Dry Line Steelhead and Other Subjects by Bill McMillan

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

http://www.amazon.com/Dry-Line-Steel.../dp/0936608625

This was a book that I learned a lot from and think it would be worth the $80.00 to buy a used one on Amazon.

These books were printed by Frank Amato Publications in 1988 for $15.95 in paperback - 144 pages.

They were a group of magazine articles that Bill McMillan had written about catching Steelhead on flies with a floating line.

Amato Publications says they will probably reprint it some day. If you want to see this book reprinted you might email Amato.

More info: http://flyanglersonline.com/stufarnham/stu010603.php

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In the 60s and 70s most in Nor Cal used the shooting head system for all Steelheading.

I started selling fly fishing tackle in Sacramento in 1965 and back then we would get people in with a list for tackle because they were headed up to Oregon to the Deschutes River to fish with a fly fishing guide.

They would buy a Fenwick fiberglass 8'6" #8 line 2 piece fly rod - FF858.

Then they would buy a large Pflueger Medalist 1998 fly reel that was big enough to hold a double taper 8 floating fly line (DT8F) with plenty of Cortland Micron 20# backing.

Down here in Nor Cal we were still into shooting heads for most Steelheading so this got our attention about the floating line Steelheading going on up in Oregon and Washington.


Another book we sold and read back then was 'Greased Line Fishing: For Salmon [and Steelehad]' by Jock Scott.

http://www.amazon.com/Greased-Line-F.../dp/0936608196

In the 1980s many of us in Nor Cal started using a floating line for summer/fall Steelheading.


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[pvsprme]

Had the pleasure of meeting both on the "D" as a kid. Bill was very self depracative, Frank the more gregarious of the two. At the time a waking fly on a dryline was revolutionary. A Portland tackle shop owner, Don Mclain was also instumental in this concept. Amato and Coombs used rods as light a 4 weights.