I spent the last 3 days fishing and hanging out with Ed Ward, Mike McCune & Scott O’Donnell and what a time it was. 

What a great bunch of guys, Ed, Mike and Scott were really impressed with the Salmon River.   The were all about the experience, being from the west coast they had never caught or seen a chub, they thought that was the coolest thing.  They ran around looking at the ground cover everywhere we went and all the different trees we have, On the west coast along their rivers either the woods are so thick you can’t walk thru them or the tress are so big, nothing grows under them.

  Seeing these guys fish our river was awesome.  They showed me alot about casting, but what was even better was what they showed me about fishing skagit lines, different presentations and flies that will not only help me a better angler for Steelhead but Salmon too.  All this combined will help a great deal when guiding next season, I can’t wait. 

Here’s a few pictures from the weekend -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good friend and fellow guide Loren William’s getting a little instruction from Ed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scott O’Donnell with a nice cast.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ed explaining a casting stroke.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scott working down thru the “fridge”.  Let’s just say 5 guys fished thru there, Scott rigged up a rod with a “Guide Fly” and hit one after all of us fished thru with his presentation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday’s am class, a lot of women are now into spey casting.

 

 

 

Mike McCune and Drew watching Scott fish.

Big thanks to Zach for getting these guys to come to the Salmon River.

 - Paul