One of my favorite fisheries is plunking for Springers. Kick back with my stadium seat cushion under a nice shade tree, cold beverage and an occasional cigar. Damn, I love it..
@PnwChrome great job! I know it's still early but how is your fishing comparing to previous years? Fingers...
There are alot of rivers in the west that are paralleled by RR tracks, making virtually giant sections of river off limits then. Have fun fishing the 3 public access sites with the tweakers
It was a very very short time ago, the Sky is falling crowd was putting a fork in UW under Jimmy Lake, now it's because an AD bailed after 5 months on the job. lol
The Coogs and Beavs are trying to ride it out, it's not going to end well...
I love this conversation, I could prattle on for hours about steelhead holding water/strategy, etc...
One other thing besides reading water(this really does separate the pimps from the wingmen) is color selection. If everything is equal the guy who knows how to match specific color combos to...
Steelhead chess, my favorite game.
Everybody is locked on the name brand drifts, you know, the ones where the bottom is gradually slanted upward so the current slows to that magical walking speed, it's gravel bottom is studded with basketball to coffee table sized rock, the drift is long and...
You'll remember that fish forever, the grey ghost of a silhouette before bolting into the history books. I've caught hundreds and even a couple 20+ and the 7lb chromer from the Sky in mid December of '96 when I was 15yrs old still haunts me, one jump clear out of the water with Mt Haystack in...
Samsquench definetly built that structure, if you look close those structural support pieces weren't saw cut, they were broken by a large powerful creatures bare hands.
I remember going fishing with an old timer on a large river with my small 14' Valco with a 25hp Johnson, he threw me a lifevest before we took off and said, "this won't help you, but it will make it easier for others during body recovery."
He was very experienced running a large powerful...