Welcome to the forum xlurker(Chuck) Sorry for not calling you back, I just came in from E. WA. Had to go over there to cool off. Had a great week at the lake flyfishing for bass in the lake and trout in a couple cricks.
I remember both fish very well. The only think with the Kalama was, seeing you first cast that one in the holy water got me believing it was easy. It took me 4 or 5 more trips to hook up. I then had my a$$ handed to me with a 5 wt, so of course I needed a new rod. We should go down there this fall, That stretch from the culvert hole down to "Glen's Glory Hole" is pretty schweet.
The really funny thing about that hump pig was, I told you, "there is a really sweet plug slot over on the right" and we first watered Bmac and his ride. Pretty amazing how that buck smashed the #30 Dr. Death. Both very memorable fish.
I will throw in one I caught in the Puyallup in the winter of '84. Bmac and I thought it would be pretty "cool" to have a drift boat, but we didn't. We were out one Friday night, most likely the cloverleaf, and I asked him if he wanted to put my 12' aluminum boat in the river. We decided to throw in in the Puy at HiHo and float to Clark's Creek. An anchor would have been nice, but we were totally new to the Norwegian drift boat program, so the only choice was to have one guy row like hell while the other fished. While he was doing his aerobic set I hooked a brute of a buck. The "drift boat" was doing spins as Brian tried to net it, which he accomplished. We guestimated it in the low 20s. After a couple pics we took the boat out and did the float again in out craft.
That was the only fish on that day, but we were sold on the benefits of a drift boat, and about a year later, Brian had one. We spent a lot of time and had a bunch of memorable moments in his orange Koffler. After Bmac sold his boat, I figured out I was really at home hiking smaller streams which lent themselves to the new float and jig techniques Brian taught me. Never thought it would work
Chuck, remember our first float down the Sol duc?
