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well just got back we headed out early sat morning and finaly hit the river at around 2:30 didnt have a whole lot of luck sense the river was looking more like a parade line with the boats and ppl lined up... but my buddy and his boy each caught one before we called it a day and headed up to make camp. sunday we hit a whole i had never fished called "the shute" and we did well as a trip but i didnt do very good we ended up taking 13 fish out and landed probly a half dozen more but i only landed 1 wild one. had probly 10 hooked but couldnt get them banked... but it kept my spirits high to see the others catching fish. I was helping my buddy land his reached down to tail it and it took off and his second hook hit my hand and broke the line. It felt like it was just under the skin so i was going to grab the fish again when i noticed the hook was in my hand clear to the bend!!! So i had another buddy land the fish while i though wtf do i do now!! All i have to say is thank heavens the hook was barbed clean.... i had to pull fairly hard to get it out but very little pain luckly. Any of you ever been hooked deep like that? Today was cold in the morning and we went back to the shute but fish didnt seem to be moving we did land 1 and have a couple more on as a group but i never felt a fish. headed home around 3. We stopped and ate at the lone pine there over the hill from Lomas i tell you what i fyou like a huge hamburger you have gotta try it.
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I've been hooked deep a couple of times. The first time about a 12" bass hit a Pop-R and was hooked by the front hook. He flipped out of my hand and all of his weight buried the tail hook to the bend right in the crook between my thumb and pointer finger. The worst part was that I was maybe 13 and so my friend and I had been dropped off to fish. I still had a few hours before my mom was supposed to get us, and I couldn't really hold the rod. My friend kept nailing them and I just had to watch. That thing was not coming out. I tried hacking at it with my cheap Swiss Army knockoff, but it wasn't going to happen. I had to go to instacare and get the thing cut out. Strangely it didn't hurt at all.
Another time I was using a dry/dropper rig for trout and a decent brown took my dry. He slipped out of my hand while I was trying to pick him up, and he buried the dropper deep into my finger. I didn't have wire cutters with me, so I pushed the barb through the other side of my finger and mashed it with my hemostats and then pulled it out. The bad thing is that the material wrapped pretty far down the bend of the hook, so I had to really push and work the point out the other side. It was kind of unpleasant. I mostly fish catch and release, but I ate that fish.
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I stuck a size 2 sculpin pattern deep into my thumb. Had to row my pontoon three more miles before I got out. Then my wife held my hand down while I pushed the hook through and bent the barb.
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we arived down there late thur night got the trailer cleaned up and hit the hay didnt sleep much. when we got up the sun was just peekin out and we were on the run i wanted to fish shell cr but my buddy said let's try down below the middle see if we cant catch some big wild fish, well it was on we got to the spot not even sure of a name of the spot and started stackin fish ,i got nine all wild not one hatchery fish the first day oh well it was a ball ,got one real nice fish at 35'' i think my best salmon steelhead. the next morning found us geting up early to get the spot well we got to are spot and some one had set up camp so we went down stream away's and ended up by 9 am moveing back up to the spot and pushing are way in just below 50yd below were i ws the day before .my secound cast i got a nice wild but still no hatchery fish for me my buddy dan and jeff both taged out by 2pm and i still had not taged a fish well thing's would changes as around 3pm i caught 3 hatchery fish in 3 cast's and 2 more to tag me out for the day just before the sun went down. we didnt want to just get up and drive home but we didnt want to be driving 600ml in the dark so we fished till none and caught 7hatchery fish and 3 wild's before we had to head home helgies in purple worked ok but yarn rocked all my good fish were on yarn cant wait to come back in a couple week's hopefully it will get cold and keep the fairweather fans down.
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you guys are making me sick! i cant go but for a day trip next week on sunday.
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That is a dandy indeed for the Salmon River. Congrats, fish larger than 34" are very very rare. I too am getting very jealous and anxious to get up for some steelhead. I watched the dam counts every single day of the run, and have heard about 200 reports now, and I gotta tell ya it's been T-O-R-T-U-R-E!
That fish almost looks like it has been opercle punched in your pic. Once again, congrats on a beautiful fat steelie.
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wow!
that is huge!
nice job...
First time I went was 4 years ago in march and I was skunked on 3 days of fishing! I wish I could go back this fall....
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hey thanks it was a great weekend weather was good river was crowded but great as allways cant wait to hit it again in a couple week's. oh what the hell is oprecle punched? is this one to?
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thanks very interesting learn some thing every day[laugh]
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wanted to stop and bs with you at ebanizer but the elbow to elbow scred us off and we had a long track to hall to get home u guy's allso passed us sat night as we were loading up to head back to camp maybe next time we can hook up and trade secrects. i will be back in a couple week's.ASH
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well there is allways next time, i didnt relize it was you guy's till you drove by sat evening. oh and ya i feel your pain on the hook deal, i got an 8/0gamakatsu jig hook that i use on lake trout right throw the palm of my hand and it exited the back. when my buddy cut it of and jurked it, it had a snag on it and allmost riped my hand in half or it felt like it hurt like a SOB.thats the only one ever i hope. funny thing there was 3 other white dodge cummins from wyo fishing the same stretch as we were will give better details next time.
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I was 12ish when my grandpa hooked me in the neck in his cast, he thought he snaged a tree and kept on jerking, and sunk it deeper, steelienut got a big luagh out of it, good for him i guess.
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