Fish & Fly Summer 2002
Steelhead
The Yuba City Gang eats like kings of the river while the Spey Brothers are red in the face
Fool’s Gold
TIED BY MIKE “HAGAR THE
HORRIBLE” MATHIESON
HOOK: Salmon wet fly, size 1/0
THREAD: Burgandy
TAIL: Clump of black Arctic fox
BODY: Variegated black-and-gold chenille
HACKLE: Blue-eared pheasant
COLLAR: Bronze mallard flank
When he’s not helping keep skies over America safe for public
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air travel, Larry Ingram of Yuba City, California, is thinking
about fly fishing. Ingram flies airplanes for the Federal Aviation
Administration, checking ground and satellite navigation aids—
airport landing as well as lighting and radar systems. We caught
him in this picture on Super Bowl Sunday with a nice steelhead
from northern California’s Mad River. Larry was on the river
with his pals from the E. C. Powell Fly Fishers, who once a
year by ritual travel to the coast. The Yuba City Gang rents
cabins and the boys enjoy a cocktail or two while Emeril protégé
Mike McFarlane force feeds them a stream of much-needed
nourishment: oysters, grilled tri-tip beef steaks, pork tenderloin,
fresh-boiled crab. Commented Ingram: “We eat like kings.”
This suspect duo couldn’t decide whether they should cry or cheer as
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they reeled in to end their fifth straight season of being skunked on
Trace Gale, a sheet-metal worker Washington State’s Skagit River. Dr. Mark Wiltrakis (left) cardiologist
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from Vancouver, British Columbia, has from Hillsboro, Oregon, and his old fraternity brother at Michigan State
his hands full with a lovely Cowichan University, photographer Walter Hodges of Seattle, quickly opted
River steelhead that aggressively attacked for the latter. Today, only this snapshot obtained by FISH & FLY for cash
his very own Gale Force fly on a fine and future blackmail prospects remains to tell the tale. Let’s see, was it
February day on Vancouver Island, where the Glenmorangie or the Lagavulin with the light, lilting flavor that
all wild steelhead must be released. tranported the boys to sunnier days with Heather on the hills?
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