Pacific Fly Fishers' Fly Fishing and Fly Tying Blog

June 7th 2010, Marcel's Steelhead

Marcel drags one from the dark water in the second spot we stopped

Another good day on the upper Sky, we were able to miss a few fish and land one nice one for the fish box.

The river has been up a dirty for a little while now, but anybody who knows me, knows that I wont be deterred by those conditions. The flies of choice for these kinds of water conditions are big and burly. Light lines and big flies end up for some good early river fishing. Bennett’s Steelhead Exasperator is one of the favorite patterns for this type of water conditions.

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