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caseyjholmes
Yessir, Phil Kane Im remembrance. Miss that guy.
Meh. The synths keep me busy. It’s like puzzles when I build them. Calming.
I can make money from them as well, and these ones are like musical Legos. Can sit and solder one the forest and sell synths online when I come out.
I think the water was a bit higher actually. I was fishing here back in March when I caught that behemoth steelhead. Was thinking about that fish all summer long, waiting for the December season to open. The water was pretty low back then. It’s up at least a foot or more right now. I was wondering how all those big fish get in there, last year. Now I know. The water rises up quite a bit.
When it snows in that range, it melts off rather fast within the week. The temps right there hover around 30-40* often parts of the year so it freezes over and melts off many times each year.
You need to use split shots on your fly line to get these fish. Or sinking line. I haven’t figured it out yet. But I don’t know if you’ve ever tried casting split shots in the bushes on an eight weight. Lol..
Also the water is crystal clear right now. The fly rod is using those large egg imitations. The bright orange of the eggs seems to actually scare the fish away in clear water. I found something that works a little better..
Use those steelhead twitching jigs made from Maribu in black and blue colors. They’ll hit that.
I don’t know why yet. I think it’s because there is blue crawdads in that water, IIRC.
I was just in Florence right before the video after picking up another lithium battery for the trailer at AM Solar in Eugene. Took the road to the coast and then worked my way up.
I’ll try and attach a pic from Florence coast.
Yea man, get the book from Walmart and study the rules in advance.
Then take your creek fording skills, dawn the waders, and sleep outside for a week to get used to the temps.
You’ll have to fish with freezing hands in Oregon. You’ll notice the temps in those videos were 34* and 36*. I made it a point to include those time and date and temp stamped shots.
I heard the steelies like a little bit warmer water than the salmon.
It’s really hard to tell the difference between them.
Look close. The salmon have the black outside and inside jaw but a white tooth line.
The steelhead don’t have the black jaw but still look really similar, right now.
I believe the black jaw ones are salmon and the ones without black jaws are steelhead. But I could be wrong.
All those may have been salmon.
I’m sure the big fat pink one is a salmon. It doesn’t look like a giant pissed off trout with shoulders like that huge steelhead I caught earlier in the year with a nice bright pink stripe on the side.
Hell, I don’t even know what I’m catching back there. But they are epic when you hook one. It’s like you did something wrong and now you’re in trouble and have to figure out how to land it and unhook it.
I’ve had those suckers take me 300 yards down stream and wrap me up on branches and had to go IN the deep cold river water in my waders and dig the fish off a branch. All on 8lb line.
It’s pretty ridiculous. You come out cut up and bruised like you got tackled at the football game.
A real treat to get to fight one of those but you better hold on to your damn rod. They make my crankbait stick feel like a wet noodle.
Don’t let the fools up there tell you that you need an 11’ rod back in those sticks like that. It’s not going to do you any good. You do need some backbone and a forgiving tip, so you don’t pull hooks, though.
Good luck up there. Many tributaries holding fishes. Some, more than others. ;)
I think from my previous posts, you may have an idea where to start. Send me a DM and I can add some tips.
It took me a month and hard work and forest camping to find those but now that I have, they seem to bite when I’m around using the right stuffs. Now that I’ve experienced them a few times, I’ll probably keep trying with the fly rod if I ever make it back.
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