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I can’t believe that was 10 fucking years ago. I remember reading that saga like it was a couple years ago. DO, if it’s been that long, and you fished that much, you can call this first steelhead a +10. You are going for your 11th steelhead IMO. Many guys lose or land 10+ steelhead a day...

DO is a certain type of guru and now that he caught one he should write that article and it will be titled, “How to Not Catch Winter Steelhead on the Swing.”

I’m tearing up. 🥲

Sorry. I am an asshole and didn’t like the way you called those that you disagree with “black and white”.

GSmolt, since you are calling some of us the “Black and White crowd” I will keep my banter going because I find that disrespectful. I want to point out that I brought the quote up about the bycatch not because of the trawl fishing type specifically, but because of the monitoring quote. What...

I was just reading an article on the Canadian trawl fishery that had 93% of its catch be chinook bycatch and most were thrown overboard because they weren’t allowed to harvest them. This quote is the one that stood out to me, “Imagine what we would find if they started doing enhanced monitoring...

We need to shut down all the sports fisheries ASAP to protect these fish!

I disagree. The fishery I worked in was monitoring an in river Tribal fishery, so maybe it isn’t a great example of the mortality to steelhead due to nets in the ocean, but you can’t ignore the scale of fisheries across the entire PNW and how it would all add up. I also think the reporting...

I guess I am in the it swam away fine group. I also have never seen a dead steelhead on the bank in fisheries where people are crushing them all around me. I would think I would have seen one by now.

I hate to say it, but I agree with a lot of what Rob says. Closing sports fisheries to steelhead may be required by law but this is not really backed by science. Sure there are sports impacts and hooks hurt fish (science has shown hooks hurt fish….duh!), but let’s not miss the forest for the...

This is a bucket list fish for me. I want to fish them through the ice though, not fly fishing. The natives fish for them through the ice with a reindeer antler and line.

Why do I care? I fish in the Seychelles two weeks every year. Or Christmas Island. And Patagonia. It’s just too crowded in Alaska for me now. I used to fish Atlantics more but it’s just a shame what happened to those fisheries. New Zealand is worth the trip even though it’s far. I could go just...

Found a link: https://wdfw.wa.gov/newsroom/news-release/steelhead-fishery-open-feb-3-skagit-and-sauk-rivers

Word is Skagit reopens February 3rd.

For sure. Stroud has been a lock for rookie of the year for like 10 weeks. I had him in fantasy football and he had a 5 TD week and scored nearly 50 points while barely running. I’ve never had a QB do that for me in 15 years playing the game.

AR has always felt like a monster ego to me and it put me off. Half the stuff he says, if anyone else said, would be controversial. Like imagine a normal QB saying it, or a black athlete saying it, it would set off alarms and be news. AR gets all the rope for some reason. AR is no doubt...