Answer…Focus and Anticipation.
Legendary steelheaders always seem to swing
up a few after nine that other guys didn’t even
have a sniff at. Why is this?
I don’t know – at all.
What I do know is that fishing is a life-long
learning process. As soon as you think you
know a lot… someone comes along and throws
a wrench in all your theories, proving decades
of work to be useless. For me, this is why I love
fishing. It is the un-known, the anticipation of
that perfect moment, with the perfect friend, in
that perfect place.
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FOCUS
Theory #1 created 7/20/2016 at 10:41 a.m. –
Why do 10% of the steelhead fishermen catch
90% of the fish?
So now that this “story” is officially as
scatter brained as my head, I’ll get to the
point. From my observations, steelhead
fishermen who are meticulous and focused,
are the fishermen that rank highest on the
success list… and I remember fishing a
particular day with Harry, Sand, Kate, and
Justin. With all that was going on around
him, Harry never looked up from the run
or his line, until he was ready to step out
of the water. Meticulously covering every
inch of water, step by step, cast by cast, he
put the fly where he felt a fish should live.
While observing this, I thought to myself,
what self-respecting steelhead wouldn’t eat
his fly? An eagle could have landed on his
head and fed him fresh sashimi and he still
wouldn’t have looked up.