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Silvery Start to 2009


MJL

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It’s been an awfully long time since I’ve fished in March for anything – The last 4 years I usually had mid-term exams and assignments due at this time of year. I managed to get out for a few hours today from 9am-12pm. Scouted out a couple of tribs but they were quite muddy. I ended up fishing a small trib that I didn’t even know had steelhead in it till a couple of days ago. It pretty much looked like a drainage ditch with lots and lots of wood about.

 

In the rush to get out of the house, I forgot my roe, single eggs, soft plastic tubes, flies, jigs, kwikfish and spinners at home…I only had pink worms with me in my wading jacket.

 

I tried pink worms for most of my time there but couldn’t get any fish to take. One angler who was leaving put some uber-stinky roe bags in an empty coffee cup and gave it to me to try. I stuck a chartreuse coloured roe bag on my hook and my first 2 drifts in I had a few light taps register on the float...3rd drift I got a hookup.

 

I didn’t really plan out what I was going to do if I got a hookup. I had a 13+ft rod with lots of wood both in the water and overhead…The fish made me go through all the position found in the Kama Sutra when it decided to go crazy. I was ducking under branches and guiding the line between some submerged roots. On top of that I slipped and fell on my ass twice during the fight – Mud and felt soles don’t mix.

 

I got to test out my new digi-cam on this small silvery buck of around 3-4lbs

 

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Kudos to the angler that hooked me up with bait. Hopefully that fish was the first of many to come this year.

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Great looking piece of chrome ... speaking of drainage ditches... dont laugh ... but a few years (ok more than a few) back we were driving around hwy 26 near thornbury and pulled over to watch the trout swimming up stream in a drainage ditch .... not a trib ... a drainage ditch ... was tooo much ... especially since the season was still closed so they were safe :)

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I have a feeling that if you didn't even have pinkies, you'd be finding some brush that looked like bugs to put on your hook!

 

I was fairly close to the point of taking a pair of scissors to the squirrel I saw plastered to the road and making some flies or jigs...It wouldn't be the first time :D

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