The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

Hey FH,

I have absolutely no doubt that you'd have done better, but you've become part steelhead since I saw you last.

1. Do you really think those numbers are that good when you consider that most of the waters I fished were hatchery rivers? I mean, we're not talking the Hoh or North Umpqua.

2. Yeah, if I lived near a river, I'd have learned to use it. Bad excuse though. I keep thinking that it's difficult enough that I'd be spending my entire trip learning (or not) while I could be fishing.

I'm getting closer though. I've now got a switch rod which just might work on a lake. It's a lot lighter than the Burkey. I swung and waked with it in BC...

3. As to Shepherd, the guy needs to get out more. What say you take us both fishing?

4. And it ain't whining when the run sucks. I'm starting to hear murmurings of somthing that I've kinda feared, that the overall CA steelhead runs this year were toward the "poor" side. It may be a natural cycle, but I don't like it...any more than I like the economy's "cycle".