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High water conditions today made for tough swinging. Flow was 1200cfs at the dam and 1450cfs at the Pineville USGS gauge. Slight warming trend over the past couple of days brought the water temperature up a little to 38 degrees.
In this flow I had on a 10' tip of T-11 and 5' tippet of 12lb. Maxima ultragreen. I usually put one fly on and leave it on all day. If the steelhead don't like it, too bad for them :chuckle:
Today's fly was this 4" marabou cut-shank in Black/purple. I lost a nice fish on it mid morning that slammed it on the hang down, made one jump and came off. I've had a hard time hooking them when they hit it straight downstream.
Around 1pm another fish hit and at first I thought it was a brown trout because of the slow fight. But then she realized she was hooked and put up a surprising battle for her size even making the click sing a few times on my new Hardy 4" Wide Spool Perfect. A 22" female fresh out of the lake.
In this flow I had on a 10' tip of T-11 and 5' tippet of 12lb. Maxima ultragreen. I usually put one fly on and leave it on all day. If the steelhead don't like it, too bad for them :chuckle:
Today's fly was this 4" marabou cut-shank in Black/purple. I lost a nice fish on it mid morning that slammed it on the hang down, made one jump and came off. I've had a hard time hooking them when they hit it straight downstream.

Around 1pm another fish hit and at first I thought it was a brown trout because of the slow fight. But then she realized she was hooked and put up a surprising battle for her size even making the click sing a few times on my new Hardy 4" Wide Spool Perfect. A 22" female fresh out of the lake.
