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Springers!!! At John Day dam area
« on: May 03, 2014, 10:42:45 PM »
We went 6 for 9 take downs....   Problems -a few natives in the mix, but hey were eating....

Fought a 10ft Sturgeon for about 30minutes till we had to cut it off, that destroyed my favorite Kwik Fish.  The rod I had, was a G-Loomis noodle rod and there was no way to budge it off the bottom, never going to happen..  Nor did I want to break my buddies rod either...   Estimated at 10ft, as it tail walked behind the boat and caught enough to realize how big it actually was... 

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Re: Springers!!! At John Day dam area
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2014, 08:43:36 AM »
Good work boss!!! :tup:
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Re: Springers!!! At John Day dam area
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2014, 08:52:30 AM »
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Re: Springers!!! At John Day dam area
« Reply #3 on: May 04, 2014, 09:07:05 AM »
Good times right there!
Cut em!
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Re: Springers!!! At John Day dam area
« Reply #4 on: May 04, 2014, 09:16:50 AM »
Hey, at least you got to fight it and see it. Sorry about your Kwik fish, there will be others...  :chuckle:
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Re: Springers!!! At John Day dam area
« Reply #5 on: May 04, 2014, 11:55:02 AM »
Normally, I would of said heck with Springers and went for the Sturgeon, but I hooked it on my buddies G-Loomis noodle mooching rod and Shimano Calcutta reel, not sure how well I would have liked smoking the reel and rod during the battle... Or the cost to replace the set-up it as once it hit bottom it wasn't moving with that set up..   :yike:

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Re: Springers!!! At John Day dam area
« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2014, 08:56:08 AM »
Nice job! Fishing has been red hot up there!

 


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