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Updated May 12th, 2007

DA HELLER STINGS A CHESAPEAKE BAY STRIPER!!!!!!!!

Chris--here is a short story on the hog catch.  I was in DC and planning to have a couple of meetings on the Thursday afternoon.  My partner walks up and says that both of them are cancelled.  Joking, I said that we ought to go fishing.  He agrees of course.  Rught then, another guy that I know pops up from behind the dividers on a cubicle and says "are you guys serious?"  I looked at my buddy and we both say "hell yes."  Turns out that he has a 25 foot flats boat and lives on Chesapeak Bay.  We ran by the hotel, grabbed our stuffand made the one hour drive to the water.  There is no rod limit so we are trolling 6 lines and looking for adult stripers that are  moving across the bay to find tributaries to spawn in.  Rick, the boat owner tells us to guess how much change he has in his pocket.  I guess closest and he says that I get first fish.    After about an hour and a half, a rod goes down and I grab it.  I am using a pretty heavy rod with 60# spider wire--a bit of overkill in my mind.  The fish does a great job and fights like a chinook.  Lots of good sounding and a couple of major league runs.  We land it and tape it.  Beautiful fish and my first striper ever.  Thirty eight inches and 22 pounds.  The slot limit is 25-35" and above 41".  We take the pics with a cell phone and release the fish. That was the only take down for the trip.    Anyway, a great way to have to spend time when meetings get canelled.  Dad   

POPS MADE THE MOST OF THIS BUSINESS TRIP BY MIXING IN HIS VERY FIRST

STRIPED BASS ON A SQUID BAIT!  THIS FISH WAS 38 INCHES AND 22 LBS.  NICE

JOB POPS!

HELLCAT

Updated April 30th, 2007

HUNTER CELEBRATES HIS 5TH BIRTHDAY ON THE GILBERT!

JOHN JORGENSON WITH HIS SON, HUNTER, ON OUR B-DAY GILBY TRIP

I had the pleasure of taking John and his son Sturgeon fishing in celebration of Hunter's fifth

B Day!  After two unsuccessful trips out with both Pablo and B Dog Lobey, we were happily

rewarded with three fish on this outing.  Hunter did a fantastic job reeling in those hogs (don't

worry, Arpil, we helped out) and congrats to John who did a helluva job throwing B Dog Lobey's

Bank Stick!  Next trip out for John.......Spring Chinook, per his request.  Good thinking John!

 

 

Updated April 27th, 2007

By Hellcat

SPRING CHINOOK, SUMMER STEELHEAD & BIG SUCKERS

 

Four fish hooked in the last week for B Dog Lobey and myself.  Two Springers, 1 Summer and 1

Winter.  Two of the fish were taken on small 'glo bug' or yarnie-type rigs, both tied with a long

leader for enticing new Summers with a 'swung' presentation.  The other two were hooked on

the Hellcat deadly pink worm rig, fished fixed, under a bobber.  I managed to wrile up one

Springer and one Steelhead after everything else, no matter how small or what color, seemed to

fail.  Oh, and I forgot to mention, an honorable mention, in fact, for our friend the Suckerfish. 

Don't ask.  Just watch the video.  Language not appropriate for children under twelve.  Or

whatever.

TO WATCH VIDEOS, GO TO THIS PAGE

Updated April 19th, 2007

By DAHELLER AKA SAL MONID

MY RETRO-ACTIVE STEELHEAD REPORT

Here is an update on a recent trip in search of steelhead.  A buddy from work and me headed

out on Friday for a bit of fishing.  Got to the site and found we were not the only ones interested

in fishing instead of working.  Wadered up and headed to the river.  As luck would have it, the

area I wanted to fish was open and not a sould to be seen in 200 yards up or down stream.  My

buddy was hitting it with a fly and I started with a bobber and jig trailing a glow bug.  We fished

two holes pretty well and I figured I needed a basic change.  This was prompted by a nice

steelhead leaping out of the water in front of me basically saying he was not impressed with my

effort.    The water had about 5 feet of visibility so I put on a very small corkie and a Luhr

Jensen egg with flourocarbon leader.  It didn't take long till I hooked a fish only to feel it catch

me behind a boulder.  After some flailing the line cleared and the fish took off.  It was a nice,

chrome fish I estimate at about 7-8 lbs.  After a few minutes fighting the fish, it decided it

wanted to check out the hole downstream and headed for the riffle separating us.  I started to

follow the fish and the line went pop.  I can only figure that the rubbing on the rock had dinged

the leader.  A little later, in the same hole, I banged another fish.  I was enjoying the battle and

figuring where I would land the fish just as it launched itself about 3 feet out of the water, shook

its head and sent my gear sailing back at me.  Good adrenelin, no fish in the box.    My buddy

hooked another about 20 minutes later.  He was using 8 pound tippet and had to play it lightly. 

