OneLastCast
10-21-2002, 09:38 AM
On the rocks that is. As Jennie stated earlier about the Kilchis, drop a sponge in the North Fork of the Nehalem and there wouldn't be any water.
But.....
Yesterday afternoon the wife and I strolled down to the river to look for fish. And lo and behold, some of the silvers have given up on waiting for it to rain and have decided to run the gauntlet. We watched one fish run through the riffles and wait at the tail out for its buddy (mate?) to come up. Let's call the one running up the riffles as He and the one holding back as She ( the gender actually provided quite a debate between my wife and I. My wife assuming that the slower fish was a He that wouldn't get off the couch and do any work).
Anyway, the upper fish, He, would wait in the tailout and then go back down river to stimulate She into following him up the river. She would follow about 10 yards and then just sit there, eventually falling back to her original position. This went on for at least a half an hour. He must have gone back and forth at least 15 times trying to show her that she could make it. He would drop down next to her and then take off up river throwing water all the way. She would take off with him and then just quit. Half of the times their backs were out of the water so it was easy to see. Many times he would drop back and hold about 10 feet in front of her as if to say "Follow Me". It was pretty amazing to watch. I have seen thousands of fish work through the riffles before but have never seen two fish act this way if they were not on a redd.
After about 30 minutes we left to get dinner out of the oven. She had not made it up yet and He was still making laps.
A little later we left to do some shooting and stopped close to Aldervale where we could see several fish shooting up. Not a lot and all were dark.
OneLastCast
But.....
Yesterday afternoon the wife and I strolled down to the river to look for fish. And lo and behold, some of the silvers have given up on waiting for it to rain and have decided to run the gauntlet. We watched one fish run through the riffles and wait at the tail out for its buddy (mate?) to come up. Let's call the one running up the riffles as He and the one holding back as She ( the gender actually provided quite a debate between my wife and I. My wife assuming that the slower fish was a He that wouldn't get off the couch and do any work).
Anyway, the upper fish, He, would wait in the tailout and then go back down river to stimulate She into following him up the river. She would follow about 10 yards and then just sit there, eventually falling back to her original position. This went on for at least a half an hour. He must have gone back and forth at least 15 times trying to show her that she could make it. He would drop down next to her and then take off up river throwing water all the way. She would take off with him and then just quit. Half of the times their backs were out of the water so it was easy to see. Many times he would drop back and hold about 10 feet in front of her as if to say "Follow Me". It was pretty amazing to watch. I have seen thousands of fish work through the riffles before but have never seen two fish act this way if they were not on a redd.
After about 30 minutes we left to get dinner out of the oven. She had not made it up yet and He was still making laps.
A little later we left to do some shooting and stopped close to Aldervale where we could see several fish shooting up. Not a lot and all were dark.
OneLastCast