Because so many of you out there are boat junkies….out there on the Big Rivers ripping it up from spot to spot….I thought I’d better put together a DVD series with all of the the salmon fishing that’s been captured out there!!
Fall & spring salmon will be featured as well as local and non local…..fresh & saltwater. And there are some great, I mean great, highlights that we’ll bring back around…..like DD’s 25# fall fish clearing water on wobble, Big Tone throwing a salmon at the camera man (ME) & much more….
I’ll have 12-15 short movies compiled….and you get all of them on one DVD for $7.50!
Here’s a preview of that cover I’ve decided to run with. From a recent trip out with Guide Jay Daly of Fight Club Guide Service…..
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This photo features our boat at the top of a line of 6 drifters fishing a bend in a choreographed fashion
I’ve had more comments from buddies about this picture…..so I decided to use it for the next go-round of TeamSalmon/Allaroundangler.com DVDs.
The Platinum package includes the following play list & runs $7.50. I even mail it to you. What a bargain AND you get to support the coolest fishing blog around.
Some movies included in this package are: Canadian Saltwater Salmon (& Octopus), 6 steelhead in 7 miles, Steelheading with Big Jake Reardon the original, Oversized sturgeon from a drift boat, Deschutes early June, and most of the killer steel action of the last 6 weeks as well.
This featured photo was taken with Matt the Metal Enforcer (MME) and with Bear (Kevin) Hunting this season while chasing metal from the drift boat. A few other guys had the same idea. Web photo definition is less quality than you movie covers will be, obviously.
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A dam removal project is underway and all fishermen access along the normal 4 mile section of fishable water has been closed through November.
There’s been a lot of ambiguity with regards to regulations and access of a popular river featured here on Allaroundangler.com over the years. Although most of you are aware of local access points closing….many of us have accessed the river via another popular access trail that seemed to be uninhibited through the early stages of this project.
Due to so many crazy steelhead anglers willing to walk four miles through thick brush to fish…..river use is no longer being tolerated through November. Alas, the spring chinook season that so many of us were looking forward to will be nil. Perhaps angling at the mouth would be an option if the debris generated from the removal doesn’t affect flow and clarity too terribly.
For those faithful readers out there who know of the river I speak of……just bag your plans. It just is what it is.
“Initial work will begin in April with the dismantling of a 200-foot high water tank tower at the powerhouse immediately upriver from downtown. The work will close two recreation areas for periods of time between April and November when all work is expected to be complete. To ensure the safety of all, PacifiCorp is cautioning the public that it will need to stay out of these areas. PacifiCorp will provide public updates about these closures and other details as the work progresses.”
Pacificorp Public Relations
Many good times have been had along this section of river for Team Salmon since 2004/2005 when H20, Magicsoul, Ghost Face and Pigsticker aka CDC clued most of us in on this gem of a river. Hell, Big Bear Hunting wouldn’t have graced my website and your eyes with his ‘natural’ ability without faithful trips to this crick. A meeting of the minds that never would have happened.
Great pieces of water often have that affect on anglers who visit them regularly…uphoria through the whole experience and ultimately nostalgia once the experimental phase has expired or faces a permanent change.
Will this be positive? All the guys from the project area will tell you it will. They all say more chinook will thrive because of it. I don’t claim to know anything other than what I see with my own eyes.
Our hopes of great results are high although for a time our sites must be set somewhere else. Would this be true of all ‘dammed’ rivers we anlge on? Certainly this isn’t the view of the majority. After all, who doesn’t like to catch a chrome bright hatchery steelhead? Hmmmm. Is the movement of the wild fish protection the end of angling for them?
This would be a cool thread to share some of the fun times had here by all. Cheers and tips up….but you’ll probably need them down too.
An angler and friend who I respect a lot for the job that he does, Kelly Reichner (Kelly once appeared on the cover of STS with steel in the mid 2000’s & is a very well-known river angler here in the Pac NW) coined a float-fishing method that is new to my repetroire…and that is the “Grandpa” technique.
I absolutely love it. Big Jake showed it to me first during the ‘6 steelhead in 7 miles’ video…..And I’m going to share it with you today. Boat or bank, this technique will help you catch more steelhead in your favorite river, no doubt.
When you are looking at a piece of water you assume to be holding steelhead…you deduce this as such due to the breaks, riffles, seams or runs that you have scounted out or have whacked metal in before. Either way, you set up for your presentation and feel confident.
Many of us have grown up fishing rivers and ‘dead-drifting’ baits, lures or flies in order to try to fool a trout, salmon or steelhead….but most of us have not tried the afforementioned “Grandpa” technique.
The best thing about river fishing with a float is your ability to control your presentation. Meaning; with a drift outfit, as successful as it may be much of the time, will always give you a belly in your line to deal with…no matter how uniform the current of the run you are fishing/scouting.
Even running a braided line on your drift outfit presents you with this same scenario only downgraded in severity due to the no-stretch factor of spectra braided or fused lines.
On to the featured technique:
From the bank, the “Grandpa” technique would be more difficult than from an anchored drift boat. But still possible with a long enough (10′ + ) float rod and a floating braided line.
