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Went down to my local haunt for a few hrs today. I just can't seem to get into the bobber fishing thing, so I decided to take my steelhead drift rod....
We did the bobber thing for an hr or so with no love, so we headed up river...there were fish rolling all over, but no takers. I headed up stream about 100 yrds to the bottom of a chute and decided to bust out the drift rod....Third cast...tap, tap, whack....fish on....Small colored up buck nook....unhooked and sent on his way.
Fished same area for a little longer, no more love.....back to spot one.
Bobber fishing wasn't happening, so I walked down to the next chute below my buddy and took the drift rod with me...First cast, snagged up and busted my leader...retie..lighten my lead...flip up into the top of the chute, drifts right even with me, I slowly take up the slack and feel the subtle tug of a fish mouthing my roe....whack...rod stays down....reel down and the line twitches, whack the second time....head starts shaking and this turkey heads up the chute....
I am standing in knee deep water in the middle of the river with a fast chute in front of me and a softer waist deep chute behind me...the fish finally turns and heads down the fast chute and into softer water so that I can attempt to wade across the waist deep chute to the "bank" to try to land this fish.
I finally coax him into the soft water pull his nose up onto the ledge and flop on him against the rock ledge. The people that were in the car across the river from me watching the whole thing ask"Did you get em?" Yes I reply....great job is the response....
2-2 on the drift rod...0-0 bobber rod....nothing like fresh nook on a steelhead rod....
We did the bobber thing for an hr or so with no love, so we headed up river...there were fish rolling all over, but no takers. I headed up stream about 100 yrds to the bottom of a chute and decided to bust out the drift rod....Third cast...tap, tap, whack....fish on....Small colored up buck nook....unhooked and sent on his way.
Fished same area for a little longer, no more love.....back to spot one.
Bobber fishing wasn't happening, so I walked down to the next chute below my buddy and took the drift rod with me...First cast, snagged up and busted my leader...retie..lighten my lead...flip up into the top of the chute, drifts right even with me, I slowly take up the slack and feel the subtle tug of a fish mouthing my roe....whack...rod stays down....reel down and the line twitches, whack the second time....head starts shaking and this turkey heads up the chute....
I am standing in knee deep water in the middle of the river with a fast chute in front of me and a softer waist deep chute behind me...the fish finally turns and heads down the fast chute and into softer water so that I can attempt to wade across the waist deep chute to the "bank" to try to land this fish.
I finally coax him into the soft water pull his nose up onto the ledge and flop on him against the rock ledge. The people that were in the car across the river from me watching the whole thing ask"Did you get em?" Yes I reply....great job is the response....
2-2 on the drift rod...0-0 bobber rod....nothing like fresh nook on a steelhead rod....
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