Crooked River and eventual redemption

Jeanna and I hung out at the Crooked for a couple days. Jeanna arrived on Wednesday and proceeded to get into fish...I arrived early on Thursday and set up camp. Jeanna sooo out fished me! She did great! We fished a few places, mainly right at camp cuz it is good water. We went to one place and waded across the river and went up the trail with me in the lead as snake chaser (hmmm, I was always in the lead, never mind the webs I walked through).hehe. Last time I was there we got tons of fish...not so much this time. I think it had something to do with no swallows present on the cliff side. The fish like to eat their dropped goodies. We had a good time. Jeanna wet waded, next time she will probably bring waders. I wet waded too but not too much, I had waders :tongue: This morning Jeanna again got into fish, I did not. So on the way home I stopped at my special place on the Santiam. I quit at 17 fish.....what a great way to end a most enjoyable trip. Thanks Jeanna for hanging out with me and letting me hold your rat sack. I didn't wash my hands after...hahahahahaha.

some pics:

Camp



Jeanna's fish








my Crooked fish


my Santiam fish



It is hard to hold big trout with one hand...just sayin'

All fishy's used in this thread were released safe and happy, even the hatchery fishy's......

Can't beat being out on the water

Had a great time. Thanks for being my snake lookout LOL. I didn't get out of the river very often lmao. Those damn things can swim though, so everytime the green crap floated by and touched my leg I had a mild anxiety attack LOL. It was a good time. I'm glad you got to touch my ratsack. Not many people can say that. Baha. I will post pictures that I have shortly...While pretending to be busy at work.

steelhead_slayer said:

Can't beat being out on the water

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so true!!

Oh yeah, and I'm never leaving home without waders again. It was fine after the 90 degree sun warmed up the water, but in the morning and evening, holy painful frozen toes. "It's going to be in the 90's, I don't need no stinkin' waders (literally, they stink like chinook)" Pfff. It's not 90 in the morning

Here's some photos off my phonez

View from where my tent was


My wilderness condo


Li'l bowski


The green slime flotilla. That stuff is seriously gross. Not cool wet wading and having that stuff touch your leg!


Rose left me to fend for myself. At least I couldn't hear her flotant shaker that sound remarkably like a rattlesnake when she gets into it.






Bow


Deer


This tree was my sunburn salvation




RATSACK


Bowie


Dusky


These things are so much more fun than rainbows, I could catch these all day long and not think about trout once.

Looks like a great time. You two unsupervised on a river surrounded by wildlife, including rattle snakes, hobo spiders and other creepy crawlers make me wish I had a remote camera set up somewhere close. With audio, of course...priceless! :lol:

Raincatcher said:

Looks like a great time. You two unsupervised on a river surrounded by wildlife, including rattle snakes, hobo spiders and other creepy crawlers make me wish I had a remote camera set up somewhere close. With audio, of course...priceless! :lol:

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hehe...we did so good!!! No accidents, no running through brush screaming, etc. It was a quite enjoyable trip.

Jeanna did great on the fly rod....quite good. She ordered 90 flies when she got home.

Welcome to the dark side...hahahahaha

lilsalmon said:

hehe...we did so good!!! No accidents, no running through brush screaming, etc. It was a quite enjoyable trip.

Jeanna did great on the fly rod....quite good. She ordered 90 flies when she got home.

Welcome to the dark side...hahahahaha

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Well actually...there was a deer....deer are not scary creatures, but one made me scream. The people camped down the way were looking at me like wtf? You see the first night I did not sleep because of friggin coyotes. Then when I finally nodded off for less than an hour, a deer nosed my tent and all I saw was brown and it scared the bejeezus out of me. The next day the rainfly went on cause I didn't want to see what was happening outside my little cocoon.

I know. Sad.

Im pretty proud that neither of us had any injuries though.

That looks like a great trip.

You guys are hilarious! Thanks for a great report, and some good chuckles!

Epic! Nice colors on those fish. Can't wait to get out of my rut and do some fishing.

OnTheFly said:

Epic! Nice colors on those fish. Can't wait to get out of my rut and do some fishing.

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Let me tell you I have been in a serious funk and this was exactly what I needed. I literally fished ZERO days in June. June is typically my busiest month in the summer chasing springers, and I didn't. Not once. Rose and I were supposed to meet up with someone to fish and that fell through and i literally just sat on the bank doing nothing while rose fished lol. I didn't care. Now I want to fish again, and things are as they should be. I go through phases when the the runs are crap like this winter and this spring and I just call it quits lol. So it's good to get back to the basics. Nothing is more relaxing that fly fishing for trout. Until your back gives out 'cause you're chucking a nymph rig that's too heavy for you're weak little rod, for way too long. It's still good stuff.

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Epic! Nice colors on those fish. Can't wait to get out of my rut and do some fishing.

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Jim, we are planning a November trip.....you should come. I know how you love the brisk morning air...hehe

Great job girls! Excellent report, photos, and some beautiful fish! Congrats Jeanna on your new found flyfishing skills!

Good to see the Crooked is back!!

Fishing would have been better if they had not released water rotest:

WOW!! Nicely done there you two. Congrats!! Sounds like a phenomenal trip. I will have to remember to bring extra dry shakes if ever I fish with Jeanna (rattle rattle rattle, shake shake shake, hehehehehehe) The 50 ft jump would be EPIC!!! hahahahaha :dance: :lol:

Those are some nice fish you have there. :clap:

Great report and thanks for sharing.

Take care and enjoy!

-Spydey

spydeyrch said:

wow!! Nicely done there you two. Congrats!! Sounds like a phenomenal trip. I will have to remember to bring extra dry shakes if ever i fish with jeanna (rattle rattle rattle, shake shake shake, hehehehehehe) the 50 ft jump would be epic!!! Hahahahaha :dance: :lol:

Those are some nice fish you have there. :clap:

Great report and thanks for sharing.

Take care and enjoy!

-spydey

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evil.