07-15-2014, 06:11 PM
Fished the mighty Snake river with dtayboyz and his beautiful wife last Thursday the 10th. We launched and went upstream through two sets of rapids in his jet boat and dropped into a deep hole that was over 90ft deep in spots. We were right at the bottom of a set of class 4 rapids with a couple of hundred feet of vertical drop, Water falls were all along the river as we made our way upstream, it was an awesome view. I’m going to add some of the pics and maybe some video clips at the end if possible. Hopefully Dale will correct me on some of the lengths of the fish if I get them wrong. We were using these 14 ft rods and fishing directly below the boat with morts. The first fish Dale caught but he handed the rod off to me and I reeled in a 4 to 5 ft fish. The next fish, I caught and that is on the video, it was a 79 incher and took 15 to 20 minutes to reel in. Dale caught the next fish and reeled in one that was the same size of the one I had just caught but this one decided to give us some top water action and jumped about three times, what a site to see a fish that big come out of the water. The last fish of the day belonged to Dale’s wife, this one was smaller but it still gave her a good fight. I was happy to get another chance to fish with Dale, he really knows the river and knows how to catch those huge fish. Thanks Dale, it was a great day on a very beautiful section of the Snake.
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. I already owned all the poles before I got the Gertrude, they were for bank fishing (so you can cast). The water is still up enough but man is it hot and I've been busy working on RV air conditioning. Had 16.48 lbs of smallie a last Saturday good enough for 2nd place. Provo this weekend then cascade the weekend after. I'll put a new gasket on the fuel pump Friday, so maybe Gertrude ride next week, anyone wanna go? In august I have two bass tournaments at cj so I'll do some side imaging up the river for fall sturgeon fishing. Thanks again Curt.