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Chilliwack Feb 12th
« on: February 13, 2006, 11:31:41 AM »
Got to the River at 6:45 am Sunday morning... we sat and waited for the light to shine... started fishing around 7:15 or so... I was using some beauty chum roe bags I had made up...and of course I had my brand new Drennen Zeppler with that beautiful Canucks sticker!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D  Myself and a freind were flogging the bottom half of the run pretty good he was using shrimp and wool and I was using roe..I was fishing quite close to shore and then further and further out and then back again...  my line was drifting nicely about 20 feet out from shore..I was daydreaming and thinking of what combo I was going to try next... ::) ::)hmmm Jensen egg maybe????  as I am dreaming away my float shoots straight down... I immediately set the hook and I am rewarded with that awesome headshake I have been dreaming of!!!!!!!! ;D ;D Fish On!!!....  this beautiful doe breaks water 3-4 times .. and I can feel that she has a lil weight to her...after the accrobatics are over she decides to shoot straight downstream.. so I apply as much pressure as I dare with my 8 pound leader..she finally responds to my pulls about fifty feet below me and comes into a nice slow area close to shore..as I walk close to her I see that she is a hatchery.. now I have a decision to make... if I keep this fish my day is over at 7:30 am.... but this is my first steel of the year.. and I haven't been on the flow since Jan 1st... plus the fact that she is full of great roe..and she is clean as heck and around 12 lbs... I decide to retain her .....  all good she is a beauty.... so the rest of my day was spent watching my friends fish some beautiful water.. I was surprised how slow a day it was for most people.. all in all we saw three fish bonked including mine and one fish lost and one wild safely released...



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Re: Chilliwack Feb 12th
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2006, 01:09:19 PM »
Nice Fish! I would have done the same.  First fish of the year and clean as heck! So what, you get to spend the rest of your day doing other stuff....
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Re: Chilliwack Feb 12th
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2006, 01:44:43 PM »
i WISH i would have had that dilemma..nice fish and great shot of the cp..damn things almost make me want to fish one...almost...

oh and P.S. this isn't ventalator..just realized the ba$tard had logged in on my 'puter...good, he DOES fish a cp so that should have been his first post as well..
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Re: Chilliwack Feb 12th
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2006, 02:01:09 PM »
No offense but that fish looks to be alot smaller than 12lbs!  Beautiful fish though.
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Re: Chilliwack Feb 12th
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2006, 02:14:44 PM »
no offense taken.you just need better glasses... ;D ;D ;D ;D  we weighed it right on the beach it was actually 12-1/2 pounds before I gutted it..and I have witnesses ;D :o ;D :o ;D
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Re: Chilliwack Feb 12th
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2006, 02:16:24 PM »
See what happens when you are a body builder? ;) The fish in your hero shot always looks like a minnow. ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Chilliwack Feb 12th
« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2006, 02:18:10 PM »
yep hahaha  ;D ;D maybe I should have held it at arms lenth towards the camera....then it would have been 18 pounds!!! :P
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Re: Chilliwack Feb 12th
« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2006, 02:19:24 PM »
Quote from: Rodney on February 13, 2006, 02:16:24 PM
See what happens when you are a body builder? ;) The fish in your hero shot always looks like a minnow. ;D ;D ;D

The oppostie can be said for being short, eh Rodney?  ;)
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Re: Chilliwack Feb 12th
« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2006, 02:22:08 PM »
What are you talking about? I am actually 6 foot 6, 230lb... Photos are always so deceiving. ;)
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Re: Chilliwack Feb 12th
« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2006, 04:35:33 PM »
Hahaha will the witnesses please step forward ;)  And no logging in under a different name TR!!   hehe
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Re: Chilliwack Feb 12th
« Reply #10 on: February 13, 2006, 05:18:08 PM »
oh, 8lbs test leader, somebody use 12 - 15 lbs test leader ?
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Re: Chilliwack Feb 12th
« Reply #11 on: February 13, 2006, 05:22:07 PM »
I generally use 10 -12 lb leader for steelhead.....I changed to 8 lb today cause the water was very clear..maybe it was the difference..who knows??
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Re: Chilliwack Feb 12th
« Reply #12 on: February 13, 2006, 06:50:29 PM »
i think i saw u walking around with it in the black garbage bag, with the zip lock of roe on the side when u watched ur friend
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Re: Chilliwack Feb 12th
« Reply #13 on: February 14, 2006, 10:01:31 AM »
nope wasn't me... I carried her out as she was.. no garbage bag to hide her beauty hahaha ;D
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Re: Chilliwack Feb 12th
« Reply #14 on: February 14, 2006, 10:34:13 AM »
nice. I almost wish i woulda bonked my first hatch of the season but then I wouldnt have landed the wild and lost 3 other fish that same day :P
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