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Topic: Okuma Low Profile Reel  (Read 2446 times)

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Oldhammer

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Went out on Siltcoos for likely the last time this winter.  I was primarily magnet fishing for my lost rods and reels from my October flip. (Thanks to the pb who held onto my coho while I righted the ship!)

I didn’t find the rods or reels so I took it as a sign to buy the Okuma 350 low profile I’ve been eyeing.  I marched into Bi-Mart ready to pay the full price and at checkout the total was 83.50!  I am now thanking the Siltcoos lake god for swallowing my old reel!


bogueYaker

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...I was primarily magnet fishing for my lost rods and reels from my October flip....

You just casually mention a spill and don't go into any detail? C'mon, don't be a monster! Deets!



rogerdodger

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the BiMart ad that I got has Okuma and Cascade Pro rods and reels 30% off through Nov.30.
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Crabman

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Trolled around Siltcoos for about four hours in search of my tag out coho and my lack of success means that I get to fish another day.  May have to try and stay away until a big rain pops the dam.  Nice meeting Oldhammer out there.  If you see him tell him I snagged both his rods and will sell them back to him for $100.  ( Just kidding)


Oldhammer

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...I was primarily magnet fishing for my lost rods and reels from my October flip....

You just casually mention a spill and don't go into any detail? C'mon, don't be a monster! Deets!

Oh the shame....November 6 I hit Siltcoos at 6:45 am.  I don't really know what I'm doing but with last winter's "scouting" missions and rogerdodger's encouragement in my head I am hopeful.  I approach Booth Island and work my way South along the east facing shoreline with a Black on Black spinner.  Cast, Retrieve, Remove weeds x 32.  Approach the south tip facing the pointy stump near the reeds.  Cast, Partial Retrieve, Pedal 10 yds and the rod dips.  Confident that it is another clump of Siltcoos Salad I retrieve with some level of irritation and all hell breaks loose.  Drag peels off and with the image of an underwater snag breaking off my line, I tighten and reel. 

After 3 to 5 minutes the chrome beauty is at my Yak.  I net him flawlessly without issue.   Once in the boat he is pissed.  I quickly learn that a 27 in Coho is very different than the lmb and rt I regularly catch.  Still, I bonk him and then grab my scissors to bleed him...at this point I begin to feel like I should be on the pro staff of some sponsor.  I lean to the side to bleed him as I've done 100s of times.  However, I quickly realize that this is a different task than bleeding an 18in rainbow and so I manuever quickly to make sure I don't drop him back in the lake.

And just like I've seen on youtube a hundred times when some idiot leans his head to far off the side, physics takes over and I reach the point of no return and I am now the idiot in the water with an upside down kayak.  I have a drysuit on but due to inertia I never practiced self-rescue during the dog days of summer.  I start to right my kayak then realize...MY COHO!  I see him floating away and swim to him.  Once re-united my hunter-gatherer brain takes over and he has become an extension of my arm which I refuse to part with.  I swim back to my kayak and try to right the ship while holding onto the fish....that really doesn't work too well.  I lean back into the water, survey the horizon and see a powerboat in the distance.  I wave my arm (the one not holding the fish) and it approaches me.  I let them know in no uncertain terms that I need some help.  Realizing I am whiteknuckling a coho, I offer him up and ask that they take good care of him while we figure this out.  With their assistance, I am back in my kayak in minutes.  They hand me back my fish and he goes in my kill bag. With much effusive gratitude from me, we part and I begin to pedal back feeling simultaneously elated and pissed.  I realize I am having a hard time seeing in the distance and realize I no longer have glasses.  I look around the deck and see that everything except my two rods and reels and a small Daves tangle free box of rings, snaps, and swivels is still where it belongs. 

I return to camp, dry everything out and fillet the coho.  It is only 10am!  I return to the lake the next day with a brand new steelhead spinning rod and reel I have been dreaming of.  I join a buddy on his sled and show him the ropes and after 3 hours of pounding the banks with spinners he pulls out a nearly identical coho. 

I love this fishery.  Thank you to rogerdodger for all his tips and advice.
« Last Edit: November 29, 2021, 12:53:37 PM by Oldhammer »


rogerdodger

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awesome story, made so much better because you didn't lose the fish.  ;D
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Stinger Hook

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Great story for sure!

This is a fish that you will remember. Fishing days and catches blend into each other as time goes by but a fish like this will always stick out.

Realizing that you are suddenly no longer wearing glasses brings back some memories for me of flipping in the ocean surf....


Crabman

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Anybody who prioritizes saving a freshly netted chrome salmon over their glasses is OK in my book brother!


YakHunter

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Ultimately a very expensive salmon.  More than usual I mean. ;)
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bogueYaker

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I figure most of us have at least one such learning story... Awesome that your story involves a retained fish! Echoing Stinger, unforgettable :)

Thanks for sharing. FWIW, my learning stories (yep, plural) involve more gear and fewer retained fish.
« Last Edit: November 29, 2021, 08:04:19 PM by bogueYaker »


[WR]

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Use search function and look up The Huli Club....plenty of stories to learn from.

Glad you were able to get help and still hang onto the fish..

Time to take a sled back to the,area and magnet fish for your gear  . Just don't keep any submerged cars if you drag one up   :tongue3: 
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skayaker2

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No shame at all, great story! Those are the moments when we learn the most in life and the ones we remember the most! When everything works it's just another fish!


 

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