David Johnson
06-02-2003, 09:58 PM
In a previous post last winter you may remember me writing about Maryanne and her "Lady Luck" at catching steelhead on her birthday.
Well, today I had the pleasure of fishing with her and her husband, Andrew, Andrew's dad, Ron and their neighbor Joe. We were after "oversize" sturgeon in the Columbia Gorge.
I knew it was going to be a good day when Andrew produced fresh chocolate dougnuts and Mt. Dew-he knew just what it takes to make the Guide happy!
http://www.ifish.net/uploads/025320152.jpg
Breakfast of Champions
We had to first get our bait, so up to the shad rack to catch some fresh shad. They were biting like crazy on our pearl/red Dick Knights fished behind Jet Diver. It was three fish on at a time, and in very short order we had a cooler full of bait.
http://www.ifish.net/uploads/014920152.jpg
Sturgeon fishing was a bit spotty but we did find a few biters, two we missed, one that broke off our leader and one eight footer that Joe and Maryanne brought to the boat.
http://www.ifish.net/uploads/430721152.jpg
The eight footer that Joe and Maryanne double teamed to the boat.
http://www.ifish.net/uploads/125920152.jpg
I only saw one other boat with an oversize on and after talking to a couple other guide boats they had the same success we did.
fishermand@aol.com
[ 06-03-2003, 06:05 PM: Message edited by: David Johnson ]
Well, today I had the pleasure of fishing with her and her husband, Andrew, Andrew's dad, Ron and their neighbor Joe. We were after "oversize" sturgeon in the Columbia Gorge.
I knew it was going to be a good day when Andrew produced fresh chocolate dougnuts and Mt. Dew-he knew just what it takes to make the Guide happy!
http://www.ifish.net/uploads/025320152.jpg
Breakfast of Champions
We had to first get our bait, so up to the shad rack to catch some fresh shad. They were biting like crazy on our pearl/red Dick Knights fished behind Jet Diver. It was three fish on at a time, and in very short order we had a cooler full of bait.
http://www.ifish.net/uploads/014920152.jpg
Sturgeon fishing was a bit spotty but we did find a few biters, two we missed, one that broke off our leader and one eight footer that Joe and Maryanne brought to the boat.
http://www.ifish.net/uploads/430721152.jpg
The eight footer that Joe and Maryanne double teamed to the boat.
http://www.ifish.net/uploads/125920152.jpg
I only saw one other boat with an oversize on and after talking to a couple other guide boats they had the same success we did.
fishermand@aol.com
[ 06-03-2003, 06:05 PM: Message edited by: David Johnson ]