fichy
I wasn't hanging  around here when the first thread  of neaphyte's was active. I went back and read it- it was a great thread. I was busy training for doing miles in the  Sierra wilderness at the expense of early salmon season. This year, I've already planned  (and got the plane tickets) for a backpack trip  in   the Grand Canyon in April.(Rainbows and cutts at the confluence of the Colo. and Bright Angel Creek)  I may miss some drop backs, but  next Sept. I will be fishing streamers for Kings and Ho's. Getting top water bites from salmon is off the charts. Gotta be early, and gotta be low on the river for the best chance at it, I think.  2bob would know if that's true or not. . Tuna showed me the DSR and got me started.  Not that I won't go upriver later in Sept., too. I'm missing the Kings, to tell you the truth. They are awesome fish. Having them v wake and smash a fly  on the surface is one of the best fishing sights I've seen, and I've seen a few. Oh  yeah, I forget salmon have to be lined or snagged.  Silly me.
 

Charlie,we'll get into those Kings next Sept/Oct at my secret spot....that's a date!

Absolutely, Jack!!!!! One of my best days ever was there with you. I had that in mind when I said upriver end of Sept. 

Had a double digits male steelhead come up and grab a globug hanging on the surface below me while I was lighting a cigarette (so at least 10 years ago).  Scared the shazit right out of me and the fish!
 
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Lucky13
Had a double digits male steelhead come up and grab a globug hanging on the surface below me while I was lighting a cigarette (so at least 10 years ago).  Scared the shazit right out of me and the fish!
 
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Had that happen last year for me.    My line was probably 20 feet down just hanging out.  I had the pole under my arm and was trying to get my fly box out of my pocket to change it up.  Almost ripped the pole out of my arm

Thus the term , drag the bag. Often happens when egg sacks come to the surface after the drift. The tail of the black hole was perfect for that

hot tuna
Thus the term , drag the bag. Often happens when egg sacks come to the surface after the drift. The tail of the black hole was perfect for that

Used to drift bags with weight forward fly lines early on in my beginning years when flies didn't seem to work... the bag drag picked up fish often. Ya know, there's so many old styles and methods that just get lost in time. But they all still work...

The old but effective Leisenring Lift, deadly.

Interesting jerry... amazing you can fish certain methods and never know it. I prefer to let a dead drifted nymph swing out at the end... always has been effective for me. From what I just read regarding leisinger lift and tactics, that's pretty much a staple. Interesting reads regarding the leisinger method on the net

Who ever said you can't teach an old dog new tricks!

Steelhead on the surface?
The first I saw was the guy with the golf ball sized yarnball plunked in water shallow enough so it sat on the surface swinging back and forth.
Fishing a Zebco 33.
Lucky and I were smuggly laughing about it when a mid teen steelhead came up and crushed it.
It took off destroying the reel.
 
Second was guiding a dentist fron VT.
There used to be a pocket between the silo and glide that held fish only on high water.
As I was once again trying to explain that he was not finishing the drift his globug was swinging across the tail of the run where he should have been drifting.
Rod backwards under his arm and a steelhead comes up and grabs.
Turned, ran about 10 feet and fell off the hook.
 
Targeting that pocket I had three take on top in one morning.
It was a day with so many kings I truely started trying to find ways not to hook them.'
Finally went with a bomber on top.
One hit dead drift at the top of the run  and two skating across the tail.
Got 2 or 3 more from there before a flood changed that whole stretch of river.
Have had them come short a few times in the lfz.
 
Still carry some sort of dry with me just in case.
 
Lucky I think I recall one coming up for you below the meadow one day.
Not dry but weightless at the surface.