New York’s West Coast . . .
Lake Erie
(11 2017)
My one fly kebari for the local freshwater, The Green Guarantee, required a second thought for a November trip to the tributaries along New York’s far west coast.
The fish from Lake Erie, migratorial steelhead, salmonid with shoulders and a girth exceeding a foot of inches, settled me on size 8 streamer and salmon hooks. The results, tied, packed, fished, finished positive.
Lake Erie Chrome
(11 2017)
(photo credit: Stephen Kasperovich)
Green Guarantee, meet . . .
The Ho Holiday
The Ho Holiday
(NYC 11 15 2017)
The Ho Holiday
Fly tied, alliteration activated, for a kebari salmon steelhead fly named to honor a variety of levels of meaning. Honor for the mighty steelhead river Ho on the Olympic Peninsula. The holiday red added for the steelhead’s predilection for hot color when streambound. Tinsel added for the traditional barber pole spiral dressing, the necktie of the fly.
Steelhead take such a fly in places autumnal beautiful in a way always graceful followed by a force up, down, side to side, in and out of water, sprints that push water, jumps that land on the water with a bass plunge that resonates sheer weight. Magnificent animals, each and every steelhead represents itself.
Quick Grip Before Release
(11 2017)
Respect.
— rPs 11 15 2017
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