First Cast

[brshooter]

Last Saturday, N. F. Nehalem, my wife was blessed with two fish on two casts (9# & 10# hens). She was done by 7:20 in the morning. I didn't even get a bump.


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[Paranoid]

In late October hit a 17lb. silver on a spinner on the first cast before the boat even stopped. What a rush. Three of us went 6 for 10 in 20 minutes on #4 hot pink Vibrax spinners. WOW!

[4Salt]

Years ago, the very first time I had ever fished (or seen for that matter) the Hoh river on the Olympic peninsula here in WA. We pulled into the Oxbow campground to look for a spot to bank fish. just upstream from the boat launch is a series of boulder drops and pools. My first cast into a likely-looking seam, I hook up. It ended up being a native buck steelhead that formula (LxGxG/775)weighed 21.32 lbs. First cast into a river that I'd never been to before. What luck! :smile:

[Spot]

Years ago, before I'd ever even "tried" Steelheading, I stopped by the Necanicum to cast spinners at the stocked cutthroats that used to be planted there. It was probably July or August. I swapped the usual greetings with a lone fly fisher and set-up my brand new $29.99 Eagle Claw spinning combo. I headed to a likely looking spot and casted my Black Roostertail into a deep pool. It hadn't hit bottom yet when I saw the shadow of a large fish dart out and hit it like a hammer. Fish On!!!! It must have been either a hold over Steelhead from the previous winter or a lone Necanicum summer run but whatever it was it played me for a good 15min. before I was able to hoist the 6-8lber up and show the guy across the stream. Since I didn't have a Salmon tag, I gently released it. I started to say something to the fly fisherman and looked up to notice him litterally throw his fly rod to the ground and dash back to his truck for a spinning rod. First cast of the day, first cast with a new rod and all on a new river.

[Cohodependent]

While living in Juneau Alaska I went down to my favorite spot on the channel and it was wall to wall full of tourist. After waiting patiently for my spot to open up I set down my gear and asked the guy next to me how it was going. He was from Ohio and said that he had not touched a thing. I told him to pay atention and let fly with a blue and chrome crocadile. As soon as the thing hit the water I had a nice Coho on. I have to admit that I was just as surprised as the guy from Ohio. After catching my six fish limit in less than a 1/2 hour I gave this poor guy my lure and watched him hook up after 2 cast. He was in heaven. He had never caught anything bigger than a bass. I left as he hooked his second. It is always nice to see the face of some one who has never hooked an agressive fish like that before.

[Perfect Drift]

Two years ago on the Columbia, first cast went on and on, 8 times. The first cast a 3 lb. small mouth bass leaped to get the grub before it even hit the water. Then it was fish after fish after fish and only the dogs to share it with. All hens and twins to each other. When it ended, I was shouting and whoopin. Caught more that morning but not nothing like the first cast. And why do we do what we do. :-)

[MasterCaster]

Last year 8# winter steelhead on Three Rivers the end of Dec.I watched about 20 fishermen for an hr or so not hooking or catching a thing. I went down to a shallow spot where noone was fishing flipped out my line and was trying to loosen my mag when I feel peck peck of a fish. I set the hook and its fish on!I landed that fish and three casts later I hooked another winter fish about 10 lbs that broke off.It then ran into another guys line and got hooked right in the mouth! It was the oddest thing I think I have ever seen! The fish was only about half in the water and headed for the hatchery at about 50 mph. those were the only 2 fish I saw caught there all day. :smile:

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[David Johnson]

Three times in the last six trips for me, and at least three other times in my boat.

[King13fisher]

Not quite a first cast...but just as good. I was fishing on the Deschute this past July, hooked up on the third cast...big fish... couldn't get her stopped and she broke off.
Tied a new Panther Martin on as fast as I could...first cast hooked up again, this time a nice 10 lb hen to the bank.

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[First Bite]

Several for summer steelies and a few for winter fish. The most memorable was on the H.T.O.S. Lots of fun when it happens.

Mark

[rhansme]

It does not happen often but yesterday morning on the first cast hooked up with this brigh little hen. How many first cast connections do we have here on the BB??



rhansme

[Salmonator]

I had a first cast on the upper Siletz with a couple of guys from Vancouver in the boat. I said fish on but one said "whatever" and they both just kind of went about their business of organizing their gear at the front of the boat. It wasn't until they heard line coming off the reel that they looked up and realized what was going on.

