I bought an old SA System Two reel on ebay with two extra (3 total) spools. It's got the standard wear through the finish on the outside edges and I'm debating whether to leave it as-is or possibly remove the finish and go with bare aluminum. Seems like the potential cons would be reflection...
if you go from catching one of the zillions of stocked legals this time of year, to catching a bow of the same size that's grown up in that lake from a baby - you won't question the stocking of fry - you'll question the stocking of legals! additionally, if the legals weren't there every spring...
what makes you say you know? like everyone else, i can make no sense of why we don't encounter them, and we all know govt. reporting is as likely to be false as true - but this is what wdfw has published (actuals, not planned):
i've seen at least one report from @Tim Lockhart with a big fat...
i saw it sometimes when i was a kid fishing lake washington tributaries like juanita creek in kirkland, bear creek in redmond, and little bear creek in woodinville. not encampments - but like one guy living under a bridge near a grocery store where he'd have a steady supply of dumpster food -...
when i was a kid, we had the "true trouts" - salmo gairdneri, salmo clarkii, salmo trutta, salmo aguabonita, et. al. ; the taxonomists have buggered that all up, but we still have @Salmo_g !
I'm not seeing any bow in it. The markings on the back really are interesting, but I still think it's just coastal cutt. Sometimes in lakes it seems like they can get some really cool variations - maybe based on bottom color and diet?
Are coastal/westslope hybrids a thing? Seems like they...
anyone who hasn't caught a crappie lately - it's hard to imagine any fish species with a mouth more perfectly evolved for vacuuming small fish. i don't know a lot about them, but at another popular lake where the browns seem to have disappeared in spite of sustained stocking activity, i caught...