kind of a big deal on Vimeo

share
2

Recent videos from kbris

2 coho
Aug 10, 2009
28 videos see all

what people are saying

kind of a big deal from www.moldychum.com
To raise a steelhead on a dry is one thing, but to get footage of it is kind of a big deal.
Aug
19

add a comment

2000 characters left.
First collected by kbris
Aug 7, 2009
from vimeo.com
join Your favorite videos on the web, in one place. Start your collection now.

related videos

tags

collected by 2 people

featured on 1 site

details

42 views

original description

So to date I’ve spent about 20 days skating dry flies for summer-run steelhead on the North Umpqua River. In June of 2007 I rose one fish. That’s all the action I’ve had. For all my non-steelhead fishing friends, you should know that while this may sound like a masochistic endeavor, it isn’t. Or maybe it is…I don’t know. Anyway, masochism is not the best word to describe it. There is something incredibly important hidden in a fishless day spent on the North Umpqua. The best analogy I can think of is a sexual one: The steelhead are, literally, playing hard to get. Now, if you’re a river ace like “North” guide, Rich Zellman, however, you sorta defy the norm. Go hang out with him and sooner rather than later you will see an Umpqua steelhead up close. To raise a steelhead on a dry is one thing, but to get footage of it is kind of a big deal. Make sure you look closely at the seemingly blank swings in the last half. On three separate casts fish visibly dart to the fly and turn away without breaking the surface. If I hadn’t had the vertical perspective, I never would have noticed. Rich certainly didn’t. Getting to see this behaviour provides no extra clue as to what in the hell the steelhead is thinking.
Flag this Video as inappropriate or broken