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ANNUAL SALMON RIVER TRIP
Hit the road running
at 2:30 am on Wednesday, 10-01-08 headed to the Salmon River in New York.
Our
expectations were high elevated by the reports of good flow forecasted at
750 CFS.
 Our
group found the river less crowded than previous years for Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday mornings. Fish were coming through in sporadic pods,
but not nearly as heavy as previous trips. We were attempting to present
flies at these monster fish instead of the common 1...2...3 rip methods that
most were using. Our hook-ups were quite fewer than this method, but we had
hook-ups nevertheless. And when we had hooked-up, we experienced fewer
foul hooked fish. With the flow at 750 CFS, the fish were much
 harder to
land on our lighter
leaders (12 – 10 – 8 # test Flouro-carbon line). It seemed our battle cry
for the trip was FISH ON !....FISH OFF ! - Every day. LOL !
Friday afternoon and into Saturday saw many more fish pushing up the river
systems, and we had many more hookups fishing areas that are well defined on
any map in Pulaski, NY. It was exciting to
step into a new spot, study the bottom structure and wait for that structure
to change as fish would enter the area and then move on.
 We presented the
staple salmon flies for the area….estaz-eggs, wooly-buggers, and egg-sucking
leeches. No particular pattern was hot for us, however, yellow and fire
orange estaz-eggs were talked about often. Etiquette on the river was
much better than we've experienced with previous trips and we did not see or
hear the usual gripes or elbow to elbow fishing. The drift boat guides were
actually very gracious and it was quite fun
to watch their clients running up and down the river with fish hooked fair
or foul. The weather was mixed with rain showers, clouds and sun and the
temps were comfortable.
I myself am glad to
be back for the start of our own steelhead fishing, and look forward to much
less crowded water.
-Floatman
(Jim)
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