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I've been working hard at getting my local hatchery summer runs to impersonate free rising wild steelhead - it's a mostly futile endeavor that I persist in anyway. I've endured a long dry spell of just getting casting practice and finding inner peace for the whole summer with no steelhead coming up after my floating flies. With the cooling fall weather, these fish have started to look up. I've recently been raising fish to the top and actually hooking a few.
I had a discussion going on another board about my joy in using inexpensive equipment:
I got the fish pictured on 9/29/12 on one of my little foam wakers fished with a Fenwick FF856 glass rod (I got carried away and paid $95 for this one), 1495 Pflueger Medalist ($24.95 from Walmart in Bozeman, MT), and used 6wt Ambush line ($40 - just purchased on speypages classifieds). This fish grabbed during mid morning with sun on the water, just as I was about ready to call it a day.
Blessed beyond measure,
Todd
I had a discussion going on another board about my joy in using inexpensive equipment:
I got the fish pictured on 9/29/12 on one of my little foam wakers fished with a Fenwick FF856 glass rod (I got carried away and paid $95 for this one), 1495 Pflueger Medalist ($24.95 from Walmart in Bozeman, MT), and used 6wt Ambush line ($40 - just purchased on speypages classifieds). This fish grabbed during mid morning with sun on the water, just as I was about ready to call it a day.
Blessed beyond measure,
Todd