Good luck Jack. I heard the secret spot is empty of fish but you are a fish master

One of the best days I've ever had was with Jack with just a few people around, sometimes NONE and we had numerous doubles of decently green kings for what seemed hours. I hope Jack sees just that. Some dam rain would help.

I don't recall my years as they all seem to fade but this is reminiscent of a run ( 2007) ? if you paid to play it was on fire. I think 2017 Jack told me to turnaround as I was heading up.
I'm in a situation of not having the time to have fun times right now.
Maybe next year. It's been 3 seasons now I've passed on salmon. I hope it won't be a repeat of trout

  I remember fishing with Jack, Troutbum and  hot tuna  6-7  years ago and watching them all fish and what they chose for flies and the way they fished them. I stole a little bit from them all and stored it in the archive. All of us caught fish that day and I had a blast being in the company of people who are absolute predators on the SR.  The river, the times, and the vagaries of life may prohibit that from ever happening again, but,  it  sure was a privilege and fun as hell.

Fichy, I remember that trip.  Got my butt kicked a number of times below P'ville on my version of a bead head copper john.   

 TB, I have a slightly blurred pic of a salmon half the length of my rod from that night. It was dusk and in shade.  I'll never get another as large. It crushed a large orange bunny fly inches below the surface on the swing. You guys stayed on the north bank and I crossed the river and chased it down to an eddy about 200 yds. below.  I couldn't get a grip on it to even pick it up to show you guys. Tail was the size of a dust pan.  I've never seen a bigger one on the SR.  I guess that's why I go back, the memories can be pretty extreme. I watched you hook up several times up on the curve fishing near you.  You had it dialed in. 
     I may or may not try for sharks, depends on water level, but winter steel is going to be tried. We'll probably stay at Tailwater and go out behind to my favorite old haunts. I know it supposedly has changed ,but I'll adapt or get up to the  unemployment  hole at first light.

I do remember that day and many others. I was throwing leaches and TB was hooking up with a chartreuse bead head nymph. He loaned me 1 and bingo, fish on.
Pretty much every adventure with folks here have been fun times no matter the fishing. Many times I was just as happy, even more so, being the " net man" as I was fishing.

After so many years and so many roads, I've had to take a step back and prioritize my future. Providing a good home , teaching my kids and grandkids and raising foods has taken away from the fun things I'd like to do more often.
Soon it will be back to more times on the water than land.
I just got home from deer camp and it didn't go well as we took a brand new tree stand down, then couldn't get it back up on tree.
I will have to return next weekend with a ladder and chain fall to hoist it up.
Our official hunting starts in 2 weeks and we have plenty very nice deer on our cameras.

Happy fishing

Fichy, actually it was HT who let me work that spot as he had done very well there the night before.  Coho's were stacked up on a redd in the soft spot below the riffle and crushed everything that drifted by.  It was a fun few hours for sure.
 

To give credit where credit is due- HT went out in fast water below the Church pool to net a really pretty fat  hen I hooked swinging in the tail of the pool. It dropped over into the fast water and I ran down and went sideways into the diversion while HT risked a cold dunking going out and netting it before it got away downriver. One of the best pieces of net work I've ever seen.
 He also generously  gave me his spot , which was really producing, one fine morning. After just one or two drifts my indicator stopped and I raised to the surface what looked to me like the shiny bumper of an F350.  Guys across the river saw it and yelled, it took off at warp speed and I tightened up like a rookie and snapped it off. Undoubtedly the biggest steel I've ever hooked in the SR, wasn't HT's fault I blew the chance of a lifetime.

Reports picking up last day or two.
Sounding like its started a bit heavier down low.
Video of tressel dosnt show too many fisherfolks up there so one may wonder bout upper fish numbers yet.