silvers at depoe bay

[shalom]

Welcome. Great story.

[puffins crew]

Welcome aboard!

Great story. "Suicide silvers out of Depoe bay"

I can see it going down just as you have told it.

Peace, Tom

[finclipped]

Good thing you didn't put your hand in the water. Sounds like the fish would have struck that to.... Welcome.

[slabhunter]

Welcome! :smile: Great tale of the one that didn't get away.

[spraguee]

Nice post and story Dad,

The funny thing is, every holiday our family gets together, my Uncle and my Dad still have a good laugh about that trip.

Good luck fishing this weekend. I wish I could be on the water with you.

[Drakeblake]

Ha I don't believe that story for a second. :grin: It sounds like something my room-mate would make up. Any time you want to bring some of that good luck down here to Corvallis just let us know. Welcome aboard.

-blake

[DAB]

Sounds like a fish story to me. Weirder things have happened. Great post. Welcome aboard>
DAD

[old good luck]

My son, already a “logged on” member of ifish, tells me that to be part of the community, I have to relate a “newby” fishing story. There are so many examples of just why my friends have given me the ‘old good luck” tongue-in-cheek moniker, but here’s the latest.

Last summer I went fishing with my brother in law, out of Depoe Bay, for silvers. This was one of those days where the fish were hitting everything, even a bare hook. There were three of us. I was on the left, my brother in law in the middle ,and his friend on the right.

I hooked a fish about 25 pulls out. The other two, being considerate fishermen, started to reel in and let me play the fish. It came up fast, and at about 10 feet behind the boat, we were able to see the fish in the water.

At this point, the fish spit my hook. (typical!) We watched it swim over and take the hook of my brother in law as he was reeling his line in. He played the fish for a few moments, it spit that hook and went over and hit the bait of the third line as it was being retrieved. This time it hit it hard enough to be hooked, and we were able to bring it in.

This in itself makes a tale worth telling, but it’s not the end of this one. At the dock, as we were coming in for the day, a “f &g” guy asked to check our catch. As we were lifting our limit onto the dock, an exchange mishap resulted in one of the fish falling into the water. Of course at this same time, a State cop was walking up, and although he was very nice, and sympathetic, we were pretty sure he suspected us of intentionally dropping the fish because we didn’t want to be caught doing something illegal.

The water level was low, but rising. We could see the fish on the bottom, and as it turned out, was reachable with a long net, fully extended arm, stuck way down into the water. And of course, since I was involved in the “slip”, I felt i should try and retrieve it. Heck, I was ready to jump in and get it. To make an already too long story, shorter, on the third and final attempt ( the water was rising, and the attempts to scoop the fish off the bottom had raised a ton of slit ) we re-netted the fish, brought it in and proved to the game guy that we were, in fact, legal.

we laughed all the way home, each with our two fish..one with a really sore mouth, another covered in silt, and me with s wet shirt.

[Siwash]

Good luck indeed. Welcome.

[SPAZZ]

[Sublime]

WOW! A guy writes "silvers at depoe bay" and I get all excited thinking about salmon again....until that point where I come back to reality and remember we still have a little while to wait...

[Gus Orviston]

oooooOOOOOooooooOOOOOOOoSilversoooooooooo

~170 day to go!

welcome..gus