Well, knowing where the fish were in the river after Luke's success on Tuesday, we were eager to get out and slay those fish.
This morning we put all work aside (shh!) and took my dad out for his first Vedder outing of the season as he is in town visiting for a week.
We arrived at our spot around 7am, perfect timing as shortly after we got ready it was light enough to fish. The flow was awesome, water has dropped a bit since last week. Clarity was excellent too, clear but with the greenish colour in the main body of the water.
My today's weapon is Stryker 3106 fitted with the Islander Steelheader, while my dad played with Stryker 2106 and my newly bought Shimano Scorpion low profile reel from Japan.
About twenty minutes or so after we started, I was into a series of bites. Fishing just downstream from Luke, my float was pulled down once but I came up empty. Same thing happened the second and third time, extremely frustrating as the speed told me it was definitely a coho. First and second strike actually occured at the exact same spot, indicating that it maybe the same fish.
On the forth drift, the float was pulled again. I yanked, and a distinct heavy weight at the end of my line made me smile. A few seconds later, the big chrome buck came up to the surface and immediately went into its famous rolls. After about three rolls, it turned around and headed downstream at lightning speed. It was at this point, I made my mistake. Too much pressure on the pin when the fish ran, so one pop and bye bye coho.
Rather disappointing indeed, because it was one of the bigger ones I've hooked this season. The next two hours, all three of us came up empty and it was getting rather discouraging. Luke started to wander about as usual. I think suggested that we should head to a new spot. Five minutes after that suggestion, Mr Fluke got into a fish! At first it stayed deep, seemed like a chum we thought. When it started to perform the kicks, we knew that it was a coho. A few minutes later, a brief look at its back revealed that it was a hatchery fish. Luke was now taking it VERY EASY (slowly).
We found a gradual bank and he proceeded to beach the fish. I gave the fish a slight nudge from the bottom and we had our first and only hatchery fish on the beach today.
Pretty good for his first season!
During the rest of the outing, we missed the odd bites. I landed a chum... and Dad was just happy to enjoy the scenary.
Tomorrow we will continue our coho quest but it will not be Vedder.
There still seems to be a lot of fish coming in, we did see scattered waves of coho moving in today but they were rather tight lipped at times.
A note on the Shimano Scorpion reel. I ordered this about a month ago and it arrived from Japan last week. My dad was lucky enough to be the first one to test it out. His first impression was... "This is way better than your 6500c3."
I shall talk more about that later on.
Good luck all.
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Topic: Vedder October 28th - fLuke has done it again! (Read 5882 times)