Report: A buddy of mine went to the Salmon River on Thursday night and stayed at the Schoolhouse in. That place is awesome and the owners are great! It's right across from the schoolhouse pool and you can walk to your fishing spot! In the morning we fished the schoolhouse down river a bit, the action was crazy. It seemed like every couple of minutes someone in the area we were fishing had a fish on! There were even times were 3 guys had fish on at the same time. My buddy hooked two and lost both. I hooked one and landed one. The guy to the right of us hooked at least 15 or more and landed about 4-5 and the guy to the left of us hooked about 10 and landed 2. The fish in the river this year seem to be HUGE and with the water running high and fast it wasn't easy to land fish. After lunch we headed over to Orwell Brook because we got a tip from a local that guys were catching their limit within minutes! We thought, yea right, but tried it anyway. We had fished their before a few years ago and hated it. This time we tried a different spot on the brook and the local was not bullsh@#$ing! I found a small hole under a tree up brook and my second cast I landed a 20-30lb King, and believe it or not it wsa a fair hook!(probably just luck right) My next cast to the same hole, FISH ON! This was a flowl hook and was released, and was about the same size! A few more casts another fish on and the fight was on! Nothing like the river but almost as fun. The fish took off down brook and kept going. I stayed in one spot, becaue I didn't want to lose my hole, as the brook was packed full of fishermen, and actually landed the bad boy! This was by far the biggest King I had ever caught and he was hooked in the mouth! Needless to say my buddy and I stayed at Orwell for about 4 hours and caught 30 or more fish and that is not bull. We probably lost even more fish by a line snap or the hook coming out. It was insaine. Again, it is not as fun as fishing on the river, or takes nearly as much skill, but it is fun. Oh, my buddy caught his limit within 20 minutes all fair hooks. The guys up brook from us were sitting in a much larger hole with litterally hundreds of fish! Going back up next weekend to fish the Schoolhouse again and might hit Orwell in the early morning.
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