5-Cents
07-12-2003, 03:46 PM
Well I have a tale with sordid beginning and somewhat happy ending. This story has been pre-edited to protect the innocent and before anyone asks you can keep finned fish in this particular neck of the woods!
Chris and I decided last week that we would take an early trip to the Rogue Bay for some silver hogs. Somewhere along the way he decided he was tired with me as a bunkmate :shrug: and asked along his friend Blythe. No problem since his dad Orein (herein referred to as “Huh”) was making the drive from Freemont, CA to meet us so I would have someone to split the cost of a room with. Now that you know the cast we need to get started with the story.
We started down Wednesday late afternoon to Gold Beach. Around Eugene we were talking about fish pictures and how to compose a proper pic when I remembered I forgot my camera. No biggie, Chris you brought yours right? Wrong he forgot it in his car! We end up calling “Huh” and thank goodness he remembered his! Great, we wouldn’t want to start this trip out jinxed or something!
We decided to pull off in Sutherlin for some home cooking (just go with me here Greenmachine). We parked the truck with the rods and bags in the back in plain view and went in and ordered. After about 15.2 seconds we noticed a slime ball walking SLOWLY by my truck then he ever so slowly disappeared along the side! :shocked: Hmmmmm wonder what’s going on did he drop a penny or something or maybe some Ifisher paid this guy off to find my secret stash of Carrot Milk? I thought it was a good idea at this point to set the alarm off on my truck. Just as it went off this dirtbag pops up like the preverbal weasel in the song “Pop Goes the Dirtbag”, errr I mean weasel and grabs my duffel bag! :mad: :mad: At this point Chris and I do our best impression of the Keystone Cops running into each other, an old couple and then finally out the door. Amazingly the dirtbag jacker is making a slow getaway but he finally made it to his truck and took off with my bag! There was not really anything in there but my lucky fishing clothes! Hahaha you missed the Carrot Milk scumbag! So if you see a skinny dirtbag wearing some fleece that is at least 5X too big, driving a beat up blue Toyota king-cab truck please send me an email letting me know where you saw him! graemlins/berry.gif
After a re-supply stop at JC Penny for some clothes we are off again. We get into the hills outside of Roseburg admiring the scenery and talking about the dirtbag when all of a sudden Yogi Bear decides to run out in front of us. I proceeded to swerve out of the way and miss him and keep us from jackknifing. At this point Yogi decides just to run along side my truck and boat as he laughed at the screaming occupants! He must have smelled that Carrot Milk but we finally shook him off and got to Gold Beach without any more incidents.
Now finally to the fishing part of this tale. Thursday we get out on the water and on our first pass my rod buries! All right fish on! He smacked one of my spinners dipped in Carrot Milk.
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31 lbs of chrome in the boat thank you very much! These fish are extrememly fresh and cut just like a Springer! Mmmmmm looks like great table fare!
Well we trolled and trolled and trolled the rest of the day with one more takedown that came up empty.
Friday we get in the water and troll and troll and troll. The only fish we see caught is by TH and the other 100 boats have nothing to show. It’s tough to keep your chin up after 5 hours of nothing but skunk but finally Blythe’s rod takes a major dip! This fish came right at the boat and kind of hung there for us to look at! OMG it’s a pig! XTC is giving me the shutup sign because he does not want Blythe to freak! We finally get this 37 lb piggy into the boat! I guess these Rogue fish like carrot milk.
http://www.ifish.net/uploads/495114192.jpg
Shortly there after there was a nice bite right in the jaws of the bay and we crackered off 3 more fish, two of which were on. “Huh” just plain lost one that was on for about 30 seconds and I had one that bent my Owner Hook on the set! Oh well sometime the fish win I guess!
Over all it was a great time and we got two nice fish. The fish checker at the ramp said he only checked 8 fish for 48 boats so we felt fortunate to have had 4 chances. Thanks TH for all your help via email. Chris and I would love to trade some trips with you just let us know when and where! If you go watch out for the Jackers and Bears. If you have never been down there this is small water with a lot of boats, it makes Buoy 10 look easy. I bet you play bumper-boats quite a bit when the fish are really in down there.
