It's Nice to Have an Ocean Nearby

[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]I recalled the correct name of the bridge after sending the reply. We have a "Mount Nebo", south of Salt Lake and I slipped a letter.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Did you hear about the Jewish/Japanese restaurant? It is called Sosumi (so sue me). Get it.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I got to thinking that I also did some great flyrodding for fresh run salmon on the American River when I lived in Sacramento. I lived right over the levee from the river and there was a big long hole that filled up with salmon after the first big rain in October. I took my ten weight and a box of bright flies and went to work. I hooked over 40 fish (mostly fair...in the mouth)...all on the flies. I brought in about 15, with the largest being about a 40 pound male. I kept two egg-laden females to smoke and for their roe...for future steelhead trips. In the pic below, my daughter/photographer cut off the bottom part of the two fish I kept.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Also including some pics of the lower part of the Eel in California.[/#0000ff]
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Fresh run steelhead taken from "tidewater" zone on the lower Eel River in northern California.


Summer run chinook salmon from the American River


TubeDude with another early run salmon



Two fall run chinook salmon, taken on flies from the American River. Photographer (young daughter) cut fish in half, but without digital photos there was no way to know until fish were long since consumed.


"Jack" salmon from the Eel River in California. These precocious (early) male salmon are also called "chub" salmon by locals, because they are usually chunky.



Three more jack/chub salmon from the lower Eel River. These fish mill around in "tidewater" before the fall rains wash out the "bar" at the river mouth and more water allows them to move upstream. Great quarry for tubing. [/size]
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