Been hitting the American river recently over the past couple of
weeks. Since we had our first rain there have been some fish moving
through the system. I haven't found a hot bite yet, but Garrett and I
both have been averaging a few hook ups each trip and landing on roughly
every other day out now.
My biggest of the season I got so far was this pig weighing in around 32lbs and measuring out at 42.5 inches. Only 1lb shy of my personal best ever.
Went out this morning with my friend and old co-worker Robert. Been a long time since I've seen/fished with him and he wanted to get on his first salmon. Brought him out with me to the AR this morning to show him the ropes and hopefully bust a cherry this morning.
Couple of familiars in the line with us today which was great. Friendly crowd. No idiots or whiners to deal with. Started right at legal light and around 0640 out of the four of us Robert is the first to hook up. I see hop pop his rod to try and get his weight out of a snag then all of a sudden his rod is pumping and he say's "Oh I think I got one" haha. That pop set the hook good though and the fight was on.
He fought the fish great and was really patient in the fight which was great. Slow and steady wins the race. After a long 10-15 min battle Robert brings the fish close enough to the bank to where I can grab him and we got the first fish of the day on the bank!
Solid 20lb buck.
First time ever salmon fishing today, first salmon he has ever hooked into and he even landed his first salmon! That's how you pop a cherry right there! Fantastic start to the morning. Kept on fishing and I ended up losing one and landing one before 0730.
A very nice silver hen I managed to score for myself.
Foul hooked and landed one more shortly after that went back. My last hook up of the day came around 0830 that came unbuttoned a minute into the fight. I started getting cocky and was just horsing the fish a little to much. No biggie though I got one on the stringer its a great day.
0900 rolls around and the Warden rolls down to check us out, make sure we weren't snagging (good thing I released that foul hooked fish) and had our licenses and everything was good. He told us he was down here looking for snaggers, and to watch the river and see how many fish were moving up. Said he saw a couple of schools, but still no huge pods. Not sure if were just still waiting on the bulk of them now or if the construction on the river is holding up the fish.
Threw in the towel around 0930 and called it a successful morning from there. While I was fishing Ethan gave me an invite to join him for a jigging session on the Sac. Had the day off why not lets do it. Meet him and Andrew in Elk Grove and took off for Garcia. Dropped the boat in around 1645 and made our way to Freeport. 20+ boats out today its still a made house out here. Jumped in the drift and hoped that there would be some fish out here to play today. Half way through our first drift Ethan and I are looking at the graph and we see a fish on the screen, both of us said it out loud to each other, "There's one! There moving through. Hey look there's another, and another, and another!!! Holy shit there's tons of em on the . . . . . FISH ON!!! Ethan hooks into one in the passing school and the fight was on.
I was pretty impressed watching Ethan fight this fish with him mag heavy shimano clarus and 50lb braided line. I watch the fish attempt to make a run and Ethan tightened the drag and and just said "Nope!" That fish didn't go anywhere and turn right back towards the boat and into the net. First fish in the box baby!
Saw one other boat next to us hook up in the same school. Further down towards the end of our first drift, Andrew sticks one on his jig and brings a beautiful king to the net. Both fish maybe 15-18lb bucks.
Alright my turn next. Ran back up and made one more drift. I caught all of the clam's I could ever want but no salmon in the evening for me. It was damn exciting to see two come to the boat jigging though and being net man is a lot of fun as well. Off of the water by 2000 Satisfied with our evening outing.
Our catch
Great day of salmon fishing today.
I got the fever bad man. I'm gonna continuing to be hitting it hard too till the end of the season. Last year I stopped around October cause after that the water was too cold for me to wet wade. I got my waders this year though, so there will be a lot more salmon killing to come.
Till Next Time Guys
Mark
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My biggest of the season I got so far was this pig weighing in around 32lbs and measuring out at 42.5 inches. Only 1lb shy of my personal best ever.
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Went out this morning with my friend and old co-worker Robert. Been a long time since I've seen/fished with him and he wanted to get on his first salmon. Brought him out with me to the AR this morning to show him the ropes and hopefully bust a cherry this morning.
Couple of familiars in the line with us today which was great. Friendly crowd. No idiots or whiners to deal with. Started right at legal light and around 0640 out of the four of us Robert is the first to hook up. I see hop pop his rod to try and get his weight out of a snag then all of a sudden his rod is pumping and he say's "Oh I think I got one" haha. That pop set the hook good though and the fight was on.
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He fought the fish great and was really patient in the fight which was great. Slow and steady wins the race. After a long 10-15 min battle Robert brings the fish close enough to the bank to where I can grab him and we got the first fish of the day on the bank!
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Solid 20lb buck.
First time ever salmon fishing today, first salmon he has ever hooked into and he even landed his first salmon! That's how you pop a cherry right there! Fantastic start to the morning. Kept on fishing and I ended up losing one and landing one before 0730.
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A very nice silver hen I managed to score for myself.
Foul hooked and landed one more shortly after that went back. My last hook up of the day came around 0830 that came unbuttoned a minute into the fight. I started getting cocky and was just horsing the fish a little to much. No biggie though I got one on the stringer its a great day.
0900 rolls around and the Warden rolls down to check us out, make sure we weren't snagging (good thing I released that foul hooked fish) and had our licenses and everything was good. He told us he was down here looking for snaggers, and to watch the river and see how many fish were moving up. Said he saw a couple of schools, but still no huge pods. Not sure if were just still waiting on the bulk of them now or if the construction on the river is holding up the fish.
Threw in the towel around 0930 and called it a successful morning from there. While I was fishing Ethan gave me an invite to join him for a jigging session on the Sac. Had the day off why not lets do it. Meet him and Andrew in Elk Grove and took off for Garcia. Dropped the boat in around 1645 and made our way to Freeport. 20+ boats out today its still a made house out here. Jumped in the drift and hoped that there would be some fish out here to play today. Half way through our first drift Ethan and I are looking at the graph and we see a fish on the screen, both of us said it out loud to each other, "There's one! There moving through. Hey look there's another, and another, and another!!! Holy shit there's tons of em on the . . . . . FISH ON!!! Ethan hooks into one in the passing school and the fight was on.
I was pretty impressed watching Ethan fight this fish with him mag heavy shimano clarus and 50lb braided line. I watch the fish attempt to make a run and Ethan tightened the drag and and just said "Nope!" That fish didn't go anywhere and turn right back towards the boat and into the net. First fish in the box baby!
Saw one other boat next to us hook up in the same school. Further down towards the end of our first drift, Andrew sticks one on his jig and brings a beautiful king to the net. Both fish maybe 15-18lb bucks.
Alright my turn next. Ran back up and made one more drift. I caught all of the clam's I could ever want but no salmon in the evening for me. It was damn exciting to see two come to the boat jigging though and being net man is a lot of fun as well. Off of the water by 2000 Satisfied with our evening outing.
Our catch
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Great day of salmon fishing today.
I got the fever bad man. I'm gonna continuing to be hitting it hard too till the end of the season. Last year I stopped around October cause after that the water was too cold for me to wet wade. I got my waders this year though, so there will be a lot more salmon killing to come.
Till Next Time Guys
Mark
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