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As for my epic failure.
Day one I missed 2 pulls.
 
Day 2 .
Now I'm not one much into counting numbers but when its a string of failures like I experienced it kind of sticks in your mind.
I believe I lost 16 that is right 16 steelfaces before I finally landed number 17.
Had them on for 8 or 9 jumps then they fell off the hook.
Had 3 or 4 sizzling runs then they'd fall off the hook.
Got the line wrapped on my wading staff, gave slack and got it untangle only to have it fall off the hook.
Just about all our fish came on the same fly.
The only one I landed was on a different pattern that I tried to see if the overcast and drift boat hatch had them spooked.
I only lost 2 flies to fish.
The first nicked a rock as I was landing it and the second on the take to a very poorly tied improved clinch knot.
 

PS lucky do your dec map kung fu and let me know how far we walked.

You're a wimp either way!
 
 

Nice guys... I here the crowds a stompin their way up now!!! That is a decent spot for solitude but sucks making the hike to have guys in it. Glad to see it worked out. I'm still guessing when I'm gonna get out for some action :/

Wimp no carry tall man's burden no mo'! Salam, salam, salam!  Short less than mile hike, oh groaner! Just less than mile, even with twists and turns. Save for power wheel chair, 4 wheel drive model!  Or jet boat!  Put in at compactor and run backward to Pineville!
 
Dime, it is plot to empty the staircases by Saturday AM so I have them all to myself.  The only way we could have been more general would be to say "in Oswego County", and really, if you've walked the river at all, there are no secret spots, just places you like to fish better.
 
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Don't tell them about the guys we saw that were herding all the fish into big nets and putting them in other parts of the river at night, and only telling a few guys where they were putting them.  Although the generalized upstream movement should be resulting in them stacking up like cord wood for any that make it up from 52. 
 
There are fish from top to bottom right now, but you still need some savvy to realize that and then identify taking spots, and then put what they want to eat through them long enough, as there is still a pulse to it all.  As RG was saying, a lot of fish only sometimes biting, and if you are with a hot rod like I fish alongside, it maybe really sometimes!
But if you hiked to a spot the last couple of days, and there were people in it, you either kept going or went back a little and there was fine water for prospecting most of it with as many possible sweet spots as what you originally wanted to fish.  I know the water we were in that we knew fished very differently for us than it ever had before.
 
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Not sure on the weekend yet, and I'm in thrall on Wednesday :(
 
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There were definitely a lot more guys on the river than last week.  Speytards and fly flingers, a fair number of stealth lifters, but some very talented fishermen as well (and some of the spey guys were also very talented I picked up some ideas for mastering the left bank with the long rod.)  No saltwater spinning rods seen all day!  2B was settling down for a nap when one guy asked if he could fish through the spot (I thought I was in another country for a second!)  and with a fine swing, he managed two in the 45 minutes or so that the chain saw was running on the bank.   One of the guys from the tailout came up while I was tying up a new tippet and talked for a few, revealing that he was 86!  I should be so lucky as to be in this man's shape when I hit 70, I if it hit 70! 
 
I hear LOTAC will be cleaning and fishing this weekend and rooms are pretty much booked.  That and the arctic blast may keep me on central LO tribs.  And word is that the Oak got a huge run last week!
 
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Another good report .. Bummer about the he be gee bees.
The bright side about this coming weekend, most will be in poor condition on Sunday , will have blown their wads and be heading home by noon leaving the river open in afternoon and Monday .. At least my hope anyway ..

Some pics I got off lucky's camera

 
Big ugly flyface

 
Blurring to protect my identity

 
 

The fly was about 4 inches long.
A little something to go on.

What would you say about 13??? Definitely double digits

That is a chunk!

Well no pics again.
Remembered the camera but the batteries were dead.
Started high in the kingdom on a guest pass.
Fished till about 8:30 without any indication of a fish in the river.
 
Hit the road and went to what's been good for a couple weeks.
 
Two spin rod bouncers in the hole and a switchtard.
Fish on the first pass through my bucket.
After having the hook pull some much lately I made sure to drive it home several times.
What I forgot was the loop in my hand and as I hit him the 3 time he bolted and wrapped the butt.
Before I could even start to free it he broke the ten pound easily.
Second pass landed a hen about eight pounds.
Jumped five full out of the water leaps and spent the rest of the fight thrashing the surface.
One of the spin guys has landed two  by now.
Why is it that they don't seem to fight as hard or excitedly on spin gear?
Rest my old bone while the fly guy worked the water.
Nother pass nother fish.
Male pushing ten that wanted to show his muscles.
Stayed in the water making four long runs but never more than boiling the surface.
Then the it was over.
Two more passes without a taker.
Fly guy though no takers.
Spin guys no takers.
The elderly gent that was there Tues no takers on the thingybob.
 
 
Pulled the plug a little after noon and went up to Malinda's to buy a few things and tell her and Bob I would probably not see them til next year.
 
Murtaugh has left the building.