06-07-2004, 03:23 AM
steelhead fishing , now your talking my kind of fishing , yeee haaaa !
instead of nursing a hangover newyears day , you will find this sportsman waste deep in the frigid waters of the au sable or manistee rivers of michigan . this year , hmmm , a mere ten or twenty below . snow coverd banks , ice flows , slippery rocks , and 6 lb. test line , now thats fishing !
from dawn till dusk at every opertune day off of work till newyears eve the following year , round trip to the east side is a little over 150 miles , west side a little over 300 miles , dawn till dusk without as much as a meal inbetween other than a candybar and some jerkey . [blush]
not every trip yeilds a fish , or a hook-up , but when you do , look out ! screaming reels as two hundred feet of line peels off in three seconds flat , your rod bent over to the breaking point and the feel of one of those massive musslebound fish trying to take you on the adrenilin ride of your life , and more times than most , it's gonna shake its head or grab some sky and leave you standing there with a twisted , useless , stretched out line .
but beleve me , you won't be pissed off , your ready for more abuse and more and more and even more . time after time , day after day , year after year . the best of it is you'll remember each and every battle that you've had with these chunks of crome and your first one landed will guarintee a yell from deep down in your sole out to the surronding river and to all within a five mile radius .
i had one on today for[
] about 4 minutes in a 6 hour period , simply because i was fishing from shore . had i taken the waders and gone to the gravel beds i could of easily hooked up with half a dosen or so . 50 yards of line spent beyond use and a forged hook snaped in two . what a rush ![cool]
1 every ten hours ? those are the guys fishing close to the parking lot . ya' gotta put some exploring time in to get a better hook up ratio . gravel beds , deep holes and a couple hundred yards of elbow room are what you want . [
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steelhead addict , that's me . the closest thing thay have for a cure is salmon fishing , but thats a temporary fix .[
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fish on , yeee haaaaa!
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instead of nursing a hangover newyears day , you will find this sportsman waste deep in the frigid waters of the au sable or manistee rivers of michigan . this year , hmmm , a mere ten or twenty below . snow coverd banks , ice flows , slippery rocks , and 6 lb. test line , now thats fishing !
from dawn till dusk at every opertune day off of work till newyears eve the following year , round trip to the east side is a little over 150 miles , west side a little over 300 miles , dawn till dusk without as much as a meal inbetween other than a candybar and some jerkey . [blush]
not every trip yeilds a fish , or a hook-up , but when you do , look out ! screaming reels as two hundred feet of line peels off in three seconds flat , your rod bent over to the breaking point and the feel of one of those massive musslebound fish trying to take you on the adrenilin ride of your life , and more times than most , it's gonna shake its head or grab some sky and leave you standing there with a twisted , useless , stretched out line .
but beleve me , you won't be pissed off , your ready for more abuse and more and more and even more . time after time , day after day , year after year . the best of it is you'll remember each and every battle that you've had with these chunks of crome and your first one landed will guarintee a yell from deep down in your sole out to the surronding river and to all within a five mile radius .
i had one on today for[
] about 4 minutes in a 6 hour period , simply because i was fishing from shore . had i taken the waders and gone to the gravel beds i could of easily hooked up with half a dosen or so . 50 yards of line spent beyond use and a forged hook snaped in two . what a rush ![cool] 1 every ten hours ? those are the guys fishing close to the parking lot . ya' gotta put some exploring time in to get a better hook up ratio . gravel beds , deep holes and a couple hundred yards of elbow room are what you want . [
] steelhead addict , that's me . the closest thing thay have for a cure is salmon fishing , but thats a temporary fix .[
] fish on , yeee haaaaa!
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