Chris Nordling
09-30-2001, 10:41 PM
I thought I would share a recent fish tail....
It was a Friday night just before dark, and a friend and I were fishing the last bit of light before we were to set out on a drift the next day. Well, my buddy should have stayed home. All of last year he had nothing but bad lusk on this river, no fish and just about 200 bucks in gear and at least that in gas. The river owed him. Three trips this year, more gas , more gear no fish. Untill.... he finally hooks one, and it's BIG. After spooling out his line, and battling the dude across the way who refused to 'free spool' his line, he broke his lamiglass spining rod images/icons/blush.gif and lost the fish.
Now that first fish is going to be priceless, and since he sometimes catches fish elsewhere he feels that this river holds no fish for him. If he only knew what was to happen next. Next cast, Fish On! He says " it feels like a fish, I dunno, better grab the net".
Well, his first fish has no head (cleaned for apparent radio wire), and no tail (who knows, looks like scale samples) so needless to say it's already DEAD ON ARRIVAL! images/icons/grin.gif images/icons/shocked.gif . No net needed, and we safely returned "it" back to the water to fertilize away, apparently what it was dong before it was rudely hooked square in the beak! It was a truly amazing fish, and hooked perfectly was just the added touch to our already roaring laugh!
The next day he ended up with a chinook jack, and silver jack, so finally this river coughed up a small meal for a big price. It was a slow day everywhere that day so he was proud, and his confidence renewed and a story to boot as well.
And you thought you had no luck.....
Tight lines,
Chris images/icons/cool.gif
~ Team U.S.A. ~
It was a Friday night just before dark, and a friend and I were fishing the last bit of light before we were to set out on a drift the next day. Well, my buddy should have stayed home. All of last year he had nothing but bad lusk on this river, no fish and just about 200 bucks in gear and at least that in gas. The river owed him. Three trips this year, more gas , more gear no fish. Untill.... he finally hooks one, and it's BIG. After spooling out his line, and battling the dude across the way who refused to 'free spool' his line, he broke his lamiglass spining rod images/icons/blush.gif and lost the fish.
Now that first fish is going to be priceless, and since he sometimes catches fish elsewhere he feels that this river holds no fish for him. If he only knew what was to happen next. Next cast, Fish On! He says " it feels like a fish, I dunno, better grab the net".
Well, his first fish has no head (cleaned for apparent radio wire), and no tail (who knows, looks like scale samples) so needless to say it's already DEAD ON ARRIVAL! images/icons/grin.gif images/icons/shocked.gif . No net needed, and we safely returned "it" back to the water to fertilize away, apparently what it was dong before it was rudely hooked square in the beak! It was a truly amazing fish, and hooked perfectly was just the added touch to our already roaring laugh!
The next day he ended up with a chinook jack, and silver jack, so finally this river coughed up a small meal for a big price. It was a slow day everywhere that day so he was proud, and his confidence renewed and a story to boot as well.
And you thought you had no luck.....
Tight lines,
Chris images/icons/cool.gif
~ Team U.S.A. ~