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When I made my plans last night, I was going to the Clack around Cross Park, but the pouring rain made me puss out and go plunking from the warm front seat of my truck at Meldrum Bar. Not a huge crowd at the bar, I guess the wonderful weather kept a few regulars at home and dry. So about 9 am the first "fish on" came to a guy a few rods down, who I helped by netting his catch, a nice nook about 28".
About 10 minutes later the second bell rang, and it was on my rod. After a nice fight of about 4-5 minutes I had it right up to the shallows, when it turned and headed back downstream and the hook simply fell out, making me 0 for 3 on springer hookups...I absolutely LOVE the barbless hook rule. SMH
So trying not to be too bummed I gave it a couple more hours and decided to call it quits and head home. But I thought it might be cool to check out Clackamette Park for possible future plunking locations, so I went there for a look around. While I was there the phone rang and it was fellow OFFer ChezJFrey looking to do a little Steelheadin' in the clack, I said I was game, and so we met up and soon after that we were fishing in a couple of his favorite spots on the lower Clackamas. Now I have been hinting to Jeff for some time that I wanted to go fishing with him since I have followed some of his and his cohorts adventures here on the forum, and have been quite impressed with his abilities when it comes to fishing, so my ears were wide open...this was gonna be a great learning experience!!
Ok so let me back up a bit and say in a previous post he helped another fellow OFFer get his first steelie, but not before telling and showing him where to throw his jig by throwing HIS jig in the seam first and promptly saying that that was the perfect cast and that it was right where it should be to catch a fish...just then it was BOBBER DOWN and who gets the fish....ChezJfrey...the teacher. Ok So then there was some banter about Jedi Mind tricks and sith lord childs play yada yada yada...Ok so the details might be slightly off but you get the picture(you can look up the other thread easy enough)...fast forward to today...Chezjfrey...the teacher ...me the student arrive at the first hole he is calling ...I dunno the "money" hole we'll call it . Mike he says let me just show you this seam it goes from here to there and blah blah blah throws his line in and before it can drift five feet ...shaking my head...first cast Bobber down...and lands a nice little native
....If you ever get the chance to fish with Jeffrey, only let him point, and YOU toss the first line in ....He does possess some sort of Jedi vulcan mind meld with fish ability...but it only works on the first cast!!! :worthy:
But seriously, although the only other fish we caught was a handfull of smolts , I learned a lot and had a great time!! Thanks Jeff, I'm really looking forward to the next outing, great to meet you Buddy!!
About 10 minutes later the second bell rang, and it was on my rod. After a nice fight of about 4-5 minutes I had it right up to the shallows, when it turned and headed back downstream and the hook simply fell out, making me 0 for 3 on springer hookups...I absolutely LOVE the barbless hook rule. SMH
So trying not to be too bummed I gave it a couple more hours and decided to call it quits and head home. But I thought it might be cool to check out Clackamette Park for possible future plunking locations, so I went there for a look around. While I was there the phone rang and it was fellow OFFer ChezJFrey looking to do a little Steelheadin' in the clack, I said I was game, and so we met up and soon after that we were fishing in a couple of his favorite spots on the lower Clackamas. Now I have been hinting to Jeff for some time that I wanted to go fishing with him since I have followed some of his and his cohorts adventures here on the forum, and have been quite impressed with his abilities when it comes to fishing, so my ears were wide open...this was gonna be a great learning experience!!
Ok so let me back up a bit and say in a previous post he helped another fellow OFFer get his first steelie, but not before telling and showing him where to throw his jig by throwing HIS jig in the seam first and promptly saying that that was the perfect cast and that it was right where it should be to catch a fish...just then it was BOBBER DOWN and who gets the fish....ChezJfrey...the teacher. Ok So then there was some banter about Jedi Mind tricks and sith lord childs play yada yada yada...Ok so the details might be slightly off but you get the picture(you can look up the other thread easy enough)...fast forward to today...Chezjfrey...the teacher ...me the student arrive at the first hole he is calling ...I dunno the "money" hole we'll call it . Mike he says let me just show you this seam it goes from here to there and blah blah blah throws his line in and before it can drift five feet ...shaking my head...first cast Bobber down...and lands a nice little native
....If you ever get the chance to fish with Jeffrey, only let him point, and YOU toss the first line in ....He does possess some sort of Jedi vulcan mind meld with fish ability...but it only works on the first cast!!! :worthy:
But seriously, although the only other fish we caught was a handfull of smolts , I learned a lot and had a great time!! Thanks Jeff, I'm really looking forward to the next outing, great to meet you Buddy!!
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