2007 » May

Chris–here is a short story on the hog catch. I was in DC and planning to have a couple of meetings on the Thursday afternoon. My partner walks up and says that both of them are cancelled. Joking, I said that we ought to go fishing. He agrees of course. Rught then, another guy that I know pops up from behind the dividers on a cubicle and says “are you guys serious?” I looked at my buddy and we both say “hell yes.” Turns out that he has a 25 foot flats boat and lives on Chesapeak Bay.

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After talking to H2O about his friend Brents’ escapades the day prior, I decided to pull a solo run on some Steelhead. Even more than that though, I was excited to run a couple of my new 1/16th ounce, Matt Reid Marabou Jig Specials. I fished them on my eight weight, under a yarnie indicator. I dead drifted them with and without lead, picking up a fish each way. One fish taken on a pink scud-colored flashabou fly/jig, the other taken on an orange with dark red. The bigger fish came on the weighted hook-up. I saw several other dudes out today, but no other fish hooked that I or the ODFW dude knew of.

Thanks again for the awesome Ties, Matt. Here’s one that gobbled an orange…………

FIRST VIDEO

SECOND VIDEO-WATCH AS I DROP AND PICKUP THE CAMERA TO FIGHT FISH

THIRD VIDEO-UNDERWATER RELEASE

April has settled in, and that means chasing Spring Chinook. Two days in a row, B Dog and myself searched high and low. Fully Geared with anything you could imagine, we were able to successfully hook one Spring King ( B Dog) and hook and land a gorgeous Mint Bright Winter Hen. She ate a WHOLE threaded sand shrimp that I had flipped into some soft water along a seam with very light lead. She really inhaled that thing so we had to act quickly and with light hands. We slid her out of the net after B Dog’s killer scoop over a ledge as quickly as we could, snapped a quick photo, and, luckily, she promptly exited.