You wouldn't really think of oversize sturgeon as being a first cast fish, but a few years back while anchored below bonneville I had just put out the first rod (whole shad) and in the time it took to set it in the pole holder and reach for the next rod the first one laid out flat. Couldn't have been more than 15 seconds.... Joe

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[RichH]

About 10 years ago on the Santiam at the Jefferson boat ramp. The river was somewhere between 8 and 9 feet and when I arrived there was one guy there. I walk down, say "good morning"
and get set, cast about 10 feet out and drift maybe 10 feet. Oops, there he is. :grin: I proceed to land that one and bonk it, a nice hen about 9#.

After checking my leader I toss out again and it drifts about 4 or 5 feet further than the first cast and oops, there he is. Another hen about 7 or 8#. I bonk that one, look at Archie who now has a feral gleam in his eye and say "boy was that ever lucky, I'm not even sure I'm awake yet."

Another time a couple of friends and I went to float the NF Nehalem for the first time. We dump the boat in at Erickson's and while they go shuttle the rig I get the boat ready to fish. Then I pull out the drift rod and make one cast that goes about 10 feet out from the boat ramp and oops, there he is. I had not even prepared the net so I wound up tailing that fish, a nice little buck around 6 or 7#. We wound up hooking one other fish that day in the hole that runs under the bridge just above the take out.

One other one that Marty got to witness, wasn't really a cast but you get the idea. We put in at the county park on the Kilchis ahead of about 7 or 8 other boats. While my bud was down shuttling the rig with Bob Barnett,the other guy and I decide to slide out into the hole and pull plugs. We get about 30 feet down in when his rod goes off so we had quite the audience landing that fish. Gotta love starting your day like that. Either you're gonna have a great one or thats the last fish you're gonna catch.

[ampersat]

mine was a 6lb buck coho at the mouth of eagle creek this fall. when i got there, another guy was pitching bobber and eggs, so i tried bobber and jig. when he switched to spinners, i followed suit. when i got tired of playing, i tied on a drift rig and cast to the top of the hole. three seconds later, fish on.

[DanS]

Quite a few years back, the first time I had ever tried a float and jig, I walked up to a likely looking slot on the Wynoochee. Set the jig at what I figured would be about a foot off the bottom.......first cast, the float goes about 4 inches and goes under. Thinking I had set the jig too deep, I started to reel up the line only to feel two headshakes, see a chrome flash, and up pops the float with no fish attached to it anymore.

Fished the rest of the slot with no results. Went down to another good hole, and proceeded to do the SAME ******** THING I did at the last hole. I redeemed myself later on in the same hole by pulling out a limit (that's when MY jig addiction began) of chromers.

The lesson learned......your first cast is as likely as any other cast you make to catch a fish. Don't be asleep at the wheel on the first cast OR the last cast. Ever heard " OK, last cast. Fish on!"? :shocked:

[Sand Shrimp]

I've caught at least 4 springers on my first cast and quite a few summer steelhead and a few winter steelhead.I also caught a summer steelhead on my first cast ever using a jig.

[BigSpinner]

I have caught alot of steelhead on the first cast with spinners. I fish spinners alot and do good on them but it seems like most fish I hook are on the first three casts. I walk the river, and alot of the time when spinner fishing I will take about ten (good) casts then move on. If I dont get a fish in ten casts it seems like I am not going to get one. What do you guys think is it the same for you or what, I would like to hear what you think thanks.
Be safe, drive slow.

[Snapshot]

Several weeks ago I posted my first trip to the Clack in my new to me boat. I tied on a plug, peeled off some line to check if running true, let out about 25' of line and then he hit. First trip in the boat, first time with a plug and on a new plug rod from Laniglass. MY fishing partner did not believe me and kept rigging up until the fish jumped and I said to get the net. Three first all on one fish.
Another time, a friend walked up to a hole, found two older gents there, asked if we could make a couple casts. We decided to drop down in the hole to cast, nailed one on the first cast. while taging that fish, my partner cast and hooked one and landed it too. Then, both gents came closer and wanted to know what we were using. Advised them, showed one where to cast and he hooked a fish and was fighting it as we left for another drift downriver. They were excited. It sure felt gooooooood.

Fish only bit wet Hooks*

[Osprey]

First Cast....how about 2 casts 2-fish :shocked: both on Jigs,sure made for a short day....Os

[ampersat]

hey bigspinner,
i'd agree with you except that whenever i bother to get up at 0 :grin: arkthirty to get up to the mouth of eagle creek for coho, it seems like it's 9am before the first fish is landed. you do have part of it right though: there's no point in flogging the same water for another half an hour if you're not going to change what's on the end of your line. many's the time someone has stepped up to a hole i'd been fishing for an hour and picks one up within just a few casts because he's tossing them something new.