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ChezJfrey
So, I found a bunch of fish yesterday evening. In the waning sunlight, I spotted some fish in softer water, perfect for float. Tried a couple EZ-Eggs on a 4 hook, 1/16 jig, jig tipped with a very short tail of pink worm...nothing. Went earlier today and saw a half dozen fish or so in the same places, tried the same technique and nothing...then, the sun came out.
Hit up the riffles, worked through a couple sets of 'em, then waded out to a mid-river rock and tossed to a nice seam, riffly water on the other bank. Felt a bump and set! Line just goes slack...must have been a rock. A second or so later, line goes taut and my rod doubles over as a fish is blazing down river. Fish on baby! This thing launches into the air a couple feet, then another launch, line burning away from my reel. Uh oh, there's a set of faster water down stream and this fish is heading for it, my lighter test/lighter drag can't put a stop to it, but I need to get to the bank to follow it. As I try making my way back, my foot slips and now I'm sitting on my butt in 6-8 inches of water and it makes its way over the tops of my waders...I'm sure that looked 'professional' sitting there in the drink, LOL.
I get up, shuffle to the bank and start maneuvering myself and the fish closer. Bend the fish's wishes to my own and eventually get it worked closer to my side of the river, it bolts again, one more acrobat and heads down again, now my line wraps around a rock about 15 feet out...dang it. I'm panicked and wade out to dislodge it...fortunately, the line wasn't actually pinched underneath and was actually snagged up in the mossy gunk and the fish was still able to pull against my drag...phew. Get my line off the rock, work the fish back and after a few last-ditch efforts of the fish thrashing away when I get it near, it gets tired enough to slide into my grasp. Just epic with lighter test, I tell ya.
So, turns out all the advice given for some sort of different technique was all lies, lies, lies! LOL 1/3 oz. brass spoon 'painted' black with a Sharpie saves my August!
28", 6.8 pound summer:
Hit up the riffles, worked through a couple sets of 'em, then waded out to a mid-river rock and tossed to a nice seam, riffly water on the other bank. Felt a bump and set! Line just goes slack...must have been a rock. A second or so later, line goes taut and my rod doubles over as a fish is blazing down river. Fish on baby! This thing launches into the air a couple feet, then another launch, line burning away from my reel. Uh oh, there's a set of faster water down stream and this fish is heading for it, my lighter test/lighter drag can't put a stop to it, but I need to get to the bank to follow it. As I try making my way back, my foot slips and now I'm sitting on my butt in 6-8 inches of water and it makes its way over the tops of my waders...I'm sure that looked 'professional' sitting there in the drink, LOL.
I get up, shuffle to the bank and start maneuvering myself and the fish closer. Bend the fish's wishes to my own and eventually get it worked closer to my side of the river, it bolts again, one more acrobat and heads down again, now my line wraps around a rock about 15 feet out...dang it. I'm panicked and wade out to dislodge it...fortunately, the line wasn't actually pinched underneath and was actually snagged up in the mossy gunk and the fish was still able to pull against my drag...phew. Get my line off the rock, work the fish back and after a few last-ditch efforts of the fish thrashing away when I get it near, it gets tired enough to slide into my grasp. Just epic with lighter test, I tell ya.
So, turns out all the advice given for some sort of different technique was all lies, lies, lies! LOL 1/3 oz. brass spoon 'painted' black with a Sharpie saves my August!
28", 6.8 pound summer:
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