Well, it must have been either the karma for the clean-ups lately, or the new lucky Sage hat that I took out for the first time today. But we had an ok day. ThickRick, Merc and Myself had a rather early morning and made it out to the River before 6am, and were plaesed to see none in sight, but surely they would be showing up soon, wouldn't they?? So we sat around for a Half hr or so, and watch some shooting stars. Anyhow, when we could find our way out to the river, I went down river, Merc stayed in pretty much where we came in and Ricky headed up river. Hadn't fish this part of the river before. But I had a feeling there should be something around somewhere, we just had to fund them.
As I could no longer see Rick and Merc was off in the distance , I stumbled upon a peice of water that looked like it may just be fishy!! Then a couple of fish rolled, so I though, this would be as good as anyplace to start. I bait up with some roe, and toss one out there. Within seconds, flaot down and fish on. But it turned out to be about a 14" Hatchery Steelgead Smolt. So carefull back it went, figured I would try that again, and bam, another fish on, this one much bigger. A good fight ensued and what would up coming to shore was about a 13 lb Doe Chum in really nice clean shape. But as I don't have a smoker this nice fish went back as well. Well, at this point Merc is working his way down, I see more fish starting to roll, so I wave him over. About 15 min later, RIck appears from around the Corner as well and is making his way down to us.
Well now we are all back together and watch fish rolling trying to see what they may actually hit. I had gotten a hit on roe for a while, so I switch it up to a little creation I came up with a couple years ago. At this point Rick is into a Fish, a decent sized Chum, so we give him a hand with it and get our lines back in the water. Next cast fish on , this one is a Bar Chrome Spring Jack, a real good fighter and felt good on the 2106. Then what do you know, Merc is into a fish. Then Ricky is into a fish and so on and so on. Anyhow, feeling good about the morning, we figured it was time to head over to the clean up. Between us, we had hooked into 12 fish by about 8:45. SO was a nice morning. Oh and noone else did show up at the Run we were fishing. A real nice surprise!!
Part 2 of the day.
After the Clean-up and some Burger's and Hotdogs, we decided to do some more fishing. Where to go though........ Easy answer, back to where we had had some success earlier. AS it was pushing 1pm, we didn't hold out much hope, just wanted to give it another look. So we get there and within a couple min we see a fish rise, then shortly after that, FISH ON, Rick is into one. AS he is fighting that one, BAM, Coho on for me, but I didn't get a good hookset as I was paying attention to Rick and his fish. Coho came to the top and was gone shortly after. Anyhow, Rick lands his fish, I believe that one was a Spring. Then Merc in into another, A spring which he fights for a while and heads down river. Was a nice fish. So I throw out another cast since Merc is out of Range, and BAM fish on again, this one is another fiesty Bar of a Spring. After a short while we both get in our Fish. Mercs 20lb Chromer gets a Rock Shower and mine gets to go for a swim. Shortly after that Rick is into another one, this time the fish is fighting a bit different, and wouldn't you know he has a nice Wild Coho on about 6-7 lbs. AS Merc was trying to get a pic, the fish makes a run for it and succeeds!! No pic for that one.!! Anyhow, it wasn't long before we were all into fish once again and this continued right up until we left at about 4 pm. Merc Got a beauty 8 or so lb Wild Coho and Rick clocked in with a 6-7 lb hatchery Ho. Oh yeah, Rick also kept a beautiful Chrome Spring of about 18 or so lbs. Merc Got another Chrome Spring Jack of about 5-6 lbs, I lost about 4 Coho!! And Let everything I got go except for a nice 6 lb Chrome Spring Jack. In total in the afternoon, we were into about 30 more fish. Lost count actually!! :shock: We had 3 double headers and a Triple header for a short time. The last fish of the day was a mean Thumb Burning 20+lb Incredibly chrome Spring which was a blast to fight. Everything was taken on either Roe or scented wool creations. :wink:
Here are a couple choice pics from the day!