I plunked below the dam the last three days. Left the boat at home after fishing that area on the 9th and getting skunked and having to watch the plunkers kill them. I released 3 natives and kept 2 hatchery fish. The bank fisherman did not do as well as I remembered. There was a hogline just up from me that did very well all three days. Not sure how many were caught but there seemed to be fish on almost all the time. They had their slow times but there was times like today when 2,3, and 4 boats had fish on at once. The boats out toward the center of the river seemed to be doing the best but all boats in the line hooked fish. This was my first time plunking for anything but sturgeon. It was fun just talking to the people and watching the boats. Today there was a large bayliner that made an attempt to anchor in the hogline above me. He almost ended up on top of another boat. Then when he went to pull his anchor he angled across their anchor lines. They yelled at him to go straight up and he paniced and started to go across the anchor lines on the other side. By then every boat out there was yelling at him. He finally got his anchored pull up which looked to be a sand anchor. After that he had the guts to make a second attempt but everyone on the hogline started yelling at him and he finally left. It was funny to watch from the shore but was a very dangerous cituation and luckily he did not catch any anchors. Please do some research before attempting to fish that type of water. Also Monday I saw a 12-14 aluminum boat leave their anchored to fight a fish and lose it because their bouy was to small. They must have spent 1-2 hours trying to grab it with a landing net. Hopefully they reopen the season on a limited bases.

[ 04-17-2001: Message edited by: FishCatcher ]