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Picture Of The Month



SD2OR with a trophy fall walleye

Topic: Detroit Report, 5/11/22  (Read 1165 times)

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SD2OR

  • Salmon
  • ******
  • Location: Eugene, OR
  • Date Registered: Jul 2020
  • Posts: 619
What a day.....
Started out pretty perfect, on the water about 6am, and soon after, got my personal best fly rod trout.

Hooked another almost as big on my longline, while I was still dealing with the first one.
Then nothing for over an hour.

Then Lawyer Bob arrived, with a bunch of new tips and tactics for kokes, giving me a bunch of confidence. It didn't take him long to get his first. No one around me seemed to have any trouble getting kokanee in the boat. Sure I had drive by's, but nothing more for a long time.

In that long time, I had every kind of mishap and tangle imaginable. Lawyer Bob probably thinks I am crazy, or at the least have anger issues, due to the ample swearing I emitted.
He however, steadily caught more kokes, and got way more bites than I.

After a while, I had lost two complete rigs, flashers and all. I admittedly made a few bonehead mistakes. Even that aside, the complications and struggles were relentless, defied the law of probabilities, in my opinion.

Got everything straightened out for a while, and picked up some more trout. All decent in size, but as energetic as bumps on a log. Recent transplants, still slightly atrophied from farm life, I assume. Then I fouled my downrigger beyond worth messing with, and my favorite reel, which I thought I had fixed, froze up, again.

So, more out of necessity than desire, I started trolling a beautiful shiny orange fly, generously given to me with a bunch of others, by a very kind NWKA member. Pretty sure he tied it himself. Regardless, it caught me my first ever bug wand koke.

So, at the end of the almost 12 hour day, I ended up with a limit of decent, albeit listless trout, and two kokes. Before I lost and or damaged, an ample amount of gear, I was running the exact same rigs, in the exact same way, in the exact same place, that others were limiting kokanee on. Just one of those days.

At least I wasn't skunked, but man did I have to work for it! Thanks for all the help and advice Lawyer Bob, and thanks for all the beautiful flies, you know who you are.     
A day without fishing probably wouldn't kill me,
but why risk it?

3rd Place AOTY 2023

3rd Place ORC 2023

1st Place Team Event BCS 2023
12th Place Individual BCS 2023

2nd Place AOTY 2022
1st Place Tiny Fish Slam 2022



2007 Red Hobie Outback "Serenity"
2021 Camo Hobie Outback "Lagertha"


rogerdodger

  • Fish Retriever
  • Sturgeon
  • *******
  • roger
  • Location: Florence OR
  • Date Registered: Dec 2012
  • Posts: 1490
excellent, if everything went smoothly on every outing all this fun might get boring...
2019 Hobie Outback (Fish Retriever)



LawyerBob

  • Rockfish
  • ****
  • Location: Beaverton, Oregon
  • Date Registered: Jun 2015
  • Posts: 187
Hah, I’d bet we’ve all had days where it seems the entire cosmos conspires against us. Tends to happen to me when I’m tired.

One of my personal bests was on land, when I was walking through the forest in pitch black to get to a salmon hole. Half way there, my headlamp decided to jump off my head. It then tumbled down a slope  and turned off. I’ve never seen a darker dark than that moment.

Didn’t have a smart phone back then, so after 30 min of blindly fumbling around, I ended up having to just wait for the sun to come up. I then tumbled down a different embankment and ultimately got skunked after feeding the river some gear.

Sure made the 2 hour, 3:30 am drive to the coast in fall amusing.


LawyerBob

  • Rockfish
  • ****
  • Location: Beaverton, Oregon
  • Date Registered: Jun 2015
  • Posts: 187
Got pretty windy out there, but a nice day overall.


C_Run

  • Sturgeon
  • *******
  • Location: Independence, OR
  • Date Registered: Apr 2011
  • Posts: 1214
Nice job, guys. Too bad about the gear loss.


Saltydog0

  • Perch
  • ***
  • Location: NW
  • Date Registered: May 2012
  • Posts: 94
I'm going to miss fishing that lake.


SD2OR

  • Salmon
  • ******
  • Location: Eugene, OR
  • Date Registered: Jul 2020
  • Posts: 619
Thank you C_Run n Roger!
Yeah Salty, you introduced me to Detroit, and I've always done ok to really well there.
Never been skunked.
Gonna miss ya!
Please send pics of the fish ya catch in Texas!
A day without fishing probably wouldn't kill me,
but why risk it?

3rd Place AOTY 2023

3rd Place ORC 2023

1st Place Team Event BCS 2023
12th Place Individual BCS 2023

2nd Place AOTY 2022
1st Place Tiny Fish Slam 2022



2007 Red Hobie Outback "Serenity"
2021 Camo Hobie Outback "Lagertha"