-Epic Day of Umpqua River Spring Chinook (Springer) Fishing-

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-Epic Day of Umpqua River Spring Chinook (Springer) Fishing-

Postby hollywood on Thu May 06, 2010 1:13 pm

Its one of those days that you remember for the rest of your life and hope to have every time you wake up a 3:30am thinking what I am doing!! i-) :(( We were invited to go out with Todd Harrington of Living Waters Guide Service to try and get an Umpqua River Springer on video. He said it can be slow at times and you never know how Spring Chinook are going to act that day. He said we could also fish pre-spawn small mouth bass but as you guessed we passed on that. :D Although this time a year is when all the big guys are out and they are angery! The average sm this time a year is 3lbs and they get them up to 6+ lbs. Well this day turned out to be incredible and the video that came from it even more. Here is a short pictoral on how the day went!

After about an hour of no luck Todd changed out the outside plug to a more subtle color and it paid off as he was letting the plug back out! Bam fish on! \M/

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Back on anchor and let that same plug out on the outside rod and... you guessed it.

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Well this just kept happening. =))

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Cant get much better than this! :ymapplause:

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After we got tired of catching Springers we went out for some small mouth bass action.

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Just a peek at one reason that this video will be one of the best fishing videos we have ever done and probably the best you will ever see! :-BD

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If anyone wants to get out and fish for these amazing Umpqua River Spring Chinook you can get a hold of Todd Harrington below. He has a very special place and the section of river he is fishing no one else has access to providing you a great experience away from the crowds.

Todd Harrington
541-459-2276
http://www.fishinglivingwaters.com
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Re: -Epic Day of Umpqua River Spring Chinook (Springer) Fishing-

Postby archer on Thu May 06, 2010 1:52 pm

Yea, What Chad said x2
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Re: -Epic Day of Umpqua River Spring Chinook (Springer) Fishing-

Postby REELTECH on Thu May 06, 2010 8:14 pm

Congrats Guys!!! That sounds EPIC. Cant wait to see the video.
Nice SMALLIE!!!! Gotta love those guys!!!
Oh yeah.........the salmon are nice too :)) :)) :))
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Re: -Epic Day of Umpqua River Spring Chinook (Springer) Fishing-

Postby archer on Thu May 06, 2010 9:59 pm

You would really like Todd RT. He's a bass guy at heart. I thought he was going to toss me out of the boat when I suggested filling the fish box the rest of the way with smallies :D
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Re: -Epic Day of Umpqua River Spring Chinook (Springer) Fishing-

Postby hollywood on Wed May 12, 2010 1:41 pm

I finally fineshed editing the Umpqua River Spring Chinook Video and I have added a small YouTube teaser video below. Check it out!



What an amazing day of Springer fishing. Below is a link to the full 30 minute video, you are going to want to watch the last fish for sure its one of the hottest Chinook I have ever faught! :D \M/

http://www.steelheadstalkers.com/guide- ... umpqua.htm
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