Leaf stew

A few ideas when the rivers are full of leaves:

I dislike the river leaves about as bad as the seaweed grass that messes up the bait or lure in the bay. Aaarrggg! A couple things to do is put some bright chartruse &/or pink yarn on the egg clusters so they stand out even more against the leaves to get the fish's notice. Also, after trying floats then backbounce the eggs (if in a boat), or use a little more snagfree slinky weight to slow down your drift presentation, because that really makes them stand out among the leaves too. Clean them off often. Also, if there is enough water color, use Spin N Glos above eggs for the same 'stand out from the leaves' reason. As for Kwikfish, plugs, and spinners/spoons it helps somewhat to use large siwash hooks in place of the stock treble hooks; but they will still need cleaning often. You can still catch em out of the leaves if you do those things, just not as many likely.

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Know fish or no fish. - RT

[Dances]

hey jennie here is a great leaf soup rec.
all the leaf's inthe river plys soem sticks you pull of the bottom of the river. bring it all to a boil then take all the fishin line and other junk you can pull off of althouse snags in the river and mix it all together and let simmer for about 24 hrs. then add a dash of salt and Close your eyes and open your mouth and take a big gule of leaf soup

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Work is for people who dont know how to fish

[Jennie@ifish]

I got up this morning with so much to do. Errands to run, bills to pay, and Bill's truck to take in for repairs. I glanced out at the river, while preparing to shower. DANG! I can't go anywhere but out there, on the river! It was beautiful, steelhead-type water. My mouth drooled and I couldn't stop gazing.
Into the shower, and on with my chores.
Well, it may have been the salmon drought this year, it may have been my illness, regardless, I quickly turned into the possesive "Fish Witch" of Kilchis River. A drift boat went up the road to put in at the park. DANG! I growled.
I proceeded to get on with the errands.
Finally I arrive home, and what do I behold? A drift boat anchored smack where I wanted to bobber!
This is when the fish witch in me came out! I was in a panic, trying to figure out what to do! Where would I fish? If I yelled Tsunami, would they leave? Flash flood? What?
So I gathered myself together, went down to the river only to discover my attitude was in vain. The river is chock full of broken to bits leaves, and looks a bit like some witches stew. One cast brought in half the leaves, but they just seem to reproduce themselves faster than I could clean em out!
I spent five minutes out there with a wet/dry vac, trying to clean things up a bit, and then went home. Now I am going out with a new product called
"Leaf Off!"
Hope it works.
Nontheless, I am disspointed in my selfish ways. I hate it when that part of me comes out! I am usually so nice.... really!
It's just that.... well..... I am so... FISHLESS!


Jen