another newbie (pics)

[AlseaAssassin]

Hello All,

My name is Garth and I am a student at Oregon State University in the fisheries program. My fishing partner twitches tackle turned me on to ifish. I really enjoy all of the benficial fishing information and thought it was about time that I quick being a lurker and made a contribution. My inogural fishing yarn starts on the South Santiam last year bobber fishing below Waterloo falls with twitchs tackle. The day started off typical with a mad dash to secure "the honey hole" at 2:30 in the a.m.. Twitches tackle was first to pay dirt with the phrase we all love to hear so often, "Bobber down!!" After a short battle the fish came to the boat and almost instinctively knew where the anchor rope was made a mad dash to wrap him up. I exclaimed, "Look out for the rope," it was to late and a nice chromer was lost in the process as his line quickly wrapped about umpteen thousand times around the rope. Now the story gets a little better, with Twitch being a little aprehensive about the anchor rope he told me, "The next fish we get on, pull that darned anchor up." Well, maybe the language was a little more colorful than that but you get the jist. So, after my first hog of the of the season came in, a nice 21 pound five salt, Twitch yelled, "Fiiiishhh OOOnnnn." This time I did pull the anchor rope when the fish came next to the boat, but with the crowd of drift boats packing us in I figured I better let the anchor back down to avoid any danger of collision from a free drifting boat. Just when the fish was almost netted it went on one last "power run." Wouldn't you know it, it ran right into the anchor rope and fish number two was lost. The next five minutes i was bombarded with explatives that would make a truckers mouth seem clean. All and all it was a great day but now when the anchor gets pulled up, it stays up. I hope you guys like my inogural story and I look forward to reading the great commentary you all provide. Thanks for reading,
Garth


[ 02-19-2004, 03:04 PM: Message edited by: AlseaAssassin ]

[h20dog]

Good story [img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img] Welcome aboard

[Wreckless]

Welcome aboard


We can NEVER have to many BEAVERS on the board!!

This is a great place to play!

[Twitchs_Tackle]

Hey... I remember that day...*&%$ anchor ropes... [img]graemlins/berry.gif[/img]

Its about time...

[Riverkeeper]

Welcome and nice fish. That's why I like to bobber fish with 250lb tuffline. Cuts right through anchor ropes.

[Beerbelly]

Good story, Welcome!!!!!!!!

[TillamookChinook]

Welcome aboard, even if you are a Beaver.
It must be tough looking ahead at a career where you might be expected to think about fish all the time. That's what all the rest of us do, but we don't get paid for it.

TC

[All IN]

Welcome Garth, Im a senior in high school right now but I'm going to OSU next year fall of 2004. Maybe I could hook up with you guys down there sometime and do a little fishing? Let me know.
Rob
If you want you can private msg me

[Stz ll]

Nice fish.

Welcome Aboard!!