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Old 04-07-2008, 11:45 AM   #1
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My buddy Matt (Built2Fish) and I took a guided trip on the Umpqua last Friday. Didnt catch a large number of fish (as you would imagine this time of year) but definetly caught some big ones. Here are a few of the better pics....

I will tell Matt to post some of his better pics too.....
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Old 04-07-2008, 12:54 PM   #2
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Nice fish!

Looks like you had fun even if you didn't catch a lot of fish.
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Old 04-07-2008, 01:00 PM   #3
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Which stretch of the river were you guys fishing? Nice fish.
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Old 04-07-2008, 01:13 PM   #4
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WOW...nice Hawgs. looks like the big ones are hungy and want foody.

What type of the water were the big girls hiding in? Down deep or up shallow...in between?
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Old 04-07-2008, 01:53 PM   #5
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Which stretch of the river were you guys fishing? Nice fish.
We fished the Big-K stretch mainly....

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WOW...nice Hawgs. looks like the big ones are hungy and want foody.

What type of the water were the big girls hiding in? Down deep or up shallow...in between?
They had not moved up yet, still sitting in 8-12 feet of water for the most part. Not deep, but deep for the Umpqua....
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Old 04-07-2008, 02:21 PM   #6
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man them dang things must be eating up!!!!


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Old 04-07-2008, 02:52 PM   #7
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nice hogs holmes.
good photos too.
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Old 04-07-2008, 04:36 PM   #8
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Sweet guys, sweet! Looks like a decent day weather wise too.
Did Doug take you down?
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Old 04-07-2008, 05:19 PM   #9
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Sweet guys, sweet! Looks like a decent day weather wise too.
Did Doug take you down?
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Thanks Mike. The progression of the pics shows the weather i guess... started off raining pretty good, then some light showers but cleared up for the afternoon. Worked out pretty well.

We went down with Todd Harrington actually... the guy knows those bass, it was almost like cheating really.
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Old 04-07-2008, 05:39 PM   #10
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Very respectable smallies, cant wait to get out and hopefully being holding onto something like that soon
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Old 04-08-2008, 08:52 AM   #11
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Very nice Ryan. Now we just need to get out and repeat that on the Willy.
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Nice 'shish! Did you get a scale on that last one? She sure has a gut on her. Good job!
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Old 04-09-2008, 03:45 PM   #13
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man i hope for some smallies that size this year
good job ryan
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