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You think because of the "sockeye subsidy" in river systems with lakes boosting overall productivity?

Haha, good point. I think the answer is, “Yes.”

I lashed a bunch of stuff to a large saltwater hook 🤣 Maybe I’ll get it in front of some starving, stupid fish.

One of my favorite parts of the story is how much scientific discovery came about sort of unintentionally or just out of natural curiosity chasing down the next obvious question. I think this quote from the link summarizes an important point: “Carim says their work recognizes that, ‘Some fish we...

This is on a 4/0 wide gap hook. Seem reasonable? I just lashed a bunch of stuff to a hook and made it as long as the materials I have on hand will allow, without getting into doubles or game changers and whatnot.

And sometimes the biggest bull trout are at the very back of the school, in the tail out, in water so skinny you’re about to actually stand up, or maybe you do stand up, and all of a sudden…

That's true, before the golf course and the land bridge, he was exploring Chico Creek for Warthog Salmon.

I haven’t done it this time of year, but I can attest to how amazing and eye opening it can be. Also, cold. Great footage!

When pondering this, I sometimes ask myself, Is it needed for the narrative? Does it add something important to the story that can't otherwise be described? And then I think about if it's already a highly pressured spot and/or "artificial" fishery and factor that in.

So, a whole bunch of gear specific to sailfish, i.e. lines and flies, maybe are NOT needed?

Weeelllllll... I'm going on a 2-week family trip to Costa Rica in June where the first week is all scheduled out with fun adventurey activities and the second week, or last 5 nights anyway are at a sleepy surfy beach area (place we are staying is right between Samara and Nosara) and there are...

Has anyone here fly fished for sailfish—especially Pacific sailfish off Costa Rica? I have some questions!

I agree. But—It does seem sort of upside down to think that you could very legitimately be fishing a rod that costs less than your line. Especially since pretty much all lines do wear out with normal use but unless you do something goofy a rod could last pretty much forever.

My Inner Lumper finds some new research strangely satisfying: “…to further disrupt the species taxonomy, they demonstrated that western brook lamprey (Lampetra richardsoni) and western river lamprey (Lampetra ayresii) cannot be distinguished based on genetic information - meaning they are the...

One time I pissed my roommate off and he tossed my day old bagels over the fence. I was hungry and confused when I got home.

It's Spring after all, this must be like Steve's prom and he'll be damned if he's going to show up at either the high school gym or the South King County stocker pond only to find there's another dude there kitted out just like him!

I picked up one of those Cortland Competition "level sink" 6/7 weight Type 9 lines when they went on sale a while back. Pretty good deal for around $45 IIRC. I used it for coho in the Sound a bit last year too, when I had to fish for them when the far superior pinks weren't around, and I can...

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