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I was trying to decide last week what trip to take, the short am with the family, the long road trip with the guys, or stay at home and get the yard in shape. With the gentle persuasion of Nibble Nuts, Mallardpin, and BRL1 we opted for the long rodie with the guys. It started off with my alarm clock going off at 2:00 am (man I am getting old, that is when I used to come home on Saturday nights!). You know what they say about that time on the road there are only drunks and fisherman on the road. I picked Nibble up at his house and we proceed to the meeting spot with Mallardpin and BRL1. We all must have been excited because we were bolth there about 20 min early! We headed up to the gorge and the plan was to launch from sheep creek bay at first light, we were actually there when it was dark so we took the time to load the boat and ready the rods. Sorry for the links but my work computer has some bug that isn't allowing me to edit the shots. Here is some of the pretty colors of the gorge:

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BRL1 started us off with a nice healthy male rainbow in the very pretty spaning colors we taped it at 18 1/2 inches a nice start to the day!

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The trolling was very slow and we were marking very few fish all morning. Nibble had a hookup on the topwater rod but it managed to esacpe and that was the trolling action for the day kinda for the gorge. We did happen to find one pod of fish and stopped to jig for them. Mallardpin had the hot rod:


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He also caugh himself a little MAC:

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Nibble nuts was wanting to catch a lake trout because his only attempt the fish got away. The fishing gods d at him with this nice 23 1/2 4LB mac a pup to most but a nice fish and what we came here for:

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As you might have noticed I got the big skunk job for the gorge, I guess I was just the designated driver of the boat. This wouldn't be an Orvis1 report without some lunch shots, we stopped at the lodge and had some george burgers they were delicious:

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Sounds like you had a good time, even though you personally didn't catch fish. I had a boatful this weekend too and got to watch a lot of fish get caught! Its a lot of fun to help get friends and family into fish. I fished WY and put my report on that board. Caught tons of kokes on sunday! Best numbers so far on the season, but still wating to start getting into the big ones this year.

Thanks for the report. Couldn't ask for better spring weather at the Gorge!
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Great report orvis1. The Gorge will always reward someone with scenery, enjoyment, and fish.

Perhaps you were too sleepy from the drive to there, and that interfered with your fishing skills? [] Just kidding, that is the way it is sometimes.[]
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