BuKuBass
08-14-2005, 01:02 AM
This past Monday, BucketMouth took me out for the evening bite on the Willamette. We cot mostly dinks with a couple of 12 inchers. "Don't worry RL; it'll be better in the morning".
So we got on the water around seven. Again mainly dinks but then as we started to work a submerged log, Rich hooked into something that gave him a respectable fight. I pitched my Salty Sinker Shad to the other end of the log, laid down my rod, and turned my attention to BM's fish to admire the fight, landing, and release of a 17"er. After a minute or so, out of the corner of my eye, I noticed my line twitch. I picked up the rod, reeled down, felt the fish, and did a slow sweepset; SOP when using circle hooks. After it made several dogged runs, it was only thru the deft application of superior skills that I managed to capture the beast which bested Rich's fish by several degrees of magnitude; it was a staggering 3/8s of an inch longer!
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/17_incher_on_Willy_with_Rich.jpg
So we got on the water around seven. Again mainly dinks but then as we started to work a submerged log, Rich hooked into something that gave him a respectable fight. I pitched my Salty Sinker Shad to the other end of the log, laid down my rod, and turned my attention to BM's fish to admire the fight, landing, and release of a 17"er. After a minute or so, out of the corner of my eye, I noticed my line twitch. I picked up the rod, reeled down, felt the fish, and did a slow sweepset; SOP when using circle hooks. After it made several dogged runs, it was only thru the deft application of superior skills that I managed to capture the beast which bested Rich's fish by several degrees of magnitude; it was a staggering 3/8s of an inch longer!
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/17_incher_on_Willy_with_Rich.jpg