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Ok so I hit my favorite springer hole on the north fork santiam tonight. Plunking eggs and prawns on a #4prawn spinner I've been messing with. The first two hours passed entirely uneventfull like it should, nothing but zen with the water feeling the water surges then blade quit working. I should have known better... a gentle tug to get the blade moving and head shake head shake...you didn't really want those eggs, but here's your gear back...chump!!!:shock: Ok cool..at least this dumb thing worked once. I rebaited chunked into the same spot quitely sitting on the rocks encouraging hemroid growth reached for my soda and snack in a bag, cracked the top on my pop, ate my sandwich...still nothing. the river was lulling me back to LaLa land when BANG! BANG! ZZZIT ZZZZZIT ZZZZZZZZZZZ! Nothing is so pretty as watching an angry chrome nook go airborn with a watermelon #4 hanging from its mouth!!! Nothing uglier than #4 watermelon coming back at your head when angry springer lets go.
An hour left and I'm licking my wounds. I changed bait, tossed back into the same slot, While I was taking up the slack in my line, headshake, headshake, headshake, hookset!..too much slack
10ish pound steelie airborn, airborn again, here hold this idiot you don't deserve me.:naughty: Some one call the exterminator...I need a skunk killed!
An hour left and I'm licking my wounds. I changed bait, tossed back into the same slot, While I was taking up the slack in my line, headshake, headshake, headshake, hookset!..too much slack 10ish pound steelie airborn, airborn again, here hold this idiot you don't deserve me.:naughty: Some one call the exterminator...I need a skunk killed!
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not to mention having a good laugh at your expense. :lol: I was beginning to believe it was only a female or beginner thing going on. Glad to hear everyone has to get stinky once in a while. It is actually encouraging. :clap:
ray:thankyou thankyou. I bailed and was on the river in my favorite slot by 06:45. A few brief words with the usual suspects and I was rigging and in the water. I took about 5 mins and I felt a solid thump followed by tug,tug. the hookset felt solid and a small couple pumps and it was on. She didn't want to come off the bottom so I knew she was a decent fish. she turned and tried to go under the under cut bank and into the rocks and slid her out she turned and ran down river into the well and sounded. (the well is 32 feet deep). A few moments later she was at the top...and cleanly clipped!!!! a heart stopping stab at the fish with the net and it was over..my first clipped springer dinner in two years!:dance::yay::dance::yay:
