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Early October Erie Steelhead Trip anyone interested

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Posted 01 September 2004 - 03:15 PM

I am hoping on being back on my feet within the next month. Since I have blown the good part of the Smallie season sitting in a wheelchair I am looking forward to the fall Steelhead run. I am looking to go to Erie the first or second weekend of October so if anyone is interested in meeting up let me know. I will probably be there Friday night and will leave sometime Sunday.

Everyone who has fished Erie knows about the unbelieveable crowds during the fall run so I usually try to put my main focus on fishing at night, the fish seem more active and where it is usually elbow to elbow, you will have spots all to yourself.

Of course with it being early October the run is kinda hit or miss but I'm going no matter what, there has to be a few in there. 1 fish and I will be estatic after what I have gone through lately. According to the reports last year a big rain came October 1st and with it came the first decent push of fish.

If we get a few people interested we will rent one of the Thunderbird trailers and we can split the cost, ends up being like $10 per person per night to stay.

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Posted 01 September 2004 - 03:23 PM

I will be on the Au sable the 3rd week of oct. but as long as its before that you damn well better believe i'll be with ya bud headbang.gif

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Posted 01 September 2004 - 05:54 PM

How many can fit in a trailer there Will? if i make it then you know kieth will be there so that would be 3 already
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Posted 01 September 2004 - 06:05 PM

There are a few trailers that can hold 6 or 7 people in them. Yea make sure Keith gets an invite, Leaky should be coming with me.

I think Kevin lost forum access so I will send him an email and see if he is interested.

There are plenty of trailers so even if we get a crew we can split the guys up in a couple of trailers.
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Posted 02 September 2004 - 10:59 AM

Smally pardon my ignorance... dunno.gif what erie are you planning on going to..?
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Posted 02 September 2004 - 11:02 AM

Erie, Pennsylvania.......the ONLY place to go for fall run Steelhead headbang.gif

Pujic wrote a nice article about it when he attended our last outing in April: http://www.onlineflytyer.com/article_eriesteel.asp
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Posted 02 September 2004 - 11:08 AM

Great article, really nice photos... hope to see some more after your trip.. cheers.gif
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Posted 02 September 2004 - 07:52 PM

I'm interested depending on the weekend. I'm tied up October 9th but I can come up for a day/evening on the weekends on either side. smile.gif
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Posted 02 September 2004 - 09:22 PM

Lance,

If we nail down a date and your interested, I will handle the duty of calling you this time. We all remember how well Steeldrifter handled that responsibility last time whistling1.gif
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Posted 02 September 2004 - 09:25 PM

dry.gif I had no charger for my phone! blink.gif ...sure blame me everyone else dose wink.gif
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Posted 02 September 2004 - 09:31 PM

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Posted 02 September 2004 - 09:32 PM

Will, you should give the Conneaut Creek a try. Both Ohio and PA stock the creek. I suggest checking the report archives on Fisherie.com to see when the fish start running. I usually go up in November when the weather is colder.
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Posted 02 September 2004 - 09:36 PM

Yea man I have been wanting to try Conneaut Creek. It seems hard to find any info on good accesses and I usually don't have a ton of time to just drive around and scout new places, but if not this trip sometime this year!!!

That early in October is a bit early but being 7 weeks in a wheelchair can drive a man insane. I am willing to drive 6 hrs each way just to hook into one. Last year had a decent amount of fish in there at that time so only time will tell if they are they or not. dunno.gif
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Posted 03 September 2004 - 01:28 PM

Well I just got back from seeing the doc and things are not going as quickly as I thought they might.

I did get out of my boot on my left foot and was given an air cast. Now I can get up and walk around using a walker. My left one though is still in the boot and will be at least 3 weeks until I get out of that. After that I get into an air cast so I'm looking at 6 weeks or more until I am out of all of this gear.

It's only been a few days over 6 weeks since the wreck and realizing I am only half way is discouraging, but I guess it's progress.

So I'm probably looking at the end of October before I can get out.
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Posted 03 September 2004 - 01:34 PM

Dont get down about it Will for what happened to you your still doing great headbang.gif

And making the trip a bit later will just mean that many more fish in the river...just name the time&place and i'll be there wink.gif

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