Back to the Clack
I came home and ran my last two trips of the week on the Clackamas the last two days. Good fishing for a weekend dispite all the boats. When it gets crowded we have to move around a lot and fish around all the weekend crowd.
We caught three yesterday and five today.
Today was special, I had two new clients today. A husband and wife. Dave is a hard core and serious fishermen but his wife had never fished steelhead before, never even casted a rod. He hired me because he wanted to get her into a steelhead from a boat instead of dragging her on the bank were he usually fishes.
We started fishing around 8 and within the first half hour Dave got a nice little hen. Next pass I hooked up and said, "ladies turn". Not. She wanted to hook her own. Needless to say, as I write this I'm just about ready to sit down to a fresh steelhead dinner.
Any way, it was quiet for quite a while so we move around some and I hooked up again. This time Becky played it in, a beautiful wild buck, back he went.
We fished a while more, took a lunch/rest room break and then went back to fishing, it was lunch time for the fish too. It was my turn again, this time I released a bright hatchery buck. (I only have one space left on my tag)
We worked our way back up river until we were eventually at our starting point. After a few more passes and a few missed bites at 3:30 Becky hooked up and caught her very first steelhead, about a seven pound hen. Ya Hoo!!
We have been having to cover a lot of water in order to find fish (or find water to fish) and I haven't been seeing too many caught, maybe only about five today. Some spots have had up to six boats in them at any given time. And worse yet, some of those boats were anchor fishing like you would on the Willamette. Many times in places you wouldn't have a chance of taking a fish. These Clack fish are not moving in a big way so sitting at anchor is just going to cause problems with others and limit their own chances as well.
[ 12-30-2001: Message edited by: David Johnson ]</p>
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