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Still swinging...

1/4/2013

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So...Have you ever had an itch that you can't quite reach?  No matter how hard you try; the door, corner of a wall, etc. it just doesn't cut it.  Well this is very much the issue I have been having with catching a steelhead on the swing.  I know.  I KNOW!  I just haven't put in my time!  

This past week, I made it out a couple of times to keep trying, but to no avail.  Some browns and a small rainbow, but no chrome.

I have landed quite on the indy rig. I have to admit that I really dislike looking at that bobber.  More than my dislike of staring at the bobber is rerigging when it 25 degrees out and blowing 20 mph.

 One has come on a mouse pattern.  (Not intentionally, but while showing a friend of mine how to mouse while it was still light, a nice buck came up and slammed my gurgler.  Better luck than good.  Did I mention that this was with a bamboo PY Boat Rod? Great streamer rod too!)

At this point, I don't even bring the eggs and nymphs with me anymore. Two have been hooked, just not landed.  I just want to land one on the swing.  

Karma...So I have come to the conclusion that the reason that I haven't landed one is because I am using plastic instead of bamboo.  To remedy that, the (very,very slow) development of a hollowed and spliced spey rod is underway.  With a ton of help from Jerry Drake (what a great last name for a fisherman), it is now drying with it's first coat of spar varnish.  

Wish me luck, going to try tomorrow and Sunday to find a way to scratch that itch.  
Go, go, gadget arms!!!
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