Port Sheldon 10am-2pm, 7-12

[littleboat]

 

1 for 2 with a 9.5# steelhead (very unusual looking). Caught on a 6C with a lemonberry mag spoon, in 144fow at 10:48am, west troll, 2.3 sog.  loss other in 155fow. I had a rod with SD and fly fall out of my rod holder while I was double handling everything. I thought it was lost for sure. 2 hrs later when I pulled up my DR there it was hanging by the fly hook on the cable. I pulled it all in and saved everything.

 

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[John's Tuition]

Funny looking fish, Ed. Glad you got your rod back. Sounds like an interesting day, indeed!

[littleboat]

I'm going send a picture to the dnr, once I figure out which area should get it.

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[John's Tuition]

I caught a Chinook that looked similar back in 2011, I think. I'll see if I can dig up the picture sometime.

[CAC]

I suspect these nose injuries happen when they are very small fish. If I see my friend in the Dnr I will show him your picture. I am happy to hear someone got another steelhead in the 140s. For a week and a half they seemed to be missing. I have only dropped one rod in the lake and pulled it back in the boat with another. It is a great feeling isn’t it?


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[littleboat]

I suspect these nose injuries happen when they are very small fish. If I see my friend in the Dnr I will show him your picture. I am happy to hear someone got another steelhead in the 140s. For a week and a half they seemed to be missing. I have only dropped one rod in the lake and pulled it back in the boat with another. It is a great feeling isn’t it? 

 

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I was extremely happy getting that rod and lure setup back. I was already calculating what the loss cost me $$$ and had resigned myself to the fact sh*t happens. 

When it came time to pull up my rigger I was in disbelief (jumped about 3 ft in the air) when I saw the green fly treble hanging on to the rigger cable just above the release. The rod had not released its line during this whole episode. I carefully inched the cable up and grabbed the connection at the SD and rod tip, doing a hand over hand vertical lift until I got the rod out of the water. It was probably a good thing that no fish took the bait during that whole time.

 

I did send the pictures to the dnr office listed on their fishery division with my cell number.

 

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[FBD]

Seen fish like that, missing gill plates, spines with a kink or even bent into a "Z".  Caught a brown with no lower jaw.

 

All seemed fat and healthy.

 

Great story on the rod.

 

 

[littleboat]

Good to know about other unusual catches. When I filleted the fish all of the meat looked very good.
Thanks

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