Suicide runs part 2

My truck is 80 miles from home needing a new front hub..... decided to have its bearings go bad  passing through Rome at 5 in the morning . When in Rome....  Limped it to the river and fished.  So much for spur of the moment decisions. Fished in Altmar and didn't find fish in usual lies, but fish  in resting spots in fast water. I found a hydraulic behind a ledge in some whitewater and hooked three chrome from it. on black buggers.  One ran at me and wrapped the flyline around a rock and snapped off, one jumped off, and one snapped off after I over pressured it after a number of runs and jumps and I got impatient.  As I was the only fisher on my side of the  river , some guys moved in after the hook-ups and started pounding the small area. I don't blame them, as things were pretty slow. I only saw a few hook-ups, but one good  bright fish landed . Moved on  and found even fewer players, but eventually found more  and got one to the bank . It slammed an  Oregon cheese sucker spawn and as it catapulted in the air I knew it was a good solid hook-up and I had a shot at landing it. Sometimes, I don't mind small fish. Oh well, I never claimed to be a good fisherman.  It made  at least 10 good jumps and some decent runs, belying its small stature. It  made the trip, no matter the outcome.  If I can get the transportation situation straightened out, I'll be back next week.  Maybe the river will fill in more upriver, maybe I'll fish downriver- I didn't want to go any farther than Altmar this trip.  1 for 4 ,  is  pretty well near skunked, but I don't regret going, though it's going to be very costly in many ways. I had 2 jobs to finish this week that are now up  in the air. At least I have a piece of chrome, up in the air in mind's eye ,to distract me.

nearly a skunk.
sounds like channel #5 from where i'm typing.

Dang Charlie. That blows big time.
I'll do my best to get you back on the water. I'm the only skunk in town.
It was paradise this morning, on water at 8am , 1-7 by 10am when 1x tippet went empty and ran outta blue flies. Ain't nobody down there and darn sure no fish either
Ugh !!!

Yea,Charlie sorry about the truck.   If you are ever close give me a call if you get in trouble.  I happen to know a guy who is better  with a wrench than a fly rod.   You would have missed a day of fishing , but we could have got it done.  What kind of truck and where did you take it to get done if I could ask.  If it was a Chevy, I have done about 50 of those over the years.  I will PM you my home phone, I do not get cell service and never have that on any way.   At least you got 1 to the shore, much better than I did.  

3 fan, my Chevy does. I've had them all my life. It's the owner, not the truck. This one has had a HARD life as a work and plow truck and has racked up the miles. Motor and trans are still great, front end , brakes, suspension, not so much.  Clint, I did the driver side about a year ago. You can change them in your sleep, I bet. Thank you for the offer. I'd rather fish with you, though mechanics  is fun if you're not under the gun.  
    John, that's a nice pic. I've not tried that shade of pink. If I see some, I'll pick some up and add them to the selection.  Glad you got some maniacs on. I think Lucky mentioned this temp brings out the best in them.  I agree.  The ones I hooked made some spectacular jumps. I'm kinda glad we're in a warm spell and it's not going to cool off before I make it back. It's some challenge getting them on the bank.  They're incredible fish in their prime.
 
Charlie
 

Charlie, most importantly I'm glad to hear that you and your wife are safe and sound... small fortune for truck repair is much better than a tragedy! On the second hand even better to hear that you hooked into some steel. Right on brother!!!

Trevor, glad to see you're back!

3fan, great to see you're still out there scouting steel!

Tuna, let me know how those flies workout ;) Hope you slam em today!!!

Tightlines folks!!!

Late start . Just passing Mexico . I'm sure my spot is being fished since I was being watched pretty good yesterday .

Dime im ready when you are gonna be up all weekend.

dimebrite

3fan

Dime im ready when you are gonna be up all weekend.

fan, im always ready...just not always able

Hope you slam them buddy...btw, early next week we may see the river getting up to a prime plugging level...we could be in store for a typical fall flow rhis november

 
Big rain comming and guess who is comming up to see it......me.....Tues thru Sat!

Andy,this rain is certainly needed but from what I have read recently the reservoir is far from full,so I don't anticipate any flood where I'll be fishing.I do hope the heavy rain and wind goes thru early on my trip as I don't like being out in that.Too bad this did n't hit about 2 months ago.

Was up to the res a couple of weeks ago- Low does NOT begin to describe it- dont believe a Hurricane or tropical storm will even begin to take up the slack.
 Am sure we will only get local runoff on the Sr- that sad it may well make some decent flows for a while- Wont be for long though without the res emptying out over time.

If you get blown out by Sandy, learn to fish the Sandys!  Too high water on the Salmon generally means enough to draw fish into the other tribs.  They ran with minimal flows on a lot of smaller waters around Central Lake Ontario  last week, and a runoff event will just pull more.  
 
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