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Watched a really good episode this am. Anyone who hasn't seen it before, it is a show sponsored by Stihl and is hosted by Larry Csonka and his wife (and any of you not old enough to remember, Larry was a famous football player for the Miami Dolphins).
The program was set on the Alagnak River using spey rods for trophy sized rainbow trout. Showed the guide teaching Larry and his wife to throw one, then showed their progress fishing. Of course, you could see them having some problems, but were doing pretty good. This was one of the better epidsodes too. They caught some DAMNED nice trout. 8-10#'s on average. Gorgeous fish, some minty bright like a fresh from salt steelhead. His wife even got on the action. I think what impressed me the most about the show was the guide they were using. He landed every fish brought in for a "glory shot". Guess what he did??? He kept the fish IN the water until they were ready to take the picture. If they wanted more then one pic, he would put the fish right back down into the water and raise only when a picture was to be taken. I've seen MANY of these shows were that fish is out of water for minutes while the anglers talked. Was very refreshing to see. But was nice to see the spey in action and catching these big trout. They had those 14' speys bent pretty good and looked like a blast.
The program was set on the Alagnak River using spey rods for trophy sized rainbow trout. Showed the guide teaching Larry and his wife to throw one, then showed their progress fishing. Of course, you could see them having some problems, but were doing pretty good. This was one of the better epidsodes too. They caught some DAMNED nice trout. 8-10#'s on average. Gorgeous fish, some minty bright like a fresh from salt steelhead. His wife even got on the action. I think what impressed me the most about the show was the guide they were using. He landed every fish brought in for a "glory shot". Guess what he did??? He kept the fish IN the water until they were ready to take the picture. If they wanted more then one pic, he would put the fish right back down into the water and raise only when a picture was to be taken. I've seen MANY of these shows were that fish is out of water for minutes while the anglers talked. Was very refreshing to see. But was nice to see the spey in action and catching these big trout. They had those 14' speys bent pretty good and looked like a blast.