2013/12/01 18:16:32
Clint S
Well insomnia woke me up at  430 AM so I decided to go up (actually it was probably too many naps and going to bed early on Saturday).   Left the house by 530  getting to my favorite spot and finding it devoid of people except 3 guys across from me.  Toward light the other side filled up, but my side stayed pretty empty except for 3 guys up from me.   Slow was not the word for it for the the first 2 hours for most of us.   The  guys up from me getting into a few fish with one quick head shake for me and not a tap on the other side. At around 9 after changing flies around 15 times I started to pick away here and there.  It seemed they wanted sucker spawn  color not important.  Got hits on Pink, blue, orange and creme.   Most were a few head shakes or a quick run.    Got into a real  screamer running down the whole pool running down the whole pool in what seemed like 5 seconds jumping twice and taking me into the backing and popping the hook.  A bit later I got a snag and brought in a wad of line.  I was scavenging swivels and weight when noticed a few tiny worms wiggling around, on close look it seemed to be a tiny sedge worm, it was greenish brown and about a 16.  Unfortunately I had only one fly that small in the box.  Worked well for 3 hits and 1 to the bank before the rock in front of me claimed it.   Ended up banking 3 today and lost a few more  and for good measure no knots or tippet were broke all lost fish just popped the hook.  Sorry for the crappy pictures  I see I cut the head and tail off the my biggest one this year it was double digit though  ,  it is SOOOO difficult to net the fish, try to keep it  safe and take a picture on my phone when I cannot see the screen by myself .   The one fish  had 2 lamprey marks on it.
 
Almost all  fish hooked were on our side, the guys across from us got maybe 2 or 3 quick hook ups in 7  hours or so and there was easily 10 guys over there during the early AM .     I fished from 7 am till 2 pm
 




2013/12/02 07:03:02
Lucky13
Nice post Clint!  Glad to see someone can still get out.
 
L13
2013/12/02 07:24:25
fichy
I see some of the crowds came back with the temps. Glad you got out and did well.
2013/12/02 09:34:56
capeangler
Nice report Clint.  Pictures with snow on the ground.     Great to see .
2013/12/02 18:30:28
Yukbug
Clint,
I was one of the last guys over on the "other side" Sunday morning.  I saw you over there hook up twice and, I think, take the photo of your fish that got cut off...I recognize the green fleece sleeve!  I wish I knew it was you and would have said hello.  I was trying to fish a yarn worm fly with no success and then some couple from your side started "bombing" my side with their casts.  Got sick of it and moved down stream.  You are the only one I saw with a hook up the 2 or so hours I was there.  Congrats!
2013/12/02 18:58:09
Clint S
Was it later in the day and the guy and gal shooting  it out  not casting????  I told him in a very nice way that I really did not care how he was casting, but if DEC was there he would get a ticket for that.   The weight was CLEARLY shooting the fly through the guides, no roll cast no nothing.   I was really surprised at the lack of hookups over there, usually a few in the right places, but nothing.  It was a sucker spawn day for sure as the guys right up from me had no luckand  switched out after I told them and they hooked a couple.
2013/12/03 18:51:50
Yukbug
I was there about 10:30 and went downstream by noon.  I had sucker spawn but I have never had good days using on the Salmon River and just chalked it up to the clear water conditions usually.  I have used it with good success over in the Erie tribs however, especially with murky water. 
 
I could have used that tip!  Hopefully I will see you up there in the future, maybe over Christmas/New Years.
2013/12/03 21:18:18
Clint S
I do well with the sucker spawn in white , blue and orange.  Yarn version, not the crystal braid version. 
2013/12/04 15:16:55
troutbum21
Nice job.
 
2013/12/04 16:02:19
pafisher
Yukbug
I was there about 10:30 and went downstream by noon.  I had sucker spawn but I have never had good days using on the Salmon River and just chalked it up to the clear water conditions usually.  I have used it with good success over in the Erie tribs however, especially with murky water. 
 
I could have used that tip!  Hopefully I will see you up there in the future, maybe over Christmas/New Years.



Hey yukbug is that a white Boxer rolling on your avater? If it is my white Boxer,Mollie,loves to roll on her back just like that.
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