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Old 08-02-2017, 01:16 PM
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Hey Everyone,

I managed to get out fishing for the day on Saturday. I started at Muir Lake, and fished for about 20 minutes in my Father In Law's Belly Boat... Until I found out it had a leak, and I decided to turn back. Fished off the dock for about ten minutes until a family showed up, consumed the dock, and began using minnows as bait. I took a few pics, left, and gave RAP a call, but never heard anything back that day.

I then headed down to the NSR around 1030, and went to Cst Chelsea Robinson Park. I did a short walk, and found a nice run where I figured there might be fish. Granted I'm still new to the fly game, I tied a few different hooks on, and then threw on a pink indicator. I casted into some dead water behind me, and had three topwater strikes on the same retrieve... HOLY ****, THERE'S ACTUALLY FISH WHERE I AM!

I took that as a hint that I should tie on something pink... made sense to me, and it worked! I landed my first ever goldeye, and my first fish on the NSR. I ended up catching 4 more goldeye that day, and a small walleye, all in the same spot. Felt like a successful day to me!!



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Old 08-02-2017, 01:33 PM
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Congrats!
Well done, thanks for posting and sharing!

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Old 08-02-2017, 02:13 PM
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Cool - goldeye are alot of fun. thanks for sharing.
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Old 08-02-2017, 03:24 PM
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Nice work. Goldeye are really fun to catch. I live just a short distance from the Red Deer river and I catch lots of goldeye there on the fly. Try using a grasshopper pattern and give it a few twitches in the water. They go crazy for that as well.
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Old 08-02-2017, 04:24 PM
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Nice! Goldeye on the NSR are super fun. I've spent many summer hours casting flies for them as well.

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Old 08-03-2017, 07:59 AM
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Cool!
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Old 08-03-2017, 11:14 AM
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Nice. Pretty great feeling when you get to drown the skunk

That walleye looks like he met a big pike, and his fin spikes saved him
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Old 08-03-2017, 11:17 AM
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Nice. Pretty great feeling when you get to drown the skunk

That walleye looks like he met a big pike, and his fin spikes saved him
Yeah, he had a few marks all over his back. I assumed it was a pike attack, rather than a prop injury.
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