..."That's salmon fishing..."

A deep bodied bright spring salmon fresh from the ocean

When someone asks, "what's your favorite time to fish for Atlantic Salmon?", my obvious answer is anytime, but spring salmon fishing ranks up high on the list!
It may be the longing for the the season to start after a long, cold winter, or the scents of flowers, cedar, & damp leaves only springtime can bring, or the anticipation of fishing new flies tied over the winter months.
All of it makes the experience on a salmon river in springtime feel like what heaven would be for me.
But, the true reason, is & will always be the chance to fish for big, bright salmon! The first to enter the rivers still loaded with sea lice! At their peaks of size, power, & beauty! Eager to take your offerings with reckless abandonment! And give you memorable battles that only a worthy opponent could!


 Spring tube flies


BUT......................

These are the things you dream of over a long winter. Reality sets in after 6 full days(sunrise to sunset) of casting in cold & high water in pools void of life. Jumping from pool to pool over miles of river to look for that one, just one, player that will hopefully accept your offerings only to refuse every perfectly tied , perfectly presented, fly you have to show him.
Covering water


You stumble back to your room on your last day cold, full of back, leg, arm, shoulder pains, drained & defeated, wishing you had just one more day. It could be the day that brings in the fish, but you crack open a beer & say.......

"That's salmon fishing......"
Defeated on the last day. Nothing left to do but warm your bones beside the fire

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