H2o Reigns Supreme
February 29th, 2008
Courtesy Josh Thomas
Taken on the pink…look close and you can see the line to the worm…….
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2008 » February
East Fork Lewis River a Possibility
February 29th, 2008
I’ve got a call into a guy that has some inside scoop on the East Fork of the Lewis.
Meskel, I realize you had expressed non interest in a WA river, but your day license would only be 16 bones……I might have to make this run…but would love you to be there. Murr? DC?
Daily discharge statistics, in cfs, for Feb 29 based on 19 years of record
Min 20th% Recent Median Mean 80th% Max(1972)
390 530. 905 1210 1360 2300 4840
As of Now - It’s Dodge
February 28th, 2008
Looks like we’ll be running around up at Dodge. FYI.
Anyone else in?
Then Again, Maybe No Hood Afterall ??
February 28th, 2008
Looks quite grim as Saturday will be a noticeable rise…..Dusty is going to check with his buddy up there for advice.
12:00pm update:
As you can see, the river’s forecast has changed quite a bit. Never-the-less, it looks like Meskel and I will be doing upper Sandy. H2o, any suggestions? We’re considering floating Doge down in our Achilles 13.5 ‘ raft. Anyone else getting out?
Meskel, Sal & I Headed Here Saturday
February 28th, 2008
Anyone else wanna roll?
This is a cool picture of the river in 1920…..
hellcat
Blank diddly blank da blank
February 25th, 2008
12 hours on the Clack yesterday with Lobe and Nook. Fished VERY hard. Fished every method we had the means to. Divers, Plugs, Flies (tons of Nook’s specials), Plastics, Yarn Balls…fook, you name it!
At least we can say we left it all on the court.
h3llcat
1 Report in….
February 23rd, 2008By h3llcat
Sal, his buddy Ken and myself did Oxbow to Lewis & Clark. No fish. Heard of only one. Dabney to L & C is totally shot as far as traditional Steelhead fishing. Everything is filled in.
I guess the guides that do well in that stretch ’side drift’ or ‘boondoggle’ and do pretty well, according to Dusty. I don’t see how those fish would be doing anything but busting upstream to get out of all the sand suspended in the water.
Few sleds down there though. Not many boats today. Cops on the water in their drift boat…doing a little fishing as well. They were super nice and friendly. That’s right, I said it. Ping me privately for the story.
Professor aka H3llcat aka Fish Tat will be on a different river tomorrow, that’s for sure.
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Trips This Weekend….
February 21st, 2008
Update on Weekend Trips…….Ghostface to the coast!
I’ve just inked up Richey, Lobey and Myself for Sunday. We’re going to float.
We’re going to try to do this again:
H3llcat January 07 on Jig
Saturday afternoon a possible for a bank strut…
Here’s who’s in for the SUNDAY float so far….any other boats coming along? Meskel? DC? Dust?
h3llcat
Nookslayer aka Richey
B Dazzle it’s B Dizzle!
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What To Do Under a Bob
February 18th, 2008
Article brought to you by H3LLCAT
**Heller’s are 5 for 7 in the last month so far on Bobs…who’s yer daddie**
With the recent flurry of fish being taken on unlikely crud under a bobber (I’m as jazzed as goofy pink worms as can be), I’m curious what else a Steelhead will bite. I mean, seriously, should we try jigs n’ pigs tipped with a pork rind? Or how about a Carolina Rig with a plastic Craw?
It is highly probable that there are many other artificial baits that, when drifted under a bobber, become enticing for Steelhead to violently strike against. For example, I have fished along side Sal Monid when he has drowned a make shift Colorado Spinner wedding ring imposter on many occasions. I have flipped him an uncountable amount of brown stinky substance about his choice to fish that method, as well.
Well, after much heckling, and ultimately, getting heckled upon myself, Sal Monid has finally convinced me to begin making my very own goofy-ars spinner under a bobber rig.
As if watching him hook five fish on the White Salmon five years ago wasn’t enough: It took several more years of fish being taken on this method for me to finally break down and admit IT IS DEADLY.
So deadly in fact, that Sal was able to land a fish that pushed the 20# mark yesterday, on said riggin. Sal, I’m going to clue in a few of our compadres on why I think you do so well on that contraption (because it is a contraption):
1) The spinner shaft is literally your leader, with your Colorado blade on the line itself….this allows the Colorado spinner to flutter and wiggle, versus just spinning.
2) By only attaching weights on the leader (split shot) the spinner is able to bounce off of rocks and obstacles without dragging too much. This creates the natural “hop………..hop……….hop……….” type of bottom contact that you look for when Steelheading.
3) And finally, using a dink or cylindrical bobber allows you to swing the spinner on the end of your casts (like a fly being quartered) without the bobber causing a wake (like my natural round corks do).
Try one yourself, it could save your day or even your season….good fishin’
H3LLCAT
Natives on the Sandy
February 17th, 2008
Brought to you by Sal Monid
Dusty and I did a late start on Sunday to float the lower Sandy. It was a bad sign when Dusty called the shuttle folks and found out they were totally booked for the day. We did not leave the launch til around 10 and there were still boats putting in.
The river level looked good and the water was a tad bit too clear. We worked the water hard plugging and fishing down riggers. Several times we had to tie up and let the other guys go through runs we wanted to work. The wind was blowing pretty good on many stretches and that made the plugging a tough go.
Nobody was doing much and by early afternoon most of the lightweights floated on through for an early take out. We kept banging away. About 2/3 of the way down, I asked Dusty to pull over and try a run that was classinc steelhead water. Hard to believe since nearly all the others went bombing right through it. We pulled over and worked off the bank with bobbers. I had the spinner going under a dink float.
About the 5th cast the bobber took a dive and my line went singing out for about 50-60 yards. I was thumbing it the whole time. I saw the flash of a big guy and immediately started walking downstream to retrieve some of the line.
About 15 minutes late we netted a truly big native. It was a good 17 pounds and a gorgeous fish. When we got ready for photos, we found the camera out of commission. We spent lots of time admiring the fish and then let it blast off back into the current.
It was a fine way to finish off a gorgeous day on the river. Next time we will have a backup camera.
Sal