Seriously?

Dustin Chromers

Dustin Chromers

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So as many of you know I'm a hater of tacky shit and the monetizing in tacky fashion all things fishing. So I come across this from a well known gear fishing company posted on the book of faces. Yes, I know. No, I didn't comment. I thought the comments were just as sad as the video though.

Are we really paying to go to Alaska and fish for Kelts? Is this a thing? Am I simply steeped in too much single malt and argyle sock sweat? Am I one of the few people that find this disgusting? I mean call me old fashioned but I'm not a fan of semen on my waders no matter who's it is. What the hell.

@Salmo_g could you please make known for the folks that don't know the kelt catch scoring demerit system. I feel the younger generation is needing guidance here.

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Seeing that it appears a case can be made for mandatory vasectomies.
 
Dustin Chromers said:
@Salmo_g could you please make known for the folks that don't know the kelt catch scoring demerit system. I feel the younger generation is needing guidance here.
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Happy to oblige. If you land a dark steelhead you earn one demerit. To erase the demerit you have to land a bright steelhead, and that gets your score back to zero. If you deliberately fish for and land kelts, the steelhead gods will take your first born. A conundrum develops when there are kelts mixed in with new bright fish, but the steelhead gods know your intent.
 
Assuming the video is of the Situk? I can't watch it.

The Situk has two runs of steelhead, one that enter in the fall and overwinter in the lake, who then head back down to spawn in the spring and fresh spring fish who do not head to the lake and head up to spawn starting in April.

A kelt is defined as a post spawn steelhead that is headed back out to the ocean - a lot of the dark fish on the Situk are still pre-spawn as they head downstream to spawn.

Semantics but technically not kelts. True kelts wouldn't have much of that fishy sauce left to spray the waders with if you know what I mean.
 
Modest_Man said:
Assuming the video is of the Situk? I can't watch it.

The Situk has two runs of steelhead, one that enter in the fall and overwinter in the lake, who then head back down to spawn in the spring and fresh spring fish who do not head to the lake and head up to spawn starting in April.

A kelt is defined as a post spawn steelhead that is headed back out to the ocean - a lot of the dark fish on the Situk are still pre-spawn as they head downstream to spawn.

Semantics but technically not kelts. True kelts wouldn't have much of that fishy sauce left to spray the waders with if you know what I mean.
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The fish in the upper Columbia tribs like the Methow do something similar. They swim up the Columbia in the fall, enter their tribs (like the Methow, and spend the fall there. Once winter hits and ice flows, they push back down to the Columbia for the remainder of the winter, then push back up around March or so into the tribs.

They look way, way fresher than these boots.

My friend with one probably 15yrs ago
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Evan B said:
The fish in the upper Columbia tribs like the Methow do something similar. They swim up the Columbia in the fall, enter their tribs (like the Methow, and spend the fall there. Once winter hits and ice flows, they push back down to the Columbia for the remainder of the winter, then push back up around March or so into the tribs.

They look way, way fresher than these boots.

My friend with one probably 15yrs ago
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Summers are different and not Kelts in that condition. Still not eating one as I am practicing member in the cult of chrome and have access to better fare. It's more the total loss of sporting culture and norms as a new generation of social media whores takes it's place in a dwindling resource and degraded experience. The fact that a bunch of dark ass boots is brag worthy by a known presence in the industry is a harbinger of shit ethic, and shit times. The culture of ethic and sport has lost out to a clueless new school of insta heros who don't even know what a hero is. I blame an over commercialized and a lack of fathers and mentors to guide folks in an ethical direction. Yes, social media is equally to blame but to even post that shit as triumph is beyond me. It's like riding a scooter. It's probably fun but you would never want your friends to see you or even admit to it. I wouldn't even swing a leg over I've if my life depended on it and nobody was looking.
 
I'm not a facebook nor instaglam warrior so I can't see any comments but it would surprise me if there aren't more conscientious members of the industry who have called out that atrocious behavior though he might well be beyond caring. Makes me wonder who is he is trying to impress bragging about catching 19 wild steelhead in a day and holding them up out of the water to immortalize the event. He may be one of those who carries a clicker to count his triumphs. Somebody needs to hold his head under water for a while.
 
SE Alaska steelhead will be spawning as late as the end of June early July, there will definitely be fresh fish showing up to the end of May give or take a few weeks depending on the conditions.
 
Paige said:
SE Alaska steelhead will be spawning as late as the end of June early July, there will definitely be fresh fish showing up to the end of May give or take a few weeks depending on the conditions.
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If I paid money to fly to Alaska and get a guide and his program was a boot fishery I would not be stoked. I certainly wouldn't refer to the day as a great success let alone use it for branding.
 
Dustin Chromers said:
If I paid money to fly to Alaska and get a guide and his program was a boot fishery I would not be stoked. I certainly wouldn't refer to the day as a great success let alone use it for branding.
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Says something about what the sport has become in the social media world that operations like that can even exist.
 
Dude sure seems stoked about scraping the dregs. Like all the February heros in ID, SEAK has its fair share of tomato-chasers showing up on the socials rn
Pro-tip: save yourself thousands by giving some random dude 20 bucks for a tin of Copenhagen and an 8oz red bull, then hook your fly to a wash towel and throw it in the river...the towel will fight harder.

There's fresh fish in on every tide if you are willing to put in the legwork, not just in YAK but all over SE AK. I gots chrome in my backyard, mang.
 
G_Smolt said:
Dude sure seems stoked about scraping the dregs. Like all the February heros in ID, SEAK has its fair share of tomato-chasers showing up on the socials rn
Pro-tip: save yourself thousands by giving some random dude 20 bucks for a tin of Copenhagen and an 8oz red bull, then hook your fly to a wash towel and throw it in the river...the towel will fight harder.

There's fresh fish in on every tide if you are willing to put in the legwork, not just in YAK but all over SE AK. I gots chrome in my backyard, mang.
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I figure with so many quality opportunities one could form a program that keeps you in fresh fish in a sporting manner. That is of course unless you are descendant of the guide types that prefer to fish the same redds over and over again cause it's easy

"Right over there under that flagging. I shit you not they mark it so you know where to cast."

Random Washington 'guide" on the satsop
 
We used to base a mothership in Wrangell and fish all the waters from Ketchikan to Petersburg, Bradfield Canal, Behm Canal, Prince of Wales, April-May each spring and have what I thought was incredible fishing for fish fresh out of the salt. I remember hooking, I think, at least 6 fish one day and each one would tear you a new one. In some of the smaller creeks there were already fish on redds but they could be easily avoided.
 
"see that clean gravel circle over there? That's your target....fish that hard"
 
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