Hawk, you are one fish-catching animal! I am definitely going to adopt the rig you describe -- and the method -- and am going to close the 'fish gap' with pardner Slick (once I figure out a way to keep Slick from reading your message: may have to crash his home computer in Jackson Hole).

I also agree with Mr. T's comment that 'chuck and duck' sounds like an awful way to fish -- just standing next to someone doing it is a demeaning experience (especially when they keep saying 'I'm on!') . . . .

Plenty of other methods also take fish on the Situk. Dave (we call him 'the Animal': interesting that Hawk calls him 'The Savage'!) uses the Teeny method and expertly swims conventional flies into their mouths. Few of us can do this, so we stand in awe and then do something else.

Some people plug, a few very successfully. We used to do this, but it's not as much fun so we stopped.

I used #4 and #5 silver Vibrax spinners one evening in two holes (one of which was stale on yarn) and hooked 4 fish in 30-40 minutes. (Interestingly, Slick switched to a black leech on a #6 hook and had three consecutive hook-ups in the same hole I was slamming 'em on spinners!) Why didn't we use more spinners? Current was too strong: couldn't get them down deep enough in deeper holes below the the bridge.

But after yarn the most popular method was fixing a dink float 4-5 feet up the line and drifting a jig along the brush line in the current seam while the oarsman slowed the drift. We didn't use this method, but saw many good fish taken this way and heard about many others. Pink worms substituted for jigs took a few, too. Some of the jig boys were using in-line slinkies and some were using split shot.

When we wanted to fish this type of water but didn't want to anchor up and wade, Slick and I boondogged it with yarn. Two of the best fish I landed were hooked boondogging yarn flies into fishy looking current lines and snags.


About the only method that didn't take any fish was conventional fly line and fly gear! (Take that, Roderick H-B.)