RT goes bank fishing with Jerry and Mark

[Jennie@ifish]

Just drive down to the coast and catch a chrome chinook, that's all there is to it!


lousy picture, sorry, I had shaky "too much coffee" hands!
Funny, everyone I see lately is carrying around an orange bottle of Marie's Shrimp scent...
Jen

[Fish mojo]

Tell me more!!! Where, when, etc. etc.

[THE REEL HEY_YALL]

I got some ocean-front property in Arizona that I like to drive to and catch the kings when they are running. It's pretty easy to do.

[Jennie@ifish]

Really???!!! Cool!
I'll let RT tell you all about it when he gets home.
Jen

Thanks for taking the pics today at your place Jen. - The rivers were too low to boat so we bankfished the lower Wilson River without seeing any other fishers. Although the Trask gets an earlier run, some fresh fish did head up the lower Wilson. We hooked 5 and landed 3 by mid-morning. Only 1 of the 3 egg hooked fish was landed and the 2 on shrimptail w/ pink marabou were landed. The eggs were slow drifted with a small slinky and the shrimp were fished with floats. No hits on spinners. After the bite went off I dropped my fish off at Bill's, who nicely offered to brine and smoke the fish along with some of his. After leaving we worked the middle Wilson on up to the deadline to flyfish and jig for summer steelhead. Not a single bite up there. Suprisingly didn't see any either, until we walked in to look at a deeper hole above the deadline that was full of fish! Guess they pushed up into the protected zone with the river rise this weekend. Poacher's BEWARE, any vehicles stopped along the road or on the drive in dirt roads, especially above the Jones Cr. deadline, are drawing law enforcement binos on their activity; for both poachers and car break-ins. As the river drops back to summer lows and re-warms we will need more rain again (this last sentence will be under my chapter titled "Duh"). - RT

You da "guideman" RT!

[First Bite]

Jen thanks for taking and posting the picture. You and Bill have a great place out there.

I got to play "guide" today and it was fun taking RT and Jerry out. I was going to show RT the trick to fooling Steelhead with jigs in low water. The three Chinook were a bonus.
Mark

Thanks again for the bank guiding Mark. - We caught these 'Nooks above tidewater in very low clear water. Mark Anderson knows more good Wilson R. bank holes than anyone I know! Great jig fishermen too. I came determined to stay with flyfishing for a combo of low river late summer steelhead and early chinooks that may have come in on the quick up and down weekend rain freshet. After watching my buddies start hooking them on eggs and shrimptailed jig I gave up that idea pretty quick; and grabbed my float rod and got one too. I'm no fly purist, especially when they're biting on something else! - RT
- BTW, speaking of something on the bite, on one of the trials we walked down thru the brush Jerry went right thru a yellow jacket nest without knowing it or being bothered. Along come Mark and I a ways behind and we both got stung several times. Oooch. Oooch. Oooch. Jerry was down by the river looking with wonder at us flailing at the air and slapping ourselves silly. Waz up?!? I had a couple go in my shirt and Mark got one sting right on the bridge of his nose. Haven't had such fun in quite awhile.

[This message has been edited by RT (edited 10-05-2000).]