Little fish story

[Yogidabear]

I made a drift Sunday evening from leaburg to greenwood, I noticed another boat ahead of me so waited until he was out of sight before dropped down to the first corner hole, when I turned the corner this guy had a fish on and was trying to get his net out. The handle pin malfunctioned and he pulled the handle right out of the net. (oops)

I noticed he was having some difficulties with the net in one hand and the fish on the other so I offered to net the fish for him. I watched him fight this fish which we both thought it was a chinook just from the fact it didn't jump and was pulling pretty hard, after a few runs it finally surfaced and it was a really nice hen native about 28 to 30 inches.

Now the fun part, Me trying to row my boat close enough to his boat in the current without the fish using that to it's advantage. The guy did a great job of getting the fish between us and with one scoop from me it was over. I was concerned that I might make a mistake and loose the fish for him. After I landed it I went down to pull the hook out and it has holding on by a tread one more good pull and it was a goner. He was very Thankful and it was really nice meeting him.

For me zip zero nada. Very surprised giving the nice weather I only saw two other boats, hopefully the fishing will pick up soon.

 

[dtikey]

good for you Ray most woulda just watched. Good karma coming your way!!!

 

[rippin fish lips]

Yeahh Buddy! Good karma fer sure. It's been pretty slow out there.

 

[OnTheDrop]

Yeah I would get out asap... Karma fish headed your way!

 

[OnTheFly]

Nice move! I know what you mean about netting someones fish and having thoughts of flubbing it. I was out with Osmosis once and it was up to me to net his 17lb. native steelhead out of the Clackamas. He looked over at me and asked if I planned to net the fish head first. He just wanted to be sure. lol.

 

[hobster]

Cool story! Since we're sharing, I was on the Slaw earlier this year on the bank and a dude alone in his drift boat had a fish on and I asked if he needed help and he replied YES!. He said he'd never netted one alone in a boat and was having a pretty rough time. There was a little island and the water was deep enough for him to get withtin about 5 feet of me, but the fish didn't want to cooperate. Right before I got there he had one hand on the net and one on an oar, and wooosh goes his net into the river. It was a very nice expensive net also. So I got my net and was able to net the fish and off he went. An hour later my buddy comes along and thinks he sees a fish flash. Then we both realize it was the net stuck on the bottom, about 20 yards downstream. He hooked it and I let him keep the net which he proceded to leave at the hole a week later. Doh!