Salmon River NY Trip + Pics
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full slide show can be located here: http://picasaweb.google.com/robsnowhite/SRNY2009#
DC –> Pulaski Tuesday Oct 13
Gear lined up on curb
chris with his first beer of the trip. natty ice you ask? well, it is easy on the wallet, stronger so you drink less of it which means pulling off the waders less, and thats about it.
chris tied into a nice salmon, broke off
re-stocking chris’ supply of buggers
this guy broke his rod on this fish. i gave him my contact and sent pics today. i was not about to let him have pics from just a cell phone. in case you know him, don’t mention name. he may have ‘called in sick’ this day. 😉
lunch @ altmar hotel/bar
baccon cheeseburger with the works + fries = $5.50
back to campsite to tie more sucker spawn and buggers. no tying table so found an old board and rested that across a chair. not the best but it worked. also stepped on some quail while getting firewood, scarred the snot out of me when they took off. it was in the low 20’s at night. zach should do a story about these little folding chairs. so useful!
stogies by the campfire and some good stories. you think you know someone after 8 years of hanging out, then you go camping and the stories flock like the salmon of capistrano. we definately bonded on this trip. chris is the one who got my wife employment with the govt. this helps fund the fishing trips (thanks m’am)
got to the river early on friday to claim a spot (~ 5:30) and had 3 people in the hole already. i camped out on a rock and slept till sunrise. woke up and had a steelie within the hour. tried out the new patagonia skanorak jacket. no complaints with it.
time for breakfast to warm up. fishing in the shade with that wind was rough.
don’t think this would have tasted better if it had not expired. beef something with gravy.
moved on down river by a few miles, hiked in to have a spot to ourselves on an island. landed 1 brown. gut was full of salmon eggs and it barfed up a handfull too.
while inspecting the size and color of barfed up eggs on bank, noticed a dragonfly. put it on the beer lanyard for a photo shoot. poor thing was half frozen.
put it on my visor for some more pics
got up early sat to fish the douglouston salmon run (sp?)
not a single bite for the first 2-3 hours. moved down stream and hung out with a gnarled old dude who i didn’t get the name of. his barn burnt down that morning and he said screw it and went fishing.
biggest brown i’ve caught/landed. any help on size/weight from the pics would be appreciated. first field test of the ‘half lanyard’ and it was great.
next was a steelhead. not the biggest but it made up for that in appearances
chris didn’t land any fish and was ok with that 🙂
he is used to catching goldens in the sierras so just seeing and hooking into large fish was fine with him.i also have to give him props for driving. if he hadn’t, we would have taken the miata and that would not have been fun.
on a side note, the deposit machine in NY don’t take crushed cans. if i had known that, i would have not crushed so many. can’t believe a. that people litter and b. that they could save their cans/bottles for $$ and buy more booze!.
no measurements of the brown but it was big. the other lateral side had at least 3 lamprey scars bigger than oreo cookies and each was several inches apart.
the chessie is sinbad. hardest working fishing dog i’ve ever seen. 12 years old. still chasing sticks up and down the bank, bringing you rocks to throw when there are no sticks – or breaking off dead branches for you to throw.
i’ve fished with that dog in every type of weather imaginable. wish i could get one of his pups. he never complains and is always eager to get out and watch people fish and chase a stick.
there are more pics of him in my picasa album. ones of him in a drift boat in the snow and of him using a rock for a pillow.
here is one of me and sinbad fishing the salmon river after 49″ of snow
here is one of sinbad and dr jones (my dog). dr jones couldn’t get out in the snow until sinbad carved tracks
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