SBecker
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So Friday a couple friends and I headed up to fish in Pulaski for Salmon and Steel. One of the guys has a camper on Catfish Creek and we were just going to head to whatever direction the fish were hanging out. On the way up Friday it was very windy and raining pretty hard and we were running pretty late to get up there and fish. By the time we made it up, it was already 5:30 and the weather conditions were not very friendly, so we packed it in for the night and settled in to a few beers and some dinner and a good nights sleep for the early morning rise.
Saturday morning the wind was howling but wasn't going to stop us. So we headed out to a bar at 5 am to get some breakfast and then get into some Salmon. We decided to fish Catfish Creek because the water was up and the fish seemed to be really moving out of the lake. I got into the water and had Salmon running into my legs and scaring the #OOPS# out of me. By 9:30 I did not have a hook up and was still trying to figure out the whole salmon thing out. I had a Local guy offer me a a beer so I decided to take a break and maybe learn a thing or two from him. When I made it over to him I realized I had lost my fly box with all of my first flies I had tied in them. I was a little heartbroken but the local told me it probably was stuck along some branches down creek. For the next hour I searched with no avail. That is when my luck changed. For the rest of the day I hooked into 15 Salmon and landed 3 with a couple of really close net jobs. My buddy Tom hooked into 17 and landed 3. and my 2 other buddies hooked into a couple but only landed 1 Steel. Very productive first day of fishing!
Sunday was the same routine but we could only stay till 10. I was on fire and did not want to leave. Hooked into 10 in 3 hours but no lands because of close net jobs or some idiot casting over my fly line while I had a fish on and getting tangled. He then proceeded to hook into a salmon and the pressure of his fish literally cut my fly line 10 feet before my backing, with no apologies from the A hole New Jerseian.
Other then losing all of my fist tied flies and all of my nymphs and having my floating line cut and needing to buy new line, I had an amazing weekend of some of the best fishing I have ever had for salmon. Here is a couple pictures.
Saturday morning the wind was howling but wasn't going to stop us. So we headed out to a bar at 5 am to get some breakfast and then get into some Salmon. We decided to fish Catfish Creek because the water was up and the fish seemed to be really moving out of the lake. I got into the water and had Salmon running into my legs and scaring the #OOPS# out of me. By 9:30 I did not have a hook up and was still trying to figure out the whole salmon thing out. I had a Local guy offer me a a beer so I decided to take a break and maybe learn a thing or two from him. When I made it over to him I realized I had lost my fly box with all of my first flies I had tied in them. I was a little heartbroken but the local told me it probably was stuck along some branches down creek. For the next hour I searched with no avail. That is when my luck changed. For the rest of the day I hooked into 15 Salmon and landed 3 with a couple of really close net jobs. My buddy Tom hooked into 17 and landed 3. and my 2 other buddies hooked into a couple but only landed 1 Steel. Very productive first day of fishing!
Sunday was the same routine but we could only stay till 10. I was on fire and did not want to leave. Hooked into 10 in 3 hours but no lands because of close net jobs or some idiot casting over my fly line while I had a fish on and getting tangled. He then proceeded to hook into a salmon and the pressure of his fish literally cut my fly line 10 feet before my backing, with no apologies from the A hole New Jerseian.
Other then losing all of my fist tied flies and all of my nymphs and having my floating line cut and needing to buy new line, I had an amazing weekend of some of the best fishing I have ever had for salmon. Here is a couple pictures.
