Astoria 8/27

[Neptune]

I Went down Friday afternoon to try out my Buddy's "new to him" 17 ft. Arima and after fishing that evening with out any success we sayed we'll get up early and fish the tide change at 8:58, So up before dawn but with a good 8 hours sleep, we pull out of his place in Warrenton headed down to Corky for our bait and got in line "at lease 1 1/2 mile line" to launch at Hammond, but before you know it "less then an hour" we where getting our lines wet. There was a guy at Hammond directing boat and moving things right along and I personally felt inclined to give him a $5 tip and tell hem he's doing a great job. hell with out him we could have missed the tide change. Well we where trolling down by the sand pile and I seen a lot bait fishing jumping around and said to Fred " he's the PROUD OWNER of his new to him 17 Ft. Arima" look there, there got to be something chasing thought bait fish around. I look at the clock and it was 8:58 and said the changing was here and at 9:00 my pole started dancing Fred got this Big smile on his face :grin: "Lucky boat he was thinking" and I'm thinking I'm one of the 10 percent and we landed this nice 25 pound-er. I've sent a pic to Ampersat and hopely he'll have time to post them for me.

Tite Lines.
Scott

[ampersat]

[Wrangler]

Nice fish!
Always good to bloody the boat with fresh fish blood so it knows what its all about!

[ArimaRees]

That guy at hamond was doing a great job and i told him so. Nice fish and nice boat ,we did pretty good too.