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2013/07/14 21:12:28 (permalink)

Earlies

Hey-- whats the earliest any of you folks ever caught a King in the SR ??
  NOT -Oh yea somebody down at the gin mill heard somebody say they know about a guy who got one-- but how early did ya REALLY do it ??
 I generally start hiking and looking casting into dark holes bout the first of August down low- ( not much luck but nice snake infested hikes).
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    hot tuna
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    Re:Earlies 2013/07/14 21:18:37 (permalink)
    2 weeks before labor day weekend, River bank, pacific salmon that is..
    Now on it's the big lake on a boat until I decide it's time I want to join the circus or wait for the big top to fold up..
    steelhead- atlantic .. well lets not go there..
     
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    a week later for pacific, the bottom was lined with bodies
    post edited by hot tuna - 2013/07/14 21:20:50

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    Re:Earlies 2013/07/15 02:01:46 (permalink)
    July 26 I think it was.
    Fishing for bass and mostly fallfish in what became the DSR.
    Really trying to see any changes to the holes and vif I would have to find new places to fish.
    Nice to be young with strong legs.
    Female with a big lamprey attached.
    The only one I saw.
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    Clint S
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    Re:Earlies 2013/07/15 06:55:58 (permalink)
    Do not know the exact date, but I know it was in the last week of August........   in Pineville.    We were not back in school yet.   

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    Lucky13
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    Re:Earlies 2013/07/15 07:45:16 (permalink)
    Back when 2bob and I used to do the death march from town to the estuary, I remember finding and fishing to a fish here and a fish there in early august , especially when they ran the first weekend for the tube races.  I'd have to say the dimming memory says we had one above the glide and below the wall second or third week that actually took.  But there was a fish here and there almost every AM.  Good for learning the bottom, and the Brookie fishing above the reservoirs in the PM was lagniappe!
     
    Our experience was that the more fish you had in a hole, the more likely they were to take, kind of the way fights break out in overcrowded bars with too much testosterone and too little skirt!  But I'll defer to 2Bob on that, he's got the battle scars from cleaning up those scenes!
     
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    Re:Earlies 2013/07/16 18:50:59 (permalink)
    Aug 15th is my earliest day, and it was not one fish but myself and younger brother landed 75 in the staircase. To this day I make the 15th my first visit to the river and if the rain keeps coming like its been, well you never know
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    Re:Earlies 2013/07/16 19:13:35 (permalink)
    Wont be long!



    FISH ON!!
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    Re:Earlies 2013/07/17 09:10:53 (permalink)
    mid august
     
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    Re:Earlies 2013/07/17 11:45:44 (permalink)
    Many years ago I had some luck end of August.However,it's too uncertain for me to make the ride there now that early,mid Sept. is the earliest for me now.
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    Re:Earlies 2013/07/20 11:56:22 (permalink)
    I actually hooked into a small king in mid August last year. I was actually on my patio cleaning my reel and checking my rod setups and I looked over the edge and there was a salmon sitting in a hole, so i ran down and hooked up. 
     
    It was a huge tease cause there wasnt many fish for another week or 2. 
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    Re:Earlies 2013/07/24 19:41:40 (permalink)
    Mentioned to Tuna on another thread that my earliest- on occasion -is sometime in the third week of August-  a whole fistfull of variables qualify that time though and it's certainly NOT dependable year to year. IMHO.
      Because of past seasons though its when I really start to get out there and look and cast to deeper holes with a bit of anticipation. Start generally in earlier August down low but only expect an odd Smallmouth or two to hit that early.
     Dont bet the Farm on that time or make special trips as your far more likely to be disapointed than rewarded- at least with a fish.
    post edited by retired guy - 2013/07/24 19:45:59
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