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Got to Tanner creek at 6:55, got lines in around 7:00. First ones on the water, then this guy comes down and starts shouting at us cause we weren't supposed to fish until 7:00, but he shouted at 7:10... Turned out he was just angry cause we were at his "favorite" spot. Then we ended up moving further down the river. First cast, casted the plunking rig. Snag... Break off, retie. All of a sudden, BIG SPLASH to the left, a huge sturgeon just jumped 3 feet in the air, it was at least 7 feet long, then boom it was gone. After 20 min, my rod tip starts bouncin up and down a lot. I stand and set the hook. I fight it for around 20 seconds, and boom. The fish comes off. Retie another weight and cast out another time, further. Friends were casting in the creek with spinners and jigs, nothing. But one of them went further up a lot with a 2 inch silver/blue repala. He hooked a 2-3 pounder and it came off mid-jump. So Im waitin for half an hour, broke off about 3 more weights, then I cast again. I tighten the line and it doesn't snag. Good spot. I hear a loud bell ring and I look over my shoulder for 3 min, the mean guy set the hook and it turned out to be a snag. So I look back at my rod... Bounce Bounce BOUNCE pull, bounce. I jump up and reel and reel, the hook set was solid, but then it twisted my line by runnin around a rock... No more weights. So we just have fun, picking the tons and tons of blackberries(yummiful yummy!!!) and eat them, trying to spot fish in the creek. Not a single one we could see besides the minnows.Friend all of a sudden says, hey! I caught a minnow. We saw a 1 inch fish. Yummy. Lets go fry it up with some seaweed. :lol:
So we just explore, then we start finding clams, more food! Then we actually found a good brown plastic grub, a weird wet fly with eyes popped out, a shad dart type thing, a real shiny jig, some lead, and a worn out lead jig, and 3 rusted to their death hooks. Friend ties on the glossy black jig, and casts it a couple times. On the 4th cast, it just disappears...:shock:
So we ended the day with 3 good subway sandwiches, a lot of black berries, -20 ounces of lead, -1jig, and a dead minnow. And some tiny fresh water clams. And I lost a #3 blue fox...
Stupid other guy, talkin with his other mean friends about how wrong it was that we showed up before him. Bad day with them, good day with friends.
So we just explore, then we start finding clams, more food! Then we actually found a good brown plastic grub, a weird wet fly with eyes popped out, a shad dart type thing, a real shiny jig, some lead, and a worn out lead jig, and 3 rusted to their death hooks. Friend ties on the glossy black jig, and casts it a couple times. On the 4th cast, it just disappears...:shock:
So we ended the day with 3 good subway sandwiches, a lot of black berries, -20 ounces of lead, -1jig, and a dead minnow. And some tiny fresh water clams. And I lost a #3 blue fox...
Stupid other guy, talkin with his other mean friends about how wrong it was that we showed up before him. Bad day with them, good day with friends.
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ray: We deal with a couple of cranky old knotheads down hear where I'm at when the spring chinook come in. Generally we just ignore them and they will stand there whine and snivel for about 10 mins. and then pack up and go home. There is just not enough room on the river for guys like that!
We all have to deal with rude, whining, sometimes ignorant people while pursuing a great hobby (passion). Personally, my pet peeve is the bonehead who spots fisherfolk at or in the water and proceeds to show their physical and mental prowess by chucking rocks into said water. Do I really care how far you can skip a rock on the water? Ummm,NO!! 