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TroutSlayer wrote:Thanks Wolfe, the water was very low, which made hanging onto the big ones in the sticks real tuff. When the river is up, there is more room to "stear" or point the fish away from the snags.
What do they do, TS, wrap you around the sticks and then break off? Is that what happened with the female trout you had on there in the one picture? Do they tend to break water more in the shallows (by the way, do they actually jump, like a bass does?).... ?
W.
Thanks, Dad, for taking me fishing when I was a kid.
TroutSlayer wrote:Thanks Wolfe, the water was very low, which made hanging onto the big ones in the sticks real tuff. When the river is up, there is more room to "stear" or point the fish away from the snags.
What do they do, TS, wrap you around the sticks and then break off? Is that what happened with the female trout you had on there in the one picture? Do they tend to break water more in the shallows (by the way, do they actually jump, like a bass does?).... ?
W.
They do jump Wolfe, I find when the hook stings them in the roof of their mouth, they really go crazy and take to the air.
With the low water, there really is nowhere for the fish to run, but over and under logs in some pools. What happened with the big hen I lost was, she slammed the spawn sac on the other side of the river and ran upstream. I managed to play her for a minute when she made a run under a submerged branch. While I was trying to position myself to work around that, she was still taking line and went around a few more logs. Finally, I could no longer feel her at the end of my bent over 11 foot rod. At that point it was goodby fishy. In this case, the fish never did jump. All of the logs and branches she wove through were underwater.
TS, is that an original Cardinal 4 zebco reel there on the right? My old man loves his, barely puts it down (and still outfishes me when we get out!)
If so, niiiice rig it's clean.
Graembo wrote:TS, is that an original Cardinal 4 zebco reel there on the right? My old man loves his, barely puts it down (and still outfishes me when we get out!)
If so, niiiice rig it's clean.
G
Yes sir! That's a 1975 vintage, the other is a 1980 4X, a bit faster, but the same reel Both have after market "Dick Swan" aluminum spools.
Graembo wrote:TS, is that an original Cardinal 4 zebco reel there on the right? My old man loves his, barely puts it down (and still outfishes me when we get out!)
If so, niiiice rig it's clean.
G
Yes sir! That's a 1975 vintage, the other is a 1980 4X, a bit faster, but the same reel Both have after market "Dick Swan" aluminum spools.
TS: Aluminum spool?!! Pops always ends up looking for the plastic ones that he'll bust/warp somehow every 1-2 yrs. Where do you get these aluminum spools???
