There's a place I love that is just being touched by the first sunlight of spring.
That sunlight will not only warm and awaken huge trout, but will guide millions of salmon to spawn in the cold, crystal water. I will drop my fly just behind the salmon to catch those ravenous rainbows and my reel will scream as line is ripped downstream.
While I land and release another trophy, I will look over at my dejected fishing partner, founder of Ketchum on the Fly, Elizabeth Hendrix, and I will say, "Don't worry...eventually you'll catch something."
Okay...so that last part is a huge stretch because I'm talking about the King Salmon River in Southwest Alaska where no one ever gets skunked, and Elizabeth not only outfished me on the King, as she often does, but landed the most spectacular rainbow I've ever seen...bright silver with a neon red stripe and so large that it had to be lifted by two sets of hands just for the photo!
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