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Love this country.
We first stopped at the 89 bridge first to see what was going on. Saw about a school of a dozen fish swimming around the area with a few fisherman casting at them. I asked around and no one could catch anything. We decided to walk up river to see if there were any more fish willing to bite. Walked up and found a few fish here and there. Manged to get one each. I was tossing a powerworm on the Fly rod and Deni was throwing a green crappie jig. Nothing else was happening here though so we took off to the next bridge.
We found fish around the next 88 bridge. Some here and there, but they were really pressured and didn't want to bite much.
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After a while we figured out that the only fish that were willing to bite would be the ones hiding in the protection of the shadows under the bridge. If you had a chaser though they would not chase the lure into the light. Deni called them Vampire fish haha.
After trying for about 2 hours I managed to land 5 here though and Deni got 4.
In search of better action we left for hope valley hoping this area hadn't been pressured as much from the weekenders. We walk up to the water to find this.
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Couple hundred DFG planters all just schooled up in a ball. I tried my power worm for a long time, but they had no interest with it. Mean while Deni was slamming them on her jig.
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Little bendo action.
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Deni with an averaged sized fish of the day.
So with that I put the sissy stick down and grabbed my spinning rod and threw a jig out there. Immediately I started getting hit.
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Decent fish for me.
We continued on to catch fish after fish here on every other cast. Throwing em all back just having a good time. After an hour of throwing jigs, they got into enough of a feeding frenzy I could pick my fly rod back up and get them on the PW. We stayed here for about 4 hours just slaying and having a good time. Some people who were camping there came by and asked us "Whats your secret? Several people have been trying for these fish all day and haven't caught anything." Guess sometimes you just got to have the right lure. They also told me there were some kids there earlier throwing rocks into the water. Sure that didn't help.
We tried all kinds of colors on the jigs, green, black, blue, white, several shades of yellow, every color I had in the box it didn't matter it all worked.
After catching a releasing over 100 fish between the two of us. We decided we had our fun and it was time to go home. Neither of us was keeping count though so we had to declare a winner some how, so I said, "Ok Deni lets keep some, first one to 5 wins." Sounded like a fair challenge and it was on. The race was neck and neck the whole time, but I ended up winning. Close race though and she is catching on fast.
Got home I cooked up a nice fish fry for Deni's family
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Good way to get on her parent's good side
Great day on the water with my girl, caught lots of fish and had a great time. Can't wait for the next.
Till Next Time Guys
Mark
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