Mainly the idea with this method is to identify any area where a fish may lay to rest from it’s upstream progress….however insignificant the slot may seem. Pun intended. Anyhow, you’ll want to locate the broken water in question and then position yourself up river from your target water far beyond what you normally would.
The idea is to float your bobber down into the target water without standing or anchoring anywhere near it. Maybe it’s a seam in the middle of the river that looks like it will hold a single fish. It’s worth a cast or an anchor and a “Grandpa” float out to see if anything is holding or taking a break in that holding water.
“The Grandpa Technique”: Floating your bobber/float down river into your target water without being anywhere near…..this usually requires a floating line and a long rod to achieve the desired results.
Once you’ve found a spot that looks ‘fishy’ to you…simply position yourself above that water and release your float down river over/into the target water. Fool around with your depths a little bit to make sure your covered your bases…then move on. If you’re the first one to that water the fish will strike in the first few drifts if it’s there.
Got any questions about a specific river/fishing spot where you think your normal approach has spooked the fish and the “Grandpa” technique may just be the ticket?? Just leave a comment here and let’s start a thread!
Every once in a while you meet someone that just has that extra passion that you look for in a passionate angler. An allaroundangler. Please welcome my friend, Mike Myhre to Allaroundangler.com.
Special Out of Area contributor….Keith Danzig….along with his fish catching son….send us in this absolute treat of a post. Thanks a ton, Keith! Chris Heller.
Written by Keith Danzig
Fishing in the 10,000 Island Region of the Everglades. If you have ever dreamt of fishing in a beautiful tropical wilderness but can’t afford to go to the resorts in Mexico or Belize, the 10,000 island region of the everglades may be just the ticket. The scenery, wildlife and fishing are amazing – you would never know that you are less than two hours from the airports in Ft. Meyers or Miami.
This is a group of thousands of mangrove covered islands in a maze-like saltwater estuary environment where you will see more birds, dolphin, manatees, alligators and yes – prized gamefish like tarpon, snook, redfish, and groupers than you could have imagined. My friend Chris is kind enough to take us out for a few days fishing every year when we visit my inlaws in the winter in the Naples area. Here are a few of the pictures we have taken in recent years to whet your appetite.
All of the fish were caught on light tackle spinning outfits with various artificials except the grouper that my son is holding – that fish ate a piece of ladyfish on medium conventional gear – you have to step it up for the bigger grouper because they live in gnarly structure underneath the mangroves and you have to get them coming to the boat right away or you get cut off in seconds when they scrape your line on limestone shelves or oyster encrusted mangrove roots.
(The 2 pictures directly above…)Here are some pictures from a phenomenal day of striped bass fishing in eastern Long Island Sound in late June 2009. I go east for a family vacation at the beginning of summer with my wife and 3 kids to hang with our families and enjoy the beautiful New England coast. Although the action was uncharacteristically slow in terms of numbers of fish this day, every fish we caught was solid and fought like a bulldog.
We went 8 for 9 with fish ranging from 15lbs (34”) to 38lbs (about 45”). We fished a mix of tactics: Large live bait on a three way rig drifted over a 30’ rocky reef top, tube and worm slow trolling shallow rock structure, and casting plugs on light spinning outfits to structure. We covered a lot of ground that day from Bartlett’s reef off of Saybrook, CT over to Orient Point and the edge of Plum Gut in NY waters. Needless to say my son had a great time and he may have caught more large bass in one day than some people will catch in 10 years!
I knew he was ruined for life when he looked at the 4th or 5th fish we caught that day – the 34” fish – and said “Wow Dad, I’m glad you caught a really small one – mine were much bigger”. This was the last day of 5 total fishing days and the action was some of the best I have seen in my 40 years of fishing in New England. Earlier in the trip we fished the big rip off Block Island in Rhode Island with Chris Bell using light tackle and walk-the-dog surface plugs. This may have been the highlight of the vacation.
4 of us hooked over 100 fish in two days some as small as 20”, most in the 30” to 34” range and a few that stretched the tape to 36” or better. There must have been a half a dozen times when all 4 of us were hooked up at once. When I lived in NY about 20 years ago and fished these waters all the time, I thought I was one of the best striper fisherman out there.
Fishing with Chris Bell from Adventure Charters and Pat Renna from T-Man Charters was a humbling eye opener. These guys are simply at another level when it comes to knowledge about the sport and they were fun and gracious captains – not like many who work the waters. In the past 15 year the restoration work for striped bass has lead to some incredible results. The same could be said for redfish restoration in the Gulf of Mexico.
I only hope that over time we can do the same for salmon and steelhead.
Big Jake J Money Reardon (BJR) & Kyle show off a beaut…
I’m not going out of my way here to flatter a fellow angler for no reason what-so-ever.
No. I am here to tell you that we have an actual ‘Prodigy’ amongst us.
Remember the movie, The Matrix?
Here’s some more pics of ‘The One’, and his buddy Greg and crew.
Greg’s boat with Jake on board caught fish when no one else was doing any good at all. Many of their days were what you or I would call “Epic”…but Jake rarely sounded excited. Court vision man.
