Begging for company! (now the REPORT!)

[trollin4trout]

YES I'M YELLING!

Ok- now I'm done. No fishing buddies for trout fishing tomorrow. Consider this an open seat offer or just to meet with other Ifishers, fishing any lake 3 hrs. from Portland. I'll drive there Fri. nite if neccessary to be there at daybreak Sat. morning.

Possibilities: Haag, Detroit, Fall Cr., Green Peter, Fall Cr, Billy Chinook, Ochocco?????? somebody name a lake they're going fishing? :jester: Jim

[trollin4trout]

I hope I bring back some pics that will make you wish you had responded to this post! :dance:

[troutski]

Where are you off to...? I have never fished up there, would like to, I hear good things about Detroit - but I don't even know where it is. Tight lines and fish on.

Chuck

[Thecrease]

I hope you kill em.

I have Wed and Thurs off every week and always looking for someone to hit green peter with me. I got a 17.5 crestliner.

Clayton

[troutski]

I hope you kill em.

I have Wed and Thurs off every week and always looking for someone to hit green peter with me. I got a 17.5 crestliner.

Clayton



Crestliner.....What a great craft, funny I also have Weds. and Thurs. off, oh wait and the rest of the week, sorry......I know this is the Trout forum, I lost myself. :grin: :grin:

[trollin4trout]

Troutski
Detroit is an hour east of Salem.

[trollin4trout]

After much himming and hawwing I decided at the last minute as I pulled out of the driveway Fri. nite to go back up to Swift.(hour and a half east of Woodland, WA).

Got to the ramp at dark (NOBODY else there!) and launched off into the dark water. I bought a lighted Qwikfish that I wanted to try before I hit the hay. Trolled around for about 2hrs. with it at 30ft. on the downrigger. One arrogant 12inch trout actually hit that 4inch qwikfish!
Had two other hits and misses- that was it. Anchored next to shore out of the wind and slept on the floor of the boat-all was quiet except for the lapping of the waves from the slight breeze coming up the lake.

At daybreak I realized 2 things. One I had the propane, the burner, the thermos, the cup, the ground coffe, the water, BUT where's the COFFEE POT you moron!!???? :whazzup: And two - I had better get busy because I ran my mouth off about some pictures and now I was wondering how dumb that might have been :grin:

Well first thing I saw was this:
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/swiftsunrise.jpg

OK- so will this be a scenery photo show?
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/autumn.jpg

Will I only have the mandatory- I saw this and I saw that?
(i.e.- loser can't catch a fish? :help:)

What's this?- is it a freshwater starfish?.....or a laketopus?
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/laktopus2.jpg
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

OR just some peas in a pod type trout shots?
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/trout12.jpg
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/swifttrout1.jpg

At least they were fish pics!!! :yay:

I trolled from the ramp all the way to the dam, zig-zagging back and forth across the lake. I had never seen all of the lake before- flew to the other end and back once but never explored the path between. Caught fish here and there- sometimes went an hour with nothing biting. Then would hit a school of fish apparently and catch 3 or four in five minutes. Five hours later :sleep: and finally near the dam(only caught 20 fish to this point), I dropped the downriggeerr to 40ft because I saw a bunch of fish on the screen around that depth. When I turned my back to adjust the motor speed up a tad, my reel began to scream at me "pay attention!" :tongue:
By the time I grabbed my rod out of the holder the fish was jumping behind the boat- ahhhhh- maybe this could be the photo-op I've been looking for? Despite that jinxing, bad karma type thought- it came to the net! :dance:
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/18cutt1.jpg
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/18cutt2.jpg
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/18cutt3.jpg

18 inch cutthroat saves the day! :yay: :yay: :dance:

Here's the chunks of metal that were the true heros out there- let's give'm a nice round of applause :clap: :clap: :clap:
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/lures11.jpg

Ended up with a total of 37 trout (all released), likely could've doubled that if I had stayed closer to the ramp where I knew the fish were but then.........this might have been a different sounding story :jester:

The day ended kinda like it started......
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/swiftsunset.jpg

Hope you'll had as great a day on the water as I did. :smile:

[Thecrease]

Nice report. I like all the pics.

Clayton

[wind troller]

Awesome post, pictures, and most of all the fish. Great job on the lake. Too bad about the coffee. :smile:
:clap: :clap: :clap:

[joemomma]

T4t, That was one great report, dang nice cutt, 5 more inches and it would have been bigger than my kids steelhead he caught this morning!

[Super Fluke]

Nice pics.

[lentz]

Sounds like a very nice day on the water. Did you have any company or was it just you.

[Mokai]

Nice report..Looks like a slam fest..

[troutski]

Jim, nice report and some beautiful Trout. Sorry about the coffee pot, at least you remembered the camera....nice work with the down rigger. I am still trying to get up to speed with mine. Don't you just love Cutthroats, the spots - amazing fish. Glad you had a good time, and your karma must not have been that bad ...We still on for the 14th at Fall Creek ? Talk to you later.

Chuck

[trollin4trout]

Lentz- all by myself. Sounds like a song......

At one point I was sleepy so I got to the middle of the lake with a slight breeze blowing uplake and I put on a flatfish down 40ft. that would work at a slow speed.
I turned off the motor and wind drifted. Then I set the depth alarm on the F.F. to 45 ft. and laid down and took a nap! A while later I woke with a start to beep beep beep beep! Wind eventually blew me to shore. No fish though.

Troutski- I just had a sinking feeling thought that I had previously forgot about. I think wife has me going to Baker City this weekend :whazzup: I will check with her when I get home from work today and will let you know tonight at the latest. aaarrrghh! Jim

[troutski]

Jim, No problem of the date, we can make it another time. The fish don't care what day we go. Gotta take care of those honey-does. Take care and talk to you later.

Chuck