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Lost! - Strike Indicator

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I need your help... I lost a strike indicator on the south branch. If you happen to find it, please take a picture to verify and I'll get you my shipping address. Actually, it would be better if you just drop it off shortly after finding it.

You may be asking what's so special about this strike indicator!?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing special about it. According to the packaging, it made by Cortland and its 'bouyant, visible and fade proof'
I have a whole sheet of these things in case you need to check the color once you find mine.

Distinguishing characteristics: It's bright Yellow

Last seen: Near the end of my fly line.
To be exact: 30 inches before the end of my fly line.
To be even more precise: It was 18 inches above my black bead-head wooly bugger.
To be anal: and the wooly bugger was 9 inches above a streamer/attractor pattern tied as a dropper to the wooly bugger
To be a b*tch: the attractor/streamer pattern was last seen attached to the mouth of a large brown trout that I never had the chance to really see except that it came to the surface once before running down the rapids and breaking my tippet 12 inches above the strike indicator and from what I could tell had to be bigger than 16 inches because I caught a 13" fish just a couple weeks ago and this thing made that look like a chub.

Thank you for your help in hopefully finding my strike indicator and returning it to my possesion. Return of the flies attached to the strike indicator would be a bonus. I won't push my luck by asking for the trout thats attached to the flies. :D
 
Obviously you need one of these!

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Just an update that the strike indicator is still missing. I was up late last night using my meager supply of fly tying material to come up with a replacement for my streamer that went AWOL with the strike indicator. Satisfied with a comparable replacement, I went out this afternoon to the same place at the same time with the hopes of a repeat performance. No real hatch to speak of although there were a few bugs in the air.

Oh well... That about does it for me until the start of the season!

But if anyone does happen to find my strike indicator... It sure would be nice to know where you got it! :)

... and for the record, even I was quite surprised to see that it wasnt my knot that gave out... the tippet broke an inch below the knot :(

know if they only made bobbers that can shock the water when a fish strikes so I dont have to worry about it fighting back :)
 
How were the water levels on the South Branch? Was just looking at the water data from USGS and it looks like were coming up on drought conditions! Man do we need some rain. Anyone know a good rain dance?
 
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