We started the day by dropping my car in Sultan and heading to High Bridge in Goldbar to drop the boat for the float trip. After a short instructional period on the gear and how to reel in the big one, Jon was ready. It was a beautiful day of drifting and fishing. The river was running a little high which made for an exciting time. After a few unproductive holes Jon hooked one and fought it to the boat.
It appeared the instuctional portion of the day stuck as jon fought the beast with great rod technique. It ran a few times on him and as he reached the limit of his strength, Jon swung the fish close enough for me to bring it in with the net. It was a beautiful Dolly Varden. Which was a suprise to us. The Sky is not known for its Dolly population. As you can see Jon was a little happy he caught the first fish. We released the Dolly and Jon gloated about the catch, it was great!
After the first was landed we drifted for awhile before Jon landed a smolt steelhead. It was smaller that the dolly and we released it quickly to allow it to grow. Doug and I were sensing a skunking. We had been on the river for several hours eating snacks, drinking pops and watching Jon catch fish. The final fish was a large sucker Jon pulled from the bottom in a slow moving hole lower on the river. As it turned out is was a slow day for others on the river and the three Jon caught were the only fish we heard about. A true skunking for the old guys. The river began to get crowded down below and we were a bit pinched for time so we just moved on down to the pullout in Sultan. All in all a great day with wonderfull weather. Thanks Doug.
Tony
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