North 40 Fly Shop eMagazine October 2015 | Page 16

Onyx Spey with an Elixir Scandi head. It’s a whole lot more rod than
the trout spey sticks I’m used to, but I loved it. It seems like a perfect
rod for a big dry line river like the Clearwater. I spent about 8 hours
making friends with it. I would have loved to catch a fish on it. I also got
a chance to try Joe’s Winston 7wt BIII TH. Another great rod. I would
have loved to catch a fish on it. I even got to work with Calvin’s Goran
Andersson 6122-4. A great rod for tight work and swinging from the
boat. I would have loved to catch a fish on it too.
The fishing was so good on Monday that Joe slept most of the day. Jerrin
stayed busy working his social and Jake quit looking through the camera
lens and started catching frogs. In our defense, it was the conditions.
The river dropped over 3000cfs before we got our chance to swing it.
We saw some fish roll and we spotted some from the boat, but they
were not willing to approach our flies. As Bruce said, “These steelhead
are not happy.” There were also Kings holding in some of the deeper
runs. Steelhead and Kings don’t get along and the low water forces