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Re: plunking steelhead
« Reply #15 on: January 27, 2015, 04:29:25 PM »
Love them stories I remember the old plunking shakes on the Skagit ....I really enjoy the relaxing times we canceled our trip till this storm passes later in the week be better  :tup: then the old cow bells will ring and it won't be wind  8)


Did this trip happen? How'd you do? I enjoy plunking but I've never done it on the peninsula.
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Re: plunking steelhead
« Reply #16 on: January 27, 2015, 09:41:00 PM »
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Normally this BELL RINGER  :chuckle: would be fishing but the river I fish is now so regulated I just quit ...Many many years of catching some of the biggest steelhead known to man has been caught by plunking ...1 to 3 ft off the bank ..Some think this is not fun but if I could take you I could surely prove them wrong ..Nothing better than sitting in a shack with a warm fire blazing and putting your pole in a pole holder with the drag very loose so when the fish hits he is instantly taking drag as your trying to get out of your warm reclining chair  ;) :chuckle:


that sounds exactly how I took the biggest one I have to date.. 22.6 many years ago up by Sedro.  my buddy from work took me to a shack that he had fished with his friends for years up there.  my first trip I landed that fish and my buddy was told not to bring me up there again..  :tup:  great memories

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Re: plunking steelhead
« Reply #17 on: January 28, 2015, 09:27:07 PM »
I catch 75% of my steelhead every year plunking. I enjoy it. Relaxing with bouts of fury. We catch fish every day. Good bait, and travel lanes= killer steelhead days.
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