Something you don't see

[Slow and Low]

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Dry line Nook swung on the lady? Crazy.

[12244]

Nice work Sam, Salmon have been crazy over there.

[Mitch Callas]

Nice!

Mitch

[steel_beaver]

Nice!!! Is that a single hander :whistle::passout:

[cphatts]

Nice nooky Sam. I swung up a springer on a dry line earlier this summer while fishing for steelies. Suprised the hell out of me when I saw what it was. Nice little nook but unlike yours mine was starting to turn copper.....which is all the more surprising to me that it grabbed on a dry line.

They are strange fish indeed.....althrough a nice diversion from steelhead once in a while.

Nice work on the little rod!
Tim


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[Steelie Mike]

Mark Bachman from Welches and Leif Rinearson from the Fly Shop of the Dalles have told me about similar experiences with floaters and nookies on the D in the past. Very cool Sam!

Last month I was fishing a run with a couple spinner guys and they said that there was a bunch of jacks jumping all day and that they caught one. I was later surprised with one of them on a coachman. I wish it was a little bigger, but fun none the less. It's nice to know there is something aggressive out there for a swung fly.

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[C-lice]

Must be something in the water this year. I've caught 2 springers on nymphs (an adult and a jack) and one (adult) on a leech on the NU this summer, and I hooked a nice fall fish on Saturday on a black articulated leech. I ususlly get about 1 every other summer.

Beauthful fish! None of the ones I caught were that bright--they were all bronzed up. One (the jack) had so many spots and was so 'yellow' that I thought it was a brown 'til I got it in.

[Slow and Low]

Not my fish, but it's the second one we have gotten this year. First one was a 20" jack that fought like a 10 pound steelhead. The rod is a g-loomis switch, way too light for this fish.

[chromeseeker]

The nook can be a strange animal.

I've told this story many times before, but about two years ago I watched a guy fishing below me on the Cowlitz hook a fish. About 20 minutes later I noticed he was still fighting the thing so I went downstream to see if he needed some help landing what was obviously a fish of pig-like proportions. Another guy in a 'toon rowed across the river to get in on the action as well. The fish turned out to be about a 30# bright fall 'nook. Why did it take the guy almost 30 minutes to land it??? He was using a 2wt. fly rod and small trout reel!! The other incredible part? He was swinging a fly on a dry line that was basically a hook shank wrapped with tinsel with a small tuft of squirrel tail for a wing, about a size 6 fly! The guy said he saw the fish come up and boil on the surface to inhale his shiny, small offering.

He offered no explanation as to why any sane person would use a 2wt. trout rod to go after steelies and nooks other than to say "It's more of a challenge." I told him that was irresponsible and that he's probably playing a lot of fish to death with this method. He could only look at me with a blank stare. My diagnosis? Subclinical insanity and, quite possibly, megalomania.

Pretty cool the way that big nook took his sparse, subsurface offering, however. BTW, the nook took forever to revive (yes, he released it despite pleas from me and the other angler to just keep it)--and the poor fish took what seemed like an eternity to swim off. I'm sure it died....

CS

[Mike Marcus]

Nice little surprise there. I have heard of several chinook taken on the fly on the Deschutes this year. Unfortunately, none by me yet...

Mike

[Wild Chrome]

Nice work, Sam! Chinook on the fly is still on my to do list.

[goose]

nice!!

[Grantspastor]

Nice fish! It is indeed pretty rare. Over all the years on the Rogue, I've had 4-5 come up and take the fly. The best fish I landed was a 23 pounder on a 6lb tippet. We've taken lots of jacks, but pretty unusual to have an adult hit

[matt95]

Wow, thats really cool man:whistle:. Haven't got one yet on the fly yet:excited:

[native steelie]

sitting down below sherars all summer ive personally watched quite a few nooks rolling. always telling myself one of these days im gunna bring a fly rod haha

[ChartHead]

AWESOME fish!

[Steelie Mike]

It must be jack season for nooks for me. I swung up three on the Snake a few weeks ago. It is cool to hear and see them being caught on a swung fly on other rivers this year.

[byproxy]

nice fish!

[dougisnow]

Here's a couple of pics of the surprise nookie I took 20min to land on the Kalama last month, drifting a pegged egg for steelies on a 7wt rod and 10lb floro. She weighed 15lbs prior to hitting my smoker. :-) i hooked a huge (similar sized) steelie that same day but he broke me off...
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[brando]

Nice work. Way to go!