Doggone that Jack Hise…he just loves to beat me to a post!!
Mike Murgida & I decided to check out a flyshop in Sheffield Lake that Mike hadn’t been to yet. Then decided to go to one f our favorites, Chagrin River Gillies…after shopping & visiting, we had about 1/2 hour to bank fish (no time to don waders)…3rd rollcast with my new Sage VT2 6wt (won here) & a bunny strip streamer resulted in a solid 6-7 lb steelie…beautiful fish, great fun & what a way to break in the Sage. This is my 1st year steelie fishing & my goal was to get one, but WOW!!! I am surprised & pleased beyond belief!..only 1 negative…I FORGOT the camera, but I DO have an indelible picture imbedded in my mind!
Mike
Mike…without my expert knowledge in steelheading you would have never got caught that fish let alone got to the river! I was the one who knew how to get the the shop, I knew what flies to use, AND I put you on some nice water LOL… …but you can’t forget when I caught that small jack on that giant fly and I yelled over to you and while trying to release it I almost fell off the steep bank !
“GET THE DRIFT?”
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It’s the challange 'tuber, it’s the challange!! I don’t often beat you but when I do I’ll gloat about it!!
Notice that I let you tell the lie of the size!! OOOPS!! “Discription” of the size!!
Sorry about the slip!!
I feel more like I do now than I did when I got here!
May it always keep march’in for ya Mike…you seem a Hella guy!!!..and you deserve it…wish I had half your luck…
“I’ve often wondered why it is that so many anglers spend so much money on,and pay so much attention to.the details on the wrong end of the fly line.If they took as much care in selecting or tying their flies as they did in the selection of the reel and rod,They might be able to gain the real extra edge that makes it possible to fool a fish that has,in fact,seen it all before” A.K.Best
Everyone wants to excel in this sport but at the same time we let traditionalists place restrictions on our tactics, methods, and ideas. I always assumed that fly fishing was a sport that allowed imagination, creation, adaptation, investigation, dedication, education, revelation? : Fox Statler, On Spinners (Not the dainty Dry Fly kind) “Spinner’d Minner Fly”
Nice fish…great memory. That picture is exactly where it should be.
So…MM is guiding now eh? Man that kid grew up fast. Seems like just yesterday he was a 13 year old freshman in the chat room. Where “does” the time go!? lol
Later, RW
“We fish for pleasure; I for mine, you for yours.” -James Leisenring on fishing the wet fly-
Thanks all…seems like my luck recently is neverending. For the rest of you, I hope it’s contagious!
RW…I’ll NEVER forget THAT steelie! Imagine!..Soon to be 59 & I’m learning about trout & steelhead from this 14 year old kid!..(I pay him back by agreeing with his Dad when they disagree…really bugs Mike!)
Mike
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