#103877 - 11/18/04 08:55 PM
Re: Steelhead Run
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Looking at that run makes me want to "mix" a drink.
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#103878 - 11/18/04 09:14 PM
Re: Steelhead Run
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Dick Nipples
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posted by Todd: I guess I got my maps "mixed" up... posted by DoubleHaul: Looking at that run makes me want to "mix" a drink. Looks like DoubleHaul and I are both "in the mix" for a prize! Fish on... Todd
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#103879 - 11/19/04 04:33 PM
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#103881 - 11/19/04 11:49 PM
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Juvenille at Sea
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"Just like OP wannabes (Seattleites) thinking they know the OP!"
Also know as metrosexuals :p
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#103883 - 11/20/04 12:45 PM
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#103887 - 11/26/04 01:57 PM
Re: Steelhead Run
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Dick Nipples
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I think that from where the picture is taken, if you took a big leap off that cliff, you'd roll ass over teakettle all the way to the river and end up in the Mixer, which is directly below the photographer.
The last time I fished that area out of a drift boat, there were about fifteen flyflingers on the fly bar, mainly smoking cigars and drinking, watching each other cast.
We hooked up a single, followed by a double, against the cut bank on the opposite side...you've never seen a crowd of flyfishers with two handers run and stumble across the rocks as fast as they all did! For a minute or two, it looked like Blue Creek, but for flyfishermen!
After a few minutes they got their wits back about them and settled back down to a more sedate flyfishing pace.
I've never hooked up in the actual "Mixer" itself, though I always hear stories of monsters coming out of there. If there is anywhere in the area that would hold 30# steelhead, that would be the spot.
Damn near need a downrigger to get down to them, though!
Any more pics, Homer?
Fish on...
Todd
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#103890 - 11/26/04 05:00 PM
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Dick Nipples
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posted 11-26-2004 01:25 PM
Hey Todd,
How come I get the feeling you are embellishing your story a might? Kerry, You just keep telling yourself that...after all, it's not about catching, just the experience, right? Salmo, I've caught fish in the tailout in the boulders...makes for great spoon water if someone doesn't mind rowing to keep you in place for a while. The stories I hear are of dredging them out of the head of the pool...not the easiest place to fish. Fish on... Todd
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#103891 - 11/27/04 01:13 PM
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Juvenille at Sea
Registered: 07/24/01
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Loc: Everett, WA
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Todd,
Yeah it is about the experience but I don't think I would be stumbling all over myself to see someone else's experience. The Sauk bar is over rated. Hell the Skagit is over rated. Everyone knows those fly guys never catch fish. Makes me wonder why we even bother.
I love pullin' 'em right off the side of them sleds and drift boats. You should see their eyes when they realize a fly chucker just took a fish off the port side right under their nose.
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#103892 - 11/27/04 02:34 PM
Re: Steelhead Run
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Dick Nipples
Registered: 03/08/99
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Loc: Seattle, Washington USA
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I think that hole is pretty "level dependent"...when the water is up a bit, not only is it hard to fish the cut bank (damn near impossible), all the fish are sitting off the fly bar anyway. When the water's down a bit, it's the other way around. I agree with you, however, that there are no more steelhead in the Sauk or Skagit, and that the flyflingers didn't catch any even when the fish were still there. We'd all be better off just to fish there every other summer for humpies! Fish on... Todd
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#103893 - 11/30/04 10:22 AM
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Juvenille at Sea
Registered: 07/24/01
Posts: 152
Loc: Everett, WA
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Todd,
I have been telling people that for years. The only fish worth going after in the Skagit are humpies or chummies.
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#103894 - 11/30/04 05:11 PM
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Those humpies are a blast on a fly rod!
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