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12-15-2003, 02:08 PM
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Fry
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Bellevue
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Story Time
Well, well, I began chasing the elusive Steely about 6 years ago. I needed something to fish for when the smallmouth/largemouth weren't biting. Decided that my little brother and I would give it a shot. Lived in Tri-Cities at the time so that meant "bobber" fishing the snake was our best option. We were very excited on our first outing; we could not wait until one of us hooked into one of these fish. Of course, first trip out = no fish or take downs for that matter. The initial trip was in January and the number of trips taken kept increasing while the number of fish didn't. One morning before work(late February), I decided to go out alone for a couple of hours. Got on the water around 7am (of course it was in the low 30s). Wasn't there for more than 15 minutes and then it happened, a take down (our second total take down in at least 15 trips) I was hooked up to my first steelhead. It didn't put up an incredible fight, but it turned out to be a 5lb native hen, what an exciting event. Haven't fished for warmwater fish much since.
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12-15-2003, 02:10 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Vancouver, WA
Posts: 3,974
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Re: Story Time
Hey congratulations and welcome to Ifish. I've got several steelhead, but am yet looking for my first bobber and jig fish. 
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12-15-2003, 02:14 PM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Vancouver Wa
Posts: 437
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Re: Story Time
Welcome !
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12-15-2003, 02:18 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Salem area, Oregon
Posts: 1,821
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Re: Story Time
Welcome! Still gotta learn that technique me own self. FishBob.
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12-15-2003, 02:55 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Gresham, OR
Posts: 1,093
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Re: Story Time
There ya go.
Welcome [img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img]
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12-15-2003, 05:09 PM
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Tuna
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 8,117
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Re: Story Time
Used to do some bobber and jig that way myself..always found November to be pretty hot and the week of thanksgiving I landed 11 for 4 trips all clipped. Keep at it they will come!!
Best jigs color was red/black 3/8oz. fished 8' below sliding bobber, tipped with a cooked prawn tail(natural undyed) rigged threaded with small end of tail hanging down.
Welcome aboard
NMBRCNCHR..?? Whats it stand for?
[ 12-15-2003, 06:13 PM: Message edited by: Fshklr ]
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12-15-2003, 05:30 PM
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Qualified Sturgeon Hugger
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Oak Grove
Posts: 37,222
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Re: Story Time
Fshklr
I think it is Number Cruncher.
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12-15-2003, 06:16 PM
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Tuna
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 8,117
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Re: Story Time
Thanks STGRule 
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12-16-2003, 07:15 AM
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Chromer
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Tri-Cities
Posts: 876
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Re: Story Time
Welcome :smile:
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12-16-2003, 07:47 AM
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Fry
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Bellevue
Posts: 15
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Re: Story Time
Number Cruncher it is. As for the technique I was using way back when, it is very popular on the Snake and Columbia rivers near Tri-Cities. Large jig tipped w/whole shrimp under a bobber (not float). Over the past several years I have picked up drift fishing and now I predominately float fish. Much more effective at presenting bait where the fish are. Much thanks to some buddies of mine for showing me the float fishing ropes, I will rarely drift fish anymore.
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12-16-2003, 05:31 PM
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Chromer
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Grandview, Oregon
Posts: 633
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Re: Story Time
Welcome. :smile:
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12-16-2003, 05:50 PM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Salmon Creek,Wa.
Posts: 328
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Re: Story Time
Welcome aboard! Now how about sharing some of those bass catching secrets from the tri-cities area?
JB
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12-16-2003, 11:00 PM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: North Portland
Posts: 152
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Re: Story Time
Welcome to Ifish!
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12-16-2003, 11:34 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Forest Grove, OR
Posts: 9,070
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Re: Story Time
Welcome!
-jokester
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