plunking

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I'd like a little more detail on that bell!

 

[PnwChrome]

I'd like a little more detail on that bell!

My buddy made it for me about 10 years ago, it looks cool and makes a loud bong ...and he knew me back in 80s and 90s if you get my drift.

 

[Wanative]

Believe I posted this on the old site. Took this shot in 2016 when I took a hike along our river and saw plunkers on the other side releasing a wild steelhead while they had a hatchery steelhead hanging in the trees.

Looked like the scene could have been from the 1940's so I fixed the photo to look vintage.

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I liked to hang around the fishing shacks on the Nooksack in Ferndale as a kid. The river rats (that's what we called them) weren't particularly fond of 11and 13 year old boys hanging around them while fishing and usually they told us to get lost.
There were a couple shacks down river a mile or so on property owned by an elderly very independent woman who'd lived her entire life on that farm.
You never knew what kind of reception you'd get from Nelda.
She was likely to to kick you off the place while other times she'd bring
Pastries or cupcakes over for us while we plunked there.
Go figure that out.
My friends and I caught a few steelhead there in the 70s and 80s.
Below is a picture of my grandmother with a nice catch of steelhead caught plunking on the
Nooksack in the 60s.
Another shot from an OP river plunking in the early 80s.

 

[JACKspASS]

I've been punching that time clock on the river plunking for Springers. Dang, I love this style of fishing. It's so relaxing and yet crazy when that rod goes off. Fishing can be fast and furious, or dead as can be for hours or days and everything in between. Through the years I've tried to figure out what times of day, conditions Spring Chinook like to migrate and the best I can come up with is it's completely random. My hookup to landing ratio is 50/50 it seems like, alot of bell ringers that don't stick.