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I'm trying to nail down my plans for a visit to the PNW, time to be spent between steelhead and saltchuck coho. I'd really love to meet as many people as possible, so if you're able to get away on a weekend, or even a weekday during the third week of the month please let me know.
Some options I would toss out there are:
a) Big gathering (river) - big river, maybe the Cow, because we can either spread out and regroup for lunch -or- float a stretch and meet at the take out to compare notes. The upper Sky, Stilly, Peninsula rivers, etc. Staying at Forks and branching out into different directions to gather for chow later would work too, mixing up the paired up anglers each segment of the day, etc.
b) Big gathering (saltchuck) - this is easy, because the cost of lodging would drop sharply due to the number of people splitting accomodations. Boat rental would be split either two or three ways depending on how you want to split the casting up (with three there are two casting at a time and we take turns). Renting a larger unit at one of the Sekiu lodges would let us bring the cost w-a-y down.
c) Happenstance - Another option is to just see how it goes, if you reply to this post I'll figure you're interested in hooking up and I will inform you of my itinerary via email. You can then let me know if you are interested in hooking up say on the upper Hoh on such and such a day, etc.
d) Please suggest things! - If you think there's a honey hole you wouldn't mind sharing with someone who flies home (keeping your secret safe for another year), mention it and I might be able to adjust the intinerary so it works within your schedule and locations.
In any case, where I was once a host I have become a guest; yet my heart has not grown less fond as the saying proposes. Since my time on steelhead and salmon waters has become the exception rather than the rule, I pray that my knowledge doesn't shrink as the years go by as long as my lust for flyfishing in the region remains strong; and hope also that despite the diminished pace I will always be building on what I have with the little I might gather each year.
Man, am I glad I fished my ass off for the 12 years I was there! }>
Some options I would toss out there are:
a) Big gathering (river) - big river, maybe the Cow, because we can either spread out and regroup for lunch -or- float a stretch and meet at the take out to compare notes. The upper Sky, Stilly, Peninsula rivers, etc. Staying at Forks and branching out into different directions to gather for chow later would work too, mixing up the paired up anglers each segment of the day, etc.
b) Big gathering (saltchuck) - this is easy, because the cost of lodging would drop sharply due to the number of people splitting accomodations. Boat rental would be split either two or three ways depending on how you want to split the casting up (with three there are two casting at a time and we take turns). Renting a larger unit at one of the Sekiu lodges would let us bring the cost w-a-y down.
c) Happenstance - Another option is to just see how it goes, if you reply to this post I'll figure you're interested in hooking up and I will inform you of my itinerary via email. You can then let me know if you are interested in hooking up say on the upper Hoh on such and such a day, etc.
d) Please suggest things! - If you think there's a honey hole you wouldn't mind sharing with someone who flies home (keeping your secret safe for another year), mention it and I might be able to adjust the intinerary so it works within your schedule and locations.
In any case, where I was once a host I have become a guest; yet my heart has not grown less fond as the saying proposes. Since my time on steelhead and salmon waters has become the exception rather than the rule, I pray that my knowledge doesn't shrink as the years go by as long as my lust for flyfishing in the region remains strong; and hope also that despite the diminished pace I will always be building on what I have with the little I might gather each year.
Man, am I glad I fished my ass off for the 12 years I was there! }>
And it wouldnt require a whole lot of travelling.