Fishing Report 3-14/15-06

I had the opportunity to take Bob Deveny from Portland out on his first bull trout trip with me on Tues. and Wed. of this week. Bob and I meet last year at the Portland Show and then he booked a trip with me last spring for brown trout up in Newberry Crater. The highlight of that trip was a 7.5 LB. hookjaw brown that we mounted for him.

Due to some scheduling difficulties on both ends, we finally hooked up at the Cove Palisades ramp around noon on the 14th. I headed up to the "hot spot," and we got right after them. After a couple of 5 LB. bulls, Bob hooked a decent fish but we didn't really realize how big it was until it came out from under the boat. I immediately grabbed the net and soon we were looking at a gnarly hookjaw that was pushing right up to 11 LB. on my gripper scale. He has decided to have us mount it for him. We caught the 4 bulls in a little over an hour before the action subsided.

The next morning, we were really chomping at the bit to get after them. We started off right where we left off the night before.........sticking some nice fish. The first bull topped out at 8 Lb. All morning we were spanking the bulls with a fish or a bite about every 15 minutes, consistently. When things finally slowed up, we had caught 11 bulls and lost 5. The best bulls went 5,5,6,7,8, and 9 LB. We decided that we would try and get him one to take home and worked hard until the last 7 LB. bull was in the boat. We are continuing to stick them with flasher/herring rigs off downriggers.

Look for more reports this weekend as I have two more trips in the same number of days. I can't wait for it to get REALLY good!

Tight lines, Rick