Well last night Chris explained to me what he was using (size of roe, etc) so out I went at around 9:10 this morning. My mom dropped me off on the way to work and I started walking in to my spot, I arrived at my spot at around 9:20 ish. I have confidence in this spot lately after retaining my first Steelhead there so I decided instead of rushing through it, I would take my time since I had all day.
I rigged up my hook with a roe sack about the size of a quarter. I started casting 5 casts at a time in 2 foot intervals while working my way up the run. I finally get to the head of the run and decide to take one last cast right beside the other edge. Well this turned out to be a good idea because about 20 feet downstream my float goes down
. In all the excitment I pulled way too soon, got a headshake and the fish was gone
. I decide to keep trying and after 5 more casts the float goes down again, this time I wait for the headshake and soon a very large fish rockets towards me, takes a jump and snaps me off when it hits the water
....
Frustrated I sat down and again I decided to try the roe. I take about 5 more cats with another tap and after that I didnt get anything for about 5 mins so I decided I was going to try something new. Off came the row and I put on a #2 Colorado. About 8 or 9 casts later my float goes down again, I slowly ease back, get the headshake and set the hook. The fish starts thrashing around and come into the shallow clear water close to the edge. I see it is not nearly as big as the first one but I get it to the edge and see its about an 8 pound hatchery and decided to retain it. I kill it at around 10 and start heading home...
Today was an amazing day on the flow, only saw one other angler and ended my day by hooking 3 fish in a span of about 40 mins. I think some of Chris' luck rubbed off on me, Chris could I have some more please?
Here are a couple pics of it, again in my backyard
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Topic: Thanks for the good luck Chris! (March 24 Steelhead) (Read 2617 times)