Epic day in the gorge!!!!

[Hoytstaffshooter83]

Today was hands down the best fishing I have ever seen in my life! we had great weather, and some insane action!!!! we started off whacking some shad for bait then headed down river. The currrent and river levels at the dam are insane right now, so with that in mind I decided to seek out some lesser current, for a few reasons, 1 being I hate heavy current, I dont like using huge weights and you always have to check to see if your bait is on the bottom, second the fish dont like it anymore then I do most of the time. I found a sweet little seam on the egde of a back eddy and decided to give her a shot, man am I glad I did!!! I did not have the 2nd rod in the water when the first one started to fold, my client forgot to thumb the reel on the hook set and she was gone! 0-1, shortly after the right rod just burried and line began to scream!! fish on.. 35 min later casey had a nice 8.5 to the boat! we ended up going 6- 12 with 6 coming unpinned, 2 from jumps and 4 from just being sturg...... but we went 6-6 after the first miss! the bite was the longest we waited was about 15 min, a few of the hook ups were mere minutes after tying back off after battling another big sturg!!!! im not one to brag, but our 2 rods out fished over 20 other guide rods out there today, at one point, we drifted down 3 times with fish in short succesion and 4 well known guide boats full of clients sat on anchor!!! the biggest fish of the day was a MONSTER at 10.5+ ft and well over 500lbs.. all in all it was a day that most of us only dream of!! including me! I am happy I got to share it with some great fishermen!!!!   as with all the fish I hook, these were handled with the utmost care and released  with them slapping the boat with their tail..... amazing fish, amazing day!!

[cohoho]

That's funny Hoyt, I really liked the quote about you being "Not one to brag"... lol...  Although it sounded like a great day...  Shad are back?

[Hoytstaffshooter83]

im not one to brag mike, I just say it how it is, bottom line, today no one was close to me, if thats bragging, then I brag, and the shad was fine... we had doubles, and lots of hits before we headed down for the big boys

[M_ray]

im not one to brag

  that's funny!

[bowhunterforever]

Thats awsome hoyt! What do you charge for a day? Just curious

[jager]

Looks like a blast!

[singleshot12]

I wonder what time of year those big females usaully lay their eggs?

[PA BEN]

Nice fish. Looks like you have bragging rights to me.

[big ed]

Boy thats some minner you got there.Nice fish

[PA BEN]

Hoyt do you guide?

[gasman]

Way to go hoyt, hopefully we can hook up to fish some day.

I am getting ready to go to my son's graduation at the T-Dome.
This will be one down and one to go. we sure put out a bit of a chunk for him this time of year.


Pete

[Hoytstaffshooter83]

Hoyt do you guide?

 that I do  www.greatnwrivers.com

[Hoytstaffshooter83]

Thats awsome hoyt! What do you charge for a day? Just curious

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