02-18-2009, 04:59 AM
sorry for the delay gentlemen i was literally in the process of writing my report for you guys last night when i looked over at my two year old son and he had something in his mouth at about the same time he pulled it out and said yucky and handed me a half desolved pill.[crazy] my wife and i had no idea what this pill was so i rushed him up to the hospital where him and i sat for 6 hours while they watched him and tried to find out what this half gone pill was. well they never found out what the pill was and everything turned out ok with the little bugger thank the lord.[
] now if i can just get him to quit putting crap in his mouth.[mad]
so now here ya go my report we arrived in shoup around 9:00 am on the 14th and it was cold! cold! cold! as we drove down the river we could see that the slush ice on the river was horrible. and the water color was a light green wich is good. we started fishing at owl creek and hit holes all the way up to corn creek the shelve ice was scary in places and kept us from getting into some holes the slush ice was so bad that 9 times out of 10 your bait couldnt make it down to where the fish were and if it did you couldnt tell the difference between bottom, fish, or ice bumping into your line. around 2:00 pm the slush ice started to thin out and made it possible to actually fish but you had to dodge drifting patches of ice. which was quite frequent, i only touched 2 fish the first day and they only hung on long enough to give me a little run than let the line go limp like nothing happened. my two buddy's never even got into a fish on the first day, i used a pinkworm setup for the first half of the day and hooked into my first fish that i lost. the second half of the day i used a black helgie with a silver corky and hooked into the second one.
on the second day the slush ice was just as bad we fished owl creek almost all day because it had the most open water but mind you it still wasnt easy. i bottom bounced roe all day and i hooked into 3 fish and was fortunate enough to land one. the first two did the exact same thing the two the day before did held on long enough to let me know that they were fish and then blam limp line i had the same exact problam in novembor when i went up. i dont know what im doing wrong ive never had a problam like it before. the fish i did land was around 5:00pm starting to get dark i was in the middle of a conversation with one of my buddies when i was interupted mid way through my drift when a little hen hit my roe so hard she dang near ripped my pole in the water. i slammed the hook into her and she followed up by coming to the surface and roling over and over and over again she just would not quit roling it was like she was thinking about jumping but couldnt work up the nerve to do it. this lasted about 5 to 6 minutes then she gave up and let me real her into my buddy waiting with the net. she was a bueatiful fish almost chrome but she was starting to change over to green and pink she measured up at 25 inches and 5lbs just a baby but made the whole trip worth it to me. one of my buddies hooked into two different fish on a black helgie with a silver corkie but he had the same prob i had the whole trip they spit the hook and the other one never hooked into a fish on the second day.
on the 3rd day we fished closer to the city at the park hole and the sewer hole from 8:00 am to 11:00 and i only had one hit drifting roe in this time frame niether one of my buddies had a single hit so we loaded up and headed to challis to see if we could get into a fish at deer gulch or by the hatchery we fished deer gulch for an hour with no hits so we moved on to the hole in front of the hatchery stream we fished there for an hour and my buddy hooked into a descent hen that was solid chrome and faught him for about 7-8 minutes he got it close to the bank and right as the net was going down the steelhead spun funny and the hook just slid right out so now im thinking its these damn mustad steelhead hooks the way they are shaped ive used them before and never had a prob. any one else ever had a prob with mustad steelhead hooks in size one and two? it was 2:00 pm when we left the river and headed home through challis and we stopped and marvelled at mount bora for a few minutes and stopped at pickles place in arco on the way home they have great burgers it was good times
any ways all in all it was a fun trip i alway love being on the salmon river even if the fishing is not good my friends and i had a blast doing kareoke at the bar and we got to hang out fishing for three days i got a couple nice pics of some things i think you guys would like i didnt take as many pics as i normally do because i focused on fishing this time.
1. my tough little hen
2. run off frozen coming down the side of a cliff
3.sheep
4.more sheep
5. same sheep lol
6. bora
7. bora up close
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] now if i can just get him to quit putting crap in his mouth.[mad]so now here ya go my report we arrived in shoup around 9:00 am on the 14th and it was cold! cold! cold! as we drove down the river we could see that the slush ice on the river was horrible. and the water color was a light green wich is good. we started fishing at owl creek and hit holes all the way up to corn creek the shelve ice was scary in places and kept us from getting into some holes the slush ice was so bad that 9 times out of 10 your bait couldnt make it down to where the fish were and if it did you couldnt tell the difference between bottom, fish, or ice bumping into your line. around 2:00 pm the slush ice started to thin out and made it possible to actually fish but you had to dodge drifting patches of ice. which was quite frequent, i only touched 2 fish the first day and they only hung on long enough to give me a little run than let the line go limp like nothing happened. my two buddy's never even got into a fish on the first day, i used a pinkworm setup for the first half of the day and hooked into my first fish that i lost. the second half of the day i used a black helgie with a silver corky and hooked into the second one.
on the second day the slush ice was just as bad we fished owl creek almost all day because it had the most open water but mind you it still wasnt easy. i bottom bounced roe all day and i hooked into 3 fish and was fortunate enough to land one. the first two did the exact same thing the two the day before did held on long enough to let me know that they were fish and then blam limp line i had the same exact problam in novembor when i went up. i dont know what im doing wrong ive never had a problam like it before. the fish i did land was around 5:00pm starting to get dark i was in the middle of a conversation with one of my buddies when i was interupted mid way through my drift when a little hen hit my roe so hard she dang near ripped my pole in the water. i slammed the hook into her and she followed up by coming to the surface and roling over and over and over again she just would not quit roling it was like she was thinking about jumping but couldnt work up the nerve to do it. this lasted about 5 to 6 minutes then she gave up and let me real her into my buddy waiting with the net. she was a bueatiful fish almost chrome but she was starting to change over to green and pink she measured up at 25 inches and 5lbs just a baby but made the whole trip worth it to me. one of my buddies hooked into two different fish on a black helgie with a silver corkie but he had the same prob i had the whole trip they spit the hook and the other one never hooked into a fish on the second day.
on the 3rd day we fished closer to the city at the park hole and the sewer hole from 8:00 am to 11:00 and i only had one hit drifting roe in this time frame niether one of my buddies had a single hit so we loaded up and headed to challis to see if we could get into a fish at deer gulch or by the hatchery we fished deer gulch for an hour with no hits so we moved on to the hole in front of the hatchery stream we fished there for an hour and my buddy hooked into a descent hen that was solid chrome and faught him for about 7-8 minutes he got it close to the bank and right as the net was going down the steelhead spun funny and the hook just slid right out so now im thinking its these damn mustad steelhead hooks the way they are shaped ive used them before and never had a prob. any one else ever had a prob with mustad steelhead hooks in size one and two? it was 2:00 pm when we left the river and headed home through challis and we stopped and marvelled at mount bora for a few minutes and stopped at pickles place in arco on the way home they have great burgers it was good times
any ways all in all it was a fun trip i alway love being on the salmon river even if the fishing is not good my friends and i had a blast doing kareoke at the bar and we got to hang out fishing for three days i got a couple nice pics of some things i think you guys would like i didnt take as many pics as i normally do because i focused on fishing this time.
1. my tough little hen
2. run off frozen coming down the side of a cliff
3.sheep
4.more sheep
5. same sheep lol
6. bora
7. bora up close
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