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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Aug 13, 2011 - 03:17pm PT
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NA_Kid
Big Wall climber
The Bear State
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Aug 13, 2011 - 03:44pm PT
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Cheers
-J
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golsen
Social climber
kennewick, wa
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Aug 13, 2011 - 05:58pm PT
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mike m - Baptiste Lake? Below Hooker? Nice fish!
NA - was that Pend Orielle or Priest Lake?
Nice pics guys, thanks!
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Sep 20, 2011 - 01:56pm PT
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Sep 21, 2011 - 01:29am PT
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sockeye salmon
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Beautiful Dolly Varden!
Where?
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Brian More
climber
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
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BG,
How did you get the sockeye to eat your fly (and what fly was it)? Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't they disinclined to feed at that stage in their life? By the way, saw the shot on IGFA site too, nice job!
Brian
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Hi Brian:
All Pacific Salmon, when they enter fresnwater, cease feeding as they begin their spawning phase, although they still bite flies and lures out of aggression, especially if it's right in front of them. I'd say they rank this way in terms of attitude in biting a fly, from most agressive, to least aggressive: Pinks, Silvers, Chums, Kings, and Sockeyes.
The key for Sockeyes is to use a sparsely tied and relatively small fly, like a comet or polar shrimp in size 6 or 8, dead drifted right at their eye level. You want to be able to see them, so you can sight fish them, in moderately fast current. They rarely bite, but with thousands of fish swimming by in a day you have lots of chances. On my last trip I actually had a Sockeye charge from 10 feet away to bite a pink fly when I was fishing for silvers.
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Hey silver....check out this silver!
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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johnkelley, that's a NICE rainbow. Where'd you get that one?
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Silver-
20 pounds is HUGE for a silver. Here's a little one from Alaska. Haven't done any spey rod fishing, but I'm stricly a fly fisherman. Would love to go after some of those BC steelhead on spey!
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johnkelley
climber
Anchorage Alaska
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Middle Kenai last winter. I'll post some photos of some big ones when I get home. That one was 28" x 19". Trophy size is 32" and up in AK.
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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thought so...that's a real hog
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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