R &R at the Gorge

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That brown was about 24 inches. He was hurting pretty bad from the hook and we hurried him back to the water. We were not set up to keep any and i was afraid he would become osprey food. We caught at least 20 kokes. They loved the pink/white/blue shasta blade with that money clip in pink or brass w/pink spots. We would hook them and try to just shake em off at the boat. I had one really big hook up but it got off. probably a wayward Mack. Saturday while we were trolling the guys jigging for macks at anvil did real well and boated many nice fish. We just didnt take the time to go after them with jigs. I usually ran one dedicated line for them trolling and caught one small one. I also would wonder how they will fare coming up into that warm water. The weather was so hot we would fish early quit around noon then come back around six and fish til dark. Saturday evening had a real bad wind event that got a lot of fishermen wet. But it shut it down anyway. We fished Anvil Draw as we never seemed to need to leave the area to catch fish. Wasn't too crowded, had good bass numbers and size and the ever present school of kokes out in the middle. The road was dusty and made a mess of everything but the boat and truck needed a good cleaning anyway.
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