steehead report from sunday march 7th 2010.

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so saturday night i had to drive to island park and pick up my buddy vern so he could go with me to salmon.when i got there he was sober so he wanted to drive so we went back down to rexburg and cut over to mudlake we were passing through mudlake a little after 1:00am where we got pulled over by a state trooper because he had somebody else pulled over and when we went out around him to give him space we didnt use a blinker. then he made sure he gave vern sobriety tests well he passed so we went on our way passing 2 more state troopers in mudlake with people pulled over. apparanltey there is some dui probs in mudlake. we arrived at owlcreek early so we took a nap until first light took the boat to the other side i didnt touch a single fish until 11:00 am i hooked a nice male on my brand new bait casting set up he jumped 4 times the first one was about 4 feet in the air . from then on to 1:00pm i caught two more hens my buddy caught one wild hen and a hatchery hen also. then from 1:00pm to 2:00pm they shut off the pod must have pushed up river. so we gathered up our stuff rowed the boat back across and went to meet up with a friend of ours that was camped at dutch oven. when we got there it was packed at least 20 people fishing it. we found our friend and walked down to him as we got down there we noticed he had a fish on and so did 3 other fisherman. i guess it had been like that all day people we talked to said the had been having anywhere from 20 to 50 fish days just fishing dutch oven the fish are held up there right now just holding until they can make the next push up river. so i set up my rod and started fishing again on the upper part of the dutch oven about my third cast i hooked and landed another hen in the heavy water she felt like a brute she was the biggest fish i had landed that day though. my buddy vern also landed another hatchery hen. i happened to snag some roe colored trout beads from one of my buddys wich is good cause all i have heard about is trout beads for steelhead. and the people we were fishing next to said they had caught 50 fish that day using nothing but them. so i switch out my blck worm and silver corkie and set up the trout bead 3rd cast landed a nice male. and i was done for the day good thing to i was tired. all 5 fish a lnded that day were hatchery i didnt get a picture of the last male i caught because i just leaned down with p;iers and released him i was to tired to screw around with him. oh also i never lost a single fish either everything i hooked i landed. so there are pictures of 4 of the five fish i landed and 2 of the 3 that vern landed it was an amazing day and the weather was awesome it had to have got up in the 50's i was just wearing a long sleeve t-shirt all day and was very comfortable.

so as far as the baitcasting rod goes i love it and i cant beleive it took me this long to get into purchasing one. its like fishing with butter! and g-loomis makes a great steelhead rod and you can feel every thing the difference between fish and bottom is like night and day even though i still think they are over priced.
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