'bows.
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