Jeffhead
04-27-2001, 09:02 AM
Fished the St. Helens area on Thursday with my Dad and the Gizmo Man (yes Jen He is still alive and well). Out on the water aboout 8:00 AM, overcast and a breeze blowing in from the north. Went to get in one of the hog lines along Sand Island, but with the wind and the current wasn't running very hard after the change we trolled for about an hour or so. Wanted to get in the first line by the wing wall but could see that with the wind they were having all kinds of trouble so we ended up in about the 3rd line back. Good group of guys around us and the overcast cleared up, the wind died down and it turned in to just a beautiful day. Had one takedown about an hour or so after we anchored up that didn't stick on Dad's rod and Giz had one on for about 15 seconds later in the day. The boat outside of us had picked up a nate trolling in the channel earlier in the morning and while he was parked next to us had a takedown, a fish on that broke him off and took his plug and one nate that was released.
About 4:00 PM we decided to start cleaning up and getting ready to pick up for the day, this is when the fun begins, Dad decides he wants to use the "manual bailer" before we go and I'm picking stuff up when Giz yells out FISH ON, I look back and Dad's rod is buried. Giz grabs the rod and sets the hook and I grab my rod and bring it in, take Dad's rod from Giz and look back at Pop's, He's still "filling the bucket", so I'm waiting for Giz to bring in his rod when I realize He's also "filling the bucket" . images/icons/shocked.gif By now the guys in the boats next to us are in histerics as they figure out that Dad and Giz have thier "rods in thier hand" and the chinese fire drill alarm is sounding. images/icons/blush.gif They finally get things in the "stowed" position and I hand off the rod to Dad (this has taken a couple of minutes by now and the fish is getting very impatient) and we get loose of the anchor. Five minutes or so and a couple of nice aerial leaps by the fish and we slide it into the net next to the boat. To bad it had to many fins so we unpinned it, lowered the net a little and away it swam. We have a new club though, the Double "D" Club that Dad is the president and Giz is the Vice-President of!!!! Just goes to show ya though if ya want to get hooked up, just get something in your hand (sandwich, chips, whatever.....).
Great day on the water, but overall the fishing was pretty slow. Did not see anyone else cuttin' loose to chase fish.
Godd luck and tight lines, Jeff images/icons/grin.gif images/icons/grin.gif
About 4:00 PM we decided to start cleaning up and getting ready to pick up for the day, this is when the fun begins, Dad decides he wants to use the "manual bailer" before we go and I'm picking stuff up when Giz yells out FISH ON, I look back and Dad's rod is buried. Giz grabs the rod and sets the hook and I grab my rod and bring it in, take Dad's rod from Giz and look back at Pop's, He's still "filling the bucket", so I'm waiting for Giz to bring in his rod when I realize He's also "filling the bucket" . images/icons/shocked.gif By now the guys in the boats next to us are in histerics as they figure out that Dad and Giz have thier "rods in thier hand" and the chinese fire drill alarm is sounding. images/icons/blush.gif They finally get things in the "stowed" position and I hand off the rod to Dad (this has taken a couple of minutes by now and the fish is getting very impatient) and we get loose of the anchor. Five minutes or so and a couple of nice aerial leaps by the fish and we slide it into the net next to the boat. To bad it had to many fins so we unpinned it, lowered the net a little and away it swam. We have a new club though, the Double "D" Club that Dad is the president and Giz is the Vice-President of!!!! Just goes to show ya though if ya want to get hooked up, just get something in your hand (sandwich, chips, whatever.....).
Great day on the water, but overall the fishing was pretty slow. Did not see anyone else cuttin' loose to chase fish.
Godd luck and tight lines, Jeff images/icons/grin.gif images/icons/grin.gif