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After a few times after my Sage 8 weight 9.5' steelhead rod became an eight footer in the Chetco River, the Rogue, and the Sacramento River, I stopped fishing when/where the King Salmon might be.

However, I have brand new Sage 10 weight 15'1" Euro Spey Rod just for salmon this season. I just put on the new Loop 4 reel and the Rio 9/10 Accelerator Interchangeble tip line yesterday. It is rigged to go do battle with the Kings this summer and fall.

So it and I are headed up to the American River above Sacramento for a little practice casting as soon as I log off of here.

My son, the better fly fisher, said he knows what will happen if I dare to cast my new Sage 7 weight 14'1" Euro Spey steelhead rod for a few practice casts. That will be when the largest King of the season decides to chop down on my little size 12 Fox Caddis Pupah. Then, I will have a 11 or 12 foot 7 weight rod that isn't all that new. Oh course he has no room to talk. His Sage 8 weight like mine had so many broken tips, he decided to make it a 9' rod instead of a 9.5' rod.

So, I'm only putting a 6# tippet on the leader with that rod. Even a 6# tippet before you break it off with a salmon as big as your leg jumping upstream with your fly in its mouth can be a little scary.

Its tough to blame a submarine for a busted rod when the water in the river is only 10' deep.