This video could only be posted if I kept it in it’s real context. I will post the original text leading up to the video’s production…and then I’ll embed the video below. Absolutely Freaking Hilarious! Our hunting friends will get an extra adrenaline rush because the hunting takes place at high speeds. Caution:
Original Text from Video Owner: NOTE THE MISSPELLED WORDS…..classic
“For all you f**king hippies crying abuout the fish being cought. These are asain carp, a non native fish that have been illegaly brought here and they destroy our rivers. They are really bad on the mississippe river and you are actually encouraged to go out and kill as many as you can. Its either let these fish live and have no more US rivers or kill them and have fun”
If you guys would like to browse to the photo album (tab option to the left hand side of this page) to see the new Deschutes pictures, help yourselves!
Once you’ve browsed to the Flickr gallery, simply click on “Deschutes 08″ to view the pics I’ve got in there so far….more to come. Anyone else have some to put up?
I just got a nice surprise from a friend and fishing bud. He finally delivered the digital pic of a nice winter steelhead that I got on the Sandy last Month.
It was the same crappy and rainy weather but after a couple of hours of slogging, I got this chromer at the upper end of Oxbow. It was in pretty shallow water and got interested in something bright dangling beneath a float. It was a good fighter and a better eater. I thight I would share it since it was the last steelhead I have landed.
This float was Friday through Sunday and there were six of us. Jprellman, Nook aka Coach Cal, Meskel aka Che somebody, Ghost, Pig and me the Cat.
Everything about the trip was phenomenal. I hope we use the comment section of this thread to have dialogs bout the trip. Enjoy the pics guys. They’re be more to come.
This lower section of river was a first for me; a twenty-two year Deschutes Angler…
Pigsticker with fish-on & scenery to die for behind him……
I’m thinking about making a post card out of this one! What a Gem of a pic….
Here I use my swingin’ ‘dead-on’ method…..
Ghostface was HOT HOT HOT on this trip….biggest fish of the trip - no pics , but I watched him land two smoking hot Trout in a row..and with Montana methods new to me!
Props to Shawn and Brian for sniffing this trip out……my soul is refilled from views like this……………..
Here Ghostface walks away from a box where he quadrupled…..
You gotta love these guys new Hyde Driftboat….the seats look so comfy!
Great campsite for great friends……….let’s set up another one! Happy Birthday Murray!
A herd of Big Horn allowed us to “glass” them on the hill across from our camp ALL WEEKEND! Thanks for bringing the specs you guys……….
This Osprey had a neck motion straight out of a cartoon…was just classic! He was happy to dance for us…and….he might have even been the one we saw with a nice catch overhead…………..!!
Cheers, from Pigstickness……aka He who pimps the Thingamabobbers!
Hellcat aka and as coined by the Late Great Gavin Anderson….The Professor…
This is a 139.5 inch White Sturg I caught below the New Locks with Eric Linde in April of ‘93.
This fish would go 400 plus and was approximated by a nearby biologist as at least 125 years old. IT’S IMPORTANT TO NOTE I LANDED THIS FISH WITHIN 30 MINUTES….which is probably too long in itself….but certainly not the horror stories you hear on line or on the river bank about “3 hour” fights and what not. You may as well just shoot them with an Elephant gun because they won’t live after that kind of exertion.
Studies have shown that when exerted beyond a natural level, such as a fish is during an exceptionally long fight, they begin to take on physiological changes. One of which is oversized fish ABSORBING their roe when exerted beyond a natural limit.
Let’s please share with new anglers what a BAD idea it is to yank on these things. Fifteen years ago was a different story.
There are plenty of places within fifteen minutes of Portland or closer that offer substantial Sturgeon catches where a guy could catch and release keeper sized fish without killing them, and still get a chance to enjoy the fishery. Might not be a beast like this, but that’s your bad for not fishing these things before we potentially face those dreaded words….’non-viable fishery’.
I don’t hassle theses big ones anymore. People who still do face the fact they are contributing to a near 70% declination in this species in the Bonneville Pool.
That cannon ball weight you see in front of the head is the size of a man’s fist and weighs 64 ounces.
With only two months left till the first little Meskel arrives there is just enough time to squeeze in a weekend trip to the D.It might get a little chilly at night and it is definitely early for the Salmon Fly hatch still a couple new fathers and myself have already made plans to bust out the 4&5 weights and do an overnight float on the weekend of the 12th.
Tentatively Pine Tree to Macs is the stretch we will be hitting with an overnight stop at a secluded “camp” spot on the track side of the river about mid way down.We have fished this stretch before and it was a blast
The Hyde
is probably full
But if you want to float along side just let me know and I can pass on the details.
This should be a good time for Nook to learn us what he was recently taught about fishing the D.Either way it will be a great time on the water.
, but I watched him land two smoking hot Trout in a row..and with Montana methods new to me!
