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I’m with @Billy, gate it and make it a walk in.

Can’t have anyone having fun for free!!! 😂

Every once in a while you can find a used BPS…my dad has a couple and they are pretty badass too. I always liked the action on those more than my 870. I shoot a Maxxis now, and I’m never going back to a pump lol.

Cool thing about an 870 is you can really improve its functionality with a few very cheap parts and some good choke tubes. I’ve killed a lot of birds with my old wingmaster.

I don’t see how we can account for variables in the ocean environment if we don’t have a full accounting of the scope and scale of harvest/bycatch of any species, especially seemingly unconnected things like the sardine fishery.

It’s fun, no denying that

Lol, nope, not yet. Neither have I touched a winter in my localish Columbia trib ditch, which is what I was referring to.

It’s been rough, for sure. I haven’t touched a fish, and I’m good for at least one by now.

I wish I had more disposable income, bc I’d like to have that Zone in more configurations. I have the F1 right now in 500gr., and a coastal in similar (I think 475) that’s the intermediate/sink 3 and it sinks like a rock for those tight short runs. I need the zone in that configuration too.

Plunking is fun

So much! Spring steel, spring slush skiing, ice off Stillwater, turkey hunting, then Sockeye…so much good shit on the horizon.

I did really like Airflo’s Scandi compact with a fast action rod. I don’t have one, but I had a couple of buddies that ran the Deathstar with a Scadi compact….crazy line speed with that setup.

I agree, I’m real quirky about presentation and the rage and lines like Wulffs triangle taper seemed too clunky. I’ve caught fish with them, but I ended up making these ridiculously long mono leaders to compensate for clunky line, and they don’t cast well (for me) like that.

I love Nextcasts FF35 (it’s been redesigned and now called the Undertaker 35) for its turnover of surface flies. That line is especially nice when the wind kicks up, compared to the finer taper of some Scadi lines on the market. I’d advise against the bamboo 3wt only bc the wind. I’d rather...

In some ways it feels like WDFW just wants people to think they aren’t there. People target them specifically in certain runs above Rosa, people target (mostly fly fishermen) them in the Naches under the guise of fishing for whitefish (just like a certain guide on the Klick), people target...

Like Evan said, Rosa puts a big dent in what it could be/once was. There are several small creeks downstream that contribute to spawning/recruitment besides the Naches. Particularly Toppenish creek. It’s never been a destination to my knowledge, but it’s been a popular fishery in the past...

This one is near and dear to me for a bunch of reasons, primarily because I live so close to the lower river. It’s complicated, but they are there and I know because I’ve caught them incidentally. The total count is not monitored (to my knowledge) except for redd surveys on several tribs (not...

How interesting, thanks for that info!!!

Jared, you’re making Jareds, Jerrods, and Jarads uncomfortable with all this Euro business. Pick up a two handed and get your pocket picked by @Creatch’r like a real Jarad.

I can’t wait for soft inside seams in high water. That’s the only place I’ve really done any good with the dry line in winter.