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Lol I have a feeling after 30 years.
ITS GOING TO BE CONBAT FISHING.
And not one picture.I was hot boat last Friday fishing out of the Swan Island Basin dry dock area in the Willamette.
I hooked 5 Springers, two of them were 23-25 lb natives, caught and released, two buried rod screaming take downs and one 22 lb keeper hatchery.
One of the natives spit the hooks and the leading siwash hook managed to snag the dorsal fin.
It took me over ten minutes of pulling as hard as I could trying to horse that pissed off fish close to my boat, so I could retrieve my favorite gear setup.
At one point, I was pulling my 14' aluminum boat sideways through the water, trying to stop him racing across the top of the water for over 100' runs. Quite a show when he would jump out of the water like he was going up a waterfall.
Netting him was a miracle, as he never ran out of steam.
The best part was hooking all of these salmon right in front of my fishing guide neighbor.
I actually had to beg some extra bait off of him, as I ran through the six I brought with me.
I was hot boat last Friday fishing out of the Swan Island Basin dry dock area in the Willamette.
I hooked 5 Springers, two of them were 23-25 lb natives, caught and released, two buried rod screaming take downs and one 22 lb keeper hatchery.
One of the natives spit the hooks and the leading siwash hook managed to snag the dorsal fin.
It took me over ten minutes of pulling as hard as I could trying to horse that pissed off fish close to my boat, so I could retrieve my favorite gear setup.
At one point, I was pulling my 14' aluminum boat sideways through the water, trying to stop him racing across the top of the water for over 100' runs. Quite a show when he would jump out of the water like he was going up a waterfall.
Netting him was a miracle, as he never ran out of steam.
The best part was hooking all of these salmon right in front of my fishing guide neighbor.
I actually had to beg some extra bait off of him, as I ran through the six I brought with me.
And not one picture.
Should we believe him or not .
LOL
I don't want to be a pain, but technically it's illegal to net and remove fish from the water that must be released... at least in Oregon.Congrats on being the HOT BOAT, it's quite a good feeling out fishing a guide to boot.
Not flaming but why did you net a fish you had to release?
I know Oregon doesn't require this but it is by far better than netting and releasing.
I use a 24" metal hook I made to release unclipped hatchery fish. Get the fish next to the boat, grab the leader, hook the homemade hook inside the hook & pull the leader down & the hook up & bye bye fish. I've released MANY unclipped hatchery fish using this technique.
WDFW had a pic of one in the regs.
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I don't want to be a pain, but technically it's illegal to net and remove fish from the water that must be released... at least in Oregon.
Just watch some shows and you'll see them do it too tho, especially to get a picture.
PS: it's a pretty new reg, not many people know of and I've never heard of enforcement.
I don't lift them out of the water, just corral them in the net and pry the hooks out with needle nose pliers.
I'm running a small aluminum boat by myself, and trying to lift a 25 lb native salmon straight up with a gill pole that still has a lot of fight left in him and also try to get a hook out, ain't gonna happen.
As far as pics go, I'll take them for friends that catch one, but if you've fished for salmon as long as I have, what's the point.
I'll take a pic later today of what's vacuum sealed inside my freezer. At least the packages have dates on them.
I don't lift them out of the water, just corral them in the net and pry the hooks out with needle nose pliers.
I'm running a small aluminum boat by myself, and trying to lift a 25 lb native salmon straight up with a gill pole that still has a lot of fight left in him and also try to get a hook out, ain't gonna happen.
As far as pics go, I'll take them for friends that catch one, but if you've fished for salmon as long as I have, what's the point.
I'll take a pic later today of what's vacuum sealed inside my freezer. At least the packages have dates on them.
I don't want to be a pain, but technically it's illegal to net and remove fish from the water that must be released... at least in Oregon.
Just watch some shows and you'll see them do it too tho, especially to get a picture.
PS: it's a pretty new reg, not many people know of and I've never heard of enforcement.
I don't lift them out of the water, just corral them in the net and pry the hooks out with needle nose pliers.
I'm running a small aluminum boat by myself, and trying to lift a 25 lb native salmon straight up with a gill pole that still has a lot of fight left in him and also try to get a hook out, ain't gonna happen.
As far as pics go, I'll take them for friends that catch one, but if you've fished for salmon as long as I have, what's the point.
I'll take a pic later today of what's vacuum sealed inside my freezer. At least the packages have dates on them.
Cutting off the hook is generally not a problem, but he wasn't coming any closer the 5' from the boat and when he did, he was diving under the boat and ripping off line going the opposite way. It took all of the 6' net handle to get him and I still had to reel in my other pole while trying to keep him from wrapping the two lines together.
I wanted my favorite custom made trolling gear back and slashing a sharp knife at a crazed native salmon while leaning over the low sides of my boat with every guide boat was hauling bubblegum up & down river wasn't an option.
It took all of my skill to handle that fish and when he swam away, I was the worse for wear, not him.
Last I heard, the tribes have about 90 more sea lions to hunt to meet their quota.