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    Quote Originally Posted by JD2105 View Post
    I was out the other evening and had the absolute pleasure of meeting Erik Gabele while we were in search of some fresh half pounders. I had hooked one that I lost earlier and did not get any more grabs, but Erik managed to hook this beautiful fresh chrome and wild fish! It absolutely one of the greatest fish I have ever had the opportunity to help land and see in person. I just thought you guys had to see this fish, my net's webbing measures up to 24 inches and this fish was nowhere close to fitting in my net, easily much bigger than 24-25 inches. It was an exciting evening for sure. I also saw some other very fresh fish jumping completely out of the water around sunset, the cooler water seems to be bringing more fish into the system. I'm glad I had the experience of seeing this fish caught!

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    Wow. That is a nice fish….especially for this time of year. I am curious if he was throwing a streamer or a larger wetfly/nymph?
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    Nice one! And wild!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pvillarr View Post
    Wow. That is a nice fish….especially for this time of year. I am curious if he was throwing a streamer or a larger wetfly/nymph?
    Looks like a olive nymph or wet fly in the picture.

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    Some years ago lower American river expert, Captain Andy Guibord, used a "larger than the natural" #8/10 olive caddis emerger.

    He would just swing them on a floating line.


    Today Andy also likes to swing a small sculpin imitation that he and Mark Kranhold developed. They use smaller two handed fly rods

    with a floating Scandi head and sink-tip.


    In the Fall most use insect, egg, crayfish and fish imitations on the Valley rivers rather than classic Steelhead flies.

    If you use steelhead flies I would just use sparce #8/10.

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    I have to go back and look at Erik's wonderful fish again......

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    Great fish...they're out there...can't catch them from the couch...

    I might take a walk over to Watt on Sunday morning after seeing that...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pvillarr View Post
    Wow. That is a nice fish….especially for this time of year. I am curious if he was throwing a streamer or a larger wetfly/nymph?
    He was swinging a brindle bug, yellow and brown/black I believe, but could have been an olive and black one too. Erik was generous enough to let me try one of his brindle bugs and give me his recipe for tying them. He said he does well with both the yellow and olive variations, it is pretty simple to tie.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JD2105 View Post
    He was swinging a brindle bug, yellow and brown/black I believe, but could have been an olive and black one too. Erik was generous enough to let me try one of his brindle bugs and give me his recipe for tying them. He said he does well with both the yellow and olive variations, it is pretty simple to tie.

    Thank you for the info. I have never tried that pattern before. My guess is that it resembles a big caddis with that color scheme.
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    Erik is old school.......we mostly used Brindle Bugs for years.

    Now I think we found out that an #8/10 wet 'fly / nymph' of your choice will usually work.

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    Just did some emailing with Jeff Ching and asked him what he was doing now?

    He said he fishes almost every day.

    He is fishing for Steelhead and for Stripers now.


    I asked him what was the latest he caught a Shad in the American.

    He said in October but they are all small males.


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    Sure looks like the hunt is on in here! Been a while since I shared anything but this thread is perfect for my report.

    I have been doing my first drifts with my boat on the AR, between Rossmore down to Watt. There has been steelhead on every trip with a 50/50 split on native fish and hatchery. 5wt Echo switch rod, OPST Commando smooth with s5/s6 sink tip, 8lb flouro about 4' to my leech pattern I use every year. This last weekend was the most steelhead for me ever in a single day. 5 adults, 2 native 3 hatchery, between 16-22" on the high end of the spectrum. I've noticed the fish are going after active flies, not a dead drift. In fact every trout I have caught in the last month has been stripping back my fly. Striper are still around, I got one Sunday fishing near a run I had great success with from my boat, just wading the stretch. Again on the strip. Fish have been getting caught during all times of the day. Heck, I had 4 inside 20 minutes around 3pm on a sunny day during the float last weekend.

    I've only seen a salmon getting flossed in the morning two weeks ago, put on a good show.

    I'll be headed out again this Sunday to float and see what I can find. Our flows are much better this season and hopefully a wet winter approaches. Late Aug-end of Sept has been great steelhead fishing the last three years for me. The fall season should be productive with the factors at play holding a positive look for the next few months.

    BUT there is always something that messes with our game...if I remember correctly flows have been drastically adjusted during the week of steelhead opener and things just feel like they go downhill from there until shad season comes around. I can't see the current release from Lake Folsom continuing much longer and fear we will see another hard adjustment to the flows of the American.

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    Thank 2W&C......

    Great post......looks like a good year?

    Most years in late August we would see the half-pounders arrive.

    I guess right now we have good flows and good temps.
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