It was a big fish that started out just sulking in the current.  When it realized it was hooked, it

got pissed and took him through the tailout of the pool and was down the riffle to the next pool 

We were chasing it and I figured we were finally going to land one....not.  It popped the line and

left us looking on in disbelief.     Fished pretty hard for another couple of hours and had no more

action.  Enjoyed the day and enjoyed the fight but can't show any pretty pictures, maybe next

time.    Cheers-Sal 

 

Updated April 12th, 2007

H3LLCAT & B DOG GET THEIR 'BEND ON'

April has settled in, and that means chasing Spring Chinook.  Two days in a row, B Dog and

myself searched high and low.  Fully Geared with anything you could imagine, we were able to

successfully hook one Spring King ( B Dog) and hook and land a gorgeous Mint Bright Winter

Hen.  She ate a WHOLE threaded sand shrimp that I had flipped into some soft water along a

seam with very light lead.  She really inhaled that thing so we had to act quickly and with light

hands.  We slid her out of the net after B Dog's killer scoop over a ledge as quickly as we could,

snapped a quick photo, and, luckily, she promptly exited. 

H3LLCAT

UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY BY B DOG LOBEY

SEE YOU THERE..........

 

 

Updated April 10th, 2007

TEAM SALMON TYING INTO FISH MORE OFTEN

B Dog Lobey Hammers a Hook Set!

Ghost Face Goes 1 for 1!

We seem to be starting to hook into fish more often these past few weeks.  Not just Winters,

either, starting to see a few hatchery Summers.  Well, while many of our fellow anglers are

chasing Spring Chinook in the big systems, we are still thrashing around in the mountains,

driftfishing, fly-fishing, taking pics and videos for all of you to enjoy.  Some 'hot rods' include;

H2O, Barometer Brent & Ghost Face all with catches this week.  Way to go guys!  Pics of these

Guys' success to come soon.  And, last but not least, honorable mentions go to Pops and his pal

Shively, for going 'O-Fer', Me (Hellcat) and Meskel for getting some Winters a little over a week

ago, and B Dog Lobey for making, what may be, his last Steelhead run.  See Fish Talk for more

on that! 

Meskel Captures His Release-April '07

 

Updated April 3rd, 2007

HELLCAT MAKES IT 'FLY', TWO DAYS IN A ROW

 

I picked this one up on a small orange mini-marabou which has now yielded two of my three fish

this week.  I'm fishing it weighted on this fish.  Video available on Photo Album Page.

 

Updated April 2nd, 2007

HELLCAT BUSTS OUT THE FLY ROD!

(self-shot video of Steelhead fight and release below...)

 

After talking to H2O about his friend Brents' escapades the day prior, I decided to pull a

solo run on some Steelhead.  Even more than that though, I was excited to run a couple

of my new 1/16th ounce, Matt Reid Marabou Jig Specials.  I fished them on my eight

weight, under a yarnie indicator.  I dead drifted them with and without lead, picking up

a fish each way.  One fish taken on a pink scud-colored flashabou fly/jig, the other taken on

an orange with dark red.  The bigger fish came on the weighted hook-up.  I saw several

other dudes out today, but no other fish hooked that I or the ODFW dude knew of. 

 

Thanks again for the awesome Ties, Matt.  Here's one that gobbled an orange............

There are a series of videos I shot while playing this fish including some

underwater video of this fish being released......here...click below

FIRST VIDEO

SECOND VIDEO-WATCH AS I DROP AND PICKUP THE CAMERA TO FIGHT FISH

THIRD VIDEO-UNDERWATER RELEASE

 

 

I ended up with two Native Winters today.  I missed two others.  What a day!  Tight Lines!

H3LLCAT

 

 

Updated April 2nd, 2007

NOW, IT'S GHOST FACE KILLER'S TURN....

I must say, I am one happy website founder to have such amazing anglers on my site.  I am

proud to offer up some pics from Ghost Face Killer's recent trip to the coast....."and now every-

thing that he touch will turn to gold..." 

Ghost was on this pig, as well as seven others this past week.  Fly fishing too, boyz.

GHOST FACE NAILS SEVEN BAD BOYZ AT THE COAST!

 

Updated March 28th, 2007

GARIBALDI HOUSE STRIKES AGAIN & RIVER CITY FLY SHOP COMES

TO HELLCAT'S RESCUE!

Until next time......................................tight lines and tip up!

Hellcat

 

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