As I stood in front of my dual screen workstation this morning, I noticed LipRipper across the office coming my way. He had a disgusted look on his face. I asked him what was happening.
He proceeded to explain that the salmon season that so many people had counted on was just ended early. “Tomorrow at Midnight” He said. “A whole week early….outta nowhere. All those rigs on the road, turning around.”
Ended upon a much anticipated holiday weekend that local companies and families depend on every year. A healthy mix of livelihood and recreation. Or not.
“It sure seems peculiar they wouldn’t open the season two days later in order to preserve this much anticipated and planned on holiday weekend” LipRipper lamented.
At the time he told me this I received a call from Big Tone. He was fresh off of four hours of sleep and getting new tires put on his rig. He was ringing me from the waiting room.
“Man, they really screwed us on this one.” Big Tone went on to explain his weekend has been planned with family and friends for six months. Just a real heart breaker for him and all the rest of us. If it’s not this closure it’s another one very soon I’m sure we’ll be talking about.
I hope at least we can all agree that we are indeed a group of people, Sportfishermen, who continue to get ram rodded by our lawmakers. Representation really is everything, isn’t it?
Nice job with the legislation. What a bunch of jokers.
Link to the Columbian’s article on this subject under the “Blogroll” and titled “newspaper fish closure article“.
I’ll keep it there a week or so, so everyone can read it.
I’ve added some functionality to the site that will give our readers MORE RESOURCES in one place than before!
With numbers of Fall Kings over Bonneville as high this week as 15,000 in one day, this link is certainly a must have. This link to the Bonneville fish passage numbers is now as easy as visiting Allaroundangler.
I’ve also added an interactive tide table that is incredibly accurate and comes highly recommended by LipRipper who has earned his salt to do so. Thanks Dusty, and please contact Dusty if you need a tutorial on the tide table site. It’s pretty easy but a once through from LR might not hurt.
You can find both of these new links…down and to the left…located under “blogroll”.
I am solo from Saturday August 30th until Monday Sept 8th. I will be on a very “liberal” work scheudle and I am looking to get my line wet as many times as possible. Coho season is on and with the rain I would expect good things.
Who all is avaible to fish and when? I am going to make some trips to not sure where yet, but I have a boat and pleanty of rods for all situations. Who’s in?
I have floated the lower Sandy, and when I say lower I am talking about Dabney down to Lewis & Clark State Park, at least five times this most recent Spring-post Marmot take down. And each time, I swore to myself that it was the last until some more sand washes out. I mean, there I am digging my sticks into sand in the middle of the river….over and over……..yet here I am again, wondering if I should think about giving it another try. What can I say? I am a hopeless romantic and the rivers are my ladies. Well, I’m wondering if this lady named Sandy will put out this year?
Having fished this lowest stretch of the river much more than any other section (except Cedar-although I barely admit that) I am in serious doubt I will be able to continue drifting it until some depth is returned to those sand-clogged runs and holes. But will it even matter for Silvers? It seems true to their rearing that they would need depth and cover to hold….Sal?
With Coho river season upon us…..isn’t this lower river just too full of sand to even think about catching fish in the same places? I mean seriously….hey Sal…are those Silvers going to hold in that lower stretch at all? I mean, you’ve seen that lower stretch. It’s like nothing I’ve ever seen before…the comparison I mean.
This pic below is how the ramp…eh hmmmm….looked back in February. It’s a damn site longer to the water now my friends. Better have a winch or be ready to completely wreck your mid-section by dragging the boat three feet at a time for 50 yards.
So, I just hope we can find some new slots and holding water since it will be so easy to get out to the river after work from my new place……..Startin’ to get the itch….
As a freshwater guy, I get pretty worked up by the time August rolls around each year. How come this year is different? It seems like the days of reveling in a days’ catch, whether it be through a photo of a released fish or a finely diced fillet of a keeper, are long, long gone.
