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| Author | Topic: 16 mile or 12 mile or elk |
| Tom Gribble |
posted 10/30/01 11:35 PM
... anybody know the conditions of them ? .. http://community.webshots.com/user/steelheader007 All steelies ! |
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Warren Albert (Moderator) |
posted 11/1/01 10:57 PM
Tom,I am not sure about 12 or 16 mile as I haven't been to those streams this year yet but Elk should be in pretty good shape. The fish are spread out and they have been getting some rain up there. There is more rain predicted for Friday so look for Elk to fish well this weekend.I am planning on fishing Elk on Saturday. I will let you know how it looks.Warren |
| Tom Gribble |
posted 11/3/01 3:54 PM
Well gentleman I would like to go out on a limb here and say we will all have the chance to land a state record this year. Unlike last yr the common steelie was 4-6 pounds I’m hooking into steelies that are significantly larger than that from Ohio to PA! No joke, and I’m stunned I was privy to a conversation last year about some old timers talking about the stocking program, and how a 3-4 year old strong run of fish should be great in the tribs in 2001. Now I think they made of had some great insight, and from what I can tell they are right. I fished yesterday on a stretch of Elk I will call stretch “X”! There was some of the biggest steelies I have ever witnessed in my life, and there was a shload of them. So after Matt, and I hit the creek early I had 2-3 hook up landing none, including a nice size brown that kept me in awe and said see ya ! I’m still shaking my head over that one! So we left section “X” on Elk, and headed to Conneaut. Well Connie would catch up a nice 28-29” male for Mat. He caught it on a pink glo bug, and fishing the traditional under cuts and fast chutes. Steel headers are still not fishing these great holes that hold some huge fish, as I will write later to attest to. So Mat came down stream on Connie, and I would net this fish. Mat had one of those nets that have a scale in the handle the scale said the fish weighed in at 8#, and dam near did not fit in the net! Well we would pick up camp and make a move that would prove to be a hell of a great time! Fishing a very known stretch the Uniroyal stretch. We went to our fave lil R.E. hole, and dam getting down through the current would prove to be the really big test, and once I did the fish scared me “blam”. Out of the water he/she came like a rocket in the mouth shaking like a wild beast, and then she would the hook would pull out “a nice large fish fro ma distance”. I would hook up here another time, and it would school me also. It would run thought the cut, and back again. I felt his head shaking and rubbing its self on the rocks below, and then it sat on the bottom I thought fouled hooked for sure. Then it rose up to of the water just to throw the hook at me and give me the fin and go back to his hole. Well I waded out of the hole, and began to tell Matt I’m going to fish these under cut on the bank, and then we will leave. Well 5 count them 5 hook up later, and some really big fish out of these current seams breaking against the bank would leave me speechless. I had all these fish on and could not land any of them, and one of the reasons was my tippet was not heavy enough plain and simple. I was using 9# Grand max, and it was failing in the middle! Hmm but O’well, lol funniest thing was that Matt watched in amazement! He could not believe all those fish where in that seam. The Grand like the Connie, where holding color but with the minimal rains we had I have no idea how they look today but well worth checking out on Sunday. The Grand had the better flow so far out of those three tribs we have been too! So off to the Chagrin, and would find here with heavy stain as the afternoon would wear on! She had great flow also, and the guys where hooking them at the dam from talking to a guy standing there cold ad hell from not wearing any wet weather protection, and we went down to Todd’s Field. Would prove to be again a testing. Two hook up some real hawgs, and take me for a ride and then sit on the bottom. I pumped their heads, and nothing. I tried side pressure until I broke them off. So not sure they where fowled hooked or not “ I have never ever foul hooked a fish out of this hole”. They would not even move, and I have personally seen two meat slingers pull consecutively early in the season multiple times pull 30”+ fish out of this hole. Now Matt would try to fish his steelie hole of holes, and only hook up once. None of us landing anything on the Chagrin, but well worth the quadatholon of the trip. So tired as hell today hence why I’m home, and not fishing up at Connie or the Grand! If I were going to fish anything I would first see the Dam at Daniels, and then the Grand and adjust from there. The Grand http://water.usgs.gov/oh/nwis/uv?04212100 at this reading pending on the clarity it should fish dynamite as long as you know where to fish! The Chagrin http://water.usgs.gov/oh/nwis/uv?04209000 will probably be really stained if not tuff for fishing so seeing that I would haul butt to the Grand on Sunday! I may be wrong and going out on a limb, but that’s where I would go! Well to all have a great day, and wade safe. Tom GribbleSteelheader007@hotmsil.com http://community.webshots.com/user/steelheader007 All steelies ! |
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