Hang in there “Huh” you will get a salmon sooner or later!
http://www.ifish.net/uploads/225514192.jpg
Chris and I decided last week that we would take an early trip to the Rogue Bay for some silver hogs. Somewhere along the way he decided he was tired with me as a bunkmate :shrug: and asked along his friend Blythe. No problem since his dad Orein (herein referred to as “Huh”) was making the drive from Freemont, CA to meet us so I would have someone to split the cost of a room with. Now that you know the cast we need to get started with the story.
We started down Wednesday late afternoon to Gold Beach. Around Eugene we were talking about fish pictures and how to compose a proper pic when I remembered I forgot my camera. No biggie, Chris you brought yours right? Wrong he forgot it in his car! We end up calling “Huh” and thank goodness he remembered his! Great, we wouldn’t want to start this trip out jinxed or something!
We decided to pull off in Sutherlin for some home cooking (just go with me here Greenmachine). We parked the truck with the rods and bags in the back in plain view and went in and ordered. After about 15.2 seconds we noticed a slime ball walking SLOWLY by my truck then he ever so slowly disappeared along the side! :shocked: Hmmmmm wonder what’s going on did he drop a penny or something or maybe some Ifisher paid this guy off to find my secret stash of Carrot Milk? I thought it was a good idea at this point to set the alarm off on my truck. Just as it went off this dirtbag pops up like the preverbal weasel in the song “Pop Goes the Dirtbag”, errr I mean weasel and grabs my duffel bag! :mad: :mad: At this point Chris and I do our best impression of the Keystone Cops running into each other, an old couple and then finally out the door. Amazingly the dirtbag jacker is making a slow getaway but he finally made it to his truck and took off with my bag! There was not really anything in there but my lucky fishing clothes! Hahaha you missed the Carrot Milk scumbag! So if you see a skinny dirtbag wearing some fleece that is at least 5X too big, driving a beat up blue Toyota king-cab truck please send me an email letting me know where you saw him! graemlins/berry.gif
After a re-supply stop at JC Penny for some clothes we are off again. We get into the hills outside of Roseburg admiring the scenery and talking about the dirtbag when all of a sudden Yogi Bear decides to run out in front of us. I proceeded to swerve out of the way and miss him and keep us from jackknifing. At this point Yogi decides just to run along side my truck and boat as he laughed at the screaming occupants! He must have smelled that Carrot Milk but we finally shook him off and got to Gold Beach without any more incidents.
Now finally to the fishing part of this tale. Thursday we get out on the water and on our first pass my rod buries! All right fish on! He smacked one of my spinners dipped in Carrot Milk.
http://www.ifish.net/uploads/095214192.jpg
31 lbs of chrome in the boat thank you very much! These fish are extrememly fresh and cut just like a Springer! Mmmmmm looks like great table fare!
Well we trolled and trolled and trolled the rest of the day with one more takedown that came up empty.
Friday we get in the water and troll and troll and troll. The only fish we see caught is by TH and the other 100 boats have nothing to show. It’s tough to keep your chin up after 5 hours of nothing but skunk but finally Blythe’s rod takes a major dip! This fish came right at the boat and kind of hung there for us to look at! OMG it’s a pig! XTC is giving me the shutup sign because he does not want Blythe to freak! We finally get this 37 lb piggy into the boat! I guess these Rogue fish like carrot milk.
http://www.ifish.net/uploads/495114192.jpg
Shortly there after there was a nice bite right in the jaws of the bay and we crackered off 3 more fish, two of which were on. “Huh” just plain lost one that was on for about 30 seconds and I had one that bent my Owner Hook on the set! Oh well sometime the fish win I guess!
Over all it was a great time and we got two nice fish. The fish checker at the ramp said he only checked 8 fish for 48 boats so we felt fortunate to have had 4 chances. Thanks TH for all your help via email. Chris and I would love to trade some trips with you just let us know when and where! If you go watch out for the Jackers and Bears. If you have never been down there this is small water with a lot of boats, it makes Buoy 10 look easy. I bet you play bumper-boats quite a bit when the fish are really in down there.
Hang in there “Huh” you will get a salmon sooner or later!
http://www.ifish.net/uploads/225514192.jpg