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got my taste of what a steelhead feels like friday night down at cross park with 30 mins of light to spare. was drifting very close to bank where I spotted one breached left him alone for 20 mins decided to throw out one more cast and bam fish on blood pumping drag started to scream he breached the water and saw my colorful yarnie come undone I think all of gladstone heard me cussing like a sailor.
Then saturday morning went higher and first ten cast out bam fish on again. Had her on for almost a minute breached twice and I was able to hang on and then suddenly snap bumper must of had a knick or something. She breached twice more to give me the middle fin as she shot down river.
the power behind these fish is unreal! Getting close to poppin my steelhead cherry!
Tight lines
hurd of a few fishes caught low today and yesterday also... hit it tell it starts rising again. fish riffles and tail outs as I believe they will stack a bit. alo would like to here of any conformation of summers or springers in the lower river so we can start a new repot thread to go along with this one. and some ppl are starting talk of low return numbers on the clack. lets remember that the brooders record was last yr @ 1,800's something to clack. so if we get half that already... and a month of small straggler pushes coming in... also the recent commercial test nets in Columbia showeda good amount of broodstock winter that are bound for the clack and the sandy systems.... maybe we have a good month of winters left. I for one wont be bailing out to catch springers. may will come soon enough, but then there are always summers....
yesterdays native hen on gumball orange corky on 2' leader. she hammered it like a spoon!!!!
Whatever you do, don't go fishing with Dozer...he's got the hot hand right now with 4 hookups in two days and if you fish two days in a row with that guy and get nothing to show for it, while he's hooking fish, you will just get depressed at how much you suck...I speak with experience over the last couple days. LOL
P.S. Dozer, you forgot to show 'em that husky fish from higher up...that thing had some mass I could feel holding the rod while you unhooked it
My buddies have been whacking them on the Clack lately.. I'm still too busy running to the coast for multiple hookups and a shot at a 20+er...We got one that was close the other day.
Im thinking a trip to the Clack is in order the following week.
If I were you Jiggy I would head up high right now...
Im on it! But if the weather reports are correct we're about to blow out again! I'm tempted to get the pontoon out and do some bobber doggin. I really like the tactic, I'm going to like it a lot more when I get a hookup. I'm using less lead, maybe it was too much to start with. But I'd really like to dial it in. It keeps your gear right on the bottom. Can't be bad right? Good luck all