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kzoo
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by kzoo » Fri Jul 15, 2011 2:18 pm
curado wrote:way to go kzoo and everybody else. and i have found a new area i am gonna start hitting very very hard.
Thanks guys, good to get out.
Curado, couldn't reply your PM. Said something about you're not registered on the forum? I'll ask Mike Carey to see what's up.
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jens
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by jens » Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:04 pm
I went 1/3. I lost a monster that broke a RVRFSHR jighead in half and lost another one that opened up on me. This one measured 28inches but was super small compared to the brutes that swam away both fish were over 14lbs. My heart hurts.
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Brian253
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by Brian253 » Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:34 pm
wow jensen way to go!!! Maybe one time we can hook up and you can teach me how to fish! This drift fishing thing just isn't working out for steel, but I'm scared to try anything new!! Any advice?:-$
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jens
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by jens » Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:57 pm
Brian253 wrote:wow jensen way to go!!! Maybe one time we can hook up and you can teach me how to fish! This drift fishing thing just isn't working out for steel, but I'm scared to try anything new!! Any advice?:-$
Thank you for the kind words, don't be scared. Trying new things can be frightening to many. You look like you work out and can bench press 225lbs? I suggest to not give up on drift fishing. Maybe lengthen your leader and go to a 2 oz cannoball? "Grip and Rip" as they say, it works for some. I can only lead you to water my friend, are you thirsty?
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fear_no_fish
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by fear_no_fish » Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:30 pm
curado wrote:way to go kzoo and everybody else. and i have found a new area i am gonna start hitting very very hard.
yeah seriously, looks like we should have stayed a little longer
My rod and reel, they comfort me.
"Believe nothing of what you hear and half of what you see."
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EAmon___hoffman123
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by EAmon___hoffman123 » Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:37 pm
Gringo are you putting sandshrimp on your jig?
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jens
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by jens » Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:48 pm
fear_no_fish wrote:curado wrote:way to go kzoo and everybody else. and i have found a new area i am gonna start hitting very very hard.
yeah seriously, looks like we should have stayed a little longer
You guys left the Sky to go play tennis?
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Gringo Pescador
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by Gringo Pescador » Fri Jul 15, 2011 6:33 pm
EAmon___hoffman123 wrote:Gringo are you putting sandshrimp on your jig?
Nope
I fish not because I regard fishing as being terribly important, but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant, and not nearly so much fun. ~ John Volker
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kzoo
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by kzoo » Fri Jul 15, 2011 6:47 pm
fear_no_fish wrote:curado wrote:way to go kzoo and everybody else. and i have found a new area i am gonna start hitting very very hard.
yeah seriously, looks like we should have stayed a little longer
Small school started coming up downstream.
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curado
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by curado » Fri Jul 15, 2011 8:16 pm
well just found out my secret area alows steelhead retention its game on
If it looks fishy, Then fish it, If it dont look fishy, fish it anyways. <')}}}}><
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fear_no_fish
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by fear_no_fish » Fri Jul 15, 2011 10:52 pm
jens wrote:fear_no_fish wrote:curado wrote:way to go kzoo and everybody else. and i have found a new area i am gonna start hitting very very hard.
yeah seriously, looks like we should have stayed a little longer
You guys left the Sky to go play tennis?
no wayy! haha we were drowned like rats and cold, long day on the river for nothing but still a good day of fishing
My rod and reel, they comfort me.
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Brian253
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by Brian253 » Sun Jul 17, 2011 6:45 pm
Fished today went 2/2, one being a springer and the other a nice bright summer run, sponsored by Jensen's Jigs.. Thanks for the hand tied jig dude!! You got em down. (cropped the jig due to pattern confidentiality)
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Matt
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by Matt » Sun Jul 17, 2011 9:27 pm
Brian253 wrote:"pattern confidentiality"
Lol, now that's funny.
Nice fish Brian.
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knotabassturd
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by knotabassturd » Sun Jul 17, 2011 10:04 pm
Matt wrote:Brian253 wrote:"pattern confidentiality"
Lol, now that's funny.
Nice fish Brian.
It's not that confidential.
It's just jens's patent pending no tell 'um pattern
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Remember? He mentions it all the time when he shows us all the fish he caught on the no tell 'um river.
Now we just gotta work on Brian to tell us
"Its the coming back, the return which gives meaning to the going forth. We really don't know where we've been until we've come back to where we were. Only, where we were may not be as it was, because of whom we've become. Which, after all, is why we left." -Bernard Stevens Northern Exposure
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Brian253
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by Brian253 » Sun Jul 17, 2011 11:18 pm
Lol I'll leave that to jens, did I mention this was my first time ever trying jig fishing?!
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knotabassturd
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by knotabassturd » Mon Jul 18, 2011 12:23 am
Brian253 wrote:Lol I'll leave that to jens, did I mention this was my first time ever trying jig fishing?!
Uh-oh, jens is now converting perfectly good drift fishers into jig people? Lordee I hope there wasn't BAIT involved. That no tell 'um patent along with the special sauce may be worth some money:-k
"Its the coming back, the return which gives meaning to the going forth. We really don't know where we've been until we've come back to where we were. Only, where we were may not be as it was, because of whom we've become. Which, after all, is why we left." -Bernard Stevens Northern Exposure
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Brian253
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by Brian253 » Mon Jul 18, 2011 12:26 am
Well I don't drift fish too often, but now I can add jigs to the arsenal lol
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by EAmon___hoffman123 » Mon Jul 18, 2011 4:43 pm
Brian253 wrote:Well I don't drift fish too often, but now I can add jigs to the arsenal lol
SuperB
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Fish_Bait111397
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by Fish_Bait111397 » Mon Jul 18, 2011 4:49 pm
You're quite the fisherman Brian ! :thumleft:
~Men and fish are alike. They both get into trouble when they open their mouths.
~My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it.
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jens
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by jens » Mon Jul 18, 2011 6:00 pm
I went 2/2 Saturday the 16th. I released a small 5 pound chrome little egg wagon, bonked this 30inch chromer.
Super stoked for my boy Brian253 with his first Jig fish! It was just a matter of time brutha and that pattern is my play on the Nightmare
.. I hope you continue to expand your game and happy you are "drifting" away from that style of fishing =d> no pun wink wink
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