My long skunk continues. Got skunked last week, felt like I needed to get back on the horse this week, so I went to Three Rivers. Nothing during the morning. Checked out the Nestucca. Again, nothing. So I went back to Three Rivers.
I wanted to fish the tailout of the pool upstream of the USFS office, but someone else was fishing it, so I fished the head. Nothing. After awhile the guy fishing the tailout left, so I went to check it out. There was a nice steelhead holding about five feet from the bank where he had been standing. And he'd been casting across the river the whole time! [img]graemlins/dork.gif[/img] Sometimes you just gotta look down. It's so close I can see its missing its adipose, and probably is a female. So if figure if I know where the fish is, it sure beats getting skunked casting where I can't see anything. So I work on this fish for about an hour. I go easy, so as not to spook it, and start off light. I put on a dark rubber worm with no wait. No interest. A jig, no bobber. No interest. I do see it rise to the surface twice like it's taking bugs off the surface, but there are no bugs. By now it's getting to be around 4:30, so I finally tie on a spinner and gently work it in front of the fish. Finally, at one point the blade stops spinning, and I lose track of it while it's in front of the fish. Then I see the fish's mouth open. On instinct, I set the hook. Bingo! It's on! Beatutiful olive on the top, shiny silver on the sides, splash of red around the gills! It moves out into the current a bit, then turns and heads directly downstream. [img]graemlins/1zhelp.gif[/img] I hate it when they do that, expecially when there are trees in the way and I can't follow it. So I elect instead to tighten the drag. And it's still peeling line. I know that if I tighten it any more, it might break, but if it keeps taking line, it will get into heavier current, and I'm toast anyway. So I tighten it just a tad more as it starts to exit the pool and enter the rapids and.... snap!
So my skunk is still on, with no fish landed since October. :blush:
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