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Well, My girlfriend and I studied for the majority of the day today with intentions of going and hooking a few trout in the Marys river above Philomath in the evening as we did the other day and hooked a few nice cutties..It got to be around 5 and we decided we needed to get out of the house so we headed towards Philomath again, only this time I decided we should probably just drive the extra 15 or so miles to the North Fork Alsea.. I knew the pressure would be light with it being late in the season and with the water clarity very clear. We didn't luck out right away as someone was at the bridge hole so we passed and observed the fish at the hatchery. Something i'll always enjoy doing. We then proceeded to make a couple casts downstream while I'm eagerly telling my girlfriend if we can only have that bridge hole to ourselves it will be fish on.... 15 minutes later we headed back down towards the bridge and there wasn't a soul in sight.... With only an hour left of light we rushed down the trail and tossed out some jigs...My girl does a pass through with no bobber down and I follow her with a 1/16 Cerise&Purple Jig ...Bobber hits, drifts three feet, and bobber slips under in a hurry.. I set the hook into a bruiser of a hen and politely hand my pole off to my girlfriend. A couple bulldogging runs and some acrobatic behavior before we get her in....Normally I wouldn't keep a fish in this condition, but she'll smoke up just fine. We only took a few more casts after that, and should have took more considering there was a decent amount of fish jumping around. Oh well, Another solid day in the books and that's all that matters...
Tight Lines
Tight Lines
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ray:. Nice work getting into the fish though! congrats
My Son and I where under the bridge for 3 hrs Sunday Morning, and I had a nice fish on until the line broke , it hit on a black jig 
