rv10pilot
09-29-2003, 10:59 AM
My dad came down this weekend for a little fishing trip. I had been looking all over for a place to go to find something for him to catch and I finally decided to fish around St Helens.
I staked out my fishing hole the weekend before and I decided I was going to be the first one there. I put in shortly after 6am and went up river. Anchored and proceeded to wait for the tide to change and something to happen. I figured I wasn't going to mess around and put on some of Maries Sticky sand shrimp scent and waited. Not too long afterward, we were just standing around talking and I saw the pole take a dive. Now my dad says I just about knocked him out of the boat to get to the pole, but I don't beleive him. :rolleyes:
I knew it had some weight to it, I even thought for a moment that I must have snagged a sturgeon or something. It was just hanging on the bottom. I pulled it up to the surface a got my first look at and I just about croaked. It was an absolute monster!!! I think it said the same thing when it saw me, cause it headed straight back down. We fought for 25 min, everytime it came up I thought for sure it was done, then back down it would go. I just kept at it and finally it was done. My dad and his buddy attempted to put it in the net and it wouldn't even fit. We were yelling at each other because it had managed to get somewhat hooked up on the swim platform and were afraid we were about to lose it. Thanks goodness it was tired too and calmly went into the net, I lifted one end of the net up and they lifted the other.
http://www.ifish.net/uploads/383910271.jpg
It was 42" 38lb buck. My biggest fish ever and my first one on my tag. We all had a great time.
RV10pilot
[ 09-29-2003, 11:04 AM: Message edited by: Pete ]
I staked out my fishing hole the weekend before and I decided I was going to be the first one there. I put in shortly after 6am and went up river. Anchored and proceeded to wait for the tide to change and something to happen. I figured I wasn't going to mess around and put on some of Maries Sticky sand shrimp scent and waited. Not too long afterward, we were just standing around talking and I saw the pole take a dive. Now my dad says I just about knocked him out of the boat to get to the pole, but I don't beleive him. :rolleyes:
I knew it had some weight to it, I even thought for a moment that I must have snagged a sturgeon or something. It was just hanging on the bottom. I pulled it up to the surface a got my first look at and I just about croaked. It was an absolute monster!!! I think it said the same thing when it saw me, cause it headed straight back down. We fought for 25 min, everytime it came up I thought for sure it was done, then back down it would go. I just kept at it and finally it was done. My dad and his buddy attempted to put it in the net and it wouldn't even fit. We were yelling at each other because it had managed to get somewhat hooked up on the swim platform and were afraid we were about to lose it. Thanks goodness it was tired too and calmly went into the net, I lifted one end of the net up and they lifted the other.
http://www.ifish.net/uploads/383910271.jpg
It was 42" 38lb buck. My biggest fish ever and my first one on my tag. We all had a great time.
RV10pilot
[ 09-29-2003, 11:04 AM: Message edited by: Pete ]