05-30-2014, 07:03 AM
Chrome, I know your feeling...perfectly!!!
After growing up within 60 yards from the Snake River, which at the time was a great fishery to land 5+ pound rainbows and browns. That size of a fish to a 10 year old kid is "ionic"......
Then my Pops introduced me to chinook and steelhead fishing, and those fish (all wild back then), were captivating!!!! I still recall chinook on the Lemhi River, and my Dad's statement, "You know you've gotta good fish screaming down River, around the first bend, before you can get into the River to follow them.....
As a junior in high school, the ACOE finished Lower Granite dam, and soon afterwards our anadromous runs took a nose dive.
After that time we started heading for Alaska to fish for salmon, and it was phenomenal, to say the least. For 25 years were chase those big, bright fish, in a River the same size as the Salmon River around Challis.
Then we got a surge in our Idaho runs, and I don't have to go to AK to chase our fish....which is GREAT!!!
But back to your post....after catching dozens of bright 20-50 lb Kings in AK, I found myself on the Teton over the 4th of July weekend. I was throwing a small flyrod, and after popping a light tippet on a fish, I started to frantically re-tie. My hands were shaking, and at that point I just stopped and laughed with a true thrill.....
A week before I was catching huge chinook, and yet here I was, standing in the Teton River fishing for 12-18 inch rainbows, and I still had the adrenalin shakes.....
That's when you know that you're an "addict"....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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After growing up within 60 yards from the Snake River, which at the time was a great fishery to land 5+ pound rainbows and browns. That size of a fish to a 10 year old kid is "ionic"......
Then my Pops introduced me to chinook and steelhead fishing, and those fish (all wild back then), were captivating!!!! I still recall chinook on the Lemhi River, and my Dad's statement, "You know you've gotta good fish screaming down River, around the first bend, before you can get into the River to follow them.....
As a junior in high school, the ACOE finished Lower Granite dam, and soon afterwards our anadromous runs took a nose dive.
After that time we started heading for Alaska to fish for salmon, and it was phenomenal, to say the least. For 25 years were chase those big, bright fish, in a River the same size as the Salmon River around Challis.
Then we got a surge in our Idaho runs, and I don't have to go to AK to chase our fish....which is GREAT!!!
But back to your post....after catching dozens of bright 20-50 lb Kings in AK, I found myself on the Teton over the 4th of July weekend. I was throwing a small flyrod, and after popping a light tippet on a fish, I started to frantically re-tie. My hands were shaking, and at that point I just stopped and laughed with a true thrill.....
A week before I was catching huge chinook, and yet here I was, standing in the Teton River fishing for 12-18 inch rainbows, and I still had the adrenalin shakes.....
That's when you know that you're an "addict"....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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