Got to the river around noon. Explored Yarrow Wilson section of river. Then moved up to a more popular run. Amazing, no one there at around 1 PM. Fished off the trees from the Yarrow side to back away from staring at the sun. With a bright day, and water is a bit clear (not gin clear like last week), I focused on shady area with slick water. Found a nice log in the river with deep rifle flow in the shade. Casted to the riffle with my dependable lure. WHAM, a steelie took it with the first cast. It was a heavy fish, and as it made a jump, I estimated it to be around 15lb. After a while, it decided to head for the log while I tried to horse it back down. Too bad, I was using a 10 lb big game leader that I took last week's fish. I should have changed it as I was fishing near to a log. It was a heavy fish, way too hard to control with a light leader. Well, the fish won its freedom (every time I was in a tug-of-war with a fish, I lost) as the leader knot gave way.
Then changed up with a 12 lb leader, & casted in the general area for about 10 minutes, including the front of the log, which can hide a steelie. There was none there. I decided to risk loosing my lure to cast close to the outside of the log, and bring it in right at the side of the log, and WHAM, another steelie hit the blade. This is a relatviely smaller fish, and this time I had 12 lb leader. It was landed in about 5 minutes, what a beauty chrome wild doe of about 10lb. After that I moved up river to the top of the run but to no avail. Talked to one guy on the way out, and he said he had 2 fish also earlier in the Peach area. What a great sunny day to be out, and blessed by the steelie god that two fresh chromes were in wait for me. Tight Line.
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Topic: Vedder March 12 (Read 6092 times)