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Stew
10-24-2003, 05:53 PM
Fished with my good friend Mark Anderson of First Cast Jigs today on the Wilson. We went 3-6 on fall chinook with Mark getting one of the brightest up river fall fish I've ever seen.
While yesterday eggs seemed to be the ticket with me going 1-3 with SteelieSteve :smile:
Today it was sandshrimp and Marks First Cast Jigs.
I started off by losing a nice fish on a sandshrimp with Maries sticky scent. Mark then lost a nice chromer on one of his newest jigs and then landed a nice buck on the same jig! I had a few drive bys but nothing else for awhile. Just as we were about to leave for a lower river spot Mark hooked into a beautiful, chrome bright hen of about 18-20 (pictures to follow). I continued to toss eggs in futility and again we came to the point where we were about to move on as Mark had already punched his two fish and was done fishing. He asked me to try out the same setup he had gotten his two fish on his rod "Can you do me a favor and try this?" he asked.
Third cast with Marks new jig and it was bobber down and fish on :dance: I ended up landing another nice hen in the twenties. A nice fish too but not as bright as Marks hen :shocked:
Anyway that was 5 fish on for Marks jigs, he lost two others earlier. I hooked one on sandshrimp :depressed: and one on Mark new salmon jig :grin:
Great day with my good buddy :dance: I almost slept in and was glad I didn't

[ 10-24-2003, 06:43 PM: Message edited by: Stew ]
First Bite
10-24-2003, 11:25 PM
A couple weeks ago I was messing around with some marabou and thought I'd tie up some HUGE jigs for Fall Chinook. I knew Chinook like bright colors so I combined four different shades of marabou from Cerise to Shrimp and finished it off with a matching Krystal Flash. This is the end result:


http://www.firstcastjigs.com/store/images/SAMarabou2.jpg


This color pattern really proved itself again today. Half the fish were caught with just a bare jig and the others had a shrimp tail with Marie's Shrimp/Anise scent.

Here is a picture of a nice hen that couldn't resist the jig/shrimp combo:


http://www.firstcastjigs.com/store/images/Marabouhen.jpg

Shane "did me a favor" and caught this one:


http://www.firstcastjigs.com/store/images/Shanemarabou.jpg

Good times :cool:

Mark
crabbait
10-24-2003, 11:49 PM
What a good looking jig!

By the way, that is probably the best picture of Shane I have seen. He looks down right lovable, if you are his momma, that is!
Jet Drifter
10-25-2003, 12:00 AM
:dance: Beautiful fish :bowdown:
graemlins/applause.gif Great report, thank you :cheers:
Stew
10-25-2003, 01:18 AM
Hey Mark I really like these first time out R&D trips with your jigs :grin:
A couple of winters ago Mark's beautiful wife Cindy graemlins/hearton.gif tied a new prototype jig and Mark gave me one for a winter steelhead trip we were going on. Sure enough "Cindy's Surrpise" got me a nice steelhead.
Nanook
10-25-2003, 01:25 AM
I agree Crabbait. That should be in a frame Shane. :smile:
Captain and Marie
10-25-2003, 05:45 AM
Great report Mark! Thank You!
You take very good pictures and I love the look of your new JIG!


Marie graemlins/hearton.gif
Fshklr
10-25-2003, 05:59 AM
Awesome fish and even more awesome is the pic of that jig! love the colors you've combined. Looks very shrimpy!!! :grin: :bowdown:
Way to improve on an already fenomanal product!!
Dan
Bait O' Eggs
10-25-2003, 07:50 AM
Shane - can you pull up your hat a tad, I wanna see the new dew :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Nice looking fish graemlins/applause.gif
Pounddown
10-25-2003, 08:28 AM
hey mark nice fish, remember me Im the ex sporting goods manager from GI JOES out here in colorado now doing the fly fishing game . take care of yourself and best of luck in all you do .steve :cheers: :cheers:
Fish mojo
10-25-2003, 09:15 AM
Is that the "Tail Flasher" jig shown on your website?
SteelieSteve
10-25-2003, 03:18 PM
Stew you weren't going fishing LOL. Great job and very nice looking jig. Shane hope you got some of them. Roy there is no 'do there, just a lot of glare in the sun. Great looking hen Mark. I need to get a few of those very soon. graemlins/idea.gif
AuntyM
10-25-2003, 07:26 PM
Is it me, or does Stew look more svelt? :wink:

WTG Stew and Mark. :cheers:

(Stew, I am beginning to think you're a 10%er.) :grin:
Fishin Magician
10-27-2003, 08:22 AM
hey guys nice job...........This is the first time I have been on the computer in a week. Lets try to get out later this week.

John
DanS
10-27-2003, 08:50 AM
Stew? Svelte?

Aunty........do you know what that word means?

:laugh:

Nice work fellas. :cheers:
AuntyM
10-27-2003, 01:20 PM
DanS, of course I do. :wink: We can't all be skinny like you but at least we can lose a few! :grin:

[ 10-27-2003, 01:23 PM: Message edited by: AuntyM ]
DanS
10-27-2003, 01:32 PM
A "Stew in Waders" calendar for next year maybe? :grin:
Dragfreedrift
10-27-2003, 01:41 PM
Nice fish and a great story. Its really great to see nice chinook taken on jigs.

I think some people missed the message here: that is, when eggs ain't workin' try a jig!


HC