did not disappoint. Tons of fish, few fisherman, and great conditions added up to a great week of fishing.
The story of the week was a big steelie after a five minute fight went under a thin, 20 foot downed tree. I had to lift the tree to free the fish. He went back under it again, near the base and I could not lift it, so I jammed my rod under the tree and pulled the rod out of the other side. The fish was still on. He did it a third time in the thin end and the line got hung up on a small branch from the tree. I lifted the tree again, dislodged it, but the branch stayed on. The fish, the branch, and I broke the pool, went down stream where I corralled the fish, the branch, and a huge piece of bark that acted like a flasher on a downrigger. The most bizarre landing in 41 yrs of fly fishing. Loved every minute of it.
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