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mikeee2362
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Ok, the Noob I'm talkin' bout is me....
I'm new to this kind of fishing but I've done a lot of homework and asked a lot of questions, so I feel comfortable sharing this kinda late report.
I went to the Mills Bridge Launch to try my luck on the Wilson on Wednesday 1-15-14, after talking to some of the fellas here on OFF, and watching every video on the subject via youtube I could find, it seemed to be a good choice, with the water levels dropping, and clarity supposed to be good, confidence was high!
So I got there before first light and with 3 rods rigged with various float rigs,(a yarnie, a jig, and a pink worm)I started up the shore feeling good that the bank was smooth as if the water had just receded, and was only the second set of tracks walking in that direction. I walked up a couple hundred yards upstream until I couldn't stand it anymore, and got my first hot tip ready to fish...the deadly pink worm!!
Ok, so not so deadly this day, so I tried a couple different scents with no luck.
Now that the light came up and I could see that the water was a nice greenish color with a couple feet of visability, which I've heard is very good color, and viability for steelies...confidence very high!!
So I tried all three rods with various scents added, with a sand shrimp tail, with gooey bobs, worm with and without a jig head, and then threw a spinner in all the locations I stopped at, which was pretty much every fishable inch upstream of the bridge for a couple hundred yards, and then continued to fish down below the bridge to where the rapids start.
So I asked every guy there how they were doing, only to hear I wasn't the only one having no action. I stayed and fished until dark going back up past the bridge trying everything I had, ending back at the launch where I did talk to one guy that had drifted down from I think he said Jordan Creek, he said they had one on early in the morning but lost it, and said they saw another boat fighting a couple early in the day higher up closer to their launch point, but didn't see any boated.
So as I was wondering if there were any fish in the river where I was,(there was a lot of guys there wondering that but were fishing there with high hopes) and as I was thinking of packing it in...A VERY nice fish (my guess 30+ inch with plenty of back, I said 15-20 pounder, 15 according to the other guy that saw it) surfaced no more than 8 feet from my toes, and lazily sunk back into the depths....this kept me fishing on into the dark, still with no luck...but my confidence is still HIGH!!
Can't wait to get back out there!! Gonna try some of 20 miles or so of river I passed in the dark....Beauty of a place!
I'm new to this kind of fishing but I've done a lot of homework and asked a lot of questions, so I feel comfortable sharing this kinda late report.
I went to the Mills Bridge Launch to try my luck on the Wilson on Wednesday 1-15-14, after talking to some of the fellas here on OFF, and watching every video on the subject via youtube I could find, it seemed to be a good choice, with the water levels dropping, and clarity supposed to be good, confidence was high!
So I got there before first light and with 3 rods rigged with various float rigs,(a yarnie, a jig, and a pink worm)I started up the shore feeling good that the bank was smooth as if the water had just receded, and was only the second set of tracks walking in that direction. I walked up a couple hundred yards upstream until I couldn't stand it anymore, and got my first hot tip ready to fish...the deadly pink worm!!
Ok, so not so deadly this day, so I tried a couple different scents with no luck.
Now that the light came up and I could see that the water was a nice greenish color with a couple feet of visability, which I've heard is very good color, and viability for steelies...confidence very high!!
So I tried all three rods with various scents added, with a sand shrimp tail, with gooey bobs, worm with and without a jig head, and then threw a spinner in all the locations I stopped at, which was pretty much every fishable inch upstream of the bridge for a couple hundred yards, and then continued to fish down below the bridge to where the rapids start.
So I asked every guy there how they were doing, only to hear I wasn't the only one having no action. I stayed and fished until dark going back up past the bridge trying everything I had, ending back at the launch where I did talk to one guy that had drifted down from I think he said Jordan Creek, he said they had one on early in the morning but lost it, and said they saw another boat fighting a couple early in the day higher up closer to their launch point, but didn't see any boated.
So as I was wondering if there were any fish in the river where I was,(there was a lot of guys there wondering that but were fishing there with high hopes) and as I was thinking of packing it in...A VERY nice fish (my guess 30+ inch with plenty of back, I said 15-20 pounder, 15 according to the other guy that saw it) surfaced no more than 8 feet from my toes, and lazily sunk back into the depths....this kept me fishing on into the dark, still with no luck...but my confidence is still HIGH!!
Can't wait to get back out there!! Gonna try some of 20 miles or so of river I passed in the dark....Beauty of a place!
