NorthWest Kayak Anglers
Kayak Fishing => Waving the Bug Wand => Topic started by: Tinker on February 18, 2020, 02:31:25 AM
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No long story here, just an announcement: the score now stands at Steelhead: 23 - Tinker: 0, and I am now at 1,107 casts towards the cursed beasts. SIGH
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No long story here, just an announcement: the score now stands at Steelhead: 23 - Tinker: 0, and I am now at 1,107 casts towards the cursed beasts. SIGH
only 8,893 casts to go... >:D
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NOO-OO-O! :icon_pale:
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Are you keeping your hooks sharp?
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Couple of questions for the sake of my curiosity:
(1) is that 23 hookups, or 23 trips?
(2) do you really count each cast?
Thanks for your posts -- they're enjoyable!
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Are you keeping your hooks sharp?
I sharpen every one of them when they come out of the vise, and I carry a pocket whetstone in case I bang a fly on something. Deadly sharp. Good point, 'though (I'm more than a wee bit proud of that pun).
(1) is that 23 hookups, or 23 trips?
(2) do you really count each cast?
Yes to 1a, and yes to 2 (I use a spreadsheet and just add how many casts I made that day).
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So, stop trying so hard with classic tackle, go buy a pink dock demon and some pink steelhead jigsaw and go have fun.... 8)
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Du-ude! If I don't catch it on the flies I tie with my very own hands, it doesn't count.
(Settle down... that rule only applies to me.)
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Throw bugs with the dock demon!
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Tempting, but alas, I shan't be coming down from Mt. Olympus anytime soon.
But I do own both a 30" Daiwa spinning rod and the same as a casting rod - they're the only rods I couldn't talk my kids into accepting as gifts.
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30" ?????
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30" ?????
Yeah. Thirty inches, ML action. Very nicely made rods, just shorties. If I weren't so comfortable right now, I'd walk over to the garage and get the model name. I'll do it in the morning.
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Yeah. Thirty inches, ML action. Very nicely made rods, just shorties. If I weren't so comfortable right now, I'd walk over to the garage and get the model name. I'll do it in the morning.
Funneee! Don't move. The garage is too far. It'll be there in the morning.
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They're the Daiwa Triforce rods. Older ones with full-length cork grips, not the new split-grip version.
The Boss bought the casting version because she wanted a short rod for kayak fishing - don't ask me why, I never asked about her reasoning - but she hated the baitcasting reel, so I ought her the spinning version.
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Today was forecast to be rainy, but it wasn't - if you don't count my tears of frustration as rain.
Steelhead 24: Tinker 0.
[SIGH]
I blame that hdpwipmonkey fella. Only 8,861 casts left...
On the bright side, that was probably the last steelhead in these rivers for 2020. I'm grateful.
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Are you swinging for them...or nymphing? I'll be heading out for the rivers tomorrow morning to do a little swinging. I would love to get that many hookups. Probably 12 trips, 4 hookups, and only one to hand. Love every moment on the river though.
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Oh, if only it were 24 hookups in a year. Sadly, that's a multi-year count.
I don't do either, now that I'm forced to think about it. Where I can get to the rivers, they aren't really spots where one swings a fly because the steelhead travel lanes are narrow but deep channels, 6 to 10 feet wide, in stretches whee the rivers aren't much deeper than ankle deep. It's more of a drift along the opposite bank. Always the opposite bank.
I do let the fly swing back across the river before retrieving it, but the fish aren't out there in the shallow water and I'm only trying to not rip the fly out of the productive waters. That's not really swinging, is it.
I haven't fished a nymph, but only because both spots require a lot of mends and I suck at making mends at fairly long distances. That, plus I first fished them with unweighted winter flies and just never tried anything different.
ALSO: these are coastal streams and have only a small, brief, winter run. And because they're raging torrents when they're up, it's somewhere between extremely hard to impossible to fly-fish them (at least where I can get to them) until they drop to near-normal levels, and they defy practical kayaking at all times of year, making these my No Kayaks Involved fish tales.
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Well.....just got back from the OP. Beautiful water and weather but no grabs for me. Got to see a guy just in front of me on a long run land a good sized native. If only I had been there 30 min earlier....Had to be happy for him though. His first. He had to sit down for a good 20 mins afterwards just to calm himself down. Pretty cool. He and his buddy were a little slow on the release, but couldn't blame them too much.
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Wasn't a steelhead but I watched a fellow land a Chinook. His first. He couldn't settle down, either. Kept looking at me and saying, "Caught it on an orange Clouser!" over-and-over.
Okay. But back then, I didn't fish with a fly rod and I had no idea what a Clouser was, never mind the color. It is fun to watch.
Glad you found fine weather and got out. Sometimes that's enough.
(Who am I kidding?)