Soundgarden is my new favorite band!

[ChezJfrey]

Hit the same spot this morning with Modest_Man.

Since it was still kinda dark, I started with a glow corkie and yarn. Drifted about 8 times through a hole, nothing happening and lost my lead. It was now a little light out, figured I'd ditch the drifting and tie on the trusty spoon. First cast with a spoon, in the same hole...bump, yank, fish on!

Another summer:



If metalfisher is around...I may steal your name I may never go back to anything other than the bent metal!

At one point, saw a steelhead freak out and jump all over the place down by Modest_Man, thought he had a fish on, but apparently just a disturbed/spooked fish. We saw quite a few fish around. I had to leave for work and he continued on.

Oh, and if you read this Modest_Man, very nice to meet you and thanks for retrieving my knife...thought I had sheathed it, but apparently not.

 

[jabs67]

Awesome steel!!! Thanks for sharing.

 

[eugene1]

Great looking chromer Chez,

ps. Soundgarden is good, but what does it have to do with steel?

 

[Throbbit _Shane]

Nice one!

Its good to see some one knocking them dead with a spoon. You gotta love the feeling of a steelhead hitting a spoon!

 

[ChezJfrey]

Great looking chromer Chez,

ps. Soundgarden is good, but what does it have to do with steel?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0_zzCLLRvE

Spoonman!

All but a couple of my 15 hooked steelhead this year have been on spoons, the ones that haven't were on spinners. I can't seem to get the hang of anything but the chunks of metal.

 

[ChezJfrey]

Nice one!

Its good to see some one knocking them dead with a spoon. You gotta love the feeling of a steelhead hitting a spoon!

It's funny you mention this 'feeling of hitting the spoon'. I've not had a one give the jarring hits that people say are typical of the spoon. Every single one has either been a light tap I barely feel, or in some cases, I felt just a sort of a 'deadening' of the action, or nothing at all where the spoon just stopped drifting. I've learned to just react when something seems 'weird' and while often it's nothing, in a number of cases I've ended up with a fish on the other end!

That is one of the key things that finally got me into the steelhead this year; for me so far, they've been very stealthy in their takes and I've learned to pick up on it.

 

[eugene1]

OK, I guess I forgot spoonman!

Nice

 

[ChezJfrey]

Hehehe, another funny tidbit...

Right after Modest_Man helped me bank this one I was saying, "I'm tellin' ya man, these spoons are the way to go! That's how I get 'em all!" I pulled out one identical to the one I had rigged up and laid it near him on a rock." He was a bit reluctant, never picked it up, and eventually, when I noticed it was still on the rock later on, picked it back up." It was as if I was OFFering something illicit. LOL

I totally get it though...stick with what you're comfortable with. I do the same and that's probably why I started getting fish...because I'm totally comfortable and familiar with how spoons fish after so many hours of tossing them.

 

[Modest_Man]

Ha, yeah I was going to give the spoon a try...eventually.

I found your knife back in the rocks when you were upstream, so I just stuck it near the fish pretty obviously so you wouldn't miss it. I hiked upstream pretty far, had to scale down a cliff wall with a rope which I couldn't then get back up and had to spend 30-40 minutes climbing trees and brush to get up to the road to swing back around. I saw lots of the fish up above where you and I were fishing, there is some nice water up there that's pretty easily accessible.

I got one native winter buck on my way out. After the sun hit the water the fish were on the move and holding in the fast, shallow water. I saw several pods of 5-6 fish go shooting up, but none of them wanted anything to do with what I had to offer. Most just ignored the bobber and jig, while the spinner was spooking them. Finally I I got one to go after one of my spinners, then called it a day. Only aggressive fish I found out of oh, 60 or so that I saw (no joke).

I spent 20 minutes trying all sorts of things with this pod of 6 fish, even bumped one of them to no avail. I also saw the biggest buck steelhead of my life. It was about twice the size of any of the other fish I saw today. Too bad I didn't get a photo. Probably 18+ pounds.

Got him in the fast shallow water below where you hooked the hen, then he took me downstream to that first spot I tried.

Photo while fighting the fish.


Release

Saw lots and lots of fish doing this-Just holding in VERY shallow water. There were three here but I only got a shot of one, who is leaving, because the camera was on video and I messed it up.


Thanks for having me.