The OFFISHAL Vancouver 2011 Reports Thread
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demco99
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put ina couple hours at the cap yesterday at the end of the flood, had one barely legal spring and took Gidyup's advice from another forum. Green Ace high fly at 45 feet, had something BIG on, rookie one popped it off the clip and passed it to rookie 2, never loosened up the slack - all I could do was watch as the rod tip slowly buried into the water and two big thumps and the mainline snapped.
Peahead
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no intention to find bame at all, but when mistakes happen I always like to figure out what could be done to solve the problem ..... my 2 cents:
At all times (and especially with rookies popping rods and playing fish and not adjusting drag a bit) I set the drag only tight enough to stop it from slipping while in the downrigger. At that drag setting, even if not loosened off a bit , a chinook can hit and run . You sure must have your drag set tight if a BIG chinnook can't hit and instantly pull line off your reel .... are you sure the rookie didn't 'clamp on" the reel handles !!??
At all times (and especially with rookies popping rods and playing fish and not adjusting drag a bit) I set the drag only tight enough to stop it from slipping while in the downrigger. At that drag setting, even if not loosened off a bit , a chinook can hit and run . You sure must have your drag set tight if a BIG chinnook can't hit and instantly pull line off your reel .... are you sure the rookie didn't 'clamp on" the reel handles !!??
Red Monster
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I know a guy who always tightens the drag. When I questioned him about it, he said it sets the hook better. Okay. Well, one day the hook set was so good on a rather large spring that his new Islander reel was pulled out of his hands and into the ocean, never to be seen again! I couldn't stop laughing when he explained to me why he hadn't been using his new, expensive reel. lol
Peahead
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Lol...that reminds me of my big goof and clusterfu*k while sockeye fishing this last crazy spell with socs . We were in the midst of a flurry of several fish. We had landed several in a few minutes and they were hitting like crazy .....my hands and the rod butts were completely covered in soc slim .... another hit and I pulled the rod from the scotty holder -- as I pulled the rod out of the holder the rod shot out through my slimy grip and landed about 10 ft a stern of my boat. Pi## ed at myself for losing a rod overboard I suddenly became relieved as another soc that hit on another rod got tangled in that fish and we managed to get both fish and hand lined that rod back in via that tangle with the other fish on another rod!! yahoooo
Red Monster
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My buddy said he had just put the rod in the water and sunscreen on his face, and his hands were slippery when the big ******* spring slammed his line. It's especially funny because I did discuss the wisdom of his locking down the drag. 
Oh well, stuff happens to all of us.
Oh well, stuff happens to all of us.Hit em Hard
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A guide friend of mine showed me a trick while we were fishing Ukee this summer. We like to fish plugs fairly fast and I was having trouble with line creep on my 4000 gt's ( even though they were supposed to have fixed the problem). To stop the line creep I was cranking down on the drag way more than I would have liked to. What he does is takes a second release clip and gives it a wrap around his gunnel rail and clips the release to the line between the reel and first eyelet on the rod; when a fish hits either the fish releases the clip or the action of removing the rod from the holder does so. I know it sounds like a hassle but it's really not that bad. I landed a number of large fish this year that hit so hard that using my former method I'm sure would have resulted in pulled or straitened hooks or perhaps broken rods. Using this method allows you to keep a good bend in the rod while having the drag set at exactly where you like it for the beginning of the fight.
Kudos to High Roller for the advice
H.E.H.
Kudos to High Roller for the advice
H.E.H.
Fishallspec
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Coming back into town this weekend, the weather looks better so hopefully another last wave will come in. A chum would be fun too, been awhile since I got one at the Cap.
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