We'll Searun and I got off to a late start this morning. Didn't make it out fishing until about noon. But this was more of an exploration trip, so we just headed to a set of runs that we wanted to check out on the lower river. Found a nice stretch that we hadn't fished for since the river changed. I was fishing deli shrimp, Searun was fishing a 6" pink worm. Well, the water was great, just a bit of color and good height. Things looked good for the day. The day looked even better when Searun about 30 min in hooked into his first steely of the year. Nothing big, but a nice starter steely. But sadly enough, he was sleepin at the wheel and didn't get a good hookset. On the steelies first run, he figured out how to displace the hook from his jaw!! After that, it was one more hit and miss, because of lack of time, we headed down river to check some more runs. As for me, I was just having fun watching and learning some new water. Later after covering all the water in the run, we decided to head up river for the last hr of the day. Searun was working the water with a pink worm, as was I. But we could not induce anything. So I was going to a gooey bob and wool. He decided to change up as well, and went to one of my Colorado's. Within a few casts he was into a fish, but it was able to shake him after a few seconds. Thought that it was probably a ho. A few casts after that, I was changing to a 50/50 gold/silver frenchie, as searun was getting into another fish. I saw this one hit, let's just say that the pole seemed maxed from where I was. But, after some strong headshakes, that one was gone as well. So now, I am racing to get tied up. Finally, with cold hands, as it was starting to get dark, I got a fews casts off, after about three, my float rockets under from behind a big rock, I'm thinkin darnit, I don't want to lose this rather pricey blade so soon, so I just lift the rod to see how bad it is. Well, what do you know, the pole starts bouncing, and a decent sized Ho is going crazy on the other end. Well, I was a bit surprised, this one was putting up a rather spirited battle. But after a while she was brought to hand. It was a hatchery in remarkably good shape
, after thinking about it for 2 seconds, she was bonked and cleaned. So that was a big surprise for me, I packed it up for the day and Searun made a few more casts, but there wasn't much light left. So we hiked out while we could still see where the heck we were going.
Overall, a beautiful day on the river, found a new piece of water to fish, and got a surprise ho.
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