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That's too bad about the fish kill. Just more critters killed due to the Eco Fire Nut Division of the Green Jihadists.

That part of the Fall River is the clearest water in a stream on the west coast.

The fish had phd's in how to avoid being caught. If they saw you, your rod in the air, the glint from your rod, your line in the air, a glint from the line or a milli second of drag forget it. They would leave or they just ignored your fly.

I have seen guys crawl 100 yards for one cast. Guys will wear camo clothes, camo rods, use camo lines and camo leaders with camo painted faces/hands with camo hats. Then still scare these PHD fish away with a brief milli second of drag on the water.

The best way I found to catch a big one was to wear camo and just walk up to where you wanted to fish and set down where you wanted to cast about 30 minutes before it got dark. By then the fish forgot about you. Then I would cast downstream a little distance with a very long furled leader and about 5' of very thin tippet attached to the leader and to a very small fishing fly. Then, you sit there let the fly drift down stream an out to the edge. The fish forgot about your line, tippet and fly in about 20 minutes.

Then about 5 minutes before dark, you move your rod up slowly to skate or skitter the small fly 25 to 30' down stream on the surface. If a smaller trout didn't kamikazi itself on your fly, you had the chance of having a really big 20 to 24 inch trout pounce on it. Then you would play him until your little tippet broke off and left him with the hook and another PHD learning moment for him.

I did this twice, two evenings in a row and hooked a couple really big browns which broke off. Then, I decided that this was not the fishing that I enjoyed.

Good story!

I'm still here, can't add anything to what you have posted except a few observations.

I've said it won't be pretty in the fall when the rains start.

Do you wonder why we have so many fire fighting teams from Canada, New Zealand and Australia?

is this area frequented by a lot of osprey?

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