I don’t have any kids yet, but when I do and when they’re old enough to fish; they’ll be lucky to be Carp fishing with dough bb’s on size 22 treble hooks. Now think about that for a second….
I once heard through the law of averages that in order to catch a Steelhead….a guy would have to fish 77 hours for a fish. I used to laugh at that statistic. Why was I laughing? I was always catching fish. Winning teams don’t ever think they’ll loose but now I find myself wearing that #77 like a fargin’ Jersey.
Actually, since March…..I’d be lucky to get a fish for every ten trips…which is about how many trips seventy seven hours works out to. I dunno, maybe I should get a sled and mindlessly side-drift up and down all the real fishermen holes, runs, glides and drifts.
I don’t know about you, but I’m getting hit with the August Steelhead and Coho river fishing nostalgia. I’ve high hopes I’ll be reminded how awesome it is to be an Allaroundangler fishing our Pacific NW rivers and streams. Delirious hopes, but high ones.
We are writing you today to ask for your help. We have 8 weeks until our 1st Annual Fund-raising Banquet. It will be held at O.M.S.I. on Thursday, September 25th. Very soon=2 0you will be sent an invitation and information packet, via mail and/or e-mail, about the banquet and tickets.
Right now we are in urgent need for more items for our live auction, silent auction and raffle.
If you, or someone you know, are able to secure donations of new items or services that we can use at our Banquet, we need to know soon. We can use anything large or small. Items such as sporting goods, hunting or fishing trips, timeshares, vacation get-aways, anything you can think of are needed. Please think outside the box and don’t limit your ideas to fishing! One chapter sold a truck load of gravel while another sold a complete re-roofing of a house. Cash donations would equally be welcome. CCA is a non-profit 501C(3) charitable organization, so some or all of your donation may be tax deductible. Please give a little thought as to anyone you might know who could help. If you have a good lead for a donation but feel uncomfortable about asking or approaching them, please give us their name and we’ll be happy to follow up.
Please also consider helping out by giving a small amount of your time to serve on the banquet committee or to help at the event.
Your chapter started in December of 2007, with about 50 members. Now, we’re happy to say, Portland Metr o has over 200 members, which is a great improvement. But we need more of you to get involved. This is your chapter–it can only be what you put into it. Remember that all money raised at this banquet stays in Oregon. These monies and your efforts are vital to the success that we achieve here in Oregon for our fisheries.
Please step up and help. It’s for the fish!
Thank you,
CCA Portland Metro Banquet Committee
For donations and questions, please contact
Craig Plummer, Merchandise Chair - 503-268-7686 cell or 503-282-8790 home
I just got back from a coastal lake North of Florence. I got out every night in search of large bass. The summer warm up of the lake was a couple of weeks late due to the cool spring but there had been reports of a few nice fish being taken. The second night out, I got a nice 3 pounder right about dark and thought that things were looking up.
I got a couple of small ones the next two nights and wondered what was going on. I was fishing from about 7:30pm until about 9:45 pm. We fished hard the next night without a bump. As dark got close, I moved into an area where Chris had gotten his first nice bass on a surface plug. I laid one at the back end of a dock and let the plug just sit there.
After a While I gave the plug a very light twitch and wham, a big guy took it like a freight train. It was pretty dark but when the fish turned I could see it was a big guy. I ran straight for the piling on the dock and I horsed him as hard as I could. He could not quite make the piling. I fought him for a while more and finally reached down and did the old bass lift out of the water. I did not have a scale but figure that the fish was a good 6.0lbs. We fished a bit more.
My sister made a bad cast dropping her plug a good twenty feet from shore. She was going to do a fast retrieve and I suggested she fish it out. At dark the fish are moving around looking for food and the cover does not seem nearly as important as during the day. She got hammered by a nice 2.5 pounder.
It cleared the water twice before bringing it to the boat. It was her first nice bass on a surface plug. By this time, it was pitch black and we decided to roll it in. That was the best night of the week. Nothing like night bass fishing with surface plugs. It is a religious experience.
