Another one bites the dust!

[Born to be Wild]

http://www.ifish.net/uploads/035420306.jpg

Well the new hole wasn't too productive this morning but it provided this nice coho for me on my first cast and unlike last night, this gals fin was clipped.

The little pink or cerise thing in her mouth is that BW-29 pacifier that I've been talking about so much since last fall when I discovered how deadly they are.

That was it for biters in that hole and niether me or Dave could muster another bite on wiggler's or eggs.
Dave went upstream and I down to scout out anymore potential holes and then we went upstream to find Earl.
We fished for a few minutes upstream but water was low and fishing tough.
I got lucky and picked up a second hen on my homemade spinner and we took off to show them a couple holes I fish durring low water.

Me and Dave ran up to the Kalama very late to show him a couple holes I fished last year and the water looked real good and there should be fresh fish in the Madrow to Beginners Hole area but have not heard any report.
Did see 4 drift fishermen fishing down stream from Madrow above or at the weir on our drive out and suspect they did some catching.

Took a bad spill in the Naeselle about a week ago fishing with Brad and have suffered a real tender shen all along but now my ankle is swollen and purple and my lower leg in pain so I need to get going and try to figure out whats going on with it.
Probably post on LIG to see if anyone with medical expertise has any idea.
Don't have insurance unfortunately so I'm not going in to have it looked at.
Seems to be getting stiffer and more painfull by the minute.

By for now.

Dan

[The Bad Fish]

hey dan email me and give me some details on the shin. send a pic if you want. as for us we did good yesterday with the water dropping and the bitter cold wind up on the penninsula. heres a pic of the wife with one of her fish from sunday. http://www.ifish.net/uploads/252922306.jpg you should try the BW16 it really worked well for joni yesterday. if i can manage a day off from work i will take you for a run down the river. by the way, i hope you dont mind wearing a blindfold for 75-100 miles :grin:

[Born to be Wild]

Nice fish Bug, both of them. :grin:
Actually she looks a lot like my friends girlfriend on the Clackamas, Terri.

Love to go with you sometime up north especially to a river where you can keep a wild coho.

I posted the leg injury thing on LIG http://www.ifish.net/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=24;t=002520
and there is a picture of my ankle there.

I want to go catch some more coho's tomorrow morning but might keep off of it in the AM.
We'll see.
Thanks.

[Thumper]

Dan --- a question. I assume that you cast and retreive the warts. How do you keep from losing them from hanging up on the upstream part of the retreive?

[The Bad Fish]

if you go with me dan you will be sitting all day in a nice warm drift-boat. i had a bad crash in a race one year at browns camp, i tore my achellies tendon and severly tweaked my ankle it looked like yours only colored like an old chum. alternate heat and ice for 10 minute cycles, also ibuprofen will knock down some of the swelling and a tylenol will take care of the pain. keep it elevated and try to stay off it for a couple of days. i am going to a 24 hour off road motocycle event this weekend in goldendale. if it gets too cold on saturday night and my team-mates decide to quit i may come home early and i can take you on sunday. email me a number i can get ahold of you with and i might call you early sunday morning. if your buddy brad wants to try out some new plugs my wife said just send them to her :grin:

ramstrong,, all on plugs, i dont like them stinky eggs and i dont like having pink fingers. :wink: i'm just basically a guide for the wife, she hooks em and i take care of the rest.. keep in touch...kb

[Gregotis98]

Nice catch Keith! I went riding for the first time in about 6 months. There's nothing like it when you're on, and thank god I was because I get real upset with myself when I'm not on and quit for six months at a time.

380 AND A GEAR HIGH!!!!!!!!!!!

[Born to be Wild]

Well my bike got stolen from my driveway about 4 years ago or so.
I really regret not having it for around town (enduro) and hunting/scouting deer & elk.
Maybe it's not such a bad thing afterall that it was taken away from me because the last times I remember riding it I was flying through the air with a .308 rifle on my back and a .357 mag on my hip.
I used to think this is crazy out here MX'ing with my rifle slung over my shoulders. :shocked:
I just have the hardest time on a bike not holding the throttle wide open. :wink:

Anyway Thumper, I'm not sure I totally understood your question but as I posted on ifish somewhere earlier this year, in tidewater like the Kalama for example, I cast with the tide and real back against it or straight across the tide or river and again slowly real in just enough to where you feel and see your rod tip working. Real simple.

