Jgoding
12-12-2005, 10:20 AM
Hey everyone, got out about 2:00pm yesterday and fished til 4:15 or so. Saw about 10 people on the river just below Goethe. One guy landed about 3 small steelies. Probably around 12" or so. He then bragged to his buddy that the fish he kept were native... lol, his buddy tore him a new S$%^hole and wasn't quiet about it even with all the other people around. They were gear guys btw, but this damn guy would take like 5 mins to release the damn fish when he caught them.... so I don't think any of them really made it. He was using roe I think cuz he kept baiting up every now and then.
I hooked one nice fish but never saw it. I was throwing a shooting head on my 6wt with an ESL and got a nice take, set the hook and felt a nice fish. I put some pressure on him but he/she wasn't having any and just hunkered down and shook it's head til it popped the hook. Man, i was bummed out all day after that too... I was thinking it could've been a salmon as there were quite a few dead ones around and I did see one skunk swim at me and take off when he saw me. I thought a steelie would take off but since I never saw the fish I don't know.
The water was very murky brownish/greenish. Maybe 1.5 ft vis at best and this was pushing it. I think the recent rain moved a lot of debris and a lot of trees are losing leaves which isn't helping along with all the salmon carcasses I think there's a lot of stuff blooming in the water.
Did see a few small fishing rising so there are steelhead around. A few mayflies were coming off but not so many. The highlight of the day though for me was watching some guy just get his a@# handed to him by some fish. I think it was a salmon but it could've been a nice steely. I think he was drifting roe or beads in some shallow area as fish were moving through and he hooked up. I looked up and just saw this tank taking off in the rapids. This fish had thick shoulders and was just powering off and had himself half way out of the water and heading downstream and I was laughing cuz the poor guy was just holding on for dear life. I knew he never had a chance just by watching that fish and sure enough he popped off in about 5 seconds. Anyways, I guess I shouldn't laugh cuz I lost mine too but I like it when the fish wins...
If I can hook up, anyone can so get out and hit em hard.
I hooked one nice fish but never saw it. I was throwing a shooting head on my 6wt with an ESL and got a nice take, set the hook and felt a nice fish. I put some pressure on him but he/she wasn't having any and just hunkered down and shook it's head til it popped the hook. Man, i was bummed out all day after that too... I was thinking it could've been a salmon as there were quite a few dead ones around and I did see one skunk swim at me and take off when he saw me. I thought a steelie would take off but since I never saw the fish I don't know.
The water was very murky brownish/greenish. Maybe 1.5 ft vis at best and this was pushing it. I think the recent rain moved a lot of debris and a lot of trees are losing leaves which isn't helping along with all the salmon carcasses I think there's a lot of stuff blooming in the water.
Did see a few small fishing rising so there are steelhead around. A few mayflies were coming off but not so many. The highlight of the day though for me was watching some guy just get his a@# handed to him by some fish. I think it was a salmon but it could've been a nice steely. I think he was drifting roe or beads in some shallow area as fish were moving through and he hooked up. I looked up and just saw this tank taking off in the rapids. This fish had thick shoulders and was just powering off and had himself half way out of the water and heading downstream and I was laughing cuz the poor guy was just holding on for dear life. I knew he never had a chance just by watching that fish and sure enough he popped off in about 5 seconds. Anyways, I guess I shouldn't laugh cuz I lost mine too but I like it when the fish wins...
If I can hook up, anyone can so get out and hit em hard.