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Steelheadgreen
01-16-2003, 07:51 PM
Sorry about this Jim,

I have to tell the story. I saw a absolutely georgeous steelhead today. You know the ones dark green back, bright silver sides. I would say it weighed around 8-10lbs. We were fishing just below the dog hole when it happened. Drift fishing, first cast towards shore about 15 yards from the boat I saw that unmistakeable tug on the end of my buddies pole. It took a few seconds but he came back on it and wham-O fish on. It shot upstream and we were both thinking right-on. It jumped right beside the boat. Nice fish!!! Anyway to make a long story short it turns out it was sagged in the belly. After getting it to the boat we finally saw that it was a native. We were both relieved when the hook popped out. I thought it strange for him to snag one when drift fishing with a corkie. That thinking all changed on his next cast. Same spot Wham-O fish on. Only this time it turned out to be about a four pound chub snagged in the back of the head. Pretty (Ugly) golden color. Over all it was a slow day on the clack we did not even hear of another fish caught so I guess it was OK for us at least we had a little action. Plus it was great giving old snagger Jim a hard time the rest of the day. Did anyone else catch fish today on the Clack if you did I hope it wasn't snagged or native????

Steelheadgreen out....

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Grain of Salt
01-16-2003, 10:47 PM
boy this really frosts me, nothing worse then a snagger...what a slob, i cant believe you even took the guy, he must have known exactly where those fish were laying and just started jerking his rod to snag them, no way they would have ever bit those eggs...by the way, how many did you catch?

thanks for the trip