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halibuthitman
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Its been kind of a funny steel season for me, I find myself exploring, watching, smoking cigarettes... and just plain day dreaming and not really putting any real effort into fishing this winter, fishing is still one of my biggest passions but I just have felt wierd all season, so at 4 a.m this morning as I passed through the garage to my truck, I did something different, leaving my flyrod tucked safely in its holder in the corner.. I grabbed my spin gear and all my dads old spoons and headed to big creek. Hit the park at sunrise, snapped on a pink/white/yellow spoon and on my 3rd cast.. Bam! VERY nice fish heading for the hatchery at 300 miles per hr, mabe I should have put new line on, cause when I when to slow em down, he and my spoon kept going
so time to re-rig and as I was doin so a couple guys pulled up, this time it was a castmaster I call an elton john ( you can guess why ) thats right, cause its gay and never caught a fish in its 20 yr stint in my dads gear, so with d-bag 1 and d-bag 2 standing one foot away trying to talk to me I cast into the exact same spot, and saw a flash.... quickly reeled in adjusted my cast 3 more feet upstream and let it slide in before reeling and Bam 2nd fish of the day on! four shakes of the head and he was off to join his buddy. so the kid next to me smiles and says " that won't happen twice in a day on these fish" and I said 
and he instructs me that winters will almost never hit a spoon. and I just got lucky on that one.
So Ive decided to myth bust... Im gonna attempt to post a picture of 30 steelhead caught from tommorrow until march 26th... the last day I can fish in the lower 48 and the end of my oregon winter season. caught with only spoons, qwuickfish or hotshots... all three being lures I have been told can't catch as well as jigs, yarn, or bait. I will use no bait and no spinners. I think my heart just got back in the game!!! ( im still gonna fly fish my favorite fly spots, so don't worry onthefly.... im not turning my back on the Art.. just puttin some spice back in the game
) things are about to get interesting..
so time to re-rig and as I was doin so a couple guys pulled up, this time it was a castmaster I call an elton john ( you can guess why ) thats right, cause its gay and never caught a fish in its 20 yr stint in my dads gear, so with d-bag 1 and d-bag 2 standing one foot away trying to talk to me I cast into the exact same spot, and saw a flash.... quickly reeled in adjusted my cast 3 more feet upstream and let it slide in before reeling and Bam 2nd fish of the day on! four shakes of the head and he was off to join his buddy. so the kid next to me smiles and says " that won't happen twice in a day on these fish" and I said and he instructs me that winters will almost never hit a spoon. and I just got lucky on that one.So Ive decided to myth bust... Im gonna attempt to post a picture of 30 steelhead caught from tommorrow until march 26th... the last day I can fish in the lower 48 and the end of my oregon winter season. caught with only spoons, qwuickfish or hotshots... all three being lures I have been told can't catch as well as jigs, yarn, or bait. I will use no bait and no spinners. I think my heart just got back in the game!!! ( im still gonna fly fish my favorite fly spots, so don't worry onthefly.... im not turning my back on the Art.. just puttin some spice back in the game
) things are about to get interesting..
I wish you the best bud, let me know when you need someone to spook some fish your way, we'll hit the water after I get done moving.
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