I went salmon fishing Sunday morning, running on a hour and a half of sleep.
Anyways, the river was barren of life, not a single salmon, which is fine. It happens if you don't get to them when they make their runs.
None the less, a little product endorsement for the day. I tried a new line that was recommended to me by a few friends. I picked up a 12lb spool, mainly cause even for salmon, you don't lose them in the river with lower line, and I really needed more a new line for perch and trout my salmon line was still good.
So I loaded up Seaguar's Red Label line, and it looks like good line visually on inspection when I was spooling it on the reel on Saturday night.
None the less, reason I posted is, I managed to snag a tree, yes you hear that right, I got a tree.
There is a spot I like, far away from the rest of the fishermen and its got tree cover and a depth of water in the pool of about 8 feet, so the salmon like to stick there. Since I had not seen a fish till that point, I put some salmon eggs I had made the night before and I got to work. Thing is due to the trees you got to cast on the side and get the line into the "hole" of about a foot and a half between the top of the water and the branches. So it gets stuck every dozen or so casts, ended up getting it stuck pretty badly the 2nd time.
Tried pulling, no dice, tried yanking, no dice, started to treat it like it was 30 pound line, pain in the **** to get to snap, ended up yanking hard enough I broke my float, which ended up flying about 15 yards upstream and my line went down stream.
Did not recover the hook, did managed to save my float, but it has a big gouge where the line (balsa wood), the elastic float keepers were no where to be found nor was the hook as it was still on the branch.
Toughest son of a b***h line I ever used for a 12-lb "tested" line. Them Japanese sure did under rate the stuff.
Dimitri