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Went out yesterday in the Multnomah Channel to fish for shad... my first time ever. Man are those little guys fun and they fight hard.
For all you first timers, dont set the hook just pick it up and start reeling... had to figure that one out the hard way as I think we crackered our first 25 bites. :hoboy:
Bite was pretty slow in the morning but as the tide picked up so did the fishing. After a while we must have had a bite every 2 minutes :dance:
One of my buddies was using a fly rod and had his fair share of action when all of a sudden the rod takes a mighty dip and a huge run. To make a somewhat long story short he battled a 12-15lb springer for about 5 minutes before we figrued out it was not a large shad and by the time we were dropping off to chase it came off. :hoboy:
Still had a great day filled with shad-o-riffic pound downs and a flyrod springer fight. :grin:
:cheers:

Bite was pretty slow in the morning but as the tide picked up so did the fishing. After a while we must have had a bite every 2 minutes :dance:
One of my buddies was using a fly rod and had his fair share of action when all of a sudden the rod takes a mighty dip and a huge run. To make a somewhat long story short he battled a 12-15lb springer for about 5 minutes before we figrued out it was not a large shad and by the time we were dropping off to chase it came off. :hoboy:
Still had a great day filled with shad-o-riffic pound downs and a flyrod springer fight. :grin:
:cheers: