beebud
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Awesome! Love chasing the ole eyes. Hoping to take Dad tomorrow and drag some Flickr shads.
The fishing thread ( not about fish fertilizer)
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Ozumoz66
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We caught the majority on a nascar spoon in 62 - 65 ft of water, trolling at 2.8 - 3.1mph. Going slower attracts sheephead and faster may land you a rainbow trout. Good times.
Good luck tomorrow.
BWG707
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Love seeing you killing it in Suisun. Is that a white scrounger you’re using?
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Wizzlebiz
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3.8 inch Keitech on a 1/4 oz jig head and a 3/8 oz swim jig with a 4.3 inch keitech
BWG707
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I meant “white scrounger”, damn autocorrect.
Aeroknow
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You got any structure around 25ish feet around there where you can get jiggy with a gibbs minnow?
We used to jig all around chain island and kill it. But had spots on the Moke that we would jig for the salmon but also get lots of stripers.
But actually i’m more of a chill on the pick type with bait out for the striper type of guy. Wish I was down there right now fishing for the dinos though I tell you what. Right now is the time
Wizzlebiz
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Yea for sure there are a ton of spots for that. Il be out again on Monday. Il give it a whirl.
OldMedUser
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Beauty of a Spring/King/Chinook! Looks like a good 35lbs. A Tyee!
Green with envy here. Been a lot of years since I've held on that nice. Held one at all for that matter.
The wildfire smoke has been so bad here I haven't gone out for over a week. Last trip to the big lake got nada but did catch my best trout yet on my last run to the trout lake almost 3 weeks ago. 15 inch Rainbow I revived for 20 min then released. Got it on a Royal Coachman dry fly on the old rod. Still working on the new rod but need some thread I'm ordering tonight and hope to have this week. Decided to do some nicer wraps rather than just one colour. Want some sawblade styling and maybe a feather insert on it.
Got the grip all finished and sanded down with 360 grit before giving it a coat of U-40 cork sealant. Have it all reamed out and fit perfectly to where I want it on the blank. I'll save gluing it and the reel seat on for the very last. Custom shaped to fit my hand just right.
OldMedUser
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Starting to sound like you're just bragging now to make me jealous! lol
I don't think my tired old arm could handle that many fish of any size but sure would like to give it a try. Now that the weather is cooling off here the fish should start biting better. Early in June it was no problem to get a dozen pike in a 2 hour session just off the shore but it's the trout I'm wanting more.
Wildfire smoke has been nasty here lately but not bad today so now there are nasty thunderheads rolling thru but no rain yet. 'Tis the season.
Wizzlebiz
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Just go and see what that old arm can handle lol. You know damn well that each fish caught is a rejuvenation of how much longer you can continue to fish. Lmao.Starting to sound like you're just bragging now to make me jealous! lol
I don't think my tired old arm could handle that many fish of any size but sure would like to give it a try. Now that the weather is cooling off here the fish should start biting better. Early in June it was no problem to get a dozen pike in a 2 hour session just off the shore but it's the trout I'm wanting more.
Wildfire smoke has been nasty here lately but not bad today so now there are nasty thunderheads rolling thru but no rain yet. 'Tis the season.
Each fish adds an extra hour to the good Ole Cast tank.
OldMedUser
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“The gods do not deduct from man’s allotted span the hours spent in fishing.”
Herbert Hoover
For me just getting up into the mountains hunting salmon and steelhead in wild waters was like a cleansing of my soul whether I caught a fish or not. Sitting out in my little tinny is almost as good.
According to the quote we just have to fish all the time and we'll live forever!
