Rain Coast beatdown
Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 7:22AM
Eric Rathbun in Climate, Fly Fishing, Reports, jim kerr, olympic peninsula, rod, spey, steelhead, travel

Smolt and Rathbun just got back from the annual post Bellevue fly show boondoggle.  We took everything Mother Nature threw and with the help of Raincoast Guides Jim Kerr, we had another ridiculously good time.

 

It started out unseasonably delicious.

 

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Jim Kerr - the Olympic Peninsula's premier source of fishingenuity and the most entertaining drift jockey we know.  Note to self - never swig whiskey during a Kerr'ism.  It's not nearly as smooth when it shoots out your nose.

 

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Before surrender, this dime induced a pleasant 100 yard shuffle up the MIDDLE of the Duc.

 

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Which inspired some flask attention.

 

 

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Just in time to prepare us for a climactic slap to the face.

 

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