In bigger tidewater like the Cowlitz right here in downtown Longview the current is always going downstream regardless of the tide and I found out last year it did absolutely no good to throw upstream.
Throw straight accross and slowly real it until it suddenly stops (feels just like a snag) and just as suddenly starts pulling back on you.
The one I got the other day sat there and head shaked like a chinook and then did the balistic coho thing.

Most often (9 times out of 10) they apparently are following the wiggler (what's a wart? :grin: ) and nail it right at the bank.
Once in a while they will hit it out at the end of your cast but not very often.

I haven't caught very many in the river itself (non-tidewater) but the few I have caught were basically throwing accross the river with the exceptions of the other day or two when we were fishing frog water and it didn't matter where you through it, they grabbed it.

I only started fishing wiggler's last year because my friend Brad came out with a custom color that was supposed to be hot (BW-29) and I did see them catch fish in the kalama tidewater a couple years ago when we couldn't get them to hit spinners.
I did learn a lot about them last year because some of my favorite egg waters were too low to fish and I just kept throwing wiggler's.

First trip down to the Kalama last year I hooked one and I myself was hooked after that.
I probably tagged around 20 in the Kalama (September)and broke off 10 or 12.
I was using 10# big game (great line) but some of the places I was fishing had major snags and rebar along the bank and to land the fish I had to pull them towards the snags instead of away from them.
A few did the coho twist and if they have one hook in their mouth and the other hanging out it can spell disaster.
This year I am using 12# big game and have not broke off a fish yet.
Did straighten out one tine of one of the trebles on that 20+ coho I lost in the Cowlitz a couple weeks ago.
Didn't notice the hook 'till the next morning when we tried again.

Tagged approx. 50 in the Cowlitz (even caught a couple 4 fish limits off the bank and in a boat after they raised the limit) and released approx. 25 or so wild fish.
Called Joe Hymer at WDFW and kept telling him that not only me but other friends were releasing lots of wild coho there last year.
So they are very effective and easy enough to fish that even a first timer can fish them and catch fish.
I helped a few first timers get some fish last year.

I have been hearing some encouraging reports coming out of the Cowlitz the last couple days.
Maybe it is going to happen yet this year and it is by no means late, but it should have been better earlier.

Come on up and fish with me Jack. Hell, Vancouver is only a cast away.

Foot is doing much better tonight and I am planning on harrassing some silvers in the AM.

Dan

[The Bad Fish]

we like to call it "bass fishing for salmon", joni casts right at the spot when they roll and 9 out of 10 times that means fish on. with the driftboat we can get it in the strike zone longer. sometimes we can see them follow it to the boat, we call those "chasers". if you get snagged just give it a little slack and it comes off. if not i get out the lure retreiver i bought from bass pro shops and sent it down the line. spent 5 bucks on that thing and saved probably 20 bucks in tackle.

[high_arc]

Dan, what type of pole/reel are you using to cast the wigglers from the bank? I have never tried it, but sounds like fun. Could this be done in faster water, like above the hatchery on the NF Lewis?

[ 11-05-2003, 10:42 PM: Message edited by: high_arc ]

[Fshklr]

high_arc,
I've been using an ambassador 6000 with a lami 8'6" rated 8-15 test using 12lb mono.
The river was lower yesterday so depth might be an issue.
I have been fishing all around the hatchery area from the otherside of your request and have been giving the BW-29 (Brads WIGGLER the one in the pic) it's fair share of use up there, but no hits as of yet.
You need depth to run the wiggler as it has a semi large bill which allows it to dive, I'd say up to 8 feet with 12lb mono depending on your retrieve.
The fast water you inquire about isn't deep enough to run a plug of that size(BW) through it without instantly snagging in the rocks.
Maybe a BWW-29 (Brads WEE WIGGLER) will run shallower, but probably not shallow enough for that low water right now.
Tight lines.

[ 11-06-2003, 06:48 AM: Message edited by: Fshklr ]