10-12-14 Eagle Creek mid way up

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Since the day before I'd been fishing on the clack near the mouth an it rained so hard. I decided to try eagle creek near the fish ladder. Mid creek if u will...
** Since I had some stuff to take care of I'd decided to go even if I only had a few hours.*
** *I drove straight to snuffin... A truck had beat me to "the spot" and they had two young fisher ppl with them. A total of 4 ppl fishing and I watched for a bit an chit chatted with them.*
** After a few, I decided to hike in by the yellow gate, I'd been planning on trying fieldhimers. But I was short on time.*
** I hiked down to the pool by the ladder an saw a bunch of fish right off.*
** *Went down to the "rock" below the dead line an spotted more fish!!
** I decided I'd try to fish it. And fish it I did.*
** I started with a plug into the couple shoots. Backed it down to the choke points and nothing! But I'd pushed fish down. So I followed. And followed. And I got to the burnt out ladder by the falls. I found a rock an sat for a bit.*
** Omg they were moving in packs. Groups of 2-10 fish every min or two shot up!!! Oh no I'd better figure it out before they all booked up. The creek was up 4-6" and dropping.*
** *I threw my bobber an egg down into the pool an crouched down. 3-4 seconds and it danced around. Didn't go down. Bait robbed. This happens twice more. I decided to shorten my leader to about 18" from 36". Bobber tilted an dipped. I ripped a lip. Bigger buck. Red an spawnie looking. Releases it. An another buck seconds later.*
** Then j couldn't get touched. So I changed to spinners and nothing at all in the spinner. But I pushed fish into a hold below me... So I tried something different. I put on one of the smallest green corkies and a smidge of black sparkle yarn. Light pencil lead and backed into them. It wasn't long. I let it hang in the current at the end of my swing like a fly I used my reel to strip it back in as if fly fishing. Bam after bam after bam.*
** *I got a nice hen. Short fight and bleed it. Tagged an back to my rock. Same thing but 30 min went by before I hooked up again. After that it was on. Fish started breaking water. Running half out of the creek. The next fish I hooked was a piggy hen. And then several fish to far into spawn to even consider keeping.*
**With time running out for me I decided to throw my last few baits. Boom fish on on my last bait!! Another hen. Quickly tried to bleed it an tag out...
**After tagging it I went to grab my fish an it hadn't bled out much??? So I cut a lil deeper and pulled head back to see if it was bleeding yet.... Right then it did what I never thought it would. It Money shotted my face.*

I literally got sprayed in the mouth and eyes and hat with a direct pulse of life fluid!!! Gross.*
** I had to dunk my head in the creek and fight the urge to puke. It wasn't that bad really until the blood ran into my mouth and I could taste it!!! Yuck. And right then it shot singles all over me.*
**So I was in a hast and grabbed a wasteful fish an the karma gods of fishing got me!! *I learned my lesson on hastily killing a fish an removing it from water. I should have known better. I know what the *nether Region of a spawning fish looks like. Just over looked it in my hurry to get home process eggs. Brine meat and get to work on time.*
** I ended up going 9-12 with one spinner bite. 3 egg bites. And 8 corky yarn bites. Kept 3 an should of only kept the two. But they were not wasted nor was the meat.*
** All in all I'm glad I fished hard this last weekend. I hooked fish everyday. I supplied my egg quiche pretty well. Got quality meat. And smoker fuel. And more importantly. Didn't have to work and spent some good days with good ppl.*
** I'm so happy it's raining right now. These fish needed to be freed up. And now fresh coho will be filling the canyon. I know where I'm gonna be Friday.*
** *Trask or eagle creek canyon. Love the fall. It's such a bountiful time of year. Feast on y'all. There is chrome in the water. And blood moon in the heavens.*
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Great report! Looks like those fish do bite, after all! Great job. Do u have any pics?
 
Great job man :thumb:
 
Yea I'll post tonight
 
You and those coho...seems to be working. For some reason I'm still a difficult sell...probably cuz I'm still able to latch onto a steel here and there :)

Keep up the good work.

P.S. UPS just dropped off my phone 5 minutes ago, so in a short bit, I'll be back in the phone loop.
 
dozer365 said:
** Omg they were moving in packs. Groups of 2-10 fish every min or two shot up!!! Oh no I'd better figure it out before they all booked up.**

That is such an awesome site to see. I never tire of it!

Always amazes me how they'll even shoot through if you're standing in their way like a bear and waving your arms like a madman. Those fish are determined!
 
Beads baby
 
Chez send n a pm if u need my number.
 
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Beads baby beads lol
 
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Yeeyeeeeeeee good hookin dozer!
 
Good job! Hopefully the creek will pull even more pressure off the river. The fishing has been good, or great if there hasn't been any pressure on the drifts
 
where is this canyon you speak of
 

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