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Second time in as many weeks, got off work early and headed to the Skook. It was rainy today and the water was running at about 365 cfs, maybe a lil more. Fished below the corner hole and there were quite a few nice fish still rolling, which surprised me. Started drifting a nice little drop off and hooked up on the fourth cast, fought for about 30 seconds and popped off. Oh well. 3 casts later I hook up again and same result. Dang. I check my rig, start throwing again, and 4 casts later I'm on and I made sure to bury that hook. Finally landed the first fish and it was about a 6 pound hen.
Already having a great time, I decided to pull out the noodle rod for fun. 10'6', slow action, 4-6lb test rated....why not? Got rigged up and made about 7 attempts at casting but its really quite difficult going to such a light rod and not hooking trees and all. After making myself look like quite a noob, I proceeded to hook into a bigger fish than the first one and I never even had a chance at landing him. I really was putting about as much as the rod could handle on the fish and he made about 3 runs and on the fourth my rod went slack. He popped the 6 lb test. Shoot. Over the next couple of hours I hooked into 4 more fish and landed two of them. I have a pic on my phone of a Native buck that I caught and gently released, so I will try and post that.
On a side note, has anyone ever gotten really annoyed with someone who fishes next to you and doesn't do anything but set the hook about every 30 seconds? This guy moved down next to me and started doing this and it really ticked me off. I watch him snag two fish and he has the guts to tell me about how big they were and how he hooked them in the mouth. I called him a liar and had a few other words with him, but decided to just drop it because I wasn't goin to be able to change his ways.
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