2007 » April

JOHN JORGENSON WITH HIS SON, HUNTER, ON OUR B-DAY GILBY TRIP

I had the pleasure of taking John and his son Sturgeon fishing in celebration of Hunter’s fifth

B Day! After two unsuccessful trips out with both Pablo and B Dog Lobey, we were happily

rewarded with three fish on this outing. Hunter did a fantastic job reeling in those hogs (don’t worry, Arpil, we helped out) and congrats to John who did a helluva job throwing B Dog Lobey’s

Bank Stick! Next trip out for John…….Spring Chinook, per his request. Good thinking John!

Four fish hooked in the last week for B Dog Lobey and myself.  Two Springers, 1 Summer and 1 Winter.  Two of the fish were taken on small ‘glo bug’ or yarnie-type rigs, both tied with a long leader for enticing new Summers with a ’swung’ presentation.  The other two were hooked on the Hellcat deadly pink worm rig, fished fixed, under a bobber.  I managed to wrile up one Springer and one Steelhead after everything else, no matter how small or what color, seemed to fail.  Oh, and I forgot to mention, an honorable mention, in fact, for our friend the Suckerfish. Don’t ask.  Just watch the video.  Language not appropriate for children under twelve.  Or whatever.

Here is an update on a recent trip in search of steelhead.  A buddy from work and me headed out on Friday for a bit of fishing.  Got to the site and found we were not the only ones interested in fishing instead of working.  Wadered up and headed to the river.  As luck would have it, the area I wanted to fish was open and not a sould to be seen in 200 yards up or down stream.  My buddy was hitting it with a fly and I started with a bobber and jig trailing a glow bug.  We fished two holes pretty well and I figured I needed a basic change.  This was prompted by a nice steelhead leaping out of the water in front of me basically saying he was not impressed with my effort. The water had about 5 feet of visibility so I put on a very small corkie and a Luhr Jensen egg with flourocarbon leader.  It didn’t take long till I hooked a fish only to feel it catch me behind a boulder.  After some flailing the line cleared and the fish took off.  It was a nice, chrome fish I estimate at about 7-8 lbs.  After a few minutes fighting the fish, it decided it wanted to check out the hole downstream and headed for the riffle separating us. Read the rest of this entry »