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Another Rookie Gets Hooked
Posted 15 July 2012, 1:12 am NDT
One of our seasoned anglers with a beautiful 'silver bullet'
(larger version)
Our next group of guests have arrived and have begun their annual adventure on the Eagle. This group is comprised mainly of veteran anglers who have fished the Eagle for many years.
With them this year is a rookie who has never felt the thrill of having a salmon on the end of their fly line. Well it didn't take long. He didn't start fishing until after lunch and before Dinner he had hooked his first Atlantic Salmon.
He told me that he had always heard about this trip and was anxiously anticipating the flight in on the float plane. Needless to say you wouldn't have been able to wipe the smile off his face with a baseball bat after hooking that fish.
Anyone who has been fortunate enough to fish for salmon on the Eagle River knows what I mean when I say; when you hook a salmon it may last a few seconds or several minutes. Eventually the hook is removed from the fish but the angler is the one who gets hooked on salmon fishing for a lifetime.
The temperature of the water has decreased considerably which we were all hoping for; however the water level has began to rise again and the fish are not holding in the pools as long as they normally do, instead they seem to keep heading upstream to the spawning grounds.
This would be disastrous for many rivers, but with the abundance of fish migrating up to the head waters it simply means that fishing has become a little more challenging.
With them this year is a rookie who has never felt the thrill of having a salmon on the end of their fly line. Well it didn't take long. He didn't start fishing until after lunch and before Dinner he had hooked his first Atlantic Salmon.
He told me that he had always heard about this trip and was anxiously anticipating the flight in on the float plane. Needless to say you wouldn't have been able to wipe the smile off his face with a baseball bat after hooking that fish.
Anyone who has been fortunate enough to fish for salmon on the Eagle River knows what I mean when I say; when you hook a salmon it may last a few seconds or several minutes. Eventually the hook is removed from the fish but the angler is the one who gets hooked on salmon fishing for a lifetime.
The temperature of the water has decreased considerably which we were all hoping for; however the water level has began to rise again and the fish are not holding in the pools as long as they normally do, instead they seem to keep heading upstream to the spawning grounds.
This would be disastrous for many rivers, but with the abundance of fish migrating up to the head waters it simply means that fishing has become a little more challenging.
