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Fishtopher
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I took a journey to my ol' favorite fishin' grounds yesterday. Down to the Sandy River below Lewis and Clark Park. I hadnt been down when the water was this low for a long time. Got down to the river, and it was like a whole new river! Where the water had been 50ft. across before, it was now easily 100ft.. The old plunkin' hole is gone at the Burn Barrell. Hell the burn barrell itself is gone. The faster float water above that hole has moved elsewhere. The drift hole below the old plunkin' hole is gone, it's now a huge sand/silt flat that extends about 75ft from the old bank. The new plunking hole has moved about 100yds. upriver, just below the railroad bridge.
Granted the water was up a little, but woah...trees everywhere in the water, well mostly rootballs!
I walked down the bank, at least a 1/2 mile, floating a jig the whole way. I walked back up that 1/2 mile tossin spinners, snaggin every cast, thankfully, I had 20lb braid on and I didn't lose any hardware. I was however pickin corkies outta the bushes like they were cherries! When I split, I stopped by that tackle shop to grab a Coke. As my luck would have it, they were outta Coke...and everything else in the fountain. I was offered a water though
...When outta the corner of my eye, I spotted a spinner body that looked like it belonged in my "body bag". When I got inside the joint, there was nothing but a few racks of blades, and even fewer bodies. But they had the ones I wanted. Just not the color I wanted. Gottem anyways!
I guess down there it is definitely a wader show now, as it now looks like tide water at the coast...
Granted the water was up a little, but woah...trees everywhere in the water, well mostly rootballs!
I walked down the bank, at least a 1/2 mile, floating a jig the whole way. I walked back up that 1/2 mile tossin spinners, snaggin every cast, thankfully, I had 20lb braid on and I didn't lose any hardware. I was however pickin corkies outta the bushes like they were cherries! When I split, I stopped by that tackle shop to grab a Coke. As my luck would have it, they were outta Coke...and everything else in the fountain. I was offered a water though
...When outta the corner of my eye, I spotted a spinner body that looked like it belonged in my "body bag". When I got inside the joint, there was nothing but a few racks of blades, and even fewer bodies. But they had the ones I wanted. Just not the color I wanted. Gottem anyways! I guess down there it is definitely a wader show now, as it now looks like tide water at the coast...
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