What are ya - some kinda kook!!!

[north coast kook]

HELLO! Another new guy here!! I am a hold over from Dons Sturgeon Salmon Steelhead BB. Roaming the lonely internet looking for a new home. I'm 34, married, 4 kids. I used to mostly fish for sturg, but believe it or not I got really bored with them. The keepers were really good eating, I had coutless hours of fun battling the hogs durring the shad run, but somehow, somewhere it lost the magic. Oh, I know what it was. I got my first steelhead! What a Blast! On my first three trips I hooked one fish each time. The third one threw the hook though. :depressed: That was two summers ago. Since then I haven't done as well. But I do get one now and then. In fact, I got a nice fat summer fish this morning at Daybreak on the EF Lewis I decided a few days ago to give the whole jig/bobber thing a try. (I was tired of losing drift rigs in the rocks!) And today was the third day of trying. It was weird, I had been having probs getting my float at the right depth. It seems the river is differant depths depending where you cast, [img]graemlins/dork.gif[/img] So sometimes my jig (pink&white no name brand) would stick to the bottom. So one particular cast, it looked like my jig had stuck again. So I gave it a little 'pop' to free it. Just then I saw the flash of a fish next to my bobber! WOO HOO!! FISH ON!! So...the particular spot I was fishing had a big tree/roots/snag/ thing half on the bank, half in the water on one side of me.(it even had an old dead rotten salmon in it!) If that wasn't bad enough the shore was a drop off, not high off the water, but no gradual slope to pull the fish up on. Don't cha-know the fish kept wanting to swim under that there snag! A guy up river from me came over to help, (BTW if you're here, thanks bro!) But in the end, that no-name jig/hook straghtened (sp?) out like it was made out of aluminum or something! Well, that's what I get for being a cheap a.. errr....uuhhh....THRIFTY! I geuss it's time to get some of those First Cast jigs!
Anyway, this has been kinda long winded. But I did wanna say hey to up-4-air, whom I had the pleasure of meeting on the river this morning!
Thanks alot for listening to my ramblings!
-The KooK
P.S. slayer, cool name bro!

[salmurai]

Welcome Aboard the board. Nice story, too bad about the ending but it will make you a better fisherman. Now you know to buy the best you can afford. At least you don't have anything to clean....

[Thumper]

First Cast jigs do not work at Daybreak. Sorry. :depressed:

[north coast kook]

Originally posted by Thumper:
First Cast jigs do not work at Daybreak. Sorry. :depressed:

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">Are you being serious? Could you elaborate at all?
-KooK

[Play'n Snooky]

Welcome North Coast Kook,

Ya' better listen to your elders (read Thumper),

he will "steer" you in the right direction! :grin:

He has some great info on Salmon Creek for ya

also. :grin: :shocked:

Maybe we will see you out there sometime.

Play'n Snooky

[RichH]

Dude, first cast jigs will work anywhere there are fish. :smile:

I have yet to hook a fish on one that came off.

[SHOUGALNITE]

welcome on. :smile:

[high_arc]

Welcome aboard. I hope to get to Daybreak sometime this weekend if the rains don't make the river to high.

[Up-4-Air]

NCK, nice meeting you in the field and glad to see you're on the board. Sounds like we both have lots to learn about bobbers and jigs. At this point your ahead of me by one fish. I'm planning to just leave my drift gear at home and concentrate on B&J. I'm sure Slayer and I'll be running into you from time to time. :smile:

[Thumper]

Kook --- Serious as a heart attack .... First Cast jigs, especially pink and white ones with pink beads, do not work at Daybreak Park. But they work great in the Sandy and the Clack I am told. :tongue:

Ixnay on the Almonsay Eekcray.

[ 12-12-2003, 12:02 PM: Message edited by: Thumper ]

[Slayer]

Welcome aboard Kook! Glad to see up4 air down there! I'm sure we'll se ya on the river. I'm do for a fix Welcome again!