David Johnson
06-19-2004, 02:23 PM
This has been the best spring chinook season with great fishing from the start to the end.
This week I ran my last spring chinook trip for the 2004 season and it finished off like it started, another great day of fishing :yay:
On our second pass of the morning we hooked a double but both came off. On the next pass we released one. Then we picked off another, then we moved and got another, then dropped to the next hole and at about 9:30 we doubled again putting two more beauties in the boat.
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/415Gaines.jpg
Limit by 10
With all these springers still around it's a shame to switch over to sturgeon but now is the time I had scheduled to switch over and besides that with the hot weather and lack of rain this week conditions could get tougher.
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HOT STURGEON ACTION!
It was hot both above and below the water for my first sturgeon trip of 2004.
You just don't get days like this in Astoria very often so it was such a blessing and a treat. 90 degrees and smooth as glass :dance:
We started out a bit slow with only one keeper and two shorts by around ten but by moving around to some favorite spots we finally got into and when we did it was :smash: time.
Everyone on the boat agreed it was the best day of sturgeon fishing they had seen, and a couple people said it was the best fishing they had seen period.
We had fish on as fast as I could bait hooks, we had doubles, a few triples and caught so many fish I lost count. We kept five with many of them in the 50+ inch range, released at least another five keepers and one oversize.
Candice came on the trip hoping to break her 11 inch rainbow trout record and went home with a 55 inch, 40 some pound sturgeon.
We all went home tired with sunburnes and fish.
http://pic5.picturetrail.com/VOL81/623942/3012955/57157811.jpg
<font color="red">Between now and the 30th of June I only have one day open for sturgeon fishing, the 29th. There's four seats open then. If the season lasts longer than the June 30th than I will have the first couple days of July open too.
If you are interested let me know 503-201-4292 </font>
This week I ran my last spring chinook trip for the 2004 season and it finished off like it started, another great day of fishing :yay:
On our second pass of the morning we hooked a double but both came off. On the next pass we released one. Then we picked off another, then we moved and got another, then dropped to the next hole and at about 9:30 we doubled again putting two more beauties in the boat.
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/415Gaines.jpg
Limit by 10
With all these springers still around it's a shame to switch over to sturgeon but now is the time I had scheduled to switch over and besides that with the hot weather and lack of rain this week conditions could get tougher.
------------------------------------------------------------
HOT STURGEON ACTION!
It was hot both above and below the water for my first sturgeon trip of 2004.
You just don't get days like this in Astoria very often so it was such a blessing and a treat. 90 degrees and smooth as glass :dance:
We started out a bit slow with only one keeper and two shorts by around ten but by moving around to some favorite spots we finally got into and when we did it was :smash: time.
Everyone on the boat agreed it was the best day of sturgeon fishing they had seen, and a couple people said it was the best fishing they had seen period.
We had fish on as fast as I could bait hooks, we had doubles, a few triples and caught so many fish I lost count. We kept five with many of them in the 50+ inch range, released at least another five keepers and one oversize.
Candice came on the trip hoping to break her 11 inch rainbow trout record and went home with a 55 inch, 40 some pound sturgeon.
We all went home tired with sunburnes and fish.
http://pic5.picturetrail.com/VOL81/623942/3012955/57157811.jpg
<font color="red">Between now and the 30th of June I only have one day open for sturgeon fishing, the 29th. There's four seats open then. If the season lasts longer than the June 30th than I will have the first couple days of July open too.
If you are interested let me know 503-201-4292 </font>