Dave H
Well-Known Member
So yesterday brought us Tyee #17 and once again it was a rookie combo that scored.
Here's rower Jaret Knowles and his brand new member/rod-holder, one Brodie Doherty and their nice 32 pounder.
It's always interesting to me to note the number of new members and first time rowers that are depicted on the board.
This year we have 11 of 17 as new members, including one eight year old Junior Angler, and five Rookie Rowers registering their first Tyee.
Literally hundreds of years of combined experience and knowledge in the pool daily, working all the tried and true "spots" where Tyee are normally found, and it turns out few of that crew have a Tyee this year, with a couple of obvious exceptions of course.
The Tyee Pool is a capricious mistress and often gives her favours in the most interesting ways, not to forget how absolutely frustrating it can be when fish are showing all over the place, many appearing to be Tyee size too.
Aaaaaaargh!!
The two brothers in my boat last night saw lots of fish, heard the bell ring when the 32 pounder was registered (early in the evening too), saw a couple of cruise ships go by and had a brief burst of excitement when we "hooked up" and thought for a brief moment we were on a fish.
Alas, it was a repeat of the previous night when we had our plug run over and introduce itself to one being towed around by Quentin Dodd, resulting in two boats singing out "Fish on" just a tad prematurely.
And, as the other boat last night was being quickly rowed from the pool I realized we had a copy of a rare happening for me, we'd tangled horns with another plug heading the opposite direction from us, fooling both rod-holders into thinking they had a fish on.
It took a couple of shouts at the other boat before they realized what had happened and we let them reel in and loose our plug from theirs so we could carry on.
I don't think I've snagged up with another plug for a few years now so it was weird to have it happen two nights in a row.
I think my plug is a wanderer or something.
Anyway, at it again tonight with the guy who boated the only fish we subdued last year, which fell a few ounces short of being a Tyee and then had another get off after 15 minutes or so of give and take.
Hoping we can repeat this year with a bigger one.
Take care.
Here's rower Jaret Knowles and his brand new member/rod-holder, one Brodie Doherty and their nice 32 pounder.
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It's always interesting to me to note the number of new members and first time rowers that are depicted on the board.
This year we have 11 of 17 as new members, including one eight year old Junior Angler, and five Rookie Rowers registering their first Tyee.
Literally hundreds of years of combined experience and knowledge in the pool daily, working all the tried and true "spots" where Tyee are normally found, and it turns out few of that crew have a Tyee this year, with a couple of obvious exceptions of course.
The Tyee Pool is a capricious mistress and often gives her favours in the most interesting ways, not to forget how absolutely frustrating it can be when fish are showing all over the place, many appearing to be Tyee size too.
Aaaaaaargh!!
The two brothers in my boat last night saw lots of fish, heard the bell ring when the 32 pounder was registered (early in the evening too), saw a couple of cruise ships go by and had a brief burst of excitement when we "hooked up" and thought for a brief moment we were on a fish.
Alas, it was a repeat of the previous night when we had our plug run over and introduce itself to one being towed around by Quentin Dodd, resulting in two boats singing out "Fish on" just a tad prematurely.
And, as the other boat last night was being quickly rowed from the pool I realized we had a copy of a rare happening for me, we'd tangled horns with another plug heading the opposite direction from us, fooling both rod-holders into thinking they had a fish on.
It took a couple of shouts at the other boat before they realized what had happened and we let them reel in and loose our plug from theirs so we could carry on.
I don't think I've snagged up with another plug for a few years now so it was weird to have it happen two nights in a row.
I think my plug is a wanderer or something.
Anyway, at it again tonight with the guy who boated the only fish we subdued last year, which fell a few ounces short of being a Tyee and then had another get off after 15 minutes or so of give and take.
Hoping we can repeat this year with a bigger one.
Take care.