COMING UP ON ALLAROUNDANGLER.COM BY END OF DAY TOMORROW…….
*JOSH LEACH TUTORIAL~JOSH WILL TALK TO US ABOUT SIDE DRIFTING OUT OF A DRIFT BOAT FOR STEELHEAD
**MATT STUART AKA MME WHACKS HIS THIRD STEELHEAD IN TWO DAYS…THIS TIME ON HARDWARE….
***JOSH THOMAS AKA H2O MAKES THE MOST OF HIS TIME ON THE WATER BY NAILING A BEAUTY PIG NATIVE STEELHEAD…A HARDWARE FISH (GREAT PICS TO COME)
****BIG BEARMAN’S BIRTHDAY RIVER ROMP IS COMPLETE!!! MME AND MYSELF JOINED BEAR FOR AN AMAZING 4 MILE HIKE NONE OF US HAD DONE BEFORE…POST, PICS AND VIDEO TO COME.
*****TEAM SALMON SPORTSMAN SHOW NIGHT: I’LL BE WORKING IT THIS YEAR AND WOULD LOVE TO SEE SOME FRIENDLY FACES OVER THERE! I’LL BE POSTING AN ‘ORGANIZER’ UPDATE TO TRY TO HELP YA’LL COORDINATE AN OUTING. SHOW RUNS FEB 10TH - 14TH.
******BRENNAN THE BRICK’S FAMOUS SHRIMP CURE….STRIKES AGAIN….AN OP ED TO SIMPLICITY ON THE RIVER.
SO, COME ON BACK AND SEE ME AGAIN SOON……RIGHT NOW I’M GOING TO TRY TO TAKE CARE OF THIS ACHING BODY OF MINE…..I may still get something up from the list above tonight. We’ll see.
Holding water that Matt found and covered…successfully……
What do you guys think the best name for Matt would be? Whichever we/he decides….this guy is on a freaking tear. Double digits already by beginning of February. Real solid.
Whether we call him the Assasin or the Enforcer; either is appropriate. Two more beautiful natives photographed and released today.
Too bad he was alone and we could not get videos of these GD pig steelhead. Beautifully done my friend.
Please enjoy this spread he took the time to capture for us. BRAVO!
1st Fish:
2nd Fish:
His day of reward was not without payment. Here’s a pic of his Lamiglas XMG 10′6″ float rod……snapped.
I already fixed his tip top and he’ll be back at it tomorrow and Monday. This is a fishy, fishy man.
This post is courtesy of Shawn Richey aka Nookslayer…via his Uncle Dennis of Oregon Anglers. Thanks for doing this leg work buddy.
ILLUSTRATION FROM ‘WWW.NASCO.INT’
“I (Dennis Richey) attended the ODFW Commission meeting today, and they made public the numbers for our spring fishing.
*Anticipated return of Columbia River Spring Chinook: 470,000
Willamette River Spring Chinook: 62,700 (both are probably conservative)
*Of these Sport fishermen get: 21,750 or 71% allowed catch of hatchery fish
*Commercial fishermen get: 8,750 or 29% allowed catch of hatchery fish
This will allow at least 45 days of fishing in the Columbia R. in April and May.
Commercial impact will be in March and April, if quota left over, they will get to finsh their impact in May.
The 45/ 55 split (commercial/ Sport) OF MORTALLITY TO THE WILD FISH below Bonneville Dam actually means a much higher percentage to the sport anglers because of the difference in estimated catch mortality on the wild fish we have to return.
Sport anglers share their quota: 75% below Bonneville/ 25% above. Below Bonneville the fishery will, most likely, be below I-205 freeway.
A buffer of 40% of the estimated run is being held out to make sure the tribes get their share of the fish. (We urged a buffer of 30%) IF the run appears to be higher at the run size update, several weeks into the run, the comission MAY upgrade our catch and extend the season. I would be suprised if this does not happen.
This does mean there should be plenty of fish in the Col. R. tributaries- get ready! The Deschutes will have a 2 fish/day Chinook season this year.
Scenarios of what days etc. have not been determined.”
Calm down now. It’s not what you think. I had to share this with you all out there because it made me laugh out loud when I saw this. One of our regular contributors, Kevin ‘Bear’ Hunting, just sent this in to me tonight. Bear has quite a collection of knives so this shouldn’t be that surprising…..And it’s just so great. Reminds of the paddles the seniors used to beat on the incoming freshman in the movie “Dazed and Confused.” Only for fish heads. Righteous and very accurate. Hope to see that thing swung in a downward motion into a chrome dome on Monday.
Words from the angler/craftsman….
“Well the beavers were busy and left some nice chunks laying around so this is what I made with one of chunks I picked up. I realized that a fish flopping around means it’s liable to get away, well now I can handle that.
This is from my man Steve Lynch…..thanks for sharing, Steve!
You are your buddy should have some great dinners lined up for a while.
Great work and thank you for sharing with us!
Words from the angler…”Hey Chris,
Good talking with you and thanks for the tips and info on the Springers. Here are a couple of pics from the river I mentioned, foto’s taken 1/31/2010. One of 4 natives I caught and two hatchery by buddy hooked.” Steve
Out on a river today with Big Burge, his fly rod and a trusty casting outfit, Nookslayer managed to whack this beauty chunk of Metal with the latter.
Confreakinggratulations Nookness.
Words from the angler….”Burge and I worked hard today. Gin clear water but absolutely beautiful. We had to stalk them and mainly sight cast from distance or cover. Worked a lot of water and then started seeing fish on the way back up.
As I was wading back to the bank I saw this fish in an odd but sweet little spot behind a deep hole next to the root wad of a giant tree that had fallen. It was darting about in some really turbid water. I slowly put my things down and grabbed my rod because if i moved to quickly it would see me. I lost sight of it after my third cast and was reeling back in for another pass and WHAM! It took the jig almost at my feet. I only got to fight it for a minute or two because all I had to do was turn the rod it seemed.
It took 6 strong bonks to the head and the gills cut to finally put it down. As a thank you I received lacerations to my fingers after I thought it was dead (twice) and tried to rinse it off. The teeth before the gils got me.
Thanks to all, and especially BB for the day. This was his first coastal trip. Nookslayer