OldMedUser
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That must have been fun playing with those! I got up at 7:30 this morning so I'd have lots of time to do my Friday run to town and be back in time to get loaded up to do a little trout fishing and be on the water by 6pm. Just had to run into a half dozen people I haven't seen in a while and they all love to gab then on the way home I saw that they have cropped the hemp field so I stopped to see what might be left for gleaning. Shit tons of hemp bud just laying there for the picking so of course I started doing some of that. Saw a tractor working down the rows toward me so talked to Frank and he says they are just interested in the fiber so I'm welcome to grab as much of the tops as I want. Whoo f'n Hoo!Popped out after work for some relaxation from the daily grind
Rewarded with a couple fishies
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A nice little egg wagon toomammacita
I grabbed a reusable grocery bag out of the car and with my tiny Swiss Army pocket knife ended up with over 1800g of half dry hemp buds which should yield at least 1000g of clean, dry bud that at even 6% CBD by weight will give me a couple oz of pure CBD. I'm going back tomorrow with some good pruners and getting a few bags more at least. He said it's only fair after I told him about how my outdoor grows are kaput as last year's got seeded all to hell thanks to the hemp.
Talk about a good catch!
On the fishing side of things the rod wrapping threads I ordered Monday showed up at the PO today so I can get to work finishing up my fly rod. 18 - 100yd spools and $20 of other bits and pieces with $25 shipping for $156Can. Pro Wrap thread which is used by all the pros since Gudebrod went out of business.
The metallic threads are on the right, nylon on the left and I got 2 of the black metallic as black gets used a lot and I'll be using mostly if not all black and silver for this rod but have other rods needing hook keepers or even total guide swaps in various colours. I'm going to be practising a bit on an old spin rod top section that is black like my blank to see how things look with the ideas I have about how I want to finish this rod. I'm already finding it pretty easy to do nice designs as long as I take it nice and slow for now. I've been downloading u-tube videos that I can play back in slo-mo using VLC media player on the PC and can do decent fade patterns, olive branch and sawblades so far. I don't want wild and crazy wraps but will make this rod very distinctive and feel a little joy/pride every time I take it out and put a fish on the other end. Especially with a fly I tied myself as well. We can all use a little more joy.
If I felt a little richer I would have just ordered 1 or two of everything including silk thread.
I'm already planning to build a 10wt switch rod that can be used one or two handed like a spey rod for when I get out to the coast and target those 30+ lb King/Chinook salmon in the white water rivers I've fished hundreds of times. I also want to build a 2wt rod for the little creeks that are abundant all thru the Fraser Valley but often have small coho salmon runs in them in the fall. Bertrand Creek in Aldergrove runs south into WA and eventually into the Columbia River was just a mile up the road from where I used to live and nailing an 8lb coho in there was a real thrill on grandpa's old 6wt fiberglass fly rod. Mostly trout up to a couple pounds was the average.I have a half dozen old bamboo fly rods in various condition I'll be looking into making sure they are fishable too. Where does one find horsehair fly lines so a guy can go totally retro fishing one?
Wizzlebiz
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Those eggs are gold down here. We love them for sturgeon fishing. Good catch.Popped out after work for some relaxation from the daily grind
Rewarded with a couple fishies
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A nice little egg wagon too
OldMedUser
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I've never been much of a bait slinger but still have some roe cure stuff in hot pink, orange and red and used to cure up roe from any female salmon I caught and kept. Gave most of it away to buddies that like that but I mostly used spin-and-glows with homemade slinky weights of various sizes to bottom bounce for salmon in the fast water rivers I loved to fish for them. Various colours of wool looped into the bait loop then sprayed with WD-40 out-fished most of the people in the area on the rivers I fished. WD-40 works killer on pike up here too. I always have one of those tiny 2oz cans in my fishing vest and a bigger one in the tackle bag.
An old native guy I met up near Lillooet, BC at least 50 years ago told me about the best bait for sturgeon ever that kinda turned my stomach a bit. On the reserve there were a lot of stray cats and dogs so when they had litters of unwanted offspring they would bury them for a couple weeks then dig them up and use them for bait. They were catching 500+ pound sturgeon in the upper Fraser River back then and used every little bit of the fish for food etc. Gross AF but very effective.
A doubled barrelled sawed off side-by-side 12 gauge loaded with '00' buckshot was the recipe for grizzly bear encounters while out on the trapline too but a bit illegal for an old white guy like me.
