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Mad dog
It's gonna get a little slow on this forum with the flood and all, so I will give a little report from last week! 
Had some K-falls people come up and fish a few streams for some steel that my son had suggested....of course, it was colder than hell last week and fishing was tough!!! We told them to go to such and such stream and fish Blah-Blah hole with floats and roe. It was a Dad-N-Lad duo fishing and the first day out they each caught a steelhead! Dad's of course was a 37" 17lb. hatchery buck! That night they slept in the bed of their truck and the next day in the same holes they caught nada!!!
I had offered to take them out last friday morning even though it was a work day. I had until noon to fish and was confident that we could manage a few in 4 hours....actually I was hoping for 4 or 5! They stayed the night at the house and as expected the next morning was COLD!!!! The truck thermometer said 24 degree's at the boat launch at 7:00am.....Brrrr!!!.....being we were going to sidedrift and I was rowing, at least I was warm! I was dissappointed to see a boat ahead of us go to the target hole at 1st light only not to hook up, I ran it next....nothing!!! Maybe they were cold? The 2 of us had no bites in the 1st 45 minutes....unbelievable!!! That hole was producing 4-5 fish a morning just a few days before!
The river was way too low to motor the driftboat up the riffle so we got out and pulled the boat upstream into the water above....I was sweating by then! I motored up to a hole I call the Jaws and the 1st pass through Dad caught a smaller 2-salt. We made a few more passes and nothing else so we motored up to fish a few other holes....nothing! We drifted back down and hit the flat above the original hole and and Dad got bit in the slot just above the riffle of the 1st hole....another small 2-salt. We wound up fishing the original hole for another 45 minutes with no success....nothing going on here today!
So just a so-so 2 fish day, 2 for Dad and none for lad!
Dad-Lad....how can you be expected to catch fish if you can't even keep your eye's open for a picture!!!
Dad with his 2nd fish.
Had some K-falls people come up and fish a few streams for some steel that my son had suggested....of course, it was colder than hell last week and fishing was tough!!! We told them to go to such and such stream and fish Blah-Blah hole with floats and roe. It was a Dad-N-Lad duo fishing and the first day out they each caught a steelhead! Dad's of course was a 37" 17lb. hatchery buck!
That night they slept in the bed of their truck and the next day in the same holes they caught nada!!! I had offered to take them out last friday morning even though it was a work day. I had until noon to fish and was confident that we could manage a few in 4 hours....actually I was hoping for 4 or 5!
They stayed the night at the house and as expected the next morning was COLD!!!! The truck thermometer said 24 degree's at the boat launch at 7:00am.....Brrrr!!!.....being we were going to sidedrift and I was rowing, at least I was warm! I was dissappointed to see a boat ahead of us go to the target hole at 1st light only not to hook up, I ran it next....nothing!!! Maybe they were cold? The 2 of us had no bites in the 1st 45 minutes....unbelievable!!! That hole was producing 4-5 fish a morning just a few days before!The river was way too low to motor the driftboat up the riffle so we got out and pulled the boat upstream into the water above....I was sweating by then!
I motored up to a hole I call the Jaws and the 1st pass through Dad caught a smaller 2-salt. We made a few more passes and nothing else so we motored up to fish a few other holes....nothing! We drifted back down and hit the flat above the original hole and and Dad got bit in the slot just above the riffle of the 1st hole....another small 2-salt. We wound up fishing the original hole for another 45 minutes with no success....nothing going on here today!So just a so-so 2 fish day, 2 for Dad and none for lad!
Dad-Lad....how can you be expected to catch fish if you can't even keep your eye's open for a picture!!!
Dad with his 2nd fish.
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