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Title: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: Steelhawk on February 08, 2006, 07:34:30 PM
With all the great reports at the lower river, I decide to hit the lower early to have a good chance for a hatch.  Made the best effort to get up early but by the time me & my partner hit 'the all popular run' every one knows, it was past 7:30am, and we could hardly get into the crowded run.  Must be over 20 guys there. It was slow there, but one hatch was landed just when I got there. Then nothing happened for over an hour for the entire run, both sides. We started to move into a run below.  It was a mistake as I was told later that the popular run heated up later with around 10 fish hooked in the tail out.

As I walked down river, my phone rang, so I untied my waist belt & bag with fish knife attached, as the phone was in my pant pocket far down on my breathable wader.  That proves another mistake, because I forgot about the whole thing after answering the phone. If another FWR member picked it up, please PM me. Thanks.

I moved into a run where it was reported 3 fish were hooked earlier.  Well not for me, so I looked further downstream and noticed a guy playing a fish in another lower run.  I decided to head down to check out.  It was a beauty 12 lb hatch. The nice thing is, the guy is done, and the whole run on my side is by myself.  I worked through the riffle with blade but no take, then I reworked the run with shimp imitation baited with shrimp meat.  Then at the tail out, wham, a steelie inhaled the shrimp imitation and I was into a short battle with a small fish.  It came in after a short fight, and is a small 8lb hatch doe. Way to go, fresh fish for dinner.  Here is the pix:

After this, the opposite side of the run really heated up, and two good sized steels were landed.  I could see Chris across with his tubes trying to see if they were wild, but they were both hatch and bonked.  Afterwards, another hatch was bonked by a flyfisher.

In the afternoon, as I was waiting patiently for my partner to get his fish, guess who shows up on our side of the river with a bag full of trash & garbage & a ML hat - who else but the legendary Chris.  He is such a great & unselfish guy doing such an unselfish service for the river & the fish. I salute the guy.   I called out to him and introduced myself.  He was delighted to meet another FWR fisher and we had a nice chat along the river bank.  It was my honour to meet the legend face to face finally. He said he tubed a wild fish of his own earlier in the same run before I came down.  We both agreed that this season so far has turned out to be one of the best in memory.

The weather was great. Couldn't ask for a better day. The river is not too high, a bit coloured in the morning but clearing up during the day with 4-5 ft visibility.  Go get them guys. The fish are there in large number.  With all the fishermen I talked to and tallying up the # fish seen hooked by them in different locations, it is around 25 fish today. Tight line.
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: Sterling C on February 08, 2006, 08:33:47 PM
Sounds like a great day to be on the water. Thanks for the report.  ;)

 I can't see the pic for some reason, you may have to adjust coding.
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: Steelhawk on February 08, 2006, 08:38:45 PM
Biff, I can see the picture in my own display, so I don't know what's wrong.  Does anybody else have the same problem with no picture?
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: Big Steel on February 08, 2006, 08:40:59 PM
All I see is a small box with a red X!!  :-\ :)
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: allwaysfishin on February 08, 2006, 08:42:34 PM
ya, i can't see it either, but great report, saturday can't get here soon enough hehe
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: Sterling C on February 08, 2006, 08:45:11 PM
It's possible that we are not allowed to view the photo ie password protected.
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: troutbreath on February 08, 2006, 08:51:44 PM
I see the fish. If you stare at the red x long enough ::)
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: Steelhawk on February 08, 2006, 09:02:14 PM
Hmmm, I took the pic by my new cell phone, and it got sent to a Rogers online album.  I accessed the online album with my password and phone#, and copy the property of the picture with the URL detail.  Then I paste the URL inside the Image tag in the report.  I can see the display and no one else can.  What else can be done to post the picture?  Any suggestions?   I have done the same picture posting procedure with my Jan 18 report (4-fish day).  It seems like no one complained not seeing the pic then.  What happened in between?  See this Jan 18 posting:

http://www.fishingwithrod.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=9536.0


Does the pic show in the Jan 18 posting?
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: Sterling C on February 08, 2006, 09:14:50 PM
Nope the pic doesn't show  ???
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: Steelhawk on February 08, 2006, 09:29:19 PM
Well, thanks for the feedback guys. Too bad.  I need to figure out how to remove the password restriction, or find out how to download the pic from the cell to the PC.
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: Rodney on February 08, 2006, 09:31:04 PM
Hey funfish, email the photos to me at info@fishingwithrod.com. The URL in the image you provided is restricted, that's why no one else could view them. :) I'll post them up for you once I receive.
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: Big Steel on February 08, 2006, 09:33:19 PM
I think that there may have been one in the Steely Porn thread as well!! ;)
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: cohoslayer1 on February 08, 2006, 09:37:00 PM
i went out today and i hooked up with a beaty 12 -13lb  chrome wild steel. i hooked it on the first cast of the day and that was the only luck i had untill my float went down and i set the hook and my swivel down was gone ??? so i donna what happen but here are some pics

(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d63/cohoslayer/IMGP0305.jpg)

(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d63/cohoslayer/IMGP0306.jpg)
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: Boozi on February 08, 2006, 09:48:29 PM
Nice fish cohoslayer
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: DaN ThE MaN on February 08, 2006, 11:26:52 PM
DarN!, William you are Killing me!!! ;D Congrats on the steel

DaN
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: Sterling C on February 09, 2006, 06:25:17 AM
Cohoslayer, whats in its mouth?
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: Boozi on February 09, 2006, 03:07:31 PM
Cohoslayer, whats in its mouth?

looks to me like a 4 inch pink worm in its mouth
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: cohoslayer1 on February 09, 2006, 03:11:20 PM
ok what ever you say but  you will never know the true secert of the worm ;D ;D
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: Boozi on February 09, 2006, 06:20:26 PM
Does it have something to do with a licorish scent?
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: Fish Assassin on February 09, 2006, 06:26:19 PM
Does it have something to do with a licorish scent?

As in anise scent ? ;)
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: cohoslayer1 on February 09, 2006, 07:26:50 PM
NOPE NOPE AND NOPE ;D ;D :-X :-X
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: Bone Cross on February 09, 2006, 07:54:22 PM
00000, ooooooooooo, 0000000 I know ;) ;D ;D You better take that secret to the grave Cohoslayer, Or else! >:( ;)
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: Sterling C on February 09, 2006, 08:01:38 PM
Orange surveyors tape eh ;)
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: Bone Cross on February 09, 2006, 08:19:43 PM
You are good Biff ;)
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: Trout Slayer on February 09, 2006, 08:36:35 PM
The secret's out there.  ::)
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000309W92.01-A1SQJ55GUIVOGP._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: Big Steel on February 09, 2006, 08:43:31 PM
Thanks Slayer, I was waiting for someone to say that!!! :o ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: cohoslayer1 on February 09, 2006, 08:55:06 PM
it not about the bait it how you fish it ;D ;D
Title: Re: Vedder Feb 8 - lots of fish & meeting the legend
Post by: Big Steel on February 09, 2006, 09:02:28 PM
Yeah!!  You're right, you have to have a hook attached to it, with perhaps some line, then cast it into the water!! ;D ;D