11-17-2006, 04:16 AM
Dagnabbit and I managed to slip away from the Berry (bad Karma up there right now) for a couple of beautiful days at the Gorge. We fished most of the day Wednesday and half day Thursday, ended up boating a total of 29 mac, the largest being about 15 lbs. It was very hard to find the fish in any numbers other than the spawning mounds in Linwood. The mounds of course were covered by a herd of snaggers, at least 20 guys on 4-5 boats within 10 feet of each other doing a lot of real "aggressive" jigging with buzz bombs -very sportsmanlike. Anyway, we did find a good pile of them down toward the dam on Wednesday and got 19, then put the rest in the boat Thursday mainly off Antelope. A little cool in the mornings, but great weather otherwise. Water temperature is still over 47 at Linwood and near 49 by the dam. We trolled primarily, but also caught a few early Thursday jigging white tubes (actual jigging, as in the fish ate the jigs, oddly enough their tails and bellies didn't even take a nibble of our jigs).
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