Fishing Report 8-8-05

I took Dave and Jo Greenberg from Vermont out on Monday for half a day on East and we did really well. Though the numbers were down from previous trips the quality more than made up for it. I guess it is unrealistic for me to think we can continue to average 16 plus fish an outing as we have the last 4 trips. Remember these are only half day trips and we are usually posting these numbers by 11:00 a.m. I'm just grateful that we have done as well as we have.

Dave was rip-jigging the leadcore set up mid morning when his 8 LB. hen struck. She came right to the top and jumped caring 5 colors of 27 Lb. lead line with her. Pretty impressive! The look on his face was priceless when he realized the size of the brown he had on. After some photos we put her back.

Jo's turn came a little later in the morning when we had moved out to work some water I use as a back up. Seeing a lot of kokanee on the screen, I put on one of my custom painted B-16 bombers. The 7 in. lure looks a lot like the kokanee that the browns are eating right now. With the rod set at 43 feet, we saw the rod bounce hard, and she was soon into the 6.5 LB. hookjaw. As you can tell by the look on her face in the photo, see wasn't having any fun at all!

Screamin' Drags, Rick