On Apr 24, 3:35*am, riverman wrote:
On Apr 21, 5:06*pm, DaveS wrote:

Didn't hear from you. The weather was rough a few days before we went
out on the spit, and extremely windy for most of that week. Not many
hikers came out. Looked like new snow down pretty low on the Olympics
from our perch. Spectacular skies, clouds etc.. Lots of naval action
in the straits. Eagles. Where did you end up?

Dave

Hey Dave:
Yeah, the weather turned bad (torrential rains) on our drive up from
Portland along the coast, so we changed plans and went over the
Cascades to Eastern WA. Found a couple nice places to cast on the John
Day....landed a couple small trout (enough to christen my new rod and
justify hauling it halfway around the world), but the vision of a nice
two-day immersion fishing event vaporized into road miles.

When I saw that you were on the John Day, I thought you might have had
the experience that rattles trout fishermen........

Casting a nymph or streamer to tailwater, expecting to hook onto a
nice trout, when you get a SHOCKING, POUNDING strike and the fish
tears down, across, up, across, and down -- over and over, until you
finally net a .......... 14 in. smallmouth bass.

You thought you had a 5 lb brown and got a 1 lb bass.

But you got a ten ton thrill.

cheers

oz, who wishes it could have happened to you