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Topic: Minnowmagnet-style success  (Read 3021 times)

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BogFrogDawg

  • Herring
  • **
  • Location: Milwaukie, OR
  • Date Registered: Mar 2015
  • Posts: 26
I got my Trident last weekend and hit up the Sellwood shelf 4 times since, with no action. I'd never targeted salmon before, but did my best to follow the wisdom of Spot and rawkfish (great seminar - thanks for deluding me into thinking I could do this) and Minnowmagnet (was nice to meet you yesterday)

This morning I dropped into the drift and immediately had to avoid a boat that hooked up coming up at me. Before I could find bottom, fish on!  Spot was right, I think I waited 2 days before picking that rod up.  An 8-man crew stood down as I fought past their dock, gasping in despair as net and rod holder fouled. My first ever salmon was a nice bright 14#, taken just like they said.

New herring; good spin and I headed back up, sending it downwards at 30'.  Before I could find bottom, the reel started screaming. I thought I was hung, but the bottom started going East.  This one was bigger, sassier and took 5 big runs, but ended up in the same boat as the first. Not even 8:00am and I have to go home. Good problem to have I guess.

Serious hat tip to Minnowmagnet for sharing so generously his path to success and to Spot/rawkfish/NextAdventure for the details that backed up the stoke. 

The years thunder by. The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie on the shelves of patience....which shall it be: bankruptcy of purse or bankruptcy of life?  - Sterling Hayden, Wanderer


bb2fish

  • Sturgeon
  • *******
  • Location: Oregon
  • Date Registered: Feb 2013
  • Posts: 1501
THAT is exceptional.  BogFrogDawg. ;D


hdpwipmonkey

  • Sturgeon
  • *******
  • Location: Cornelius, OR
  • Date Registered: Nov 2014
  • Posts: 1499
Great Job!  I guess I need to go check out the Sellwood area...   ;D
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dberd

  • Salmon
  • ******
  • Location: The Couv
  • Date Registered: May 2011
  • Posts: 696
WOW.... Congrats! !!! Great narrative!
Damn chores. ....maybe tomorrow.
" History shows, again and again, how nature points out the folly of man"  BOC


C_Run

  • Sturgeon
  • *******
  • Location: Independence, OR
  • Date Registered: Apr 2011
  • Posts: 1244
You guys up there are making it look too easy!!


BogFrogDawg

  • Herring
  • **
  • Location: Milwaukie, OR
  • Date Registered: Mar 2015
  • Posts: 26
You guys up there are making it look too easy!!

Blood moon, blue moon or just luck smiling on the foolish. There have been a lot of boats out there toiling away - I stole this one.
The years thunder by. The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie on the shelves of patience....which shall it be: bankruptcy of purse or bankruptcy of life?  - Sterling Hayden, Wanderer


Mark Collett

  • Sturgeon
  • *******
  • Make It Happen
  • Location: Between the Willapa's
  • Date Registered: May 2011
  • Posts: 2022


Blood moon, blue moon or just luck smiling on the foolish. There have been a lot of boats out there toiling away - I stole this one.
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  And a very nice steal at that. Way to get lucky.
Life is short---live it tall.

Be kinder than necessary--- everyone is fighting some kind of battle.

Sailors may be struck down at any time, in calm or in storm, but the sea does not do it for hate or spite.
She has no wrath to vent. Nor does she have a hand in kindness to extend.
She is merely there, immense, powerful, and indifferent


Skidplate

  • Salmon
  • ******
  • Location: Gresham, OR
  • Date Registered: Mar 2012
  • Posts: 707
Good to meet you briefly this morning. They were some good looking fish for sure! Everyone was talking about the kayaker that knew what he was doing.
We stuck around until noon and only saw two more boated.

Fiskari did bring in a 6 inch sculpin on the last pass though.
My wife thinks fishing is merely guys wandering around like idiots swinging sticks in the air. Many of my trips prove how smart she really is.


Captain Redbeard

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  • Sturgeon
  • *****
  • Location: Portland, OR
  • Date Registered: May 2013
  • Posts: 3341
Suh-weet!!! First blood on the T15... You must be doing something right!


Dray

  • Lingcod
  • *****
  • Location: Tigard, OR
  • Date Registered: Apr 2011
  • Posts: 482
Sweet! Nicely done. I think we may have met Friday evening down there at Sellwood. Anyway, way to fill the freezer!
Dave


bb2fish

  • Sturgeon
  • *******
  • Location: Oregon
  • Date Registered: Feb 2013
  • Posts: 1501
Where do you guys launch for fishing the sellwood area?  Is there a parking or use fee?  Do you launch near SE Spokane St. or along the dock at Riverfront park?  Forgive me for asking, but it doesn't sound like much of a secret anymore...Sounds like there's a good crowd of kayaks in that area nowadays! 


Spot

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  • Cabby Strong!
  • Location: Hillsboro
  • Date Registered: Jul 2007
  • Posts: 5959
Awwwwwwwesom!  You're a quick study.  Way to put it all together.

-Mark-
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minnowmagnet

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  • aka That F'n minnowmagnet
  • Location: pdx
  • Date Registered: Jan 2012
  • Posts: 206
That is a killer story! Nice fishes and way to get it all done early. Tony, now that you know you are doing everything right, now all you have to do is go back out and kill em. Great post and awesome title!

As a P.S. I would like to warn everyone that if they meet this older gentleman out on the river, don't be beguiled by his laid-back demeanor and soft-spoken charm. In reality he is a cunning, fish-slaying machine with a particular blood-lust for springers!


ndogg

  • ORC
  • Sturgeon
  • *
  • "Fists of Fury"
  • Location: SW Portland
  • Date Registered: Sep 2009
  • Posts: 1767
Damn.  Congrats on your first two springers.
 


Kyle M

  • Salmon
  • ******
  • Location: Portland, Oregon
  • Date Registered: Jan 2012
  • Posts: 952
Sweet!  I saw a few